Welcome, High School Principals!

January 22, 2015 Agenda and Updates on wiki hsprograms.pbworks.com

Brian Pittman Holly Springs High School Tom Dixon Apex High School

Content Updates

Social Studies  Voter Registration Drive  March 23-27 for the Leadership Academies  March 30-April 6 for everyone else  Please alert Voter Registration Coordinators

Social Studies     Name change for Civics & Economics to “American History: The Founding Principles, Civics & Economics” Effective 2015-16 Does not effect sequencing of courses Can still take AP US History and IB History of Americas as stand-alone courses

Advanced Placement  AP Audit Information C O M P L E T E  AP Survey  Athens  Green Hope  Middle Creek  Millbrook  Wakefield

English        English II Benchmarks Performance Tasks Last Semester– Try it and Report This Semester– Normed across district Implementation Guide Score Reports for Part 1 Reading and Part 2 Writing in April All materials in Content Updates and on English wiki

Managerial Leadership

Cathy Moore and Ruth Steidinger

Lunch

11:30-1:00

Strategic Leadership

21 st Century Assessment

Balanced Assessment?

Assessment Alignment

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“4C” Measurement: The Future is Now

• College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA+) – Online assessment includes a performance task and 25 selected response items – – – 5 WCPSS high schools in Spring 2015 Analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication http://cae.org/images/uploads/pdf/CWRA_Student_Guide_Institution.pdf

• Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) – Administered to 15-year-olds in 70 countries – – – Math, Science, Reading, and general cross-curricular competencies 5 WCPSS high schools in 2014; 5 more in Spring 2015 http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/PISA/

Instructional Leadership

K-12 Aligned Literacy

Writing Focus Group Sherri Miller , K-12 Director Sara Overby, HS ELA Melissa Hurst, MS ELA Barbara Sorensen, ES ELA Sharon Collins, ES ELA Walter Harris, ES ELA Shanta Lightfoot, MS ELA

The Heart of Writing

Argument Training Day 1 Day 2– March 2, 2015 CR2 1400 • • Send the same team for Day 2.

HS Programs pays for subs.

• • Day 4—Writing in the Content Areas Day 5—Performance Tasks/Integrated Units

http://tinyurl.com/Growing-Writers-Video

Designing

Aligned K-12 Writing Rubrics David Balmer, SocSt, Heritage Tammy King, SocSt, Holly Springs Kristen Larsen, SocSt, Sanderson • • • • 24 Teachers Across District Across Grades K-12 Across Content Areas Carrie Horton, ELA, Vernon Malone

Aligned Rubrics

for Quality

 Argument Informative Narrative K through 12

Cross-Curricular Implementation

Table Talk 1. Look down • What do you notice about skills and • criteria?

How might these fit all content areas?

2. Look across: one skill criterion • http://tinyurl.com/k9cgu3c What do you notice about growth within and across • grade spans?

How might these rubrics support a call to rigor in content-area learning?

Apply It:

Choose a skill criterion. Read the student response. What subskill feedback would you give this student? How can the quality continuum be used to support qualitative student growth, rather than quantitative grades?

We Need Some B r i g h t I d e a s !

What ideas do you have for implementation in a high-school culture and climate?

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/light-bulb-idea-821688.jpg

Google Response Form http://goo.gl/forms/Io07BqGRMD One per group

Teacher Professional Development Fidelity of Cross-Curricular Implementation

K-12 Digital Portfolios Interactive Digital Rubrics

Instructional Leadership

Access to Rigor

Equity Leadership Mindset Start with “Why” See Inequities Understand Inequities Interrupt Inequities

Reports:

AP Potential—Online (access code required) Right to Rigor—Via email on January 8 Five-Year Report—Online (access code required) Integrated Report—Via email on January 8 Quickr Roster

AP Potential Report

Right to Rigor Overview

Right to Rigor: Student & Course Gaps

Right To Rigor Reports

Right to Rigor Reports

Sample Five-Year Report

Integrated Report…Page 20

Quickr Roster

See link in agenda to ACT document: “Using PLAN to Identify Student Readiness for Rigorous Courses in High School”

Identifying Barriers

1 2 3

Debrief  Barriers added by your group?

 Ways to interrupt barriers?

 Areas of focus?

 Request from HS Team: ask department chairs of core academic areas how their department approaches the recommendation process

Managerial Leadership

Graduation