Standards Newsletter, Sept. 23, 2020

'Creating Collaborative Civic Spaces' Social Studies Module Now Available!

In this module, participants explore the value of creating collaborative civic spaces in classrooms to enable effective communication among students. The goal of this module is to support and empower schools and districts in cultivating and nurturing the collaborative civic spaces necessary to meet the instructional shifts within the Kentucky Academic Standards for Social Studies.

Participants will:

• Examine data that highlights some of the challenges to creating collaborative civic spaces;
• Examine the role of teachers and students in building a collaborative civic space;
• Explore tools and resources to engage student voice in building a collaborative civic space;
• Examine the proven practice of current and controversial issue discussions; and
• Analyze strategies that can be used to support current and controversial issue discussions through inquiry.

The "Creating Collaborative Civic Spaces" Module consists of six sections designed to be administered in professional learning community sessions and is available on the Social Studies Professional Learning Modules webpage.

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Teaching and Learning PL Series: Eliciting Evidence of Learning

The Kentucky Department of Education will be releasing a professional learning experience each month to support educators with eliciting evidence for learning, whether in a face-to-face or remote learning environment.

Each professional learning experience will be accompanied by an informational video and made available on the Balanced Assessment Professional Learning Modules webpage by the date listed.

The Teaching and Learning PL Series: Eliciting Evidence of Learning schedule is available for download.

Sept. 16: "Comprehensive, Balanced System of Assessment" 

Learn about the components of a comprehensive, balanced assessment system and how different assessments can work together to support student learning. The module will take a closer look at the types and purposes of different assessments, appropriate uses of assessment data and build an understanding of the assessment cycle. 

Visit the Balanced Assessment Professional Learning Modules webpage to access this module.

Oct. 14: "Understanding Formative Assessment" 

Build a common understanding of formative assessment practice. The module will define formative assessment and take a closer look at the assessment cycle in the formative assessment process. In addition, the module will focus on taking a closer look at developing student ownership through building a culture of formative assessment practices in the classroom.

Nov. 18: "Clarifying and Sharing Learning Goals and Success Criteria" 

Learn how the standards and associated learning expectations inform high-quality assessment. The module will focus on how to elicit meaningful evidence of student learning through clarification of learning progressions, learning goals and success criteria.  

Dec. 9: "Eliciting Evidence of Learning" 

In the first section of this module, participants will learn about designing and eliciting evidence of student learning aligned to the standards. The module will take a closer look at strategies for eliciting evidence aligned to the depth of the standard and criteria for high-quality classroom assessments.  

In the second section, participants will learn about valid assessment practices. The module also will consider how to ensure assessment practices are culturally relevant and free from unintended barriers.

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