Transcript NC Ready for Success Leadership Forum

NC Ready for Success
Leadership Forum
Central Region
McKimmon Center, NC State University
February 6, 2015
Welcome & Overview
Sr. Program Manager – Maggie Chotas
NC Ready for Success Activities
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Imagining Conversations
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Vertical Alignment Teams
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Common Core Engagement Group
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Mini-Grants
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Math and ELA Summits
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State-wide Summit
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Leadership Forums
“Before you are a leader, success
is all about growing yourself.
When you become a leader,
success is all about growing
others.”
-- Jack
Welch
Cross-sector Interfaces
K-12
Education
College & Career
Readiness
Student Learning
Four-year
Institutions
Community
Colleges
Teacher/Educator
Preparation
Common Core Engagement Group
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The CCEG is made up of decision
makers at each educational level.
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The group considered reports from
various stakeholders in curriculum,
instruction, and assessment and
discussed methods of improving
communication in those issues,
such as through the Comprehensive
Articulation Agreement.
Career & College Readiness
Definition
Statewide and Regional Summits
Panelists, Statewide K-12 & Higher Ed Summit
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Beginning with Imagining
Conversations on campuses across the
state, NC Ready for Success has
brought together stake holders in
many ways.
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Math and English/Language Arts
Summits explored content &
curriculum.
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The Inaugural Statewide K-12 &
Higher Education Summit presented
a panel of education leaders, a
presentation by former Governor of
Georgia, the Honorable Sonny Perdue,
and a variety of breakout sessions.
Vertical Alignment Teams
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Teams consisted of educators at
all sector levels on Math or
English/Language Arts teams.
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Alignment conversations were
held in each DPI PD Region in
2014.
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VATs hosted two statewide
content specific summits.
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Each VAT created a
recommendations list for policies
that would enhance and sustain
vertical alignment initiatives.
Cross-Sector Collaborations – The
NC EMPT Example
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High School placement information &
practice (30,631 participating students)
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Community College & University/College
information on course requirements and
placement policies
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Connects professional organizations, P20 groups, New Schools Project & Early
Colleges, SREB, Math Science Ed Center
directors
Sector Discussions
As you listen to the speakers from your sector
perspective, make note of your responses to these
questions:
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
Current issues & opportunities in K-12
Michael Hickman, NC DPI
NC Ready for Success
Leadership Forum
February 6, 2015
Michael Hickman
Director, Office of Regional Support Services
[email protected]
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Race to the Top – Year 5 No-Cost Extension
Professional
Development
TALAS
Support for HB
Implementation
RttT Evaluation
More online
and blended
learning
opportunities
Increased
STEM
opportunities
Increased
Rigor
Prepared Graduates
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Statewide platform
450 teachers sharing their best work
2 pathways: PD and Instructional Resources
Advance RttT funded educational remodeling efforts across NC
Questions?
Michael Hickman
Director, Office of Regional Support Services
[email protected]
(919) 807-3848
Current issues & opportunities – Community College
Deborah Grimes, Lenoir Community College
NC Ready for Success
North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS)
Deborah Grimes, Ed.D.
Lenoir Community College
Vice President of Academic
and Student Services
NC Ready for Success
 NC Ready for Success has been instrumental in facilitating
various cross-sector conversations, has been an advocate for
education in the state, and has focused on the question of
College and Career Readiness in North Carolina.
Workforce Readiness
Transitions
Current Issues
Community Colleges
Adult Basic Education (ABE)
 Retaining ABE students long enough to make progress for transition to another program (completing HSE)
 Transitioning to any curriculum or continuing education program
 Sometimes these students are those missed due to lack of early identification (possible learning disabilities)
 Many students are ‘at’ or ‘near’ the poverty level
 Barriers
 Transportation (LCC provides some transportation – if students attend class 5 hours daily, we will give them a transit
ticket to get home and one to return to class the next day)
 Students come to school hungry
 Students have difficulty with prioritizing wants and needs
 Students often suffer from emotional instability
 Students don’t always understand the importance of attendance in their success
(Managed Enrollment with an attendance policy)
 Students don’t always understand the need for an education
Current Issues
Community Colleges
Adult Secondary Education (ASE)
 Usually not an issue with academics – coming into the program at a
high school level
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Recent high school drop-outs
Usually have a bad taste in their mouths for public schools/academics
Usually students want to get in and out as soon as possible
Students don’t realize the importance of continuing their education past the
AHS/HSE diploma
Current Issues
Community Colleges
English as a Second Language (ESL)
 Obvious: Language Barrier
 English deficits many times cause issues with progress
 Retention
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Transient
Immigration issues
Sometimes here illegally
Often deported
Often leave to find work/paying jobs to support their families
*(Effects performance measures)
Current Issues
Community Colleges
Intellectual Disabilities
 Depending on intellectual functioning level, progression may be difficult
 Lack of funding students in former Compensatory Education programs
 Difficult measuring progress of students
 Students who have difficulty taking the assessment
 Lack of foundational academic skills
 Unable to establish a baseline for measuring future progress
*(Effects performance measures)
Opportunities
Lenoir Community College
Basic Skills Speakers Forum – meets monthly to establish “community” with our
students
 Dean of Student Services spoke to students about transitioning to curriculum programs
 Counselor spoke to students about diversity
(race, gender, cultural, values)
 Assisting students to “connect”
 Future leaders are scheduled to speak about curriculum and continuing education
transitional programs in which they might be interested
Opportunities
Lenoir Community College
 Expanded Basic Skills Plus Pathways
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NA I
Welding
HVAC
Horticulture
This allows students to prepare and motivate them for future transition to
programs. Also, beginning to coordinate and assign an advisor for support.
