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Using Results to Get Results
State Leadership to Use Student Readiness Indicators
Across a P-20 Continuum
July 25, 2013
3:30 - 4:30 pm ET
Purpose and agenda
The purpose of this webinar is to highlight states’ actions to lift
academic achievement, educational attainment, and career
success through innovative public reporting from early childhood
through postsecondary education and workforce outcomes.
Introduce key points from Achieve’s recent policy brief, Creating a P-20
Continuum of Actionable Indicators of Student Readiness
Discuss the design philosophy for new Illinois school report cards
Share current and anticipated P-20 reports from Kentucky
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Introductions
We’re honored that leaders from two states paving the way forward will
join the webinar to discuss their current work and plans for P-20 public
reporting, and how this work ties into each state’s goals and aspirations
for students and the state as a whole:
Illinois State Board of Education
• Peter Godard, Chief Performance Officer
• Brandon Williams, Performance Data and Accountability
Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics
• Charles McGrew, Executive Director
• Kate Akers, Deputy Executive Director
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Creating a P-20 Continuum of
Actionable Indicators of Student
Readiness
Overview
The policy brief is designed to assist
state policymakers in crafting a
continuum of student readiness
indicators, including selecting and
prioritizing among a range of potential
indicators
Guiding questions include state policy
priorities, stakeholder engagement, and
coherence and alignment
Suggests potential indicators, and for
each, identifies research base,
suggests use cases and discusses
decision trade-offs
Provides recommendations for states
www.achieve.org/Student-Readiness-Indicators
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Pieces of the Pipeline
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EXAMPLE: 3rd grade mathematics
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Recommendations
Actions states can take now:
Set statewide performance goals on key indicators
Report results to the public
Incentivize progress
Use in systems to differentiate and classify schools
Continuously improve quality of indicators
Partner to improve accessibility and coherence of reporting
For more resources on CCR public reporting, please see:
www.achieve.org/public-reporting
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ILLINOIS NEW SCHOOL REPORT
CARDS – Overview and Design
Philosophy
Report Card History
Decades of compliance reporting
Illinois Interactive Report Card
Minimal reach and impact on students
Recent reform legislation driving new report card
New Philosophy
Theory of Action: Who, What, and Why
Goals
Families, educators and the public have a shared understanding of school
performance enabled by an easily accessible report card that includes
multiple dimensions of school performance and environment
Family and community engagement improves through school leaders’ use
of the new report card and through additional engagement support
provided to RttT districts
Stakeholders at all levels (state, regional and local) refer to report card
measures for purposes of accountability and measuring program
effectiveness thereby improving alignment of purpose throughout the
system
Engagement & Communications
Extensive work led by P20 Council, Advance Illinois, and Boston
Consulting Group
Steering Committee
Integrated Communications Strategy
Design Considerations
Holistic view of school environment
User-friendly, intuitive data displays with drill-downs for analytics
users
Totally revamped visual appearance
Website and one-pagers
Roll-out
Communications Toolkits
Webinar Series
RttT Engagement Strategy Meetings
Launch on October 31
Surveys
Performance Metric Baselining
Questions?
Peter Godard, [email protected]
Brandon Williams, [email protected]
July 25th, 2013
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Objective source of data that links early
childhood, k-12, teacher certification,
postsecondary, adult education workforce and
other data to provide a better picture of the
overall impact of state policies and practices.
Board
Education and Workforce
Development Cabinet
Secretary (CHAIR)
 Located in the Education and Workforce Development
KDE
Commissioner
 Created in December 2012 by Executive Order and
CPE President
Cabinet, Office of the Secretary
ratified into law in 2013 legislative session
 Maintain the Kentucky Longitudinal Data System
EPSB Executive
Director
 Continues the work of the P-20 Data Collaborative
KHEAA Executive
Director
http://kcews.ky.gov
Data Sources
Data Users
KDE
KLDS
K-12 Students
Teachers/Staff
EPSB
Teacher Cert.
CPE
Postsecondary
Adult Education
24/7 Secure
Data Collection,
Processing,
and Matching
DRS
De-Identified
Reporting
System
Workforce
Agencies
State
Researchers
Center
Staff
UI Wages/Claims
Workforce Invest.
Early
Childhood
P-20
Staff
Reports via
Web Portal
http://kcews.ky.gov
Public
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Current
• K-12 Student
• K-12 Teachers & Staff
• Public & Independent
Postsecondary
Teacher/Educator
Certification
• In-State Employment and
Earnings (UI)
• Early childhood &
Kindergarten Readiness
Future
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Financial Aid
Head Start
Unemployment
Proprietary Colleges
Children & Family Services
Apprenticeships
Out-of-State and Military
Employment
• Out-of-State Postsecondary
http://kcews.ky.gov
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Worked extensively with Early
Childhood Advisory Council to
develop this profile
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Kindergarten readiness data
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Participation in publicly funded
preschool, head start and childcare
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Quality and availability of child care
and the education of the early
childhood work force
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Demographic data provided
representing key indicators of
possible barriers to success for young
children and their families
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Participation in public health and
social service programs
http://kcews.ky.gov
http://kcews.ky.gov
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Worked with focus groups of educators,
superintendents, parents, school boards,
etc. to create report
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High school graduation rates
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College going rates (in-state public and
independent, in-state private, and out-ofstate public or private)
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College going rates by race, economic
groups, and special education
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College readiness by subject area.
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Complete list of all the colleges and
universities where graduates attended.
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2013 Report also includes 1st year college
success
http://kcews.ky.gov
http://kcews.ky.gov
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Instate employment and
earnings by credential level,
major/program and industry
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Includes graduates from all
Kentucky’s public and
independent instate colleges
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Institution level summary data
provided to every 2-year, 4-year
public and independent college
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Employment considered a proxy
for out-migration
http://kcews.ky.gov
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$80,000
$70,000
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$40,000
$30,000
$20,000
$10,000
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Certificate
Diploma
Associate
Bachelor
Master's
http://kcews.ky.gov
Specialist
Doctoral
Professional
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http://kcews.ky.gov
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Adult education feedback report
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College, transfer and employment feedback
report
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2014-15 County Profile
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Teacher preparation outcomes
http://kcews.ky.gov
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Questions?
Charles McGrew, PhD
[email protected]
Kate Akers, PhD
[email protected]
Achieve contacts
Cory Curl, Senior Fellow, Assessment and Accountability
[email protected] | 202-308-6640
Anne Bowles, Senior Policy Associate
[email protected] | 202-419-1553
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Using Results to Get Results
State Leadership to Use Student Readiness Indicators
Across a P-20 Continuum
July 25, 2013
3:30 - 4:30 pm ET