INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #10 (23 mins)
Develop a literacy identity that promotes lifelong learning.
• Provide opportunities for students to view themselves as lifelong learners who take an active role in their literacy development, understanding they impact and are impacted by their interactions with text
• Carole Mullins, NBCT and Reb…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #9 (31 mins)
Apply high level cognitive processes to think deeply and critically about text.
• Help students must move beyond basic comprehension and interact more deeply with the text
• By applying synthesis, analysis, reflection and other higher order thinking skills, students are equipped to examine text cri…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #6-7 (37 mins)
#6: Collaborate with others to create meaning. #7: Utilize digital resources to learn and share with others.
• Help students learn to interact with others in order to confirm, challenge or shape their views and ideas
• Know how to effectively produce and critically consume digital information
•…Read More

INTRODUCTION TO THE 10 INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICES (18 mins)
• Understanding the purpose and function of the practices
• Carole Mullins, NBCT

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #1 (32 mins)
Recognize that text is anything that communicates a message.
• Expand traditional knowledge about text to include visual, auditory & digital sources
• Use sources across disciplines to provide increasingly rigorous opportunities for students to interpret messages communicated through different med…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #2 (29 mins)
Employ, develop, and refine schema to understand create text.
• Through the use of multiple texts and interdisciplinary content, activate students’ schema. Provide opportunities for developing new connections, applying specialized vocabulary and reflecting on new understandings
• Appropriate for K…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #3 (30 mins)
View literacy experiences as transactional, interdisciplinary, and transformational.
• When students’ literacy experiences cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, their knowledge is expanded and relevant
• Students’ interactions with text become transformational when they are motivated to purs…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #4 (30 mins)
Utilize receptive and expressive language arts to better understand self, others and the world. View literacy experiences as transactional, interdisciplinary, and transformational.
• Experiencing both receptive (i.e., listening, reading and viewing) and expressive (i.e., speaking, writing and v…Read More

INTERDISCIPLINARY LITERACY PRACTICE #5 (38 mins)
Apply strategic practices, with scaffolding and then independently, to approach new literacy tasks.
• Help students to strategically approach literacy tasks in order to make intentional decisions about when, where and how to apply thinking and learning processes
• Independence and tra…Read More

Composition Video Resources Link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vIg6dkOjgATOSbQCosjIiKQFMGGIqzs1?usp=sharing

KAS for Reading and Writing Video Series: EPISODES 1-5 RESOURCES LINK:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XaizNuJf-tWqMK0CLJU86EZ08xzOabfI

Real Northeast Micro-credentials Presentation
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/2438871ff7b9c6930c63ceec2/files/2b554958-3ffa-495f-bddc-eb2fb59970de/REL_NEI_BE_10_17_18_508c.pdf

https://drive.google.com/open?id=16ZI5FcGZazkHLzXSZeXu_B5rmzHOwnFP

Matt Dunleavy’s presentation

A Roadmap for implementing Micro-credentials

Implementation Roadmap

Micro-credentials aligned to Deeper Learning. Now is a great time to begin thinking our your professional learning needs for next year.

http://digitalpromise.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/02/mc_deeperlearning.pdf?nocdn=1

http://digitalpromise.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Microcredentials_Driving_teacher_learning_leadership.pdf

http://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/11/micro-credentials-transforming-professional-learning/

Nation-wide attention and conversation on micro-credentials hosted by Digital Promise and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). http://digitalpromise.org/2017/09/19/recognition-mcs-symposium-currency-micro-credentials/

Chapter from new Victoria Bernhardt book: Measuring What We Do In Schools
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/117021/chapters/Pulling-It-All-Together@-A-Case-Study.aspx?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_content=book&utm_campaign=measuringwhatwedoinschools-email-06122017

A great overview of research behind and reasons for micro-credentials:
http://digitalpromise.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Microcredentials_Driving_teacher_learning_leadership.pdf

The major momentum behind micro-credentials

Micro-credentials Guide Assessment for Learning in Rhode Island
http://cce.org/thought-leadership/blog/post/micro-credentials-guide-assessment-for-learning-in-rhode-island By Justin Paley and Gary Chapin July 28, 2016

