Unbridled Learning: What Everyone Should
Know about P-20 as it Connects to 21st
Century Skills
Eve Proffitt, Ed.D.
Co-Director, Kentucky P20 Innovation
Lab
University of Kentucky
What Do You Know?
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Unbridled Learning?
21st Century Skills?
Senate Bill 1 2009?
CHETL?
CIITS?
KCAS/KCASS?
Assessment of/for Learning?
PGES/Edivation?
Senate Bill 1: KRS 164.302
http://education.ky.gov/comm/UL/Pages/default.asp
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• Introduced and passed 2009
• Directed revamping of Kentucky’s assessment and
accountability system
• Direct Kentucky postsecondary institutions to plan
and implement a process to develop core academic
content standards for reading and mathematics for
introductory courses.
Senate Bill 1 Provisions
• Section 2
– Revise state assessment system to be
implemented 2011-12
– Variety of assessments including accelerated
learning, criterion-referenced test, end of course
examinations, formative assessments, interim
assessments, national norm-referenced test
Section 2
– Academic standards
• Revision of academic content standards in all
areas
• Must consider national standards
• Aligned with entry level college course
requirements
• Included in teacher preparation programs so
teachers will know how to use them
Section 2 :Assessment
• Writing portfolios required as instructional tools, but
not included in accountability system
• No testing in arts & humanities and practical
living/career studies
• Assessment consist of annual student assessments
and state and local program reviews and audits in
writing, practical living/career studies and arts &
humanities
• Formative and summative
Purposes of Assessment
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Diagnostic information use
National comparisons
Longitudinal student data
Use of data by teachers
Use for school accountability
Compliance with NCLB Act
Section 2 Assessment
• Inappropriate Test Preparation has sanctions
• May purchase commercial interim
assessments or develop local tests
• Accelerated learning for student who indicates
skill deficiency or strength
• Alignment of core content on all levels
• Individual report to parents
Section 4
• Deletes CATS accountability
• Requires KBE to determine how new
assessment (KPREP) will classify schools
• Revise Accountability
– Must use program review results
– Use students’ academic performance
– Use school improvement results
– Other factors
Section 8
• Professional development programs
– Made available to teachers based on their needs
– Include strategies to reduce the achievement gaps
among various groups of students
– Include strategies to
• Provide continuous progress
• Curriculum content and methods of instruction for each content
area including differentiated instruction
• School-based decision making
• Assessment literacy
• Integration of performance based student assessment into daily
classroom instruction
Section 8 continued
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Non graded primary programs
Research based instructional practices
Instructional uses of technology
Curriculum design to serve needs of students with
diverse learning styles and skills of students of diverse
cultures
– Instruction in reading including—phonics, phonemic
awareness, comprehension, fluency and vocabulary
– Educational leadership
– Strategies to incorporate character education
throughout the curriculum
Section 15
• Requires each postsecondary institution to
plan and implement a process to develop core
academic content standards for reading and
math for introductory courses in public
postsecondary education institutions.
Section 17
• Requires EPSB and KDE to improve teachers’
ability to teach writing
• Review of teacher preparation requirements
• Review of PD and training for school
administrators
Unbridled Learning
• Ky Dept of Education Pages
http://education.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx
– What students should learn
– What will be tested
– How subjects will be tested
– When tests are given
– What should comprise the public school
accountability system
– College Career Readiness (CCR)
Curriculum Standards
http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Pages/
default.aspx
• Learning Networks
• Documents
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Attributes of standards based unit of study
Combined curriculum document
Core Content for Assessment
EPAS connected to College Readiness Standards
ELA deconstructed Standards
Kentucky Core Academic Standards
Kentucky Model Curriculum Framework
Math Deconstructed Standards
NGSS Science Standards
Standards
• KCAS:
http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Doc
uments/KCAS%20-%20June%202013.pdf
• ELA Standards:
http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Page
s/ELA-Deconstructed-Standards.aspx
• CCR:
http://education.ky.gov/educational/CCR/Pag
es/default.aspx
Standards Cont’d
• Mathematics:
http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Page
s/Mathematics-Deconstructed-Standards.aspx
• Curriculum Documents
http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Page
s/default.aspx
Meet Each Child’s Needs
• Differentiation:
http://education.ky.gov/educational/diff/Page
s/default.aspx
• Culturally Responsive Instruction:
http://education.ky.gov/educational/diff/Page
s/CulturallyResponsiveInstruction.aspx
• ESS Targeted Interventions:
http://education.ky.gov/educational/int/Pages
/default.aspx
Characteristics of Highly Effective Teaching
and Learning
• http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/docs/Page
s/Characteristics-of-Highly-Effective-Teachingand-Learning-(CHETL).aspx
• Learning Climate
• Classroom Assessment and Reflection
• Instructional Rigor and Student Engagement
• Instructional Relevance
• Knowledge of Content
• Ky RtI:
http://education.ky.gov/educational/int/ksi/P
ages/default.aspx
• Districts of Innovation:
http://education.ky.gov/school/innov/Pages/D
istricts-of-Innovation.aspx
• Technology:
http://education.ky.gov/districts/tech/Pages/
default.aspx
Continuous Instructional Improvement
Technology System (CIITS)
• Tool for pulling standards, instructional
materials, lesson plans, assessments, data,
and PD into integrated online resource
• One Stop Shop
• Includes KCAS (all content areas)
• ACT Quality Core
• ISTE National Edu Technology Standards
• AASL Library Media Standards
CIITS
http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/ciits/Pages/
default.aspx
• Links standards to instructional materials
– KET Encyclomedia: Discovery Education
– SAS Curriculum Pathways
– Thinkfinity
• Common Core 360/Edivation (subscription)
– Resources and PD on CCS
• Comprehensive student information and
assessment data
– reports
Assessment Terms
http://education.ky.gov/AA/Pages/default.aspx
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Achievement
Gap
Growth
College Readiness
Graduation Rate
EOC: end of course
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U.S. History
Algebra II
English II
Biology
Accountability Terms
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School Report Cards
No Child Left Behind
Assessment Reports
Sample Test Items
• Assessment:
http://education.ky.gov/AA/Pages/default.asp
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• School Report Cards:
http://education.ky.gov/AA/distsupp/Pages/S
RC.aspx
• No Child Left Behind:
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/states/
index.html
Assessment
• State Assessments:
http://education.ky.gov/AA/Assessments/Page
s/default.aspx
• Assessment Reports:
http://education.ky.gov/AA/Reports/Pages/de
fault.aspx
• Sample Test Items:
http://education.ky.gov/AA/items/Pages/defa
ult.aspx
Teacher Professional Growth
• PGES:
http://education.ky.gov/teachers/PGES/Pages/
PGES.aspx
• TPGES:
http://education.ky.gov/teachers/PGES/TPGES/
Pages/default.aspx
• Kentucky Framework for Teaching:
http://education.ky.gov/teachers/PGES/TPGES/
Pages/Kentucky-Framework-for-Teaching.aspx
Resources
• EQuIP: http://www.achieve.org/EQuIP
• Kentucky Teacher Newsletter:
http://www.kentuckyteacher.org/
• Edivation PD360
http://www.schoolimprovement.com/product
s-2/edivation/
21st Century Skills
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Collaboration
Communication
Creativity and Innovation
Critical thinking and Problem Solving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRxAuq
BfRNQ 5 minute youtube
• http://www.p21.org/overview/skillsframework web site
The 6 C’s
If we teach today's
students as we
taught yesterday's,
we rob them of
tomorrow.
John Dewey
We invite you to join
us!
www.p20lab.org
Eve.proffitt@uky.edu
http://p20.education.uky.edu/