Florida Education: The Next Generation DRAFT

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Florida Education The Next GenerationDRAFT
The Next Generation Sunshine State Standards Why
Next Generation? Presented by Dr. Frances
Haithcock, Chancellor

• March 13, 2008
• Version 1.0

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Floridas Foundation for Success

• The Sunshine State Shines Nationally
• Education Week 2009 Quality Counts
• Ranked Floridas education system top 10 in the
  nation.
• Highest Quality Counts grade to date is a B-,
  which surpasses the national average of a C.
• In 2008, ranking leaped from 31st in the nation
  to 14th, and now 10th.
• U.S. News and World Report
• Seven Florida schools in the Top 100 High Schools
  in the nation.

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Floridas Foundation for Success

• Quality Counts in Florida and its producing
  National Results!
• Advanced Placement (AP)
• Florida had the greatest one-year increase in the
  number of public school AP Exam Takers and the
  greatest increase in the number of exams
  administered in the nation in 2008.
• Number 1 in the number of African-American
  students taking and passing AP exams.
• Six Florida public schools are recognized in the
  2008 AP Report to the Nation as having the best
  AP Courses in the nation. (More than any other
  state.)
• National Assessment of Educational Progress
  (NAEP)
• Florida is one of only four states in the nation
  to improve significantly in both fourth and
  eighth-grade NAEP reading.
• Florida is one of only five states that showed a
  significant narrowing of the White/African
  American achievement gap in fourth-grade NAEP
  reading, and one of only seven states to do the
  same in eighth-grade NAEP math.

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FCAT Reading by Achievement Level Grades 3, 4,
and 5
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FCAT Reading by Achievement Level Grades 9 and 10
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FCAT Mathematics by Achievement Level Grades 3-10
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NAEP Achievement LevelsFlorida and the United
StatesSnapshot of Grade 4
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Mathematics Visuals NAEP Math Grade 4 by Race
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NAEP Achievement LevelsFlorida and the United
StatesSnapshot of Grade 4
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Reading VisualsNAEP Reading Grade 4 by Race
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Educations Human Capital Challenge

• Now that Florida has improved what do we need to
  take students to the next level
• Attracting the highest quality candidate to the
  teaching force
• Support the induction years
• Professional Development, Professional
  Development, Professional Development
• Differentiated pay structure
• Performance-based tenure
• Insuring candidates have the necessary knowledge
  and skills
• Success is defined by student achievement

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Too Many Students Graduate from High School
Unprepared for College and Work

• 30 of first year students in postsecondary
  education are required to take remedial courses
  (cost 130 million per year).
• 40 - 45 of recent high school graduates report
  significant gaps in their skills, both in college
  and the workplace.
• Faculty estimate 42 unprepared of first year
  students in credit-bearing courses.
• Employers estimate 45 lack skills.
• ACT estimates only half of college-bound students
  are ready for college-level reading.
• Quality Counts rates college readiness low.

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An Expectations Gap We dont expect high school
graduates to be prepared

• Academic standards were not aligned with
  postsecondary success.
• Graduation requirements too low.
• Assessments not meaningfully connected with
  students college or career aspirations.
• Florida High Schools are held accountable for
  student performance on 10th grade FCAT, not
  postsecondary success.
• RESULT Students can earn a high school diploma
  without the skills necessary for success in
  college and high-skills, high-wage work.

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The Next GenerationRaising the Bar
1 Lowest performing schools are defined as
schools graded F.
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The Next Generation Initiatives Close
Preparation and Expectation Gap

• Next Generation Sunshine State Standards
• Effective Teacher/Instruction
• Bright Beginnings Reading/Math - VPK-3rd grade
• Next Generation High School
• Creating a High School Diploma that counts
• Alignment, Alignment, Alignment
• College and/or high-skills, high-wage careers
• Zero remediation

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The Next GenerationI. Access How?

• Increased access to rigor through PARTICIPATION
  in and improved student success in AP, IB, AICE,
  Dual Enrollment and Industry-certified courses.
• PREVENT REMEDIATION - add a diagnostic test and
  remediation course while in high school.
• AMERICAN DIPLOMA PROJECT
• Standards
• Alignment
• Accountability
• Communication/Advocacy

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Twenty States and D.C. Now Require a College- and
Career-Ready Diploma
Source Achieve, Inc.
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Nine States Have Now Built College- and
Career-Ready Measures into Statewide Assessments
Source Achieve, Inc.
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The Next GenerationII. Articulation / Alignment
How?

• NEXT GENERATION STANDARDS
• RAISE GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
• Define COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS
• END-OF-COURSE EXAMS

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School Categories
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Senate Bill 2482 Relating to School Improvement
and Accountability

• Provides uniform accountability for all schools,
  allows state to target support for schools to
  improve and sustain performance, and focuses on
  the performance of student subgroups.
• DOE will annually categorize schools based on
  school grade and performance and growth of
  disaggregated subgroups.
• These schools are subject to intervention
  strategies and the lowest performing schools have
  specific direction if performance does not
  improve.
• Gives the State Board authority to withhold funds
  to schools whose improvement efforts fail.
• Accountability system is applied equitably to all
  public schools in the state.
• Aligns federal and state accountability systems.

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House Bill 1411/Senate Bill 2458 Quality
Teachers for All Students

• Modifies performance appraisal requirements for
  instructional and administrative personnel
• Primary component of appraisal is student
  performance and state assessment system data is
  primary component
• Removes independent list of instructional
  expectations and replaces them with Educator
  Accomplished Practices for Teachers and Principal
  Leadership Standards for School Administrators
• Establishes Florida Educator Accomplished
  Practices as states expectations for
  instructional practices and provides for their
  periodic review by the Commissioner
• Modifies Educator Certification
• Military instructor experience
• Official ACE transcript to be used to meet course
  requirements for certification
• Allow VPK providers the same authority as private
  schools to request certificates

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House Bill 1411/Senate Bill 2458 Quality
Teachers for All Students (cont.)

• Modifies Cecil Golden Program (WCG) to clarify
  components of Leadership Standards and to reflect
  the inclusion of Colleges and universities with
  approved Educational Leadership programs as
  providers in the network
• Creates section 1012.335, Contracts with
  instructional personnel hired on or after July 1,
  2009
• One-year probationary contract-- annual
  contracts for 10 years
• After 10 annual contracts --5 years (renewable)
• just cause, and educational insufficiency
• Adds reports to be issued by DOE