2008
2009
Annual
Report
West Virginia
Board of Education
West Virginia Board of Education
Delores W. Cook
President
Priscilla M. Haden
Vice President
Robert W. Dunlevy
Member
Lowell E. Johnson
Member
Ronald B. Spencer
Secretary
Barbara N. Fish
Member
Burma Hatfield
Member
Gayle C. Manchin
Member
Jenny N. Phillips
Member
Mission, Vision and Strategic Goals
Mission
Vision
The West Virginia Board of
Education establishes policies
and rules to assure
implementation of education
goals and to ensure the
general supervision, oversight
and monitoring of a thorough
and efficient educational
system.
All West Virginia students will
exceed national educational
standards and prepare for
higher learning and the world
of work through the programs,
services and offerings of West
Virginia’s thorough, efficient,
safe and nurturing educational
system.
Strategic Goals
1.
All students shall master or
exceed grade level educational
standards that reflect 21st
century skills and learning.
2.
All students shall receive a
seamless pre-kindergarten
through 20 curriculum
designed and delivered with
broad stakeholder
involvement to promote
lifelong learning in a global
society.
3.
All students and school
personnel shall develop and
promote responsibility,
citizenship, strong character and
healthful living.
4.
All students shall be educated in
school systems that operate and
deliver services efficiently and
effectively.
5.
All students shall be educated
by highly qualified personnel.
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Delores W. Cook
President
Steven L. Paine
State Superintendent of Schools
Engaging and Challenging Students
The 12-member West Virginia Board of
Education is dedicated to preparing students
to not only live and work in the 21st century
but also to thrive. As board members, our role
is to establish policies and rules to assure
implementation of West Virginia’s education
goals and to ensure general supervision,
oversight and monitoring of a thorough and
efficient educational system in an ever
changing world.
In the global economy of the 21st century, we
must change how we prepare our students to
live and work. That is why we created Global
21: Students deserve it. The world demands
it. Global21 is West Virginia’s plan to
systemically incorporate 21st century skills into
the curriculum to improve rigor, relevance,
relationships and results. As we continue on
our journey toward a deeper understanding of
21st century teaching and learning, it is more
important than ever that we send a clear
message about how we are working to
improve education in West Virginia.
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The U.S. Department of Labor estimates
that today’s students will have 10 to 14 jobs
by the age of 38. Thirty or 40 years ago, we
knew the kinds of jobs our students would
have. Now, 80 percent of the jobs today’s
students will have don’t yet exist. That is
why it is important for them to learn the
same skills that children across the world are
learning.
To strengthen our schools, West Virginia has
added world-class rigor to traditional core
subjects and aligned state standards with
national standards in the National
Assessment for Education Progress (NAEP),
ACT, and SAT, as well as with international
standards in the Program for International
Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends
in International Math and Science Study
(TIMSS).
We on the board are humbled by the
dedication of West Virginia’s administrators,
principals and teachers and proud that West
Virginia is leading the way in an education
revolution with Global21.
It must be remembered
that the purpose of
education is not to fill
the minds of students
with facts ... it is to teach
them to think.
~Robert Hutchins
`
U.S. Educational Philosopher
and Reformer
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Global 21: Students Deserve It. The World Demands It.
The three R’s of education – reading,
writing and arithmetic – have now been
surpassed by the four R’s – rigor,
relevance, relationships and results. By
adding rigor and relevance while focusing
on relationships and results, we are
transforming our classrooms into 21st
century learning centers. Global21 is the
vehicle we are using to make this
transition and help ensure every child’s
success. From the classroom to the district
office to the state Department of
Education to the West Virginia Board of
Education, Global21 is a bold
acknowledgement that we must change
how we operate if we expect to change
what and how children learn. At its core
is the mission to develop self-directed,
motivated learners who demonstrate the
skills and knowledge that are
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fundamental to becoming successful
adults in the digital world.
