Welcome to CCSSOSCASS HEAP

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Welcome to CCSSO/SCASS HEAP!
A HEAP of Thanks to South Carolina!
Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware,
DoDEA, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland,
Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North
Carolina Pennsylvania, Philadelphia School
District, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont,
Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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State of the HEAP -- 2004

• What we ask, determines what we find. What we
  find determines how we talk. How we talk,
  determines how we imagine. How we imagine
  together determines what we achieve.

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A Look Back

• HEAP SRT Meeting Seattle
• September, 2003
• Implementation - Professional Development
• Essence of Skills
• NCLB
• Action Research
• Technology
• Sharing success stories

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A Look Back

• HEAP Meeting Seattle, WA
• September, 2003
• Strategic Planning
• Foundation
• SRT survey
• Recommendations
• SRT discussion

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HEAPs Energizing Forces

• Vision/Innovation
• Networking/Communication
• Learning Environment
• Quality Products, Services, Processes
• Strategic Partnerships

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Vision/Innovation

• Strategic Goal
• Create a culture and structure that captures the
  collective wisdom of its members to foster vision
  and innovation to accomplish the mission of the
  HEAP

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HEAP mission (2001)

• To develop effective health education assessment
  resources through a collaborative process, and to
  increase members capacity to align curriculum,
  instruction, and assessment to improve student
  health literacy through improved health education
  instruction.

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Is the HEAP mission still relevant to your state
needs?
Source 2003 HEAP Strategic Planning Survey
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HEAP Mission NCLB Professional Development

• NCLB - Aligned with challenging state standards
  assessments
• SCASS-HEAP assessments aligned with national
  standards (basis for state alignment)
• NCLB - High quality, sustained, intensive
  classroom focused
• SCASS-HEAP semi-annual meeting sessions provide
  members with examples/models of successful PD
  activities, and PD resources to be used to
  enhance quality of state trainings communication
  system to provide on-going PD

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HEAP Mission NCLB Professional Development

• NCLB - Includes active learning one of the most
  effective active learning activities is examining
  and reviewing student work.
• SCASS-HEAP SRT sessions include scoring student
  work to determine anchors so that members better
  understand the scoring process activities can be
  modeled in state PD efforts
• NCLB - Regularly evaluated for their impact
• SCASS-HEAP SRT meetings regularly evaluated
  through an action research model
• SCASS-HEAP SRT session(s) on action research that
  can be employed by states to evaluate PD efforts

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Networking/Communication

• Strategic Goal
• Create systems of communication that maximize the
  open exchange of ideas, information, resources,
  experiences, and opportunities, to accomplish the
  mission of the HEAP.
• HEAP list-serve

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Quality Products and Services

• Strategic Goal
• Utilize a flexible research, development, and
  dissemination process to create products and
  services that
• Meets the changing faces of health
• Anticipates and responds to the customers needs.

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New/Revised Products in 2004
PD Flyer
2005
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The FISH video Available now!
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Strategic Partnerships

• Strategic Goal
• Develop strategic relationships that enhance the
  ability of the HEAP to accomplish its mission and
  goals.
• EDC
• In-house (CCSSO)
• Preliminary review of foundations to diversify
  funding

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Learning Environment

• Strategic Goal
• Create a learning organization that promotes
  assessment and C-I-A literacy for its members and
  the field of health education.

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Building a Learning Environment

• HEAP Meeting Charleston, April 13-16, 2004
• Moving the HEAP forward
• Implementing strategic planning strategies

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Priority Activities
Source 2003 HEAP Strategic Planning Survey
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Update on Priority Activities

• Pre-service In-service Alignment
• 2003 ASHA conference (Michigan, North Carolina,
  Wyoming)
• Pre-HEAP meeting training
• Health and Reading project
• State-funded contract awarded to the University
  of Wyoming
• Member input Spring, 04
• Projected date of completion Fall, 04

State funded projects
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Update on Priority Activities

• Distance Learning project
• Contract awarded to EDC
• Year 1 Pilot (late May/June, 2004)
• Look forward to Year 2 Additional modules, plus
  technical assistance to individualize
• Aligning research-based programs
• Technical issues to be resolved before entering
  agreement

State funded projects
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Building a Learning Community

• More training designs
• More time for professional development modules

Tuesday, April 13th Pre-HEAP Meeting Training
Day Purpose To support members who are training
teachers to implement standards-based health
education assessment
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Building a Learning Community

• Review technology training structure

• Wednesday, April 14th
• Moving the HEAP Forward Through Technology The
  HEAP/EDC Distance Learning Initiative
• Group discussion State planning session
• Thursday, April 15th
• Talking about Technical Assistance

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Building a Learning Community

• More time to network and learn from other SRT
  members

Wednesday, April 13th Regional Lunches Thursday,
April 14th Panel discussion (on aligning pre- and
in-service education) Friday, April 15th Round
table discussions (you pick the
topics) Tuesday-Friday Multiple large group
discussions
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Building a Learning Community

• Help with cognitive complexity and understanding
  by design

• Thursday, April 14th
• Thinking Ahead to Creating More Challenging
  Performance-Based Assessments
• Using Blooms Taxonomy and Webbs Depth of
  Knowledge to Inform Item Development

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Building a Learning Community

• More time with the products

Wednesday, April 13th Report on the products and
SRT feedback Thursday, April 14th Playing with
the searchable database
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Moving Forward A Call to Action

• Continue advancing health literacy through
  professional development of members
• Using the collective wisdom of the collaborative
  to build our capacities to change the way
  teachers teach
• Establishing a research agenda
• Reflects the impact of HEAP on states capacity to
  train teachers
• Examines the effectiveness of HEAP items (and
  resources) in changing teacher behavior and
  increasing student health knowledge and skills

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Need for Assessment Development in Phase IV
Source 2003 HEAP Strategic Planning Survey
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Moving Forward A Call to Action

• Increasing our capacity to develop better
  assessment items
• Examination of Phase I II items (02/04)

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Moving Forward

• Increasing our capacity to develop better
  assessment items
• Examination of Phase I II items (02/04)

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Moving Forward

• Increasing our capacity to develop better
  assessment items
• Examination of Phase I II items (02/04)

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Moving Forward

• Review and evaluate HEAP Assessment Framework
  (05/04-07/04)
• TAG meeting(s)
• Build our capacity to develop PBA
• Cognitive Complexity

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Steering Committee

• Proud to serve!
• Shirley Black (PA)
• Lynda Van Kleek (VT)
• Darrel Lang (KS)
• Sharon Strom (WI)
• Pam Tollefsen (WA)
• Kathleen Courtney (AR)
• Tami Benham Deal (WY)

• Special Thanks to Nancy Hudson for her
  leadership, advocacy, and support of the HEAP
  project!

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