Welcome, High School Principals!
January 22, 2015
Agenda and Updates on wiki
hsprograms.pbworks.com
Brian Pittman Holly Springs High School
Tom Dixon Apex High School
Content Updates
Social Studies
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Voter Registration Drive
 March
23-27 for the Leadership Academies
 March 30-April 6 for everyone else
 Please alert Voter Registration Coordinators
Social Studies
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Name change for Civics &
Economics to “American
History: The Founding
Principles, Civics &
Economics”
Effective 2015-16
Does not effect sequencing
of courses
Can still take AP US History
and IB History of Americas
as stand-alone courses
Advanced Placement
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AP Audit
Information
AP Survey
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Athens
Green Hope
Middle Creek
Millbrook
Wakefield
English
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English II Benchmarks
Performance Tasks
Last Semester– Try it and
Report
This Semester– Normed
across district
Implementation Guide
Score Reports for Part 1
Reading and Part 2 Writing
in April
All materials in Content
Updates and on English wiki
Managerial Leadership
Cathy Moore and Ruth Steidinger
Lunch
11:30-1:00
Strategic Leadership
21st Century Assessment
Balanced Assessment?
Assessment Alignment
https://www.yo
utube.com/watc
h?v=zamE9cvC6
u0#t=28
“4C” Measurement: The Future is Now
• College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA+)
– Online assessment includes a performance task and 25 selectedresponse items
– 5 WCPSS high schools in Spring 2015
– Analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication
– http://cae.org/images/uploads/pdf/CWRA_Student_Guide_Institution.pdf
• Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
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Administered to 15-year-olds in 70 countries
Math, Science, Reading, and general cross-curricular competencies
5 WCPSS high schools in 2014; 5 more in Spring 2015
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/PISA/
Instructional Leadership
K-12 Aligned Literacy
Writing Focus Group
Sherri Miller, K-12 Director
Sara Overby, HS ELA
Melissa Hurst, MS ELA
Barbara Sorensen, ES ELA
Sharon Collins, ES ELA
Walter Harris, ES ELA
Shanta Lightfoot, MS ELA
The Heart of Writing
Argument
Training
Day 1
Day 2–
March 2, 2015
CR2 1400
• Send the same
team for Day 2.
• HS Programs
pays for subs.
• Day 4—Writing in the Content Areas
• Day 5—Performance Tasks/Integrated Units
http://tinyurl.com/Growing-Writers-Video
Designing
Aligned K-12 Writing Rubrics
David Balmer, SocSt, Heritage
Tammy King, SocSt, Holly Springs
Kristen Larsen, SocSt, Sanderson
Laura Stiles, Sci, Wakefield
• 24 Teachers
Molly Bostic, Sci, Heritage
• Across
District
Mary Cate Larocca, ELA,
Southeast
Raleigh
• Across
Grades K-12
Jenni Greene, ELA, Holly
Springs
Lauren Genesky, ELA,• Millbrook
Across Content Areas
Carrie Horton, ELA, Vernon Malone
Aligned Rubrics
for
Quality
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Argument
Informative
Narrative
K through 12
Cross-Curricular
Implementation
1. Look down
Table Talk
• What do you notice about skills and
criteria?
• How might these fit all content areas?
2. Look across: one skill criterion
http://tinyurl.com/k9cgu3c
• What do you notice about growth within and across
grade spans?
• How might these rubrics support a call to rigor in
content-area learning?
Apply It: Choose a skill criterion. Read the student
response. What subskill feedback would you give this student?
How can the quality continuum be used to support qualitative
student growth, rather than quantitative grades?
We Need Some Bright Ideas!
What ideas do you have
for implementation
in a high-school culture
and climate?
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/light-bulb-idea-821688.jpg
Google Response Form
http://goo.gl/forms/Io07BqGRMD
One per group
Teacher Professional
Development
Fidelity of
Cross-Curricular
Implementation
Interactive Digital
Rubrics
K-12 Digital Portfolios
Instructional Leadership
Access to Rigor
Equity Leadership Mindset
Start with “Why”
See Inequities
Understand Inequities
Interrupt Inequities
Reports:
AP Potential—Online (access code required)
Right to Rigor—Via email on January 8
Five-Year Report—Online (access code required)
Integrated Report—Via email on January 8
Quickr Roster
AP Potential Report
Right to Rigor Overview
Right to Rigor: Student & Course Gaps
Right To Rigor Reports
Right to Rigor Reports
Sample Five-Year Report
Integrated Report…Page 20
Quickr Roster
See link in agenda to
ACT document: “Using
PLAN to Identify Student
Readiness for Rigorous
Courses in High School”
Identifying Barriers
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Debrief
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Barriers added by your group?
Ways to interrupt barriers?
Areas of focus?
Request from HS Team: ask department chairs of
core academic areas how their department
approaches the recommendation process
Managerial Leadership
Graduation