December 21, 2012

Welcome to the December

Administrators’ RTTT Webex!

Describe the key details of the Math and ELA assessment transitions (3-8)

Explain the Dignity for All Students Act

Describe the resources that have been added to the engageNY site

Outcomes:

Describe resources that have been added to the Principals’ Center site

Explain updates on the Literacy and Math Task work

Outcomes:

Focus: Priority standards will be the focus of the assessments--other standards will be deemphasized

Key Details of the Math Assessment (3-8) Transitions:

Coherence: progression of content and concepts

Key Details of the Math Assessment (3-8) Transitions:

Fluency: will not be assessed--it will be assumed that students possess the required fluencies◦No calculators in grades 6 and below—possibly 8 and

below

Key Details of the Math Assessment (3-8) Transitions:

Deep Understanding: standards will be assessed from multiple perspectives ◦ensuring and dictating standards in multiple ways while

not veering from primary target of measurement in standards

◦ fewer vocabulary questions

Key Details of the Math Assessment Transitions:

Application and Dual Intensity: ◦students will be expected to know grade level

math content with fluency ◦Students will be expected to know math

concepts to employ to solve real world math problems

Key Details of the Math Assessment Transitions:

Balancing Informational and Literary Texts: Passages will be authentic and balanced across informational and literary texts

Knowledge in the Content Areas: ◦Assessments will contain knowledge based questions

about the informational text ◦Students will not need outside knowledge to respond ◦Students will be expected to read informational texts

from content domains and respond in writing

Key Details of the ELA Assessment Transitions:

Staircase of Complexity: passage selection will be based on appropriate grade level

Text-based Responses: questions will require students to gather evidence from text

Key Details of the ELA Assessment Transitions:

Academic Vocabulary:

◦Students will need to be strategic in solving words contextually

◦Students will be tested indirectly through general comprehension of the text

◦Fluency in academic vocabulary is expected

Key Details of the ELA Assessment Transitions:

Effective July 1, 2012

The Dignity Act Legislative Intent: Provide all students in NY public schools an environment free of discrimination and harassment

No student shall be subjected to harassment, discrimination, or bullying by employees or students

No student shall be subjected to discrimination based on their:

Actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex

 

Dignity for All Students Act:

Dignity Act impacts the following SAVE requirements: ◦ code of conduct ◦Uniform Violent Incident Reporting

Code of conduct: an age-appropriate version of the policy written in plain-language shall be included in the code of conduct◦Codes of conduct are to be posted on the school web site

Dignity for All Students Act:

The commissioner shall create a procedure under which material incidents of discrimination and harassment on school grounds or at a school function are reported to the department at least on an annual basis

Additional Dignity Act Requirements--Policies and Guidelines to include:◦Guidelines relating to the development of

nondiscriminatory instructional and counseling methods◦Requirement that at least one staff member at every

school be thoroughly trained to handle human relations

Dignity for All Students Act:

Staff Training Note◦ Ideally--1 person in each school building to be the point person for Dignity Act related issues

◦Depending on the size of the district, a staff member must be available to go to every school as needed

and be readily accessible to other staff for consultation and advise- by phone or other means of

communication

◦ In smaller school districts, schools may share a staff member for multiple schools

◦There is no requirement to hire a new staff member

Dignity for All Students Act:

The Dignity Act and student instruction: ◦ instruction in civility, citizenship and character education◦Grades K-12◦Honesty tolerance, personal responsibility, respect of

others, observance of laws, courtesy, dignity

Dignity Act relates to safety issues in schools:◦Expected behavior--code of conduct◦Consistent enforcement with appropriate responses to

violations ◦Staff training of all staff◦Reporting disruptive activity already required to be

included as part of VADIR

Dignity for All Students Act:

Resources:◦NYSED Dignity Act Web Site:

Model Code of Conduct

Model Curriculum Materials

FAQs (students/parents and faculty/staff)

NYSED P-12 News and Notes Articles

New York State Center for School Safety

Dignity for All Students Act:

◦Dignity Act Facebook Page

◦Dignity Act Public Outreach Forums

◦Dignity Act Speakers @ Statewide Conferences

◦Resource Guide: http://regions.adl.org/new-york/pdfs/npfh-ny-resource-guide.pdf

◦http://scdn.wsboces.org/

Dignity for All Students Act:

Contact information: NYS Education Department◦DASA@mail.nysed.gov

NYS Center for School Safety◦518-486-6090

scss@ulsterboces.org 845-255-8989

Dignity for All Students Act:

engageNY.org Resources:

Principals’ Center:

Principals’ Center:

Username: principalsPassword: center

Principals’ Center:

Username: principalsPassword: center

Principals’ Center:

Math Task Work:

Literacy Task Work: Day 4

Grades 6-12 Sessions scheduled for choice of February 13th or 16th.

Albany Common Core Updates

English Language Arts

Shifts 1 and 2◦Balancing informational and literary text◦Knowledge in the disciplines

Text Pairs◦ Literary with informational text◦Evidence based questioning

Albany Common Core UpdatesMath

Network Team Institute Materials: Conference Resources

Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Richard Askey

National Mathematics Advisory Panel Report

Leadership for Excellence in Mathematics – Principal’s Role in Math Instruction

EduTron Resources on Mathematics Education for NYSED Network Teams

Visual Map of the Content Standards in Mathematics

Supporting Implementation of the Common Core Standards for Mathematics

January 10, 31 and February 7 Lead Evaluator Training—Part 2 @ UE

January 13th, 23rd

k-5 Math Task Work (Day 2)

January 17, 18,19

Network Team Training—Lead Evaluator

January 30

9-12 Math Task Work (Day 2)

February 6th, 10th

k-5 Literacy Task Work (Day 4)

February 13th, 16th

6-12 Literacy Task Work (Day 4)

Upcoming Dates:

Thank You!