MAP has partnered with Khan Academy to provide you with an easy way to find math resources based on a student’s goal RIT score. You can find these new resources at: http://support.nwea.org/khanrit

https://sites.google.com/a/cesa11.k12.wi.us/gsd/home/curriculum-review-specialities

Curriculum Review/Specialities

Link to Curriculum Companion

Business: Information Technology: Spanish: Technology: FACE: Financial Literacy: Intended Outcomes Review Curriculum Documents in Curriculum Companion Establish timeline for each are for the work Determine support needed

Outcomes for the day:

Curriculum Review Process:

1.  Conduct K-12 Needs Assessment

• Align curriculum to district identified standards; identify gaps/overlaps and revise curriculum
• Potential Areas of consideration for NEEDS:
• State and local assessment data - 
• Analysis of meeting needs of students locally
• Inventory of equipment/supplies
• Review of present curricular offerings
• Anticipated professional development
• Budget costs for implementation
• Booklet contents for School Board Presentation:
• Program Vision and Mission Statement
• Scope and Sequence for course(s)
• Course and grade level outcomes with correlating assessments (identified in Curriculum Companion)
• Recommended course/class additions/deletions

https://sites.google.com/a/cesa11.k12.wi.us/gsd/home/science

We are using this URL to keep track of our science curriculum work and resources fro the 2014-15 school year.

https://sites.google.com/a/cesa11.k12.wi.us/gsd/home/math

We are using this URL to keep track of our math curriculum work and resources for the 14-15 school year.

https://sites.google.com/a/cesa11.k12.wi.us/gsd/home/english-language-arts

We are using this google site to keep track of the ELA curriculum work....and curriculum resources

We are using this Curriculum Blog to keep track of the work of our curriculum teams this year:

https://sites.google.com/a/cesa11.k12.wi.us/gsd/

The Office of Educational Accountability has just released 5 new informational handouts and related links regarding all assessments for K-12 students starting in 2014-15. The biggest change is in high school testing, as ACT discontinued the Explore and Plan assessments. Instead, ACT  joined Pearson to create a new entity and the test is called ACT Aspire. 

• General information from ACT: Transitioning from Explore/Plan to Aspire (link)
• ACT’s Resource Page: Topical FAQ About Aspire (link)

In addition, a Parents Guide to New Assessments has been created for use with parents and others in the community to assist in understanding the new assessments and schedule.

• 2014-15 Tentative Wisconsin Assessment Schedule (PDF)
• Wisconsin's New Assessments (PDF)
• Parents Guide To New Assessments in Wisconsin (PDF)

See all info at http://tinyurl.com/wiscsbac1 or at http://oea.dpi.wi.gov/oea_wiassessmt.

WI Online Assessment Readiness

Practice Tests - DPI link

January 2014

Smarter Introduces Training Test complete with full accommodations/accessibility features

In May 2013, Smarter Balanced introduced its online Practice Test (http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/). Since that time, teachers and students have used this tool to experience grade-level assessments in English language arts/literacy and mathematics. Over time, a variety of new features that will be included in the Smarter Balanced Field Test this spring and in the 2014-15 Operational Test will continue to be added to the Practice Test.

Today (January 30, 2014), Smarter Balanced introduces its Training Test (http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/). The Training Test is designed to serve three key purposes:

1. Provide a means for students and teachers to quickly become familiar with the features of the Smarter Balanced assessment software interface.
2. Provide a means for students and teachers to experience new item types that do not currently appear on the Practice Test. 
3. Provide a means for students and teachers to preview universal tools, designated supports, and accommodations.

Recommended Reading Websites

The Common Core State Standards team through DPI has launched the English Language Arts Professional Learning Community, a Google community where PK-16 ELA educators may engaged in dialogue around practice and research. This is an open community that allows members to share their ideas through links, posts, and comments. It is organized in categories—reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, instruction, assessment, etc. The categories are located in the left margin under the logo.: http://bit.ly/WIDPIELA.

New Assessments Begin in 2014-015.

Smarter Balanced Assessments:  Here's the DPI web page devoted to SMARTER:  http://oea.dpi.wi.gov/oea_faqsbac

It will be good if we are all as prepared as possible for the new assessments. To that end, we encourage you to click on the links and try out the assessment questions so you have a feel for what our students will be experiencing.

Try going to the sample test and using the resource page designed to assist teachers in understanding the test format and type of questions as well as how they are scored.http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/ Also on that page, look at the resources and documentation page.

Smarter Balanced Assessments for Grades 3-8:

Practice Test: 
http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/

Scoring Guide: 
http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/resources/#scoring

FYI --- the WKCE will still be given in the fall for science and social studies. 

ACT Suite – Aspire – online version for grades 9 and 10. 
Timing of assessments – 4 hours total testing for all five subjects.  The average single test duration as low as 30 minutes and not greater that 65 minutes per test.

Sample test questions:  http://www.discoveractaspire.org/pages/test-features