Using Atlas to Analyze
Standards and Inform Student
Learning
NESA Spring Educator’s Conference
Your Facilitator
Today
John Moore
and
Meng Zhou
Rubicon International
Workshop Basics
• Share Your Experiences
and Ideas
• Ask questions
• Here to help!
Objectives…
• Examine the different ways standards can be
customized in Atlas to model best practices.
• Analyze the various assessment methods used
in your classroom and discover those
employed across your school.
• Apply the Atlas Reporting Tools to verify a
quality, standards-based, taught curriculum.
• Use the Atlas Reporting Tools to ensure a
learning-oriented assessed curriculum.
The Relative Curriculum
Intended
• Standards
Based:
– AERO
Standards
– ACTFL
– IB
Programmes
– TESOL
– Schooldeveloped
– Amalgamatio
n of the above
Taught
Learned
• Diary vs.
• Assessments
Projected
• Student learning
• Captures what
activities
happens in the
class
• Shows connection
to how the
curriculum is
being covered
Standards Management Phases with Atlas
(Re)Define
AnalyzeEvaluate
Design
Implement
Standards Management:
The “(Re)Define” Phase
Careful, deliberate, informed standards
change/ decisions
1. Needs Analysis:
• Assessment of what should be in
existence based on external criteria
• Assessment of what should be in
existence based on internal criteria
2. Provide direction:
• Goals
• Objectives
Use of descriptors
What is the intended and curriculum at
your school?
How does the taught curriculum align
to it?
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Is it mandated or developed by the school?
Does everybody understand it?
Do you communicate to all constituencies?
Is it in alignment with your school mission?
How do you incorporate character?
What about early childhood?
Standards Management:
The “Design” Phase
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Selecting Standards
Adapting Standards
DIY Standards
Horizontal and Vertical Coherence
What process/strategies do you follow
to (re) define and design your academic
standards?
• What was the trigger event to adopt your current
standards?
• Who do you involve? Who was involved initially?
• What is the shelf life of your standards?
• What is the timing for introducing revisions?
• How do you go about introducing them in Atlas?
Standards Management:
The “Implement” Phase
• How standards (as the planned
curriculum) can be integrated into the:
• Taught curriculum
• Assessed curriculum
• (implications to the “learned
curriculum”)
Standards Management:
The “Analyze/
Evaluate” Phase
Available Reports in Atlas:
• Standards Overview
• Standards Profiling
- My Standards
- Quick Reports
- My Reports
What is a 3rd
graders assessment
experience at the
school?
As a school, how
many times are
students mastering
benchmarks through
assessment?
How can you get a quick
view for what standards
and benchmarks have
been assessed in science?
What are some questions you
have about your standards and
benchmarks?
• Take 5 minutes to compile a list of key
questions.
• See if you translate these questions into
queries in Analyze.
- Standards Profiling
- Standards Overview
• Don’t forget to visit the tutorials under Info.
Create some Samples (My
Reports) that will be helpful in
future conversations.
Be prepared to share your samples.
Standards Management Phases with Atlas
(Re)Define
AnalyzeEvaluate
Design
Implement
Using Atlas to Analyze
Standards and Inform Student
Learning
NESA Spring Educator’s Conference