2012 Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement
March 20, 2012

IIS
and
Race
 to
the
Top
(R0T)
Teacher
Effectiveness
Measures
of
Student
Learning
STEM
Curricular
 and
PD
Resources
IIS
Tools
for
Collabora9on
and
Assessment
NCVPS
District and
School
Transformation
Professional
Development

Why an Instructional Improvement System?
Improve and personalize student learning
How?
Facilitate the teaching and learning process through:
•   Increased access to high quality resources for all
•   Provision of timely and relevant information and data

•   Need link between the learner, instruction, assessment, and PD
•   Would like the ability to have electronic access to learner profiles and work samples to share across years
•   Many are finding Instructional resources via Google but it is time consuming and some resources are not standardsaligned
•   Lack of PD and Assessment Resources
•   Overwhelming concern about equity and access to technology

For Students: In & Out of the Classroom
•   Access anytime, anywhere
•   Check assignments
•   Collaborate with other students
•   NCVPS
•   eLearning
•   Homework Resources
•   eTextbooks
•   Online Artifact
Repository
•   Assessments

•   Professional development
•   Student Profiles
•   Lesson plans
•   Immediate feedback to students
•   Classroom organization tools
•   Communication tools
•   Student performance data
•   Professional Learning
Community

•   Teacher evaluations and observations
•   School-wide student data
•   Communication tools
•   Professional development
•   Progress reports

•   Communication tools
•   Attendance and discipline reports
•   Stronger parent-school and parentstudent connections
•   Student progress reports
•   Resources for homework help

Standards &
Curriculum
Professional
Development
& Educator
Evaluation
Learner
Profile &
Work
Samples
Instructional
Design,
Practice, &
Resources
Data Analysis
& Reporting
Assessment
& Growth

Learner Profiles and
Work Samples
Clear picture of students and their needs
Instructional Design,
Practice and
Resources
Instructional planning with resources like unit plans, online learning objects, and mediaenriched tasks
Assessment Tools,
Items and Strategies
Interim and diagnostic assessment items for use in classrooms; formative best-practices
PD Resources and
Management
Resources to improve and reflect on practice and tools to manage professional development
Dashboards and
Analytics
Tools to display, understand, and use data to drive instruction and professional development choices

Learner Profile and Work Samples
•   Teacher has access to learner information to assist with planning and monitoring
•   Teacher can use examples of student work for future lessons
•   Student can collect evidence of learning and growth
•   Parents can view student work

Instructional Design, Practice and Resources

Dashboards, Data Analysis and Reporting

Professional Development and
Educator Evaluation

•   Focusing on the IIS as a resource for students, parents, teachers, and administrators
•   Including stakeholders in the planning and implementation
•   Leveraging existing local, state, and national resources

•   Race to the Top (RttT) IIS Network
•   Smarter Balanced Assessment
Consortium (SMARTER Balanced)
•   Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC)
•   IIS Resource Consortium

•   Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia,
Hawaii, Kentucky, Illinois, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island
•   Share resources
•   Learn from other state implementations

•   Determining how the computer adaptive nextgeneration assessments for the
Common Core State Standards in ELA and
Mathematics can be accessed through the IIS
•   Utilize the results from their Technology
Readiness Tool

1.
Computers & other devices
   Minimum system requirements
2.
Ratio of devices to test-takers
   Including testing window and session scheduling
3.
Network and infrastructure
   Bandwidth, network utilization, size of content
4.
Personnel (staffing & training)

The Shared Learning Collaborative

•   Funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Carnegie Corporation in partnership with
Council of Chief State School Officers
•   Developing a Shared Learning Infrastructure
(SLI)
•   Phase 1
Colorado, Illinois, North Carolina , New York and Massachusetts
•   Phase 2
Louisiana, Georgia, Kentucky and Delaware

•   Enables us to integrate learning data from a variety of sources
•   Allows us to focus on purchasing tools and resources rather than infrastructure
•   Provides us access to a limited set of tools to facilitate resource sharing

•   Data Store with data ingestion and API tools
•   Portal and identity management
•   Standards for connecting resources (LRMI, tagging, learning maps)
•   Apps that demonstrate how to leverage the standards and the data store APIs (dashboard, learning map visualizations)

State or Local
Teacher Portal/
Instructional
Improvement System
Student Data Learning Maps Student Resources/
Student Assessment
Tools
(Common Core)
Lesson Plans
(Common Core)
Professional
Development

Iden2ty
Management
Federa2on/
Single
Sign‐on
Student
Enrollment/
Roster
Data
State,
District
&
Local
Student
Achievement
Data
Learning
Map
Tools
Na2onal
&
Local
Repositories
of
LRMI
Tagged
Content
Identity &
Authorization
Service
Local ID
Directories
Datastore
API
SLI Datastore
Learning Maps
Authoring Tool
& Datastore
Learning Map
Repository
Learning
Registry
Index
Common
Core
Objec9ves
State
Objec9ves

SLI API
SLI Data
Store
Student
Enrollment
Data
Student
Achieveme nt Data
Student
Biographic al Data
Teacher &
Staff
Association
Data
Education
Organizati on Data
Identity
Data
IIS will synchronize data with the SLI through the SLI
API.
Enterprise Service Bus
System System
State Data Sources
Assessment Other LEA
Systems Systems
LEA & Charter Data
Sources
Data Integration
Services
CSV or EdFi load files
Follow SLI specifications
DPI & LEAs load data from authoritative data sources. Ingest back data for which
IIS is the authoritative source.

