St. Louis Area Curriculum
Coordinators Association 2012-13
Meeting Date:
Friday, November 9, 2012
Location:
Cooperating School District (CSD)
1460 Craig Road, St. Louis, MO 63146
Agenda
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast and Networking
8:30 a.m.
Welcome, Announcements, and Introductions
Notes:
1. Sangari Science is bringing Brian Reiser, Next Generation Science Standards
 Dec. 3 free workshop in Webster Groves
2. Rick Wormeli is presenting on Standards Based Grading: Ethics and Practicality
 Jan. 8
 Co-sponsored by CSD and Valley Park School District
 Valley Park Field House
 Send questions you would like Rick to address to Vickie Pardeck (vpardeck@vp.k12.mo.us)
3. Draft CSD Strategic Plan related to Professional Learning -- Three Main Areas:
1) Professional Learning
a. 7 Major Strands
b. Go deeper rather than broader
2) Helping regional districts and organizations network together
3) Sharing resources
a. Districts working on projects such as textbook adoption sharing their research
b. Online warehouse
Give Vickie a call if you would like more information.
SLACCA may be invited to be involved as a steering committee to provide guidance.
4. Nancy George shared METC conference information. There is a discount for groups of 5 or
more.
8:50 a.m.
Sharing Updates from other Job-Alike Curriculum Groups
Notes:
Job – alike leaders please join SLACCA wiki so they can edit their own information. Contact Kris or Vickie
to be added to the wiki site.
1) Social Studies, Sheila Onuska, sonuska@csd.org, their next meeting is November 30
The Common State Social Studies Standards
 Professor Flannery Burk is presenting
 November 30
 12:00 – 2:00 at CSD
 Lunch I included and it is free
The National Council for the Social Studies National Conference will be in St. Louis November 2013
A strand will be Social Studies and ELA so you might want to send teams/pairs of teachers to go
together.
2) St. Louis Science Leadership Consortium (SSLC)
 January 11, 2013, Dr. Michael Wysession who has helped author new science standards; Lunch
provided by Pearson at 12:30
 For more information contact: Julie Roy, jroy@lindberghschools.ws or Carol Ross-Baumann,
crossbaumann@aol.com
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LARC
larcstl.pbworks.com this wiki is open and not password protected
Informational text is their focus right now
Joining up with Science and Social Studies to work on informational text strategies
They have developed professional development resources for districts to use to teach educators
about ELA common core. These are located on their website.
All are welcome to come to their meetings even if you aren’t typically ELA curriculum related.
Work sessions are scheduled and posted on their website. Come for all or part of the time.
4)SLARA
 A+ students must now score advanced or proficient on Algebra I EOC; if students need to retest,
a waiver needs to be sent to DESE before the student tests so scores will not be included in
district/building accountability
 Discussion about 8th grade Algebra I scores will stay at the 8th grade building and not be banked
for HS. 8th graders must take either Algebra I or grade level MAP test. Cannot take both.
 Concerns that some individual student ACT and AP scores were not correct in MSIP 5 draft
 Concerns about districts getting ASVAB and COMPASS scores
 Concerns about TSA scores and the limited amount of approved assessments posted in the MSIP
5 guidance document at this point
9:15 a.m.
Travis Bracht, Show Me Curriculum Coordinator Association (SMCCA) St.
Louis Region Representative
Notes:
SMCAA Fall Conference:
 Cris Tovani was the keynote
 She is beginning to focus on how to grade
 She back working in classrooms to pilot and assess strategies relating to how to grade
Spring Conference: “The Changing Face of Assessment”
 SMCAA is looking for presenters
 Jan. 31 is the deadline to submit a presentational proposal
March 1 Regional Conference in St. Louis in conjunction with the SLACCA meeting. The topic is not yet
defined.
SMCCA
November and January – Curriculum Director Training
December – Administrators Training
9:30 a.m.
StandardsInsight: Common Core State Standards Unpacked
This is an online resource CSD is willing to coordinate providing for their
members and would like SLACCA to preview and provide feedback.
Notes:
Cesademo.standardsinsight.org (don’t enter www prior to the URL)
 Username: cesademo
 Password: 1289
 Vickie showed this online resource to the group.
 Vickie will let Dave Sanders know we are interested in this as a resource.
Two other online resources - Next Navigator can be bought through CSD at a 33% discount for 25 licenses per building
 Galileo K-12 – formative assessment service was discussed by some districts as helpful
These could help teachers create assessments that adjust to the 40% content and 60% application that is
the shift for math assessment.
Dana Humphrey and Jan Keenoy will be two resources available through CSD to support common core;
hopefully, by next semester.
9:45 a.m.
DESE Updates
While DESE won’t be present, we will all “Share What We Know and/or
Understand”.
Notes:
 DESE webinars on ELA and Math geared more for teachers (Scroll to the bottom of the
webpages for the webinar recordings.)
 Model Curriculum is there
 Glossary of terms for ELA; up for comment
 Missouri State Literacy Plan
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One district had a concern with MOSIS numbers. Some districts are not finding student
numbers, so they assign a new one. This creates a situation where the sending district gets a
“drop”. In Illinois, every student that walks out the door, they make sure there is a hard copy of
their IL “MOSIS numbers” and info to transfer.
10:00 a.m.
Missouri Education Evaluation System and Its Impact on Our Work
A dialogue within our group to share insights, wonderings and decisions
that have been made within districts which might guide or impact the
role of curriculum and curriculum coordinators
Notes:
 Some concern about lack of training.
 Dialogue included how some districts are aligning their current evaluation tools to the state
requirements.
11:00 a.m.
MSIP 5
A dialogue within our group to share insights from the draft reports
released last week. Develop questions and/or recommendations to
share with DESE and/or SMCCA.
Notes:
After lengthy discussion, the group decided to send a letter to DESE sharing feedback regarding MSIP 5
and the draft report. A link was created on the SLACCA wiki for members to post additional concerns
and feedback. Comments will be used to generate and send a letter on behalf of the organization.