Clash of the Titans:

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• Clash of the Titans
• NCLB, IDEA QPA

NCLB
QPA
IDEA
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Little League Umpire

• You often have to guess whether the throw to the
  plate will beat the runner, whether the catcher
  will catch it, whether the runner will slide
  under the tag, and whether the catcher will hang
  on to the ball. And you have to make your call
  while the pitcher is still in the windup.
• And, no matter what the call, someone will let
  you know its stupid.

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NCLB, IDEA QPA Similarities

• Focus on student results
• Ensure highly qualified educators
• Provide professional development
• Ensure programs and services that support student
  learning
• Make an annual determination of performance
• Identify schools on improvement
• Focus on data
• Ensure valid and reliable assessments

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Focus on Student Results

• NCLB includes all students and all student
  subgroups
• QPA includes all student subgroups for accredited
  status
• IDEA has always required progress toward meeting
  educational goals
• All 3 require annual performance reporting to the
  public, parents, and/or the federal government

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Focus on Student Results

• Revised QPA holds all schools to the same
  academic achievement standards e.g., same levels
  of performance, same definition of proficient
• Kansas uses general assessments, with
  accommodations, with modifications or an
  alternate assessment
• Students with disabilities scores may be used
  within the home school or school of
  attendance
• Accommodations, modifications and a plain English
  version of the test for Limited English
  Proficient can be used

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Ensure Highly Qualified Educators

• 94.7 of our educators are fully qualified, yet
• 2,050 new teachers were licensed in 2000 as
  compared to 1,562 in 2003
• 6,538 e-sub certificates were issued in 2001 as
  compared to a half-year total of 6,823 in 2004
• Waivers increased from 197 in 2000 to 331 in 2003

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Ensure Highly Qualified Educators

• 42 of our teachers leave the field after seven
  years
• 51 of reported licensed personnel are over 45
  36 are over 50
• Waivers comprise 0.6 of all licensed personnel
  in Kansas 91 of all waivers are issued for
  special education

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Provide Professional Development

• NCLB requires schools on improvement to set aside
  10 of their allocation to provide professional
  development
• IDEA has long required a comprehensive system of
  professional development KS SIG is based on
  professional development
• QPAs quality criteria requires formal training
  for teachers regarding the state assessments and
  curriculum standards.

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Ensure Programs and Services

• IDEA requires special education services to
  ensure an appropriate public education and
  educational progress
• NCLB requires programs and services to ensure
  100 of all students are proficient by 2013-14
• QPA requires all schools to provide access to the
  same programs and services
• Revised QPA raised the graduation requirements to
  include 3 credits of math, 3 credits of science
  and 1 credit in fine arts

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Make an Annual Determination

• QPA and AYP are based upon annual performance
  progress on IEP goals and benchmarks are required
  annually
• NCLB requires annual measurable objectives based
  on a federal formula
• Revised QPA requires an annual accreditation
  status
• IDEA requires an annual performance report

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Identify Schools on Improvement

• NCLB and QPA identifies schools as being on
  improvement
• NCLB and QPA identify schools as being on
  improvement based on assessments, graduation
  rate, attendance rate and participation rate
• IDEA requires the reporting of graduation rate,
  attendance rate and participation rate

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Focus on Valid and Reliable Data

• Produce reliable data
• Includes test length, cut score determination,
  and score distribution
• Includes decision consistency
• Produce valid data
• Individual buildings review their data for
  accuracy
• Individual buildings may appeal their AYP/QPA
  determination
• Address changes in assessments and student
  populations
• Defined grade level expectations
• Recalculate starting point in 2005-06
• Maintain same expectation for 2004-05 and 2005-06

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When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of
mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to
be a real major league baseball player, a genuine
professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said
that hed like to be the President of the United
States. Neither of us got our wish.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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NCLB, IDEA QPA Differences

• Being accountable vs. individual needs
• Ensuring highly qualified staff
• Determining the content of the professional
  development
• Ensuring resources for the needed programs and
  services
• Annual determinations versus annual paperwork
• Accrediting and labeling schools sanctions
• Using norm vs. criterion vs. individual
  assessments

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Individual Needs

• For students with disabilities the n is now 40
• The scores of students with disabilities who take
  an alternate assessment scored against grade
  level standards (modified) are not part of the
  1 cap
• Districts that exceed the 1 cap will submit
  data, program and procedural information to a
  waiver review committee

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Individual Needs

• First year LEP students, during their first year
  of enrollment in U.S. schools
• May take an English language proficiency
  assessment in addition to or in lieu of the
  reading content assessment
• Must take the math assessment
• Not required to include the achievement scores in
  AYP but it counts for the 95 participation
• Can include achievement scores of LEP students
  who have exited for up to 2 years in calculations
  of AYP

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Ensure Highly Qualified Educators

• NCLB defines highly qualified as content
  knowledge
• QPA defines highly qualified as fully qualified,
  or holds a valid license to teach
• IDEA and state regulation requires special
  education licensure which may or may not be
  content specific
• Content knowledge and skills alone do not qualify
  a teacher to meet the diverse needs of students
  served in special education or the complexity of
  individualized learning environments

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Ensure Highly Qualified Educators

• Excessive paperwork, threat of litigation, and
  increased movement from special education to
  general education settings exacerbate the
  shortage of personnel
• Ensuring access to teachers with expertise in the
  core content areas is needed which may include
  oversight or team teaching with a teacher deemed
  highly qualified in the core content areas
• Teachers serving students functioning
  significantly below grade level should be deemed
  highly qualified based on certification/licensure
  in special education

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Provide Professional Development

• NCLB requires schools on improvement to provide
  professional development using scientifically-base
  d research and ensure content knowledge
• IDEA needs to assist teachers in meeting the
  diverse and often complex needs of students in
  varying learning environments it may or may not
  be content related
• QPA, at a minimum, must ensure assessment and
  standards development it does not preclude other
  areas

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Ensure Programs and Services

• Students with disabilities