SESSIONImplementing Standards
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Trainer:Bob Cornacchioli
Organization:DERO Technical
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Agenda/Participants will be engaged in:• Understanding Common Language• Constraints and “Givens” in PowerSchool• Best Practices- Standards are Coming!• Importing Standards using Excel• Conversion Scales• Looking at PowerTeacher Gradebook• Report Card options
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CEO - DERO Technical Services
Evangelist/Process Lead- Level Data
Marketing/ - ParkBench SoftwareTrainer
Director of Technology and Media Services – Shrewsbury Public Schools (16 yrs)PowerSchool Administrator ( 6 yrs)
Bob Cornacchioli
Who are you?• Traditional or Standards Grades?
–Teachers have graded–Teachers will be grading–Start Date- Fall 2014–Hybrid Anyone?
• Common Core?
CURRICULUM/ADMIN & TECHNICAL
Collaborate and learn the constraints
DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND
Illinois Standards Task Force - 5 Steps to SuccessKathy Dinger, Former Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Libertyville D70, Libertyville, Illinois
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http://www.derotechnical.com/STANDARDS/DingerKeystoSuccess.pdf
Read anything by Ken O’Connor aka The Grade Doctor
Far more important than the keystroke of a grade is how the district has trained teachers in the proper techniques in determining that grade. What Ken and others are saying about student achievement is mission critical. PowerTeacher has been designed with these principles.
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Learning Conversations: The Culture of Grading
Have you had these chats yet?
Same Curriculum
Across all classrooms HOPE
ZERO’s
MISSING WORK
EXTRA CREDITTENDENCY
MAKE UP WORK
Evidence
Same Grading Practices
Across all classrooms??
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Average Temperature in Vegas
100 100 100 100 100 Sun Mon Tues Weds Thurs
100 100 100 100 Sun Mon Tues Weds Thurs
100 Average
Is it REALLY an80
Average
Rick Wormeli – check him out on YouTube
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• With teachers at your Grade Level• With teachers at your School• With teachers in the District• What does it mean for next placement?
Your Conversion Scale has been set… now what does a 4 or a C really mean?
Everyone on the Same Page
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If using a 4,3,2,1 scale, “3” = MEETS/PROFICIENT• District must provide time for teachers to decide
what it looks like to MEETS a given standard!• Discuss Special Education students – as no parent
or students want a report card with all “1’s”.• Do “Gifted” students use the same scale? • Have teachers decide on evidence for all other
scores.
Clarity on Evidence C
Other Conversion Scales CT
Technical Note 8 Character Limit
Homebound Assessment• Avoid Confusion- Adjust Rubrics and
assessments
Sending Home Letter Grades and Percentages will confuse Parents
and Students
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S T A N D A R D SCHEDULE
C O U R S S
S C L E S
IDENTIFIER
F I N A L G R A D E E N T R Y GRADEBOOK
STANDARDS
65*-75 Character Limit
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The # of Reporting Periods dictatesthe # of characters
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65
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Curriculum vs. Technical Labor Cost
STANDARDS • Create the standards collaboratively- Excel• Teacher Involvement = Ownership• Less is more- 65*-75 character limit• Number of Standards
– Report Card vs. Curriculum Guide– Core Content vs. Specials– Essential Skills, Effort or Habits of Mind
• Assessment Per Term• Changes and Real Estate – Text vs. #• Conversion Scales- Drop Downs for Teachers
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STANDARDS TIMELINE (considerations)• District initiative or single school pilot???
– Pilots can pose some issues– Invite participation from non pilot schools
• 6+ Months in advance- identify standards• Decide your scale ( avoid traditional grading- A )
• Do all teachers have rosters in PS?• Create - Import File of Grade Level Standards• Set Expectations for Comment Writing• Discuss Assignments vs Standards Assessment• Communicate with all stakeholders
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CTStandards associated to Courses
Check Enrollment: Schools - Sections
Do you see courses in the left navigational areas?
CTHomeroom has enrollment and this school has 5 sections 1st Grade
CTIf the course exists but there isn’t any enrollment - you have to address scheduling before teachers can grade students!
All standards associated to HR is not recommended
Mass enroll students into each core content area & specials using dependent sections
Create an Excel Import File CT
ELA.3.07< What do you think .07 represents?