Digital Promise: Micro-credentials-Driving Teacher Learning and Leadership
http://digitalpromise.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Microcredentials_Driving_teacher_learning_leadership.pdf

Hewlett Foundation: Developing a System of Micro-Credentials
http://www.hewlett.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/mc_deeperlearning.pdf

I have just posted the PDAS Practitioner’s Field Guide to School Improvement. The PDAS is a well-defined set of principles, procedures and tools aimed to motivate schools and districts as they continually collect, analyze, communicate and use multiple measures of data to improve every aspect of school/district decision making. Implementing the…Read More

I just upload a great data tool that was developed by Pam Coe and shared with our KVEC special education department. Check it out.

It is so good to see you in the PDAS holler, Ann. I also noticed that you are signed up for our Lee County PDAS orientation. It will be wonderful to see you there.

The first in a series of 4 PDAS 1/2 day orientations takes place at KVEC Offices on Friday, August 26 form 9:00 to 12:00. Come learn how PDAS is a unique approach to data collection, analysis, and decision making.

The Perpetual Data system orientation and two day training is now scheduled.

PDAS INQUIRY CYCLE OVERVIEW

PDAS Orientation Information

PDAS Orientation Information

The KVEC Data team is looking forward to a great PDAS orientation across the KVEC region. We will roll out the “nuts and bolts” of the Perpetual Data Analysis System and share tools and resources for implementation. If you think you would use a fresh look at using data for continuous school improvement come join us. Teams are welcome. Space is…Read More

PDAS Field Guide is a work in Progresss
Abbie Combs uploaded new file(s): pdas-field-guide-fall-2015-2.docx to Perpetual Data Analysis System (PDAS)

I just posted KDE (Rhonda Sims) PowerPoint with state assessment updates. I am adding additional resources that I thought might be especially helpful at a district level.
Abbie Combs uploaded new file(s): big-picture-view-unbridled-learning-expanded.pptx, pie-chart-2014-2015-103114-rev-111414-jprather.pdf, pie-chart-2014-2015-103114-rev-111414-jpra…Read More

I was so happy that I was able to attend the annual Scott Trimble Workshop on Instruction and Assessment. I am posting a few resources from that workshop that might be especially beneficial to district DACs.
Abbie Combs uploaded new file(s): kde-kaac-2015.pptx to Perpetual Data Analysis System (PDAS)

Leslie group hard at work.
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Dessie and Andi Phillips.
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Jeff with Brad Geise. Brad works with the Victoria Benhardt group. He has just published a new book, Using Questionnaire Data for Continuous School Improvement.
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Photos from the workshop. What a great two days!
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It is finally here. We kick off our PDAS pilot with a two day training by California State University, Chico Research Foundation will present Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement Workshop. This workshop is about inspiring schools and school districts to commit to continuous school improvement by providing a framework that will result…Read More

We all probably feel change in the wind when it comes to student assessment. The attached report by Linda Darling-Hammond, Gene Wilhoit, and Linda Pittenger is an interesting read. The report recommends an accountability approach that focuses on a meaningful learning. You have probably heard it referred to as the 51st State Assessment. I would…Read More

I am a huge fan of Victoria Bernhardt. Currently I am reading “DATA, DATA, EVERYWHERE.”
The purpose of the book is to provide an overview of comprehensive data analysis within the context of Continuous School Improvement. It is a Companion to the Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement that we are using in the PDAS training. I would…Read More

This is an “introductory” article by Victoria Bernhardt about the different types of data and their role in creating a data profile for a school and school improvement.
Jennifer Carroll uploaded new file(s): mmeasure.pdf to Perpetual Data Analysis System (PDAS)

The PDAS is an on-going process that begins with the formation of a data team followed by the participation of the team in the Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement based on the work of Victoria L. Bernhardt, PH.D. This workshop is about inspiring schools and school districts to commit to continuous school improvement by providing a…Read More

Don’t forget the REL Action Research Workshop on Friday, June 19. Flyer with electronic registration is attached.
Abbie Combs uploaded new file(s): rel-ap-action-research-flyer_electronic.pdf to Perpetual Data Analysis System (PDAS)

this is the powerpoint covering my mini grant