Catching Quality and
Collaboration with Home Base
Angel Mills
Lee County Schools
2013-2014 Kenan Fellow:
Leading Educators to Home Base
Objectives
• Understand the basic uses of SchoolNet within the
Home Base system including
– finding resources for ESL and content classes that
are aligned with the WIDA and content standards
– submitting resources to local and state banks for
sharing across the state
• Understand the development of the uses for the
ELD Dot Notation.
• Understand and use the NC Summary Rubrics to
evaluate resources for English language
development.
SchoolNet and Home Base
–finding resources for ELD
–submitting and sharing across the state
Where is your LEA?
• Each LEA has approached their Home Base
roll-out differently…what progress has your
LEA made toward using SchoolNet?
• Where are you now with your ESL staff in
regards to using SchoolNet as an
instructional resource?
• What would you like your ESL teachers to
learn and do within SchoolNet by the end of
first quarter next school year?
Schoolnet
Instructional Design,
Practice & Resources
Major Functions
• Find high-quality
resources based on
standards or search
criteria
• Contribute to a shared
repository of North
Carolina-made resources
• Create lesson plans
• Access tools to support
formative assessment
A Walk Through The System
• https://lcs.powerschool.com/admin/pw.html
Screenshots
• The slides that follow contain screenshots of
the actual SchoolNet system.
• Use the screenshots to help you
demonstrate how SchoolNet functions.
• Helpful when people are being trained that
do not have access to the system during the
training.
A sample of the 200+ resources in
SchoolNet
• http://tinyurl.com/kn9yoo7 (SIL) assessment
• http://tinyurl.com/4kkkqe4 (LOM)
• http://tinyurl.com/5npkon (LOSCI)
• http://tinyurl.com/k44gaqs (LOSS)
• http://tinyurl.com/2mmcmo (SIL)
• http://tinyurl.com/mtvz3cp (LOLA)
Home Base Website
You can find up-to-date information on Home
Base; learn about training, find FAQs, and
much more at:
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase
The NC Summary
Rubrics
Why Use a Rubric?
• The purpose of the NC Summary Rubrics is
to provide a structure for evaluating
resources in a systematic, purposeful, and
comprehensive way.
• The rubrics allow the rater to identify,
evaluate, and sort objects based on the
identified essential elements.
Guiding Principles
To make the
resources in
HOME BASE
meaningful and
useful to
teachers:
– Resources must• Be aligned with standards
• Provide ample coverage to
all standards and objectives
• Emphasize quality over
quantity
• Be reviewed and rated by
educators in North Carolina
Required Rubrics
• Required:
• Degree of Alignment to Standards
• Opportunities for Deeper Learning
NC Summary Rubric (based on Achieve,
OER)
Degree of Alignment Rating Scale
• 3: Superior Content and performance expectations of the identified
standard are completely addressed by the learning resource and are
the focus of the learning resource.
• 2: Strong Content and performance expectations of the identified
standard only align to a minor part of the learning resource or minor
elements of the standard are not addressed in the learning resource.
• 1: Limited A significant part of the content and performance
expectations of the identified standard is not addressed in the
learning resource.
• 0: Very Weak The learning resource does not match the identified
standard.
• N/A: Not Applicable This rubric does not apply for an object that
has no suggested standards for alignment. For example, the rubric
might not be applicable to a set of raw data.
Five Steps in Alignment to standards for
ELD Resources:
1. Review/analyze the resource thoroughly.
2. Work student tasks and compare your work with the
key/solution and other instructional support materials.
3. Identify the grade level (s) and English language
proficiency levels for the resource.
4. Identify the content link and English language
performance(s) (domains) required in the resource,
including those listed and those embedded in the tasks
and activities of the resource.
5. Match the content links and language performances of
the resource to the appropriate ELD standard/dot
notation.
