Grant County Schools Curriculum & Instruction Staff Development 12.3.14

Grant County Schools Curriculum & InstructionStaff Development 12.3.14

Today’s Session

A-F Grading System

Framework for Planning and Implementation

Pillars and Priorities

Indirect Supports

Curriculum and Instruction

Curriculum Maps Benchmark Assessments

Overall Expectations1. All students will learn to mastery

2. All students will perform to mastery

Know it and show it!

A-F Grading System A-F

Grading System

A-F Grading System A-F

Grading System

Mastery and above

Growth

Growth: Keeping up/Catching up

Accelerated Growth of the bottom 25%GROWTH= 600MASTERY= 400

GRADUATION(HS)= 200

Framework for Planning and Implementation

GRANT COUNTY SCHOOLS’ CORE BELIEFS In order to build a high performing school system, Grant County Schools believes the following: • 21st Century learning skills are essential to live, learn, and thrive in a digital society;• Collaboration, reflection, and change are critical in an effort to continually improve;• Highly qualified personnel are essential for an effective school system;• High expectations, positive climate, and lifelong learning are nurtured by example.

GRANT COUNTY SCHOOLS’ STRATEGIC GOALS

• Students will show continuing improvement in student achievement in the areas of • Math and Reading/Language Arts.• Students will increase their use of technology to prepare them for the global workforce. • Grant County Schools will ensure the health of our students in a safe environment.

Framework for Planning and

Implementation

Strategic Plan, School Monitoring Report, 

Self-Study

Framework for Planning and Implementation

School Monitoring ReportSchool Self-Study

Strategic PlanThese three documents all serve a unique purpose:

• Self-Study: who we are/how we’ve done. Includes facts and data. – The targets for improvement and improvement priorities should correlate to actions in the strategic plan.

• School Monitoring Report (SMR): where we are as a school today—what we see in the mirror, good/bad, etc. What would an outsider observe? 

– Your evidence, when pointing to weaknesses/needs should align with improvement priorities from the self-study and drive the actions in the strategic plan. 

– The professional development needs addressed here should also align with the professional development portion of the Strategic Plan.

• Strategic Plan: what are we going to do based on how we’ve done (Self-Study) and where we are (SMR).

– Includes goals/action steps and should be formulated based on the self-study, the SMR and all data sources.

Framework for Planning and

Implementation

Strategic Plan, School Monitoring Report, 

Self-Study

Framework for Planning and Implementation

Framework for Planning and

Implementation

Strategic Plan, School Monitoring Report, 

Self-Study

A-F

Grading System

State Superintendent’s Pillars and Priorities WV State 

Superintendent’s

“Pillars & Priorities”

State Superintendent’s Pillars and Priorities

Framework for Planning and

Implementation

Strategic Plan, School Monitoring Report, 

Self-Study

A-F

Grading System

WV State Superintendent’s

“Pillars & Priorities”

Indirect Supports

Our service staff are essential—we cannot do it without them!

• Aides

• Bus Operators

• Cooks

• Custodians

• Maintenance

• Mechanics

• Nurses

• Secretaries/Office Staff

Indirect Supports

ALL Service Staff 

Indirect Supports

Framework for Planning and

Implementation

Strategic Plan, School Monitoring Report, 

Self-Study

A-F

Grading System

WV State Superintendent’s

“Pillars & Priorities”

Indirect Supports

ALL Service Staff 

Curriculum and Instruction

Curriculum and InstructionLearning to: 

1. Master the content2. Perform to mastery 

C & I

Framework for Planning and

Implementation

Strategic Plan, School Monitoring Report, 

Self-Study

A-F

Grading System

WV State Superintendent’s

“Pillars & Priorities”

Indirect Supports

ALL Service Staff 

Curriculum and InstructionLearning to: 

1. Master the content2. Perform to mastery 

Maps and Benchmarking

A standards based map provides a general sequence of standards for each course.

The expectation of each teacher for each subject is as follows:1. Use the maps provided on the county website; or2. *Use the maps on the website with teacher edits/reorganization; or3. *Create your own standards based map (needs approved for use).

ALL teachers will use a standards based map for core subjects

*The county will create Study Island benchmark exams based on the county provided maps. If one choses option 2 or 3, they will have to create the benchmark exams to match their map(s).

Benchmark assessments serve two main purposes:• To measure student mastery of standards;• To provide an opportunity for students to learn/practice standardized testing skills.

Curriculum and InstructionLearning to: 

1. Master the content2. Perform to mastery 

NXTGEN CSO

Gr. Prev. T

ested

OLD CSO

Times T

ested (3

yr)

Common Core

Timefra

me Standard Correlation Key

• RLA/Math Only

• Not all of the data maps have all components shown

Most significant components :

• “Translation” of standards (WV NextGen Standard to old CSOs to Common Core)

• Timeframe

Prev.

Score

(3yr)

Standards based maps

RLA/MATH/SS: RESA 7, some with county editsScience: county created

Benchmarking Tool

Work Session

By Grade/Subject