Data Daze

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Closing the Achievement Gap for Students with
Disabilities ( Other Low Achieving
Students) Making AYP Michael Hock Northeast
Regional Resource Center
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Listen when the data speak Sid Bijou
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Data Daze
Northland Elementary School, Snowfield, VT
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What are the data telling you? What would you do
to help Northland?
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Data Daze
Northland Elementary School, Snowfield, VT
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Data Daze
Northland Elementary School, Snowfield, VT
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Data Daze
Northland Elementary School, Snowfield, VT
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Data Daze
Northland Elementary School, Snowfield, VT
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What are the data telling you? What would you do
to help Northland?
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Status Change Vermonts Accountability Index
Goal Schoolwide average of 500 pts. within
10 years
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AYP Setting Goals Targeting Resources
Which students are affected most by changes to
the curriculum?
Gain 0 pts.
Gain 100 pts.
Gain 200 to 300 pts.
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AYP Setting Goals Targeting Resources
but which students can potentially have the
greatest effect on the accountability index?
Gain 200 to 300 pts.
Gain 200 to 500 pts.
Gain 100 to 600 pts.
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Who are these kids?
Kids who are working in the same content areas as
their classmates, but at significantly lower
performance levels. The Majority of Special
Education Students, English Language Learners,
Students with Lower SES Status.
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Who are these kids?
Kids who have quality programs but are hard to
assess. Kids who are working toward alternate
standards and who need alternate assessments.
Kids with the most significant cognitive
disabilities.
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Who are these kids?
Kids who dont make an attempt. Kids who dont
show up. Kids who make the F Word with the
bubble sheet. Kids with emotional or behavioral
problems.
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What Can be Done?

• Evidence-Based Curriculum and Instruction

• Seamless System of General Special Education
  Supports and Services

• Guidance, Support and Professional Development
  Relative to Data Analysis and Action planning

• Classroom Teachers Special Educators Included
  in Data Analysis and Action Planning

• Identification Acquisition of Additional Data
  Sources

• Development of Effective Community Reporting
  Models Resources

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What Can be Done?

• Search Wide Deep for Answers Solutions

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What Can Be Done to Support Students with
Learning Disabilities and Other Low Achieving
Students

• Link IEPs to General Education Curriculum
  Standards Standards-linked PD for Special
  Educators.

• Emphasize/Revisit Classroom Accommodations

• Prepare Students for Testing. Include Parents.

• Search Wide Deep for Answers Solutions

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Aligning IEPs with Standards
? First Choice - The same content standards and
GLEs as general education classmates
NCLB Regulations will limit Alt. Standards to
1 of students with most significant cognitive
and adaptive disabilities
? Second Choice - The same content standards as
general education classmates, but at
developmentally appropriate performance levels
selected from GLEs for lower grades.
? Third Choice - The same content standards as
general education classmates, but at
developmentally appropriate performance levels
that expand GLEs into instructionally relevant
components or prerequisites.
? Fourth Choice - Same content standards as
general education classmates, but with focus on
the skills needed to access the particular
standard and related GLEs.
? Fifth Choice - Alternate standards and/or GLEs
selected from the frameworks, which reflect the
individual developmental and instructional level
of the child
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Aligning IEPs with Standards
? First Choice - The same content standards and
GLEs as general education classmates
? Second Choice - The same content standards as
general education classmates, but at
developmentally appropriate performance levels
selected from GLEs for lower grades.
? Third Choice - The same content standards as
general education classmates, but at
developmentally appropriate performance levels
that expand GLEs into instructionally relevant
components or prerequisites.
? Fourth Choice - Same content standards as
general education classmates, but with focus on
the skills needed to access the particular
standard and related GLEs.
? Fifth Choice - Alternate standards and/or GLEs
selected from the frameworks, which reflect the
individual developmental and instructional level
of the child
? Access Option - Standards and/or GLEs, selected
from the frameworks, which, if achieved, will
increase the students access and success in the
general education program
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Aligning IEPs with Standards
? First Choice - The same content standards and
GLEs as general education classmates
? Second Choice - The same content standards as
general education classmates, but at
developmentally appropriate performance levels
selected from GLEs for lower grades.
? Third Choice - The same content standards as
general education classmates, but at
developmentally appropriate performance levels
that expand GLEs into instructionally relevant
components or prerequisites.
? Fourth Choice - Same content standards as
general education classmates, but with focus on
the skills needed to access the particular
standard and related GLEs.
Remember Choose standards GLEs that align as
closely as possible with classroom standards
GLEs, the ones which define the General
Education Curriculum
? Fifth Choice - Alternate standards and/or GLEs
selected from the frameworks, which reflect the
individual developmental and instructional level
of the child
? Access Option - Standards and/or GLEs, selected
from the frameworks, which, if achieved, will
increase the students access and success in the
general education program
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Matching Standards GLEs to Students
Developmental Instructional Levels

• Target - The academic achievement standard and
  grade level expectation designated for all
  general education students
• Prerequisites - The component skills or knowledge
  that make up the target standards and GLEs
• Access - The skills, habits or behaviors
  necessary for developing or learning the
  Standards, GLEs or Prerequisites

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Matching Standards GLEs to Students
Developmental Instructional Levels

• Target - The academic achievement standard and
  grade level expectation designated for all
  general education students
• Prerequisites - The component skills or knowledge
  that make up the target standards and GLEs
• Access - The skills, habits or behaviors
  necessary for developing or learning the
  Standards, GLEs or Prerequisites

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Example 1 Reading
? Target - The student reads grade appropriate
material with 90 accuracy in a way that makes
meaning clear (VT English/Language Arts Standard
1.2)
? Prerequisites - Print Awareness, Phonological
Awareness, Fluency, Comprehension Strategies,
Language/Vocabulary
? Access - Hold book, hear, see, attend, eye
tracking, interest, etc.
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Example 1 Reading
? Target - The student reads grade appropriate
material with 90 accuracy in a way that makes
meaning clear (VT English/Language Arts Standard
1.2)
? Prerequisites - Print Awareness, Phonological
Awareness, Fluency, Comprehension Strategies,
Language/Vocabulary
? Access - Hold book, hear, see, attend, eye
tracking, interest, etc.
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Example 2 Math Reasoning
? Target - Demonstrates conceptual understanding
of whole number operations addition,
subtraction, multiplication - and the
relationships between the operations using
models, diagrams, or explanations, and accurately
solves problems involving addition and
subtraction using whole numbers with and without
a calculator. (Vermont GLE M1)
? Prerequisites -
? Access -
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Meanwhile, Back at Northland

• Data Daze Clinic on Test Score Analysis and
  Action Planning

• Facilitated Action Planning Sessions

• Multi-Disciplinary Action-Planning Teams

• Pizza

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Meanwhile, Back at Northland

• Test Preparation in 1st and 2nd Grade

• Home Visits

• IEPs Aligned w/ Standards Special Educator in
  Classroom During Math

• Pizza

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Northland Elementary School NSRE 1998-2003
Mathematics Results
Data Daze
Northland Elementary School, Snowfield, VT
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Northland Elementary School 2003 NSRE Math
Assessment Results
Snowfield District (n 197)
Data Daze
Northland Elementary (n 56)
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Information, Questions Comments
Michael HockNortheast Regional Resource
Centermhock_at_wested.org802-951-8203