**Match the resource to CCSS/ NCES standards as available.
Opportunities for Deeper Learning
Rating Scale
• 3: Superior The learning resource requires at least 3 of the
deeper learning skills (as identified), and offers a range of
cognitive demand that is appropriate and supportive of the
material, with appropriate scaffolding and direction provided.
• 2: Strong The learning resource requires 1 or 2 of the deeper
learning skills (as identified).
• 1: Limited The learning resource requires 1 of the deeper
learning skills (as identified), but is missing clear guidance on
how to tap into the various aspects of deeper learning.
• 0: Very Weak The learning resource appears to be designed to
provide deeper learning opportunities, but is not instructionally
useful as presented.
• N/A: Not Applicable This rubric is not applicable (N/A) to an
object that does not appear to be designed to provide the
opportunity for deeper learning, even though one might imagine
how it could be used to do so.
Opportunities for Deeper Learning…Look
for:
 Applied to resources designed to engage learners in at least one of the
following deeper learning skills:
•
Think critically and solve complex problems.
•
Work collaboratively
•
Communicate effectively.
•
Learn how to learn.
•
Reason abstractly.
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
•
Apply discrete knowledge and skills to real-world situations.
•
Construct, use, or analyze models.
The ELD Dot Notation
Some Background
• Home Base Resource Tagging
• Roadblocks
• Solutions for equitable access
No Standard Notation=Difficulty Aligning
to Required Rubrics
 Degree of Alignment Rubric must be:
 Applied to resource with suggested alignment to standards.
 Used to rate the degree to which a resource actually aligns to
each proposed standard.
 Standards for alignment must be proposed before applying
the rubric.
 It is important to consider both the content and the
performance expectations of the standard when comparing to
the resource.
Putting Things in Perspective
• English language proficiency standards must,
at a minimum, be linked [bolding not in
original] to the State academic content and
achievement standards. States are
encouraged, but not required, to align
[bolding not in original] English language
proficiency standards with academic content
and achievement standards. (U.S. Department
of Education, Office of English Language
Acquisition, February 2003, pp.9, 10).
The ELD Dot Notation
• Simple Dot Notation
• Stays true to WIDA standards
• Connects to CCSS and NCES
• Emphasizes the need to provide appropriate
support according to proficiency level
• Lets ESL AND Content teachers connect to
the WIDA ELD Standards within Home Base
Digging Deeper: The English Language
Development Dot Notation
• What It Is….
– Standard Nomenclature
– Based on Content Topic Links
from the CCSS and NCES
– Focused on the language
domains (reading, writing,
speaking, listening)
– Derived from the WIDA
standards
– Flexible to student and teacher
needs
– A tool for planning and
communication
– Support for content AND ESL
teachers
• What It Is NOT….
– Replacement for the WIDA
Standards
– Curriculum
– MPIs
– Prescriptive
Standards/Objectives
– A list of every topic that must
be taught
– Only for ESL teachers
– Only for ESL classes
– A point by point alignment
with the CCSS and NCES
Dot Notation At A Glance
Dot Notation At A Glance
Let’s Build Our Bank!
•
With a partner
–
Find three instructional resources for ELD
–
Apply the rubric using the ELD Dot Notation to evaluate your resources
–
Use the provided worksheets to guide your evaluation
– Standards Search
• http://center.ncsu.edu/standards/search.php
– Post your resources at:
• http://padlet.com/wall/eldresourcesnc
Final Thoughts
• Talk with a different partner:
– What are the benefits to using the
NC Summary Rubrics?
– How can teachers use SchoolNet to
collaborate?
– How does the ELD Dot Notation
contribute to the process of
evaluating resources and finding
resources in SchoolNet?
– How can all of this contribute to
instruction for teachers of ELLs?
– What more needs to be done?
What now?
• Explore Home Base, especially School Net
• Submit lesson plans and resources
• Expose teachers to the rubrics and the dot
notation
• Brainstorm and plan ahead
• Request and seek training