A Forest View

Alaska RTI ConferenceDr. Susan McCauley

Practice To Policy

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When Policy and Practice Aligns

• Early Literacy Screening Assessments

• New English Language Arts & Mathematics Standards

• New Alaska School Performance Index

Early Literacy Screening

• Components• Kindergarten-2nd, as needed in 3rd• May be given 3 times a year• Must be given once• Measures certain things (letter sounds, phoneme

segmentation, oral reading fluency)• Report scores at end of year• Funded

• 3rd Grade Reading Policy• Policy that confirms practice

Student Standards

• How did we get here?

•Where have we been?

•What do we have now?

Previous Language Arts GLE – Grade 8

The student gives an oral formal presentation (e.g. research reports, literature responses).

New ELA Standard – Grade 8

The student presents claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, sound valid reasoning, and well-chosen details; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.

Previous Math GLE – Grade 3The student models (with manipulatives) and explains commutative property of multiplication.

New Math Standard – Grade 3The student makes, tests, supports, draw conclusions, and justifies conjectures about the commutative property of multiplication: If 6 x 4 = 24 is know, then 4 x 6 = 24 is also known.

Standards

Why these matter?

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From AYP to ASPI

• A move from NCLB• Replaces AYP

ASPI Metrics

Recognizing Student

Growth

The Forest View

Context matters

For a child, you are the context that matters most.