•   The Resource Consortium is a group of
LEAs that will share resources they have created or purchased locally so you can access them statewide through the IIS.
–   IISRC Charter in draft review
–   IISRC Application - interested parties from
LEAs

•   Governor’s Education Transformation Commission
•   State Board of Education and Advisors (Principal, Teacher, and
Student)
•   Governor’s Teacher Advisory Committee
•   North Carolina Association of Educators
•   North Carolina Parent Teacher Association
•   North Carolina School Boards Association
•   IIS Stakeholder Advisory Committee
•   IIS User Groups
•   Other LEA and School Staff
•   Cross-divisional NCDPI Teams

•   Regional Meetings
•   Focus Groups
•   Webinars
•   Monthly User Group Meetings
•   Quarterly IIS Stakeholder Advisory Committee Meetings
•   Conferences
•   IIS Resource Consortium

•   Implement Common Core
•   Let teachers personalize learning
•   Identify best products & services
•   Create what educators need

The Request for Proposals: Searching for the Right Vendor(s)

Action
Issue of RFP
Responsibility Date
Office of Information
Technology Services
02/27/12
Vendors Submit
Questions
Response to Written
Questions/ RFP
Amendments
Vendors
Department of Public
Instruction
03/14/12
03/28/12
Submission of Proposal Vendors 04/18/12 @ 3:00 PM EDT
Selection of Finalists
Vendor Product
Demonstrations
Contract Award
Evaluation Committee
Vendor &
Evaluation Committee
05/21/12
06/04/12 to 06/15/12
State Purchasing Agent 08/06/12

•   The team is currently formulating the RFP
Evaluation Process.
•   A core team of evaluators and sub-teams will be involved.

Instructional
Design, Practices,
Resources &
Standards
Data Analysis &
Reporting
Assessment &
Growth
Learner Profile
Educator Evaluation
& Professional
Development plus
Rollout Strategy &
Training
Systems
Integration, IT
Platform & any other technical considerations

•   The Friday Institute is working on the first draft of the RFP.
•   Purpose: Establish a service to move data from SEA and LEA source systems through a middleware Enterprise Service
Bus into the IIS and SLI data stores.

   Established IIS workgroups (cross-divisional teams)
   Hired Center for Educational Leadership and Technology
(CELT) and NewSouth to develop the RFP and Manage the Project
   Vision established and vetted with stakeholders
   Functional business and technical requirements gathered and vetted
   Reviewed the marketplace including vendor demonstration of potential solutions for the IIS
   IIS User Groups and Stakeholder Advisory Committee established

Accomplishments (continued)
   RFP (including SBAC and SLI connections) posted
   Draft tagging and review processes established
   New staff hired to assist with implementation
   Revised DSW, budget, and timeline for submission to
USED
   IIS Resource Consortium created
   Data Resource Guide in progress

What
to
expect
this
Spring/Summer?
RFP
Issued
Feb

27
Review
Proposals
April
–
June
Becoming
Available
Data
Integra2on
Pilot
July
2012
IIS
Pilot
Early
2013
 
Determine
Vendor
July
–
August
Phased‐In
Roll
out
Star9ng
2013‐14
School
Year
Design
and
Build
August
 

•   Develop plans for helping districts get ready for the IIS (Managing Change)
•   Determine policies that may need to change or be implemented
•   Contract for content management services
•   Work with Technology Services as they address the technology concerns

What do you need to get ready for the IIS?

Are there any policies in place that would inhibit your use of the IIS?

What technologies are you lacking to be able to use the IIS?

Instruction
Application • Support
Interconnections
Services
•
Infrastructure
Things
Digital Devices
•
Tools
Ensuring pressing
Enter helps students learn
Making sure that pressing
Enter always works
Something on which to press
Enter

% used in this graphic are meant  to start a conversa4on about partnerships and responsibility to get to technology‐enabled classrooms for all  students in 2014‐15.
Future
Spending
Distribu9on
Instruc2on
Applica9on
•
Support
Interconnec2ons
Services
•
Infrastructure
Things
Digital
Devices
•
Tools
50%
from
LEA
•   Priori9es
•   Instructional Technology
Support Staff
•   Professional Development
50%
from
State
•   Support
with
Cost
Alloca9on
 and
Resources
•   Professional Development
•   Instructional Improvement
System
Ensuring
 pressing
Enter
helps
 students
learn
20% from LEA
•   Local Networks
•   Technical Directors
80%
from
State
•   Network
to
Schools
•   Engineering
Support
{DPI
and
MCNC}
•   Financial Support
•   NC Education Cloud and
Shared Learning
Infrastructure
•   E-rate
Making
sure
that
 pressing
 Enter  always
 works
80%
from
LEA
•   Priori9es
•   Fund
Iden9fica9on
•   Partnerships
•   Companies
•   Other
LEAs
•   Founda9ons
20% from State
•   Support with Cost
Allocation and Resources
•   Enable Partnerships
•   to
press
Enter

IIS Website: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/improvement/resources/
IIS RFP: https://www.ips.state.nc.us/ips/AGENCY/PDF/08833600.pdf

Sarah McManus, Learning Systems Director sarah.mcmanus@dpi.nc.gov
919-807-3776
Eric Moore, Fiscal Analyst eric.moore@dpi.nc.gov
919-807-3731
Cynthia Crowdus, IIS Project Coordinator cynthia.crowdus@dpi.nc.gov
919-807-3205