No Child Left Behind NCLB and School Accreditation QPA

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No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and School
Accreditation (QPA)

• KASB
• March 11, 2003

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Michael Fullans3 Greatest Fears

• Speaking in front of a group
• Dying
• Speaking and dying in front of a group

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We must be pioneers, not victims
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Whether you think you can or think you cant,
youre right. Henry Ford
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• Tools Needed
• Achievement
• Assessments
• Accountability
• Accreditation

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• Tools Needed
• Achievement
• Assessments
• Accountability
• Accreditation

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Premise Achievement

• All children can and should achieve to high
  standards
• All teachers must be highly qualified

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What does NCLB require and what progress have we
made?

• The State Board approved the following revisions
  to QPA in December
• Meet the adequate yearly progress standards for
  state assessments
• Have at least 95 of all students and each
  sub-group assessed
• Meet the state standard for attendance rate
  (e.g., 90 or higher or an increase over the
  previous year)
• Meet the state standard for graduation rate
  (e.g., 75 or higher or an increase over the
  previous year)

• Must include performance on state assessments
• Must include a 95 participation rate for all
  students and all sub-groups
• Must include an additional performance measure
  at high school it must be graduation rate

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What does NCLB require and what progress have we
made?

• Must develop a school, district, and state report
  card and have it available to the public in
  August of each year

• Currently a school report card is released in
  January
• The report card has been redesigned
• It will be available in August 2003

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What does NCLB require and what progress have we
made?

• Must establish at least three performance levels
  to include advanced, proficient and basic.

• The State Board changed the performance levels as
  follows
• Exemplary (Advanced)
• Advanced (Proficient)
• Proficient (Satisfactory)
• Basic
• Unsatisfactory

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• In a truly rational society, the best of us
  would be teachers, and the rest would have to
  settle for something less.
• Lee Iacocca

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Students Math Scores Dallas (Grades 3-5)
The Education Trust, Inc.
Source Heather Jordan, Robert Mendro, Dash
Weerasinghe, Teacher Effects On Longitudinal
Student Achievement 1997.
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What does NCLB require and what progress have we
made?

• Must have all faculty teaching in core academic
  subjects highly qualified by 2005-06

• The State Board included this requirement in its
  revisions to QPA
• Currently utilizing the federal regulations to
  define highly qualified based on KS system of
  licensure

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Over 94 of the reported assignments are staffed
by fully qualified personnel. 2.7 are
provisionally qualified.
In Kansas
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What does NCLB require and what progress have we
made?

• Paraprofessionals who work in Title I schools
  must have an associates degree, two years of
  college, OR pass a test of their ability to help
  others learn reading, math, and writing

• A test was piloted by the Educational Testing
  Service in the fall of 2003
• A cut score will be set within the next two months

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• Tools Needed
• Achievement
• Assessments
• Accountability
• Accreditation

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• Any system is designed to produce exactly what
  it produces.
• Tom Houlihan

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Premise Assessments

• Embrace increased academic achievement for all
• Ensure yearly progress
• Judge the system on the outcomes achieved by each
  child

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What does NCLB require and what progress have we
made?

• By 2005-06, annually assess reading and math in
  grades 3-8 and once in high school
• By 2007-08, annually assess science once in
  elementary, middle and high school

• Committees are revising standards with June State
  Board approval
• Test items will be written during 03-04 and new
  tests piloted in 04-05
• A computerized version will be offered

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What does NCLB require and what progress have we
made?

• Annually assess the English proficiency of
  students who have limited English proficiency

• English language proficiency of students with
  limited proficiency is currently assessed but the
  new law requires a more diagnostic assessment
• A new assessment is being developed and it will
  be piloted in the fall of 2003

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• Tools Needed
• Achievement
• Assessments
• Accountability
• Accreditation

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Premise Accountability

• A unitary accountability system must apply to all
  schools
• All schools are accountable for all students

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What does NCLB require and what progress have we
made?

• Must have our plan for implementation of the law
  and our accountability plan approved by May of
  2003.

• Met with the U.S. Department of Education on
  several occasions in developing our plan.
• The accountability plan was sent to them on
  January 30, 2003.
• The peer review was held February 14, 2003.
• Our plan should be approved before May.

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Subgroup Accountability

• All students
• Students with disabilities
• Limited English Proficient students
• Economically disadvantaged students
• Ethnic/Racial groups
• African American
• Hispanic
• White
• American Indian/Asian/Hawaiian
• Multicultural to include those who do not mark a
  category

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What does NCLB require and what progress have we
made?

• Must utilize a federal formula for determining
  adequate yearly progress so that all students
  reach proficiency by 2013-14.

• The federal regulations were completed in
  December.
• Must use data from 2001-02 to determine the
  starting point.
• The starting point for AYP was included in our
  state accountability plan.

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AYP is calculated on the percent of students at
proficient and above. (Satisfactory and above
on previous state assessments)
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Few things are harder to put up with than the
annoyance of a good example. Mark Twain
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Goal All Proficient
Starting Point
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Goal All Proficient
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Goal All Proficient
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Federal Sanctions Title I Schools Only

• For two years not making AYP and on improvement
• receive technical assistance
• develop a plan
• provide school choice
• For three years on improvement
• Offer supplemental services
• For four years on improvement
• Take corrective action such as replacing staff
  and implementing a new curriculum
• For five years on improvement
• Implement governance actions and staff
  restructuring

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What have we done thus far to implement these
federal sanctions?

