What tools do you have in your

toolbox?Jennifer Weeks, Assistant Superintendent

Dr. Meredith Park, Formative Assessment Coordinator

Overview of TE21

• Case 21 Benchmark Assessments

• Case 21 Item Bank

• Academy of Reading

• Academy of Math

Common Core Implementation

What do we want for our students?

• Prepared for the Workforce

• Prepared for College

• Prepared for the Military

• Lifelong Learners

• Critical Readers and Thinkers

CCSS ImplementationWhich tools will help us achieve these goals?

• Collective Experience

• Collaboration

• Professional Development

• Common Assessments

• Collaborative Leadership

• Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment Alignment

• Personalization

Collective Experience

• Minimize Duplication of Efforts

• Encourage Collaboration

• Equity

Common Expectations

Mobility

Collaboration

• Sustained

• On-going

• Team Meetings/Collegial Conversations

• Interdisciplinary Coordination

Professional Development

• Capacity Building

• Data-driven Instruction

• “Know and are able to do”

Common Assessments

• Formative Assessment

• Summative Assessment

• Frequent

• Technology-dependent

Collaborative Leadership

• Culture Creator

• Focus -

• Simplify

• Amplify

• Clarify

Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment

• “Know and are able to do”

• Rigorous

• Text-dependent questioning

• Application

• School-wide/District-wide

Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment

• Demonstrate independence

• Build content knowledge

• Respond to varying demands

• Comprehend and critique

• Text complexity

Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment

• Read like detectives

• Academic vocabulary

• Annotate

• Write critically - Why?

Personalization

• Tiered Instruction

• Changes in Text Complexity

• Lexile Level Shifts

• Grade Span Shifts in Mathematics

CASE21 Pilot Spring 2011

• Lake Cormorant Elementary School

• Horn Lake Middle School

• Southaven High School

Testing Process

• Send previous MCT2 data to CASE21

• Pacing Guides

• Draft Review

• Test and Answer Document Delivery

• Test Administration

• Scoring and Data Dissimination

Pacing Guides

• Importance of Pacing Guides

• Teacher and/or Curriculum Specialist Input

• Suggested Pacing Guides

• http://www.case21inc.com/products-and-services/pacing-guides/mississippi-pacing-guides

Draft Review

• Curriculum Alignment

• Blueprint Alignment

• Cumulative/Comprehensive

• Test Item Stem/Foils Format

Test Delivery

• Printing Decisions

• Test Packaging and Dissemination

• Answer Documents

Test Administration

• Planning Calendar

• Administer in MCT2/SATP conditions

Scanning/Scoring• Answer documents returned to a

central location.

• Answer documents scanned in-house and uploaded to CASE21 for review.

• Answer documents are returned to the schools.

• CASE21 compiles data and uploads reports on sharefile site.

Data Reports

• District Report for Comparison of Schools

• School Report for Comparison of Teachers

• Teacher Report for Student Identification

• Item Analysis Report with Red/Green Visuals

District Report

School Report

Teacher Report

Questions?

Jennifer Weeks, Assistant Superintendent

Email: jennifer.weeks@desotocountyschools.org

Meredith Park, Formative Assessment Coordinator

Email: meredith.park@desotocountyschools.org