Announcing the Spring 2021 Online Study: The Assessment Playbook for Distance and Blended Learning!

Assessments are an essential link between teaching and learning. This self-paced study gives educators across the state an opportunity to dig deeper into how to assess what students have learned in the distance learning setting. This playbook empowers teachers with the decision-making tools needed to gauge the impact of instructional strategies regardless of the learning setting.

The spring 2021 online study will be facilitated by Misty Higgins and Carrie McDaniel, professional learning coordinators at the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE). A Google Classroom format will allow participants to work at their own pace as they read and interact with the community. More information regarding the topics covered in the study are available in the spring 2021 online study flier.

The first 150 people to register will receive the book for free!

Register for the spring 2021 online study by Jan. 19.

Distance Learning Playbook Book Study Learning Plan and Resource Guide Now Available!

Designed by the KDE professional learning coordinators during the fall of 2020 with more than 500 educators participating from across the state, the Distance Learning Playbook Book Study was a huge success. It now has been packaged in a form you can use to facilitate your own group.

The plan can be modified to set a pace and emphasis that is appropriate for your group. Using a Google Classroom environment to encourage reflection and group discussion worked well for KDE, but using notebooks and synchronous collaboration time may work better for your group.

The Distance Learning Playbook Book Study Learning Plan and Resource Guide can be accessed on the new Topic Studies webpage.

Fall 2020 New Standards Resources Recap

The standards team published a variety of new resources during the first part of the 2020-2021 school year. Here are a few highlights:

• Balanced Assessment Professional Learning Modules
  • Module 1: Comprehensive, Balanced Systems of Assessments
  • Module 2: Understanding Formative Assessment
  • Module 3: Clarifying and Sharing Learning Goals and Success Criteria
  • Module 4: Eliciting Evidence of Student Learning
• Building a Culture of Mathematics Learning Modules
  • Introduction to the Standards for Mathematical Practice
  • SMP 1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  • SMP 3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  • SMP 4: Model with mathematics.
• Social Studies Professional Learning Modules
  • Creating Collaborative Civic Spaces
  • Performance Assessments in Social Studies
  • Inquiry Practices of the KAS for Social Studies Modules
• Reading and Writing Resources
  • New Composition Resources
  • New Text Dependent Questions Resources

Standards Newsletter Archive

Did you miss last week's Standards Newsletter? You can access all previous editions of the Standards Newsletter on the Standards Newsletter Archive webpage.

Standards Quick Links

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Standards Resources webpage

KY Academic Standards webpage

Teaching and Learning PL Series: Eliciting Evidence of Learning

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

The Teaching and Learning PL Series: Interpreting and Acting on Evidence of Learning schedule is available for download.

Jan. 20: "Interpreting Evidence of Student Learning - Reading & Writing" and "Interpreting Evidence of Student Learning - Social Studies"

Feb. 17: "Interpreting Evidence of Student Learning - Mathematics" and "Interpreting Evidence of Student Learning - Science"

The first content-specific modules are designed to address the unique needs of interpreting evidence of student learning. Participants will learn about strategies for interpreting student evidence, engaging students in the interpretation and analysis of their own evidence, using student learning evidence to guide the formative assessment process, and identifying patterns in student responses that can inform teacher and student learning.

March 17: "Acting on Evidence of Student Learning - Reading & Writing" and "Acting on Evidence of Student Learning - Social Studies"

April 21: "Acting on Evidence of Student Learning - Mathematics" and "Acting on Evidence of Student Learning - Science"

These content-specific modules are designed to address the unique needs of acting on evidence of student. Participants will learn about the characteristics of meaningful teacher, self and peer feedback, strategies to support meaningful feedback, as well as strategies to adjust instruction based on evidence of student learning.

CONTACT

standards@education.ky.gov