• Identified schools on improvement and assisted
  them in implementing the law on school choice
• Established criteria for providing supplemental
  services and approved some initial providers

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When you think you have exhausted all
possibilities, remember thisyou havent.
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Safe Harbor

• Any disaggregated group that does not meet annual
  objective.
• Ask
• Met graduation rate ____ Yes ____ No
• Met attendance rate ____ Yes ____ No
• Met participation rate ____ Yes ____ No
• If no to any one of these, Safe Harbor cannot be
  used.
• If yes, to all 3, then ask
• Did the percent of students not proficient in a
  disaggregated group decrease by at least 10 from
  the previous year? ___Yes ___ No
• If yes, to all four of these questions, the
  school makes AYP.

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• Tools Needed
• Achievement
• Assessments
• Accountability
• Accreditation

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new
example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Premise Accreditation

• Eliminate frequent changes
• Ensure greater clarity in expectations
• Provide clear, concise and consistent support
  materials and services
• Offer performance based training

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What is included in our current school
accreditation system?

• The current accreditation system which will be in
  effect until 2005-06 includes the following
• School develops an improvement plan based on its
  results
• Each school selects a visiting team
• Visiting team makes at least two visits to the
  school
• Visiting team oversees implementation of the plan
  
• Visiting team forwards an accreditation
  recommendation to the state board

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What is included in our current school
accreditation system?

• Each school gives the state assessments
• Each school uses other assessments to determine
  student progress
• Each school looks at student attendance, school
  safety, and dropout rate
• High schools must look at graduation rate and
  number of students passing advanced math and
  science

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What is included in our current school
accreditation system?

• Three accreditation levels accredited,
  conditionally accredited, and not accredited
• If a school has not made progress during the five
  year accreditation cycle, the visiting team can
  recommend conditional accreditation
• If conditionally accredited, additional support
  is given to the school
• If conditionally accredited the school must make
  a report to the State Board every six months on
  its progress

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What changes have we made in the school
accreditation system?

• No later than 2005-06, schools will be accredited
  based on revised regulations passed by the State
  Board in December of 2002.
• This system includes a set of quality and
  performance indicators that each school must meet
  in order to be accredited.

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Quality Indicators

• School improvement plan
• External technical assistance team
• Trained faculty in standards and assessments
• Highly qualified faculty
• Local assessments aligned

• Graduation requirements
• Specific programs and services at the elementary
  and high school levels
• Other miscellaneous requirements such as transfer
  of credit and records retention

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Quality Indicators

• Each school must have a school improvement plan
  that includes a staff development plan
• Each school must select an external team to
  assist in the implementation of the plan
• Each school must train the faculty in the state
  standards and assessments
• Each school must have highly qualified faculty as
  defined by federal law
• Each school must align local assessments with
  state standards

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Quality Indicators

• Each high school must offer courses that would
  allow students to meet qualified admissions and
  state scholarship requirements
• Each high school must have graduation
  requirements at least equal to the state
  requirements

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State Graduation Requirements (Class of 09)
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What concepts did the State Board specify for
these requirements?

• English shall include reading, writing,
  literature, grammar, and communication
• Mathematics shall include algebraic and geometric
  concepts
• Science shall include physical, biological, and
  earth/space concepts
• History/Government shall include U.S. history,
  world history, U.S. government, concepts of
  economics and geography, and KS history and
  government
• Physical Education shall include health
• Fine Arts shall include art, music, dance,
  theatre, forensics, and other similar studies
  selected by a local board

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Quality Indicators

• Each elementary and secondary school must offer
  programs and services in
• Language arts
• Mathematics
• History/Government
• Science
• Physical Education including health and human
  sexuality
• Fine Arts
• Computer Literacy
• Services for Students with Special Learning Needs
• Library Services
• Counseling Services

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Quality Indicators

• Each secondary school must offer programs and
  services in
• Industrial/Technical Education
• Family and Consumer Science
• Business
• Foreign Language
• Each school must meet other miscellaneous
  regulations such as transfer of credit and
  records retention which are no different than
  current regulations.

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Performance Indicators

• Each school must meet the adequate yearly
  progress standards for state assessments
• Each school must have at least 95 of all
  students and each sub-group assessed
• Each school must meet the state standard for
  attendance rate (e.g., 90 or higher or an
  increase over the previous year)
• Each high school must meet the state standard for
  graduation rate (e.g., 75 or higher or an
  increase over the previous year)

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What changes have we made in the school
accreditation system?

• Accreditation status shall be prepared annually
• Types of accreditation include
• Accredited
• Accredited on improvement
• Conditionally accredited
• Not accredited

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What changes have we made in the school
accreditation system?

• A school meets the minimum performance and
  quality criteria
• A school for two consecutive years fails to meet
  one or more of the performance criteria for any
  subgroup or all students assessed or fails to
  meet three or more of the quality criteria
• A school for three consecutive years fails to
  meet the prescribed percentage of all students
  assessed who perform at the proficient level or
  above or fails to meet four or more of the
  quality criteria
• A school for five consecutive years fails to meet
  the prescribed percentage of all students
  assessed who perform at the proficient level or
  above or fails to meet four or more of the
  quality criteria

• Accredited
• Accredited on improvement
• Conditionally accredited
• Not accredited

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What changes have we made in the school
accreditation system?

• Any school that is accredited on improvement or
  conditionally accredited may change their status
  if they meet, for two consecutive years, the
  performance and quality criteria
• Any school that is conditionally accredited or
  not accredited may have the local board raise any
  issue and present any additional information as
  part of an appeal

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What changes have we made in the school
accreditation system?

• Schools accredited on improvement and schools
  conditionally accredited will
• Be assigned a technical assistance team by the
  state
• Develop a specific plan to address deficiencies
• For Title I schools, abide by federal sanctions
  that may apply
• School choice
• Supplemental services
• Corrective action
• Governance action
• Abide by other actions as may be determined by
  the state board

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• Build your house on bedrock, not on shifting
  sands.
• Jamaican folk song