Traditional subjects, including math,
science, English, social studies and
foreign languages, remain an important
part of the curriculum. However, a focus
on these subjects alone is no longer
sufficient in today’s global economy if we
want our children to succeed in school,
work and life. We must make school
more relevant and appropriate for today’s
young people.
Employers, such as Verizon, Intel and
Cisco, tell us they want workers who are
able to think strategically, use technology
wisely, work collaboratively and
communicate effectively. Employees are
expected to have these skills their first day
on the job. In today’s conomy, the
Global 21: Students Deserve It. The World Demands It.
resumes of those who don’t speak the
language of the 21st century are quickly
passed over. That is why Global21 is so
important.
With the support and leadership of Gov.
Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Board of
Education, Senate Education Chairman
Robert Plymale and House Education
Chairwoman Mary Poling, West Virginia is
a pioneer in its efforts to provide children
the knowledge and skills they need. The
state also has a staunch supporter in
Congress in U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller,
who has sponsored federal 21st century
learning legislation.
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Professional Development
West Virginia’s process for implementing
Global21 includes targeted stakeholders
receiving focused professional
development. As part of the program, the
department has conducted professional
development for state staff, county
superintendents and district leaders, as
well as Regional Education Service
Agency (RESA) staff, principals, teachers
and higher education representatives.
The 2008-2009 school year marked
the first Leadership Development
Collaborative, which brought the state’s
higher education institutions and preK-12 officials together in an effort to
better prepare teachers for the 21st
century classroom. The initiative will help
West Virginia’s 20 institutions of higher
education become familiar with the
technology software, hardware and
technology integration efforts currently
offered in pre-K-12 schools. This
opportunity places proven technologybased instructional strategies in the hands
of the people who will be training our
future teachers.
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The 2008-2009 school year also
marked the second Special Education
Leadership Institute, where more than
300 teachers receive professional
development annually as well as followup and support.
West Virginia is working to develop
assessment literate educators with the
West Virginia Classroom Assessment
Network (CAN). This approach will
build statewide capacity focused on
Assessment for Learning. Eight Regional
Education Service Agency-based teams
have been established utilizing
Professional Learning Communities,
which help teachers adopt new
philosophies governing the way they
work with children. Most significantly,
there is a shift from isolated teachers
using individual strategies for teaching a
set of concepts in a certain amount of
time to teams of teachers employing any
number of highly targeted strategies
until students get a firm grip on the
concepts they need to master.
It is the supreme art of the
teacher to awaken joy in
creative expression and
knowledge.
~Albert Einstein
Award Winning Scientist
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Professional Development
West Virginia is committed to “building
the back porch” to provide a professional
setting for teachers where they can
collaborate in learning teams, reflect on
best practices, analyze achievement data,
plan interventions and engage in jobembedded professional development.
The West Virginia Department of
Education also has prepared professional
development modules on 21st century
learning for educators across the state.
The modules provide an overview of 21st
century skills, the urgency for
implementing 21st century learning, video
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segments of classrooms and probing
questions. Materials, resources, Web links
and other videos are included. See http://
wvde.state.wv.us/professionaldevelopment/modules/21st-Century.
In addition to the modules, we also
have launched Teach 21, a Web site
designed by teachers to assist colleagues
in planning and delivering effective 21st
century instruction. It enables educators
to quickly access 21st century content
standards, learning skills and technology
tools, as well as other resources. See
http://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21.
Parent Involvement
Research shows that parental involvement is
critical to improving academic achievement.
The West Virginia Board of Education knows
that the more extensively parents are
involved in their children’s education, the
higher the achievement, the better the
behavior and the more successful the
students will be as adults. As a result, the
board has made increasing parental
involvement a top priority. The board, along
with the West Virginia Department of
Education, sponsored several initiatives and
events related to parental involvement:
The West Virginia Board of Education
proclaimed October as Parental Involvement
in West Virginia Schools Month. With
this proclamation, members of the state
board acknowledged that parental
involvement, not income or social
status, is the most accurate predictor of
student achievement.