Welding Technology
Opportunities
Lenoir Community College
 Parallel programs for students with intellectual disabilities via
self-supporting funds
 Horticulture (Landscape Management I)
 Goal is to provide transitional career and technical training
opportunities for students
 Working beside and with curriculum students
 Live project opportunities
 Real employment opportunities
Horticulture Technology
Current issues & opportunities in four-year institutions
Roger Sims, UNC GA
Shannon Gilkey,
Senior Consultant, Higher Ed for Higher Standards
To support the work of Higher Ed for Higher
Standards, visit the webpage at
http://higheredforhigherstandards.org
Or send an email to
[email protected]
Cross-Sector Discussions
In your small groups, reflect on the challenges and opportunities raised by the
speakers. Together, consider the following:
 In what ways are successful cross-sector collaborations occurring?
 What are the most significant opportunities for developing cross-sector
collaborations?
 What existing infrastructures exist for cross-sector collaboration? What new
means for communication and collaboration should be on our horizon?
 What challenge should be the first tackled by future cross-sector discussions?
Collecting our Thoughts …Further Issues &
Actions
Lunch
&
Common Core
Engagement Group
Discussion
Common Core Engagement Group
NC Ready for Success
Leadership Forum &
Common Core Engagement Group
February 6, 2015
Standards Review Process
An ongoing responsibility to ensure that our standards are
preparing our students to be College and Career Ready
Policy ID Number: GCS-F-012
 The NC Standard Course of Study must consist of up-to-date, relevant standards
and objectives, by grade level and course. These standards must be developed in
consultation with teachers, administrators, parents, students, IHEs, and
business/industry.
 At least once every five years, each curriculum area in the Division of Instructional
Services shall convene a review committee to determine if revisions are needed in a
Standard Course of Study area.
 By using data, research, and surveys, the committee recommends whether revision
should take place. If the committee recommends substantive revision, the State
Board of Education shall review the recommendations and implications for textbook
selection and adoption and any necessary revisions on end-of-grade or end-of
course testing.
North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Math and English/Language Arts (Common Core )
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All other content areas (NC Essential Standards)
= North Carolina Standard Course of Study
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North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Our SBE adopts standards.
Standards: What we want students to know and be able to do at the
end of a grade level or course and lead students to be College and
Career Ready upon graduation.
Individual local boards of education and classroom teachers
determine the curriculum and instruction.
Curriculum and Instruction: What and how we teach in order to
accomplish the standards.
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Standards Review Schedule
• ELA
• Math
• CTE (specified
courses)
2017-18 – 2018-19
2015-16 – 2016-17
• Social Studies
• CTE (specified
courses)
• Science
• World
Languages
• Health/PE
• Guidance
• CTE (specified
courses)
• Arts Education
• Dance
• Music
• Theatre Arts
• Visual Arts
• CTE (specified
courses)
• English Language
Development
• Extended Content
Standards
• CTE (specified
courses)
2014-15 – 2015-16
2016-17 – 2017-18
2018-2019 – 2019-20
NCDPI gathers feedback through focus groups, surveys and
email ([email protected]) from stakeholders
NCDPI convenes a Standards Review Committee (SRC) to study standards/analyze feedback to determine if
revisions are needed (teachers/content specialists)
SRC studies standards and the feedback and recommends any revisions
If minor revisions
SRC completes standards documents and presents revisions to SBE
State Board of Education reviews recommendations
and approves revisions or returns to committee for further work
NCDPI conducts professional development for teachers and
administrators as needed
Standards implemented
If the SRC review of the standards and their analysis of stakeholder feedback
to the standards
yields substantive revisions
SRC develops drafts of proposed standards documents
Drafts of revised standards are submitted for public review and feedback
(Drafts are revised as many times as necessary)
Final draft submitted to State Board of Education for discussion and
standards or returns to SRC for further work
SBE approves
Test specifications created; test items developed/field test items;
assessments created
Instructional materials/supports identified/created; professional development conducted for teachers and
administrators; parent/community communication
Standards and assessments implemented
So how does that look for ELA and Math Standards Review this year?
E-mail
NCDPI
Standards
Review
Committee
Sample Standards Review Timeline
2016-17 –
2017-18
• Standards review of K-12
Math and ELA standards
2014-15 –
2015-16
• Test specifications created; test
items developed/field test items;
assessments created
• Instructional materials/supports
identified/created
• Professional development
conducted
• Implementation of
standards and
assessments
2018-19
The process timeline is adjusted depending on the degree of revision necessary.
NC Early Mathematics Placement Exam
- Ellen Hilgoe, Associate Director
Smarter Balanced Update
Jacqueline King, Ph.D.
February 6, 2015
Key Elements of Smarter Balanced
State
Governed
Accessibility
Quality &
Alignment
Educator Built
& Tested
Information
for Instruction
College &
Career
Readiness
Smarter Balanced Membership, 2014-15
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19 governing
members
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3 affiliate members
Based at UCLA
Graduate School of
Education &
Information
Studies
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Roll-out of Assessment System in 2014-15
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Common Core
Engagement Group
Panel Discussion on Curriculum & Assessment
Final Thoughts &
Looking Ahead
Maintaining the Charge of the Common Core Engagement Group