Organizational Structure

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• Organizational Structure

Campus Test Coordinators
Other District Staff Involved
Calendar Of Events
District Assessment Office
Training Schedule
Testing
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Planning out your year

• Use the TEA calendar of events to create an
  expanded checklist
• Step-by-step process of what to do
• Examples of what to Include
• Test Dates
• State and local assessments
• Training dates
• Report dates
• Involve your campus test
  coordinators (CTCs) as much
  possible

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Planning out your year

• An expanded checklist can be modified based on
  your personnel
• For some you can focus on one test administration
• Others would like a year-at-a-glance
• If you are given a window for testing you may
  want to back up the deadlines instead of going to
  the end of the testing window

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Why have a calendar???

• If you do not plan ahead then you can get
  overwhelmed!

Fall
Spring
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Other Staff Who Will Assist

• Throughout the year different district staff will
  be involved in testing
• Create specific calendars for their roles during
  testing
• STAAR-Alt Special Education
• When does the window open and close
• Is someone assisting in the monitoring
• TELPAS Bilingual Department
• When does the window open and close
• Identification of LEP students to be assessed

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Other Staff Who Will Assist

• Online testing Technology Staff
• When do the computers need to be ready
• Be on site to help with problems
• Testing Dates Who do you give it to?
• Campus principal and staff
• Central office staff
• Maintenance
• Transportation
• Technology

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Posting Test Dates

• How do you communicate test dates to everyone?
• Post testing dates on your districts website
• There may be specific information you want to
  post internally versus externally
• Post training dates internally
• Post testing dates externally for community
  programs and athletics

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Keys to Remember

• DONT STRESS OUT!!
• COMMUNICATION IS KEY!!
• YOU DONT NEED TO CREATE EVERYTHING YOUSELF!
• Borrow it if you can and adapt it to your
  district!

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What are some ideas for calendars that you have
in your district?

• Who needs to know what?
• Think about the application in your district.
• Talk about examples for the group to share out,

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