NCA+Conference+March1,+2010+Notes

Senate Room Mnday 10:15 and d 4:00 in the Senate room to discuss PAWS.

Dr Jim McBride comments Block Grant Money was funded at 100% this year. Budget cuts are not happening House Bill #20 The bill to cut out the writing assessment on PAWS died.

A national set of standards and assessments will be coming. It will be on the website. Also, we got aditional funds for instructional facilitators and summer school AND for SUMMERS ENRICHMENT. 100% of course curricular courses are offered on-line. Summer school will help with courses and help with scheduling.

The state's budget is has been cut in areas such as agriculture. There is 100 million dollars in reserve and will be cut back to 40 million. They want to keep a floor under construction. It is 100 dollars less per square foot now. We may need to pay into retirement.

Will be reviewing the funding model. No predetermined direction about costs.

The "good" schools are celebrating progress and data at an individual level.

Judy Willis [|www.animoto.comhttp://radteach.com/]

Typically, advanced ed does the school level visits. There is a building level observations-scores are aggregated for the district-wide evaluation. There is another model called Systems Accreditation. This is more systemic. The research comes out in April on the Systems Model.
 * District Accreditation**

Joe Simpson and the District Model Looking at research to improve school performance and it starts at the district system level.

The team takes a wholistic look at the district. The district model ensures all people, processes, operations and functions are working together.

The research says that certain decisions at a system level impact all levels.

There are standards for districts. They are on the advanced ed. website They are the same seven standards. Vision-governance, etc

Body of Evidence has been operationg outside of the acccreditation process

The district would create their own SA(R) report.

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Now the SAR is called the Self-Assessment Package.

Will be available for submission starting in May. Each standard is in its own booklet. You will need your school's access code beginning in May.

At the building level, we will be doing the SA and not the SAR The SAR is for the district. All schools in Wyoming will be doing the SAR.

Schools can choose the district level or the school level for the 2010-2011 school year.

Core Standards

Yelli videos

___ Revision Phases

(Committees are about 44 in size)** fine and performing Arts Foreign Lanugage Health
 * Phase 1 April 2010- November 2011

Language arts Mathematic physical Education
 * Phase II May 2010-January 2012**

Phase III February 2012-October 2013

teachers district administration college and university reps community leaders businenss leaders
 * Committee/Stakeholders**

[] Parents SBE WDE

The steering committee has been meeting the last 3 or so months. This will include preschool too. Trying to get a balanced gorup. Small districts-large districts, oboes,clarinets-experience-geographic groups

Need to be adopted as they are.

The standards may be adopted the fall of 2011 There is a race to the top grant could accelerate this.

Proctoring Caching has been redone. All the published tests will be available on Thursday.
 * PAWS**

System Support to see what is going wrong. Go to support and work your way to Wyoming On demand reports after a certain number of children have taken the test. You will get a raw score for multiple choice Also traffic skills report on demand The PAWS will be printed and shipped.

Traffic Symbols will be delivered May 1. New this year for classroom teachers. You can sign on to get traffic signal reports. In the past the districts opened it and handed it on down. The building PAWS coordinator will test teacher's their access name and login

A little pamphlet will come out with scores. The parent letter and scores will be in this pamphlet.

Come in Music Music helps that is happy and upbeat
 * Quantum Learning**

drum roll and cymbol crash when you are showing a new concept. At any given moment we are only paying attention to one thing. Music can put the working memory on the learning and not the emotion The brain likes clean beginnings and endings. Turn to your neighbor and say it is a gresat da to be at the lab school.

Call Back-Pull A STUDENT BACK by saying "Call Back."

Our own voice has a powerful impact on others.

Gowyld.net Got to databases Go to subject search At school you can use any data bases without a user name but at home they need library number and pin number

If at home, it will ask for a pin number 14 digit library card and pin. For the school districts so kids can go to: May need ton contact the district

Book Flix lets you look at a category. Select childrens books and someone reads them. Novelist and Novelist K8

Motivation minimize coersion reward- Do this and get that makes people focus on the that not the this. "If you get your homework done, you can watch television. Students get foucesed on the reward. They should appreciate the task. Elimate external rewards for learning. There is a natural reward system in the brain. If you struggle and work hard, they brain provides the endophins so it feels good to accomplish something. Relationships-teachers who show enthusisasm for their subject matter but demonstrate little interest in their studens as individuals will inspire only those who happen to have an affinity for the subject-typically only a small fractions of the class. Therefore, exhibiting enthusisams exculusively for the sujbect matter is not especially helfpful if you want to reach all learners. Relationships are more than liking-it has to be beyond a "nice" relationship. Role Respect Relevance Realistic Expectations
 * Bob Sullo**

Relationship with the concept of being a learner-with the subject-build a picture in their head of being a learner-develpop a

relationship with schools To inspire: Be enthusisactic eliminte fear mininimize coercions eliminate external rewards for learning build positive relationships You will enjoy your job more

Connected students with college players and keep track of statistics Identity formation is important for adolescents National football schedule scores of games-Each week she added to it and that would be her data set. Every week the students would recalulate the mean, mode, range. Students want: to Become competent Belonging connecting Power competence freedom fun Survival/Safety

You can give a student a choice of an alternative assginment. This would be good for higher level studetns too if it is an Look for joy in the classroom.

Jim McBride Joe Simpson Two changes for next year Vertical hours show which districts have improvement one year-two year three year and four years (a STAR) improvement

Is there going to be a national assessment. There may be a 60 40 split between national standards

Is a national test does ACT work? The ACT people would love it to be a national test. Pearson would love to be the national assessment. There is an enrichment summer school money now. new kindergarten assessment? You need PAWS- later in the year?--struggle with schedule-the further in the spring- the later in the summer- we get the info. back. may ask for an AYP haitus when the assessments begin to change Writing is not a federal government requirement. THe state wanted to do this. Teachers want the pulled cyt score papers The feds require the data by a certain date. There can be more creative days to do it. The new law may change the way we assess. The growth model will be mandated. We don't know what the growth model will look like.If there is a national assessment probably will do away with NAEP and PAWS.Dr. McBride says that it may be a rubric.No Child Left Behind began as a civil right matter.

ESL students being evaluted for AYP should be changed. Wyoming Schools are funded through a block grant. It is based n class size and how many at-risk students.

The local district dertermines how they use the money-not the state. Summer School, If are ouside the block grant model.

Class size Technology Each kids is $160 a year per kid for technology Remediation

The state doesn't know what you did with it. Twice a year they send the money.to the school districts. The districts decide how to spend the money. The funding model has 48 elements that they need to address.

Tutors are encouraged to be hired, but it is not used. Doubling Performance is a book tutoring full continum of services counseling

The KIndergarten IFKAY-IF assessment There are 8 core areas for development. All districts submitted their results. It is an oral/observation assessment. The districts should be getting the results back The link will be on teh website.

A decade ago we had lots more kids. The new building has less.

Changing the model 40% and 60%. Would that include statement commont assessments? He hopes it is a whole array of measurements.

BOE- Not going away-it was thought that grades weren't good enough. The previous superintendent didn not like it. It wasn/t it can be part of the rubric. There is a meeting that is held monthly. What is the current purpose. That they have mastered the standards beyond grade. A third of the people can not explain the grding system.

Cheyenne They have 30 sme minutes set aside for RTI math and reading. Collaborative teams to create collaborative assessments. Teaching soical studies to teach reading.

Do classification with teachers.