TEACH is an e-newsletter from the Learning and Teaching division of the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The ESSA draft Consolidated
Plan is available now. You can read the full text of the plan. The plan details how the state will implement the
federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The public comment period has been extended an additional 60 days to mid-February 2017. Those who wish to learn
more about the draft Consolidated Plan and provide public comment can do so by visiting http://www.k12.wa.us/ESSA.
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OSPI is pleased to announce that Superintendent Dorn will
formally adopt the CSTA K-12
Computer Science Standards as Washington’s K-12 Computer Science Learning
Standards on December 8, 2016.
In coming months OSPI will identify districts that have implemented computer
science programs successfully, particularly those that have integrated computer
science with math and science curricula. OSPI will reach out to districts
to determine what technical support is most needed.
For more information
visit http://www.k12.wa.us/ComputerScience/default.aspx.
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Former teachers Kristi Coe and
Amy Thierry are two of the OSPI staff who prepared the ELA Menu of Best Practices
and Strategies and the Mathematics Menu of Best
Practices and Strategies. Although these
resources were developed to support the Learning Assistance Program, there is
something in each menu for everyone. We encourage you to take a look!
We asked Kristi and Amy to think
about, as classroom teachers, what they wished they might have known about the
menus. Here are their responses.
The
menus include educator focused practices and strategies that impact
student outcomes and are aligned to TPEP.
- Balanced Literacy
- Family Engagement
- Instructional Coaching
- Professional Learning Communities
- Targeted Professional Learning
The
content philosophy of the menus contains valuable resources for classroom
teachers.
- English language arts foundational literacy
skills
- Learning Pathways in Numeracy
- Number Talks
- Washington State Early Learning and
Development Guidelines
The
menus include key components of a core instructional program.
- Multi-tiered systems of support
- Assessment types and how to use them
system-wide
- Effective implementation
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The new presentation of assessment
analytics allow for comparisons of student proficiency and growth across
subgroups, schools, and districts.
What
can you do to engage in conversations about these data in your district? Who
would you want to share this information with? Who
should be part of the conversation? What
would you want to learn from other districts that are getting better results? What
factors are affecting student performance, and how can your district impact
them? How
can you use these new ways of looking at data to inform your district’s efforts
to improve equity?
To access these data, along with supporting materials and recorded presentations, visit the OSPI Performance Indicator website.
Questions? Contact:
- Data access: Susan Canaga, Data Governance Program Manager
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OSPI’s performance indicators: Tim Stensager, Director of Performance Management
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Student growth percentile data: Ashley Colburn, Data Analyst, Student Information
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Assessment analytics: Erica Ferrelli, Data Analyst, Student Information
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are free to use, edit, and share. They have the potential to align curriculum more closely with the Common Core State Standards and engage teachers more fully in curricula, allowing them to adapt content to support quality instruction and student engagement.
Join OSPI’s OER, Learning and Teaching, and Educational Technology departments to discuss how to include OER as an important part in your district’s instructional material strategy. Your team will have an opportunity to learn more about OER, consider your district needs, and explore how OER resources can support instruction.
January 11, 2017, 9am-4pm | ESD 112, Vancouver
Register your team by January 2, 2017 (spaces available until full): https://www.pdenroller.org/ospi/Catalog/Event/12954
Attendance is FREE Clock hours are available Lunch and breakfast provided
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OSPI is working to revamp guidance for the selection
and adoption of instructional materials. There’s a growing body of
research finding that instructional materials
can have as large an impact on student outcomes as teacher quality or reduced
class size. Today’s
instructional materials include resources available via different delivery
platforms and carrying different types of licenses outlining permitted use. The
criteria to determine alignment to state learning standards and district
requirements must be the same regardless of whether the materials are print, digital,
open, or all rights reserved.
The new toolkit will provide useful resources and
practical advice for choosing core instructional materials for a
district, as well as supplemental materials for use by individual teachers and schools.
Educator Input is Needed: Please submit your suggestions about what resources would be most useful to include in the toolkit to Barbara Soots, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Instructional Materials Program Manager. With your help, we look forward to developing an evolving toolkit that will meet the needs of our state.
Meanwhile, as we update the toolkit, please remember
to always know your need, search critically, review with recognized rubrics
for the evaluation of instructional materials, and understand your level of
permitted use when considering any resources.
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Development of an SEL training module per ESSB
6620, Sec. 4 to create an online training module for educators,
administrators, and other school staff has begun. This task must be completed
by September 1, 2017 and shall be based on the recommendations of the SEL
Benchmarks workgroup to promote students’ self-awareness, self-management,
social awareness, relationships, and responsible decision making. The 2016
SEL Workgroup Report and other updates are available at http://www.k12.wa.us/WorkGroups/SELB.aspx.
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Take a deep exploration of the new Health and Physical Education K-12 Learning Standards, participate in lessons using new learning outcomes, and understand how existing OSPI assessments can be aligned to new the standards. Participants will receive an HPE Standards notebook with lesson plan templates. Free clock hours will be provided.
December 8, 2016, 9am-4pm | Renton Technical College
Register at: https://www.pdenroller.org/Catalog/Event/22835
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For
students in 9th and 10th grades this year (Classes of 2019 and 2020), the arts
graduation requirement has increased from one (1) credit to two (2) credits.
For more information about this requirement, other graduation requirements, and
the requirements for those graduating in 2016-2018, please visit http://www.sbe.wa.gov/graduation.php#.VgA0Xjbn_DC.
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Districts and World Language teachers are
encouraged to view information about this year’s “Drawing and Literary Contest
for Spanish Students”. All entries for the Drawing contest are due by Monday, February 27, 2017 and all Literary contest entries are due prior to 1 p.m., Tuesday, February 28, 2017. Each entry must be submitted with a cover sheet. The 2017 topic is: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
Instructions and information about the drawing and literary contests can be found on the OSPI Spanish Center website or by contacting Ana García-de-Jalón, Education Advisor, Embassy of Spain, Center for Spanish Studies, at spnrectr@uw.edu.
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