Parent training modules on 21st
century learning were developed and
piloted. In addition, a parent contact
and central office parent liaison was
identified in all 55 county school
districts. A dozen county contact liaisons
have received grants of $1,000 to
implement research-based parental
involvement modules.
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Accomplishments
Policy 2325: High Quality Standards
for Juvenile Institutional Education
Programs. The policy was revised and
updated to incorporated changes
suggested in an Office of Education
Performance Audits report to create a
more seamless monitoring system for
institutional programs.
Policy 2340: West Virginia Measures
of Academic Progress. This policy update
revised guidelines for monitoring whether
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parents and guardians receive student
reports in a timely and secure manner.
Policies 2520.1, .2, .3, .35, .4:
21 Century Reading and English
Language Arts, Mathematics, Science
K-12 and Social Studies. These changes
revised, reduced and reorganized
requirements as well as aligned state
standards with national and international
standards. The updates also increased
rigor and incorporated 21st century skills
into the curriculum.
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Accomplishments
Policy 4110: Attendance. This policy
revision incorporated requirements of the
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act,
which is the primary piece of federal
legislation dealing with the education of
children and youth experiencing
homelessness in U.S. public schools. The
changes clarified the definition of awaiting
foster care placement to ensure that the
educational needs of children in interim
social service placements are met. West
Virginia is committed to ensuring that all
West Virginia children and youth
experiencing homelessness have the
opportunity to attend, enroll in and
succeed in school.
Policy 5100: Approval of
Educational Personnel Preparation
Programs. The revision incorporated
the vision for 21st century schools,
including replacing the Interstate New
Teacher Assessment & Support
Consortium Standards (INTASC) with
West Virginia Professional Teaching
Standards. The policy update also
replaced the National Education
Technology Standards for Teachers
(NETS-T) with standards provided by
the International Society for Technology
Education (ISTE).
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Successes
Through the work of local school systems,
the West Virginia Department of
Education and other education
stakeholders, the state board realized
many successes in 2009.
West Virginia is among the top three
states when it comes to early childhood
education, college readiness and the work
force, according to Education Week’s
Annual Quality Counts 2009 report. West
Virginia’s overall grade on the report was
a B-, while the national average was a C.
Technology Counts 2009 gave West
Virginia an A for the capacity to use
technology. West Virginia was one of only
two states to receive A’s for both use of
technology and educator capacity to use
technology.
The State of Preschool report found
that the West Virginia Universal Pre-K
program enrolls 43 percent of the state’s
4-year-olds, ranking the state sixth out of
38 states that fund preschool education.
West Virginia provides $4,793 per child
enrolled, giving the state a resources
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ranking of 12th out of 38 states. Quality
standard benchmarks met remain
relatively high at seven out of 10.
Four members of the West Virginia
Board of Education fulfilled roles with the
National Association of State Boards of
Education (NASBE) during 2009. Dr.
Lowell Johnson was selected as presidentelect; Delores W. Cook was selected to
serve on the Governmental Affairs
Committee; Gayle Manchin, the
Community Partnership Study Group;
and Jenny Phillips, the Assessments for
the 21st Century Learner Study Group.
NASBE is the only national organization
giving voice and adding value to the
nation’s state boards of education, and
ultimately, public schools.
Legislative successes in 2009 include
the passage of the School Innovation
Zones Act. The legislation encourages
pilot projects at schools around the state
and gives teachers and principals greater
local control and flexibility with the
curriculum, schedule and staffing in their
schools.
Successes
Passage of the Critical Skills Student
Achievement Bill also was an important
improvement made in 2009. This new law
will help make sure struggling students in
the third and eighth grades get the
additional help they need at crucial times
in their educational careers.
