Transcript Curriculum Leaders April 25, 2014 Rose Standards  What are the 7 Rose Standards  How do they align to Kansas Initiatives  How.

Curriculum Leaders
April 25, 2014
Rose Standards
 What are the 7 Rose Standards
 How do they align to Kansas Initiatives
 How do they align to local Initiatives
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Extend our current ESEA Waiver
 All states are given the option to request an
extension of their current waivers for an
additional year.
 If approved, our waiver would extend into the
2014-15 school year.
 Submitted April 15, 2014
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Respond to our current conditional
“high risk” status
 Involves Principle 3 of our waiver.
 How Kansas chooses to use student growth as
a significant factor in teacher/leader
evaluations.
 Positive response/progress with the USDE
 Submitted our response on January 27, 2014
and are waiting on a response.
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Amend items in our Current Waiver
 Kansas will have CETE develop our state
assessments instead of being involved with
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
 A new assessment model that allows for
multiple assessments at the high school level
 Re-think how we identify “Not Making
Progress” schools
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Move the use of using student growth
data to inform personnel decisions
 Results from the state assessments would not
be used in teacher/leader evaluations until
the 2017-18 school year.
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Kansas Professional Learning Team
 How can we better message Key State
Initiatives across Kansas?
 25 Kansas Educators coming together to dig
into key initiatives, develop learning materials,
and spread the message regionally across
Kansas.
 Includes 7 service centers, large districts,
regional representatives, etc.
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
2014 Assessments
How will we use and report
assessment results?
Only in a way that is valid and
meaningful.
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Questions
Comments
& Concerns
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org