Coffee Talk Do you have a success or challenge to share with the group?

Is there a topic you would like to discuss with your colleagues?

TEA Updates

• Navigating new website – tea.texas.gov/

• National Youth Science Camp – www.nysf.com/w/programs/nysc/ – Applications due March 1

• PAEMST – www.paemst.org – 20 CPE – Webinars at bit.ly/14Y4M8q (search “PAEMST”)

Professional Development

2014-15

• www.esc4.net/science – Updated PD list

Region 4 Science Conference

New Products

• Warm-up to Science

• http://r4hub.esc4.net

Index 4: Postsecondary Readiness

Texas Center for District and School Support (TCDSS) Website: http://www.tcdss.net/tcdss/tais.html

New Texas Accountability & Intervention System (TAIS)

website with additional resources and videos: http://www.taisresources.net

Index 4 Description

Index 4 is :

• the Post-secondary Readiness index, which is

used to show the readiness of students on a

campus (or in a district) to enter the workforce

or college

• it has up to four indicators

Index 4 Visual

• STAAR Final Level II Standard on at least 2 tests taken.

• Graduation Rates

• Graduation Plans (Recommended/Distinguished)

• Post Secondary Readiness Indicators (HS graduates who met college-ready criteria on the TAKS, or SAT test, or the ACT test in both ELA and mathematics).

Index 4 Description

• All campuses and districts are evaluated on the STAAR Final Level II Standard indicator.

• For Elementary and Middle School campuses (and campuses/districts which don’t have graduation rates) this indicator is the only indicator used for the index score.

• For 2013-2014 school year (last year), elementary campuses were required to have an Index Score of 12, middle schools, and district without graduation rates 13, and high schools without graduation rates 21 to meet the index standard.

Index 4 Visual

•The STAAR indicator consists of all students and all races/ethnicity groups, so students will count at most twice in this indicator (a White student can count in all students and white group).

Index 4 Visual

Special Ed and ELL are not included as an individual subgroup, but the students ARE included in the ALL Students and appropriate race/ethnicity group.

Index 4 Description

• For Index 4, campuses and districts are being evaluated for post-secondary readiness-and not students meeting a low standard, the “passing” standard for Index 4 is the Final Phase-In Standard.

• Students are not held to that standard until 2021-2022 school year, yet campuses and districts have been evaluated using the Final Phase-In Standard in Index 4 since 2012.

• Students can meet standard on the tests, but be considered a “failure” in Index 4 because he/she did not meet the Final Phase-In Standard.

Index 4 Visual

Elementary and middle

schools are evaluated only on the STAAR indicator

High school and districts are evaluated on these three additional areas – Graduation Rate, Graduation Plan, and Postsecondary Indicator

Index 4 Visual

For campuses/districts with

all 4 indicators, each indicator is weighted evenly (25% each) to determine the Index Score.

Index 4 Visual

Graduation Rates: are determined based on the best rated for either a 4-year or 5-year graduation rate.

The Index considers the All Student group, the 7 race/ethnicity groups, AND special education and ELL.

Students may count as many as 4 times in the graduation rate calculation (All, Race/Eth, SpEd, ELL)

Index 4 Visual

Graduation Plans: This indicator uses the percentage of students who graduate with a recommended or distinguished diploma.

The state has an expectation that all students graduate with at least the recommended diploma.

Campuses who allow student to move from the recommended to minimum plan, may find themselves not meeting the Index standard based on this indicator alone.

This indicator is expected to change after this year, as the graduation plans change and the last class graduating under TAKS .

Index 4 Visual

Postsecondary Indicator: this indicator identifies the percentage of student who met the post-secondary readiness standard on TAKS, SAT, or ACT for both Reading and Math.

With the STAAR indicator, only the All Students and Race/Ethnicity groups will be counted to determine the index score.

Reflections from September

• Coffee Talk – How have you used the VKV information and

resources in your district?

– Challenges? Successes?

UDL Leaders

Region 4 Science Collaborative

Needs Assessment

• How can Region 4 Science best support your teachers?

4 Significant Need

1 Not necessary

• Improve morale • Science content • Pedagogy • STEM

• Inquiry • Integrating Technology • ELL in science • Special Ed/struggling learners

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Next Advisory Meeting

• April 8, 2015

• Differentiation

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