Education YES Yardstick for Excellent Schools

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Education YES!Yardstick for Excellent Schools

• Michigan Department of Education

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Why is a NewSystem Needed?

• The old system
• Did not fully engage the public, the education
  community, parents, the State Board of Education.
• It is far too reliant on a single measure, the
  MEAP, which is unacceptable.

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Guiding Principles of Education YES!

• High Academic Standards
• Provide Ladders not Hammers
• More than a Single Test on a Single Day
• Multiple measures
• Fairness
• We can lead the nation

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Purposes of Accreditation
Focus and Support
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Education YES!

• Raise achievement of all students at all levels
• Focus on excellence
• Report success
• Provide support

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Multiple Measures
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School Performance Indicators
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Student Achievement
Michigan Educational Assessment Program
Education YES! Factor Weighting
Learning Opportunities
Achievement Change

• Status
• Change
• Growth

Instructional Quality
Engagement
Achievement Growth
Achievement Status
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Achievement Status

• Elementary
• Reading and Mathematics
• Middle School
• Mathematics, Reading, Science and Social Studies
• High School
• Merit Scholarship Award and Social Studies

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Achievement Change

• Measure Over a Period of Years
• Use a Trend Line
• Address the ceiling effect in high scoring
  schools

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Growth of EachStudents Achievement

• Follow students from elementary to middle school
  to high school
• Compare change in average scale scores of the
  same group of students at both grades
• Reading and Math only

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Accreditation Advisory Committee

• Charge to the Committee
• Alignment with Federal Legislation
• School Performance Indicators
• Initial Distribution of Schools in Categories

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Federal
Michigan
No Child Left Behind
Education YES!
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NCLB AccountabilityAdequate Yearly Progress

• Requires a Single State Accountability System
• Goal 100 Proficiency at the end of 12 Years
• States set a starting point at or above a federal
  minimum and set objectives for improvement

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Example of AYP Goals Over 12 Years
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Another Example of AYP Goals Over 12 Years
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Two Ways to Make AYP

• Meet the state objective
• Percent Proficient exceeds the state objective
• Status

• Show Progress
• At least 10 improvement in percent proficient
• Change

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Linkage BetweenEducation YES! and NCLB

• Tighter
• A single state system will avoid confusion
• All schools should be treated the same
• It is the right thing to do

• Weaker
• NCLB has a different set of sanctions than Ed
  YES!
• Complete linkage will weaken the integrity of Ed
  YES!
• Important measures like growth are not part of
  NCLB

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Federal and State Support

• Federal
• Reading First (28 million)
• 21st Century Learning Centers (12 Million)
• Teacher Quality (23 Million)
• Technology (23 Million)
• Title I Increases (55 Million)
• State
• Partnership for Success (Revised)
• Online student information management systems
  assessment systems

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Assisting Underperforming Schools

• Partnership for Success
• 10 schools in 2001-02
• Plan to expand modestly in 2002-03
• Title I Intensive Assistance
• 33 schools in 2001-02
• 76 additional schools in 2002-03

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Providing Support

• Partnering
• Businesses
• Colleges and Universities
• Community Agencies
• Existing Accreditation Groups
• Intermediate School Districts
• The Education Alliance and its Member
  Organizations
• Targeting Resources

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Timeline
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Contact Information

• Paul Bielawski
• Special Assistant for
• Underperforming Schools
• Michigan Department of Education
• PO Box 30008
• Lansing, MI 48909
• [phone]
• bielawp_at_michigan.gov