Thinking about Implementing Standards?

Bob Cornacchiolibcornacchioli@gmail.com

Bob CornacchioliCEO – DERO Technical Services

Contractor- PowerDataSolutions

Trainer – Pearson Systems

Evangelist/Process Assistant- Level Data

Marketing- Parkbench Software

Director of Technology and Media Services – Shrewsbury Public Schools (16 yrs)PowerSchool Administrator ( 6 yrs)

CURRICULUM/ADMIN & TECHNICAL

Collaborate and learn the constraints

DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND

S T A N D A R D SCHEDULE

C O U R S S

S C L E S

IDENTIFIER

F I N A L G R A D E E N T R YGRADEBOOK

STANDARDS

65 Character Limit

STANDARDS • Create the standards collaboratively- Excel• Teacher Involvement = Ownership• Less is more- 65 character limit• Report Card vs. Curriculum Guide• Core Content vs. Specials• Essential Skills, Effort or Habits of Mind• Assessment Per Term• Changes and Real Estate – Text vs. #• Conversion Scales- Drop Downs for Teachers

Conversion Scales

Habits of Mind/Effort

Proficiency LevelsGrades 1-8 / MCAS

Proficiency LevelsFor K

Homebound Assessment

• Avoid Confusion- Adjust Rubrics and assessments

Sending Home Letter Grades and Percentages will confuse Parents

and Students

STANDARDS by TERM

Final Grade Entry For Teachers

Changing Allow

Assignments is NOT

Recommended… Union Issue!

Unique Course Number Schema

65601First two digits = Content AreaMiddle digit = School IDLast two digits = Grade Level

Highlands = 0Smith = 1Riverside = 2Thorpe = 3Great Oak =4

65000, 65001, 65002, 65003, 65004, 6500565100, 65101, 65102, 65103, 65104, 6510565200, 65201, 65202, 65203, 65204, 6520565300, 65301, 65302, 65303, 65304, 6530565400, 65401, 65402, 65403, 65404, 65405

Can be used for

AM/PM K etc

Importing Standards via Excel

What does Allowassignment do?

TRUE means- Allow Teacher Choice from Pull Down!

Hey Bob, All these standards report on the same course number?

Importing Standards via Excel

What does Includecomment do?

FALSE means- No Comment for that standard allowed!

Importing Standards via Excel

Where do I get these Conversionscale Numbers?

Requires Internal Pearson Number in this Excel Spreadsheet!

Conversion Scale #?

• Gen Table (6)

• Search for “scale”

Next Steps

• Communication with:– Teachers - expectations for comments– Parents – how to interpret 4,3,2,1/your scale(s)

• Create Standards– # of standards per content area per term– Altering Rubrics / Common Assessments

• Create the Conversion Scales• Create Sample Report Cards before EOY

Web Gradebook Record Keeping

Tying Assignments to Standards

Latest version of web gradebook… Assignment grades use grade scalesStandards use conversion scalesGrades associated with an assignment do not transfer to a standard grade. The standards associated with an assignment would also have to be graded. If one or more standards associated with an assignment is graded, you have some choices – average, high etc

Assignments - Standards

Grade Value of Conversions Scales

When teachers assess a standard more than once associated to multiple assignments, PTG averages these scores. Grade Value can’t be ZERO as seen earlier in this presentation.

Depending upon which standard based educator your curriculum folks have read, the concept of AVERAGE isn’t part of the standards movement- YET the Gradebook has to apply some sort equation in order to convert scores to these Grade Labels 4,3,2,1.

As more districts use this new found functionality with the Gradebook and report back to Pearson for modifications- the averaging of standards scores assigned to multiple assignments will be come clearer.

This page is still evolving!!!!

Controlling Web Gradebook

If defined as PT Admin** - School Usage – Site Specific!!

Calculations

Using PT Admin- your district will have to set policy on grading standards. The Gradebook will have to be set per school to look: •Default setting for final grades•Allow teacher modifications OR NOT•Calculations for Most Recent Scores

Training Teachers to Grade

• Final Grade Entry• Specialists vs. HR teachers • 5 mins. with a PPT presentation• Web Gradebook – A bit more time

( JING Movies/Atomic Learning/Mastery in Minutes?)

• Comments- Comments- Comments

Have you thought about Report Cards?

• Parent Portal – access to grades – list form• NOT DYNAMIC – all must be custom made• Object Reports- Visual PST – Report Works• Summative• Multi-page requires duplex printers

• http://schools.shrewsbury-ma.gov/egov/docs/1251933966124.htm

Questions and Answers

Bob Cornacchiolibcornacchioli@gmail.com