English Language Arts & MathematicsGrades 3-8

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Agenda and Goal

Agenda• Quick recap of basics• Discuss student experience and view sample items• Walk-through of reports• Update on advisory group and discuss research base• Reminder: Promo

Goal• Become expert in selling the i-Ready CCSS Screener because we want to get customers on the i-Ready platform so that we can easily up-sell i-Ready Diagnostic and Instruction…discounting is a great way to get them on board

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What is the i-Ready CCSS Screener?

• In approximately one hour per subject, you can administer an online test that will give you a snapshot of how prepared your students are for the Common Core State Standards.

• Data driven-decision making so you can prepare for the transition:– Identify the standards with which your students are most likely to struggle– Inform curriculum and professional development planning based on gaps– Receive instructional recommendations

• This is the only product that provides real data to inform decisions– Other products compare existing state standards versus the Common Core and

hypothesize what the challenges will be. This provides actual data so educators can see real problem areas as well as instructional recommendations, so educators can take action

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Math and Reading, Grades 3-8 (Available 4/11)

What is covered?

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Reading Math

• Every reading standards for literary and informational text that can be tested in an online format

• Every domain that can be tested in an online format

• Reading Standards for Literature

– Key Ideas and Details

– Craft and Detail

– Integration of Knowledge

• Reading Standards for Informational Text

– Key Ideas and Details

– Craft and Detail

– Integration of Knowledge

Grades 3-5

• Operations and Algebraic Thinking

– Represent and solve problems using multiplication and division

– Etc.

• Number and Operations - Base 10

• Number and Operations – Fractions

• Measurement and Data

• Geometry

Grades 6-8

• Ratios & Proportional Relationships (6&7)

• Functions (8)

• The Number System

• Expressions and Equations

• Geometry

• Statistics and Probability

Strand

Standard Set –

same for every grade

level 3-8

Domain

Cluster – varies by

grade level

What is the student experience like?

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Note: This is not an actual i-Ready CCSS Screener question but shows you roughly how

questions will be presented.

• Similar look and feel to the environment in our NY and EOG i-Ready Practice. • Less emphasis on student experience since students only visit the site once to

take the assessment (Students see their assignments – the assessment, but there will not be games)

What is the student experience like?

Example: Students read an actual exemplary text

recommended for grades 2-3 in Appendix B of the Common

Core document

Sample Item – Grade 3: Not yet formatted as it will appear

Reading: What is assessed?

Sample item: Addresses distinction between the literal meaning of “quiet” and its non-literal

meaning in the poem. Questions call for students to go back to the actual text and read

like a detective, an important part of the Common Core

Sample Item (cont.) – Grade 3: Not yet formatted as it will appear

Reading: What is assessed?

Sample item: Many state assessments ask

students to identify figurative language,

but this item challenges students to

not only recognize figurative language,

but to infer its specific purpose in a given

context as is called for in the more complex standard it addresses

Reading: What is assessed?

Sample Item – Grade 8: Not yet formatted as it will appear

Sample item: The CCSS call for greater conceptual

understanding. Here the unknown length is described in both multiplicative and additive

comparison terms. To demonstrate understanding, students must translate the

multiplicative comparison into an equation that can be used to

find the missing length.

Math: What is assessed?

Sample Item – Grade 3: Not yet formatted as it will appear

Math: What is assessed?

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Look how specific the standards get – they are very prescriptive.

Sample Item – Grade 3: Not yet formatted as it will appear

Report interface

• Will look roughly like NY i-Ready report interface (show live)

• Of course, the reports themselves will be different which we’ll walk through in a moment

• http://stg.i-ready.com/ca/CA_FrontEnd.jsp • Login: npierce• Password: Password• State: NY

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Types of Reports

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Performance Overview

• District

• School

• How is my district going to do on the Common Core?

• Are there problem areas in certain grades? In certain schools? In certain classes?

Level of Report

Questions it answers

Instructional Recommendations

• Grade

• What do I need to know about the Common Core Standards?

• How are they being addressed?

• How can I begin to instruct?

Performance Detail

• District

• School

• Class

• Individual Student

• Which specific strands, sub-strands and standards might my district/school/ class or individual students struggle with when we move to the Common Core?

New

District-level: Performance Overview

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Answers the question: Are

certain schools struggling more than others?

E.g., Teachers in Lincoln may be

less accustomed to teaching skills

required for Common Core

success

Answers the question: Are certain grades

struggling more?

This could mean that the Common

Core Standards are very different at this grade level than current state

standards and require new

curriculum and PD for this grade

level. Average score on ELA questions for

each grade

Average percentage of questions that students got

correct in ELA for the entire school.

Examine your entire district to find out whether you have small holes or big gaps in performance on the Common Core Standards. Use this information to allocate resources to schools that struggle the most and to buy curriculum and plan professional development for grades that struggle the most.