This past year also saw the
development of new West Virginia
Teaching Standards. These changes
aligned state standards with Global21. The
changes impact policy and practice in the
areas of teacher preparation and licensure;
professional development; and teacher
evaluation. The development process
involved a review of the literature on
effective teaching and included
collaboration with national experts
Linda Darling-Hammond and
Charlotte Danielson.
West Virginia joined the Common
Core State Standards Initiative,
becoming one of 46 states to join an
initiative to develop common English/
language arts and math standards.
Thanks to the leadership of the
state Board of Education, nearly all
West Virginia counties have voluntarily
prohibited soda sales.
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Student Achievement
Across the state, 80 percent of West
Virginia schools received a passing mark
on the No Child Left Behind report card.
Of West Virginia’s 692 schools
accountable under NCLB, 558 made
adequate yearly progress (AYP).
Results released in 2008 show that the
average NAEP math score for West
Virginia fourth grade students increased
by five points from 231 in 2005 to 236
in 2007. The math score for West
Virginia eighth grade students improved
from 269 in 2005 to 270 in 2007. The
2007 NAEP reading scores for both
fourth and eighth grade students
remained steady at 215 and 255
respectively.
On the high school level, the composite
ACT score has increased from 20.5 in
2004 to 20.7 in 2008. The state ACT
reading score showed a significant
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increase from 21.2 in 2007 to 21.4 in
2008. Also, for the first time in five
years, West Virginia’s reading score
reached the national level on the ACT,
while the ACT English score was
steady at 20.8 in 2008. West Virginia’s
English score is above the national
English score of 20.6. The science
score remained steady as well at 20.5
in 2008, while the score in
mathematics increased to 19.6 in
2008 from 19.5 in 2007.
On the SAT, West Virginia students
out-performed high school seniors
across the nation on the critical
reading and writing portions of the
college entrance assessment in 2008.
West Virginia’s critical reading score
on the SAT of 512 is 10 points above
the national average of 502. The
average SAT writing score in 2008 for
graduating seniors was 498.
Financial Report: WVDE Expenditures
WVDE Expenditures
FY 2008-2009
Federal
18.25%
28.31%
Other Programs
Child Nutrition
26.25%
Vocational
23.33%
Special Education
Title I
Federal:
Other Programs
Child Nutrition
Vocational
Special Education
Title I
$
Total
$
Expenditures
63,002,436.60
90,614,443.44
13,327,519.91
80,546,227.89
97,724,776.10
345,215,403.94
Percentage
18.25%
26.25%
3.86%
23.33%
28.31%
100.00%
State
1.40%
5.36%
O ther Programs
Special Education and
Institutions
92.16%
A id to Schools
Vocational
S ta te :
Other Programs
Special Education and Institutions
Aid to Schools
Vocational
Total
$
$
Expenditures
100,028,294.37
20,248,339.22
1,721,207,639.00
26,230,976.23
Percentage
5.36%
1.08%
92.16%
1.40%
1,867,715,248.82
100.00%
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Financial Report: WVDE Expenditures
WVDE Expenditures
Aid to Schools
40.00%
37.23%
FY 2008 - 2009
35.00%
30.00%
25.00%
20.00%
15.00%
16.94%
12.04%
11.79%
10.00%
6.42%
5.00%
4.57%
2.90%
3.20%
1.55% 2.00% 1.36%
0.00%
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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Expenditures
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
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Percentage
PEIA
$ 202,961,229.00
Teachers' Retirement System
49,839,994.00
Other Current Expenditures
110,471,040.00
Professional Educators
640,814,368.00
Service Personnel
207,274,912.00
Fixed Charges
78,731,198.00
Transportation Charges
55,087,190.00
Administration
26,705,992.00
Improvement of Instructional Prog. (Step 7)
34,387,231.00
School Building Authority
23,345,075.00
Others
291,589,410.00
11.79%
Total
100.00%
$ 1,721,207,639.00
2.90%
6.42%
37.23%
12.04%
4.57%
3.20%
1.55%
2.00%
1.36%
16.94%
West Virginia Board of Education