Create an Excel Import File CT
95003 < The course this standards are associated to?If you have multiple schools- do they do they have the same course #’s? 95003,96003,97003NEW Best Practice- State Reporting – Associate different content standards to courses
Create an Excel Import File CT
Allowassignments < False- Will not be seen in the Gradebook- TRUE visible** IncludeComment < MOST are FALSE, only the comment standard is TRUEConversionscale < Internal PS #’s – represents pull down options**
** if blank – can’t grade!
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Conversion Scales
Habits of Mind/Effort
Proficiency LevelsGrades 1-8 / MCAS
Proficiency LevelsFor K
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Conversion Scale #?
• Gen Table (6)
• Search for “scale”
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Or install Jason Springles customization T
STANDARDS by TERM CT
Standards Associated to Courses CT
Elementary teachers teach all core subjects So why not tie them all to HR?
Are you going to have specialists grade? Art – Music – PE – Library – World Languages
Only those teachers who are scheduled in PowerSchool can access their students.
Final Grade Entry For Teachers
In Gradebook, If all standards were tied to HR, they would run from here
to the Atlantic Ocean Remember – 95003??
Associating standards to specific courses can reduce or eliminate scroll RIGHT.. Just switch classes and reveal content specific standards
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Access: PowerTeacher Gradebook
• Will the Art, PE, Music, Media, Computer, Band, Chorus… teacher be grading students?
• If YES – they must have rosters in PS
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Next Steps• Communication with:
– Teachers - expectations for comments– Parents – how to interpret 4,3,2,1/your scale(s)– Specialists going to grade? Schedule?
• Create Standards– # of standards per content area per term (C vs T)– Create the Conversion Scales ( GEN(6) table ID # ) – Create excel import file for PS– Altering Rubrics / Common Assessments
• Create Sample Report Cards before EOY
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Download Web Gradebook and Standards PPT CT
Grade Value of Conversions Scales
When teachers assess a standard more than once associated to multiple assignments, PTG averages these scores. Grade Value can’t be ZERO as seen earlier in this presentation. Round Up Scale – Cut off Scale = 50% of the Grade Level Delta
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Grade Value of Conversions ScalesDepending upon which standard based educator your curriculum folks have read, the concept of AVERAGE isn’t part of the standards movement.
YET the Gradebook has to apply some sort equation in order to convert scores to these Grade Labels 4,3,2,1.
Feedback from districts to Pearson has resulted in a new version (2.6) of PowerTeacher with the installation of PS 7.5. Averaging of standards scores assigned to multiple assignments is now becoming clearer.
PowerTeacher Gradebook is still evolving!!!!
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Controlling Web Gradebook
If defined as PT Admin** - School Usage – Site Specific!!
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Calculations
Using PT Admin- your district will have to set policy on grading standards. The Gradebook will have to be set per school to look: • Default setting for final grades• Allow teacher modifications OR NOT• Calculations for Most Recent Scores
Decisions Decisions
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Gradebook Preferences:
Calculate Higher Level Standards
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FOR AUTO CALCULATING HIGHER STANDARDS TO WORKYOU MUST IMPORT YOUR STANDARDS A CERTAIN WAY!!!
Gradebook Preferences:
Assignment Grades
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Training Teachers to Grade• Final Grade Entry** (RW will not work)
• Specialists vs. HR teachers • 5 mins. with a PPT presentation• Google PowerTeacher Gradebook- lots of
resources• Web Gradebook – A bit more time
( JING Movies/Atomic Learning/Mastery in Minutes/Google?)
• Comments- Comments- Comments
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Version 7.03 Comment Length can be set at the District-List Standards-for all
your comment standards
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“Straight quotes” with “Smart quotes”
If teachers use Word for pasting into the gradebook, special characters (like “quotation marks”, apostrophes’ and - dashes) can end up printing incorrectly on the final report card.
Word – Tools- Auto Correct- AutoFormat as you Type and REMOVE the √ from Straight quotes with smart Quotes
This only works if you change this setting BEFORE you typed them in- SORRY!
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Have you thought about Report Cards?
• Parent Portal – access to grades – list form• NOT DYNAMIC – all must be custom made• Object Reports vs. Report Works (Dynamic- CC)• Summative• Multi-page requires duplex printers
• http://schools.shrewsbury-ma.gov/egov/docs/1251933966124. htm• http://www.derotechnical.com/REPORTCARDS/ REPORTCARDS.html
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Bob CornacchioliDERO Technical Services
[email protected]@gmail.com
www.derotechnical.com
PowerTeacher Gradebook for StandardsPPTX available on DERO website
Common Core FAQ http://www.corestandards.org/frequently-asked-questions