District-level: Performance Overview (continued)

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Answers the question: How

are different federal reporting groups going to perform on the

Common Core?

Average score on ELA questions for each Federal reporting group

Also find out how prepared each Federal Reporting Group is for the Common Core

School-level: Performance Overview

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Answers the question: Are there certain

grades experiencing new

content and struggling with

the introduction of the Common

Core?

Answers the question: Do

some teachers need more

support than others to succeed

in teaching the Common Core?

For each school, find out which grades are struggling more than others as this indicates that material is very different from what was taught with state standards. Also identify which teachers need more support to teach the skills/concepts needed for students to be successful on the Common Core

School-Level: Performance Overview (continued)

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Same idea as federal reporting groups data seen in district-level

performance overview report

Reflection / Discussion / Pop Quiz

• What kind of information can administrators get from the district and school performance reports?

• What can they do with this data?

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Performance Detail Report – Available for District, School, Class and Individual Student

Harrington School – Grade 3 - MathSyria Malcolm – Grade 3 - Math

Find out which strands/domains an entire grade within a district is struggling with. Then drill down to see which areas an entire class struggles with. Finally, find out how prepared each individual student is for the Common Core

Answers the question: Are there

small gaps or big holes? Where do

we need to focus? Which strands and standard sets are

students struggling with most?

Strand

Standard Set

Same report is available for an

entire grade within a school, an entire

class and an individual student.

Performance Detail Report – Available for District, School, Class and Individual Student (continued)

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Shows performance on each standard

…and sub-standard

And, you can see what the items were.

If there is a dash, this is part of a Common Core Standard that

wasn’t assessed. This is because this skill is not

easily assessed in an online format.

For a whole grade, a whole class or an individual student, figure out exactly which of the Common Core Standards are going to be more challenging so that you can plan instruction and PD and target these first.

Instructional Recommendations Report(Image not yet available)

• For each standard, this report answers these questions…

• What’s important about this standard?– What’s unique?– How it is different from the previous grade level (reading)?

• How is it assessed by the CCSS Screener?

• What are the foundational competencies?

• What instructional strategies should I use?

• What Curriculum Associates products help teach this standard?

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Reflection / Discussion / Pop Quiz

• How would educators use the data in the performance detail report?

• Is information available on individual students’ performance on the Common Core?

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Research BaseThe i-Ready CCSS Screener references a detailed body of work from creators of the CCSS and from key experts to serve as guidance in developing the Screener

ADVISORS

Kari Ross• A licensed Reading Specialist in Minnesota, Kari was an active participant on the Common Core State Standards K-

12 Development Work Team for the English Language Arts Standards from 2009-2010. 

Roger Farr• The Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Dr. Farr is also the president of Educational Research

Institute of America, working with numerous state and local educational agencies and educational publishers in the development, tryout, and evaluation of educational materials.

Richard Bisk• A professor and chair of the Mathematics Department at Worcester State College, Dr. Richard Bisk was an advisor to

the Massachusetts Department of Education in the development of the “Guidelines for the Mathematical Preparation of Elementary Teachers.”

 Mark Thames

Assistant Research Scientist at University of Michigan School of Education. Mark served on a work team on the development of the math CCSS

RESEARCH BASE• Incorporates sample texts recommended by lead developers of CCSS (e.g., Appendix B of Common Core document)

to meet new complexity requirements

• We consulted materials and objectives published by the PARCC and SBAC consortia, which are developing the CCSS assessments and used their latest plans as models

• We analyzed sample items from states with the highest test complexity since the Common Core is designed to assess higher order thinking

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Promotion

• What: New 50% off promotion!

• When: Now

• Why: We want to get customers on the i-Ready platform so that we can easily up-sell i-Ready Diagnostic and Instruction…discounting is a great way to get them on board

Recap• Get customers on the platform: We want to get customers on the i-Ready platform

and pushing i-Ready CCSS Screener is a great way to get customers engaged

• We solve a huge pain point: Customers don’t know what to expect as they transition to the Common Core. They’re often not sure how to get started.

• Data-driven decision-making – we help customers take action: We have the only solution that gives customers real data to determine which Common Core State Standards their district will struggle with so that they can take action

• Powerful Reports: It’s easy to quickly see where the small holes and big gaps are

• Instructional recommendations mean that customers can take action – they can begin planning instruction and addressing gaps

• Strong research base with a panel of expert advisors means this product will get right at the heart of what the CCSS is intended to assess (e.g., text complexity).

• Entirely new content written specifically to assess the Common Core.

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Quick announcement

• Send customers to the following URL so they can check out instructional modules for i-Ready Diagnostic and Instruction:

– CurriculumAssociates.com/DiagInstr

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