HOW ARE YOU USING YOUR PSAT/NMSQT

DATA?Presenters

Kathleen Eckert – Principal, Hillwood Middle School, Keller ISDKim Barker – Associate Principal, Northwest High School, Northwest ISD

Bobby Morris – Associate Principal, Northwest High School, Northwest ISDAmber Ward – Counselor, Northwest High School, Northwest ISD

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Twitter Kim Barker – @kimbarker25

Bobby Morris - @shakespeare72

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Objective: Show how Northwest ISD is utilizing

students’ PSAT/NMSQT data to increase student achievement and help them become college and career ready.

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“It turns out that ‘simple plans’ work best…” – Collins, 2001; Schmoker, 2006

PSAT

Score Report SOAS

My College Quick Start

Skills Insight

Standards Alignment

Step 1-Assess your college readiness skills

Step 2-Understand your level of performance on college readiness skills

Step 3-Improve your college readiness skills

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Our First Steps… October 2011

Administered PSAT to all 10th & 11th grade students, and any 9th grade student that paid for the exam

February 2012Kay Wilson presented information about the 2011 PSAT

results, and the tools and resources available○ Score Reports, Summary of Answers and Skills (SOAS),

My College Quick Start

Spring 2012Small group of students created Quick Start accounts

○ Completed an assignment based on careers or fields of interest

Encouraged juniors to take college admissions exam.#PSATSW

Summer 2012PSAT Preparation courses were offered

July 2012Some HS administrators met to continue planning how teachers

can use SOAS results to guide lessons

August 2012HS administrators, Advanced Academics Coordinator, Secondary

Math Coordinator, & Secondary ELA Coordinator met to plan how and when PSAT and SOAS info would be presented to all high school math and ELA teachers

District Day - PSAT questions were part of the high school math and ELA District Day assessment discussion

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September 2012 (Resources from College Board)After school combined ELA and Math department meetings

○ Teachers took a 10 question PSAT○ Compared PSAT questions and TEKS○ Looked at Scope and Sequence to identify where PSAT type

questions could be embedded○ Discusses how to utilized the PSAT Study Guide

October 2012PSAT administeredStudent Test Booklets Stored

December 2012PSAT Score Reports given to students

○ Access CodesCollege Board PowerPoints

Spring 2013Science and Social Studies

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Score Report

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Northwest High School QuickStart Initiative

Phase One- conducted with last year’s junior class (March) and this years Juniors (Dec- Jan)

Collaboration between the NHS counseling Department and the English III teachers. #PSATSW

Northwest High School QuickStart Initiative

Share the unique code with each student

Facilitate the creation of a QuickStart account- including login suggestions

Assign a multi-faceted summativeo (all the elements of a great

lesson plan)Facilitate in the creation of final

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PRESENTATION NAME

DescriptionUse Your NetSchool Login or your facebook, or twitter, etc.

The code from your PSAT exam

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PRESENTATION NAME

Description

Do this one firstDo this one second

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Starting the Assignment

Complete the Personality assessment first. Record the Top 5 career matches. Then complete the College Search element and record the top 3-5 educational matches

After taking the personality assessment, choose the two careers that you are most interested and circle them. Starting looking at college websites for colleges that may suitable for you and/or your career.

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Part I- Glogster • Create a Glogster for two

colleges that you may be interested in attending. Remember to think about the careers that you picked from the quick start or career cruising website (some colleges are more suitable for certain careers).

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Glogster ElementsThe Glogster should include:

· Name and Location of College or University · Symbol or Mascot

· Admissions Requirements & Application Deadline · High School Graduation Requirements · Admissions Requirements & Application Deadline · High School Graduation Requirements

(i.e. what courses will you need for admission into this University?) · Minimum GPA and SAT/ACT score (if applicable) · Information on your program of choice:

· What aspects of this program cause it to stand out from other colleges?

· Are there any additional requirements for admittance into this program?

· What scholarships are available for this department?#PSATSW

Part II- Essay Complete a college entrance or admissions essay for the college that you have chosen. You will find the admission prompt/requirement from the website of your chosen school.

Visit the following website for help with the admission essay: http://www.inlikeme.com/apply/19-common-application-essay-mistakes-and-how-avoid-them.html

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Alternate Essay Assignment

o Write an essay in which you tell us about someone who has made an impact on your life and explain how and why this person is important to you.

o Choose an issue of importance to you—the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope—and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation.

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CATEGORY 25 20 15 10College Entrance Essay

Answered the essay prompt thoroughly. Provided vivid details and explanations. Organization is successful and tone is appropriate. Provides the university with a clear look into the student's creativity, character, passion, and reasoning.

Answered the essay prompt. Provided explanations, but could have used more vivid details. Organization is mostly successful and tone is mostly appropriate. Provides the university with a general idea of the student's creativity, character, passion, and reasoning.

Did not fully answer the essay prompt. Essay seems generic and nonpersonal. Lacking in details, explanation, and creativity. Organization needs some attention and tone is inappropriate in some places. Personality is hard to distinguish and reasoning skills appear to be minimal.

Did not answer the prompt and/or failed to provide a unique and personal essay. Majorly lacking in details and explanation. Organization is severely lacking and tone is inappropriate. No effort of creativity and does not display personality and/or reasoning skills of student

Glogster Required Elements

The poster includes all required elements, they are clear and specific.

Missing only 1 required element are included on the poster.

Most of the required elements are included on the poster.

Several required elements were missing.

Conventions Capitalization, punctuation, and grammar are correct throughout the poster.

There are few errors in capitalization, punctuation, or grammar, but they do not distract from the flyer

There are several errors in capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.

There are many errors in capitalization, puncuation, and/or grammar.

Graphics - Relevance

All graphics are related to the topic and make it easier to understand. All borrowed graphics have a source citation.

All graphics are related to the topic and most make it easier to understand. All borrowed graphics have a source citation.

All graphics relate to the topic. Most borrowed graphics have a source citation.

Graphics do not relate to the topic OR several borrowed graphics do not have a source citation.

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Phase II February 2013

Combined Meeting○ Evernote

Grade Level Plan 8-12College Ready – Ivy League ReadyPSAT Day 2013

Spring 2013 June-July 2013

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Our Next Steps… Spring 2013

Complete Phase IStudent InputTeacher InputCombined Meeting

Summer 2013Phase II Implementation Plan 13-14

February 2014Phase III

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Contact Us Kathleen Eckert

kathleen.eckert@kellerisd.net Kim Barker

kbarker@nisdtx.org Bobby Morris

jmorris@nisdtx.org Amber Ward

award@nisdtx.org

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