CCSSOSCASS Health Education Assessment Project HEAP

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CCSSOSCASSHealth Education Assessment
ProjectHEAP

• SRT Meeting
• September 11-13, 2001
• Philadelphia, PA

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What Are We?

• Assessment Development SCASS
• COLLABORATIVE of States, LEA, and one partnership
• A collaborative is a group that labors together
• Some define collaboration as an unnatural act
  performed by unconsenting adults!

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Who Were We?

• A group of scouts forging unexplored territory.
  Our scouts have explored many areas and cleared
  many paths. We owe our scouts respect. We need
  to listen to their varying perspectives as they
  challenge us all to move ahead.

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Who Are We?

• A group of pioneers working together to settle
  the land that moves health education to new
  heights within the education reform movement.

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Pioneers

• Have a sense of adventure
• Are willing to take risks
• Know they dont have all the answers
• Learn from each other
• Rely on each other
• Sometimes flounder
• And make mistakes!

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Pioneers

• Sometimes make the wrong turn but are willing to
  evaluate and try another direction
• Keep on trying
• Look ahead and see possibilities that others
  dont
• Are visionaries
• Are fiercely independent
• And are very special people!!!

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The HEAP Project Staff and Subcontractors
welcome the SRT scouts, pioneers, and guests to
the city of brotherly love! The city of our
nations independence!
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Health Education Assessment Project (HEAP)

• The mission of the HEAP is to foster meaningful
  assessment of student knowledge and skills within
  a comprehensive school health program through the
  development of materials and resources.

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What Have We Done Together? Settled the land of
assessment by developing

• Scoring rubrics for content and skills based on
  the NHES
• An Assessment Framework
• Various types of assessment items
• Student Exemplars
• A variety of materials for professional
  development
• We established our foundation our constitution

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The Constitution was signed in Philadelphia

• Do we need amendments to our original
  constitution?
• Is it time to take a fresh look at what we have
  produced and see what changes we may need that
  will help us as we grow?
• Can we engage in a discourse on the issues to
  move us to the next level of development?

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My Vision for the Health Education Assessment
Project
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As a Result of the HEAP

• Health Education is accepted as a legitimate and
  important discipline in education
• Administrators support the implementation of a
  K-12 health education program within a
  coordinated school health program because they
  understand the connection between students
  health and their educational achievement
• All health teachers teach to the standards and
  use performance-based assessment to analyze
  student learning and modify their teaching

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As a result of the HEAP

• Categorical funders recognize the wisdom of
  funding a comprehensive K-12 health education
  program based on aligning curriculum,
  instruction, and assessment
• All members are at the expert level in assessment
  literacy and therefore are valued and respected
  members of their school system

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As a Result of the HEAP

• All students will identify health education as
  their favorite and most influential subject and
  grow up to take positions as health educators,
  school superintendents, school board members, and
  elected officials at the local, state and federal
  levels. . .
• And then our former students will elevate the
  status of health education across the land!

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As a Result of Our Pioneering Successes

• All 50 states and US territories will join the
  HEAP because they recognized that this is the
  train they want to hitch their wagon to!!

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What is your vision for the HEAP?

• What does success look like to you?

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Knowing What Success Looks Like to You Will Help
Us Serve You Better
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Setting the Stage

• Overview of the Meeting
• Overview of the Day
• Review of the Meeting Packet
• Groundrules
• Exit Tickets
• Importance of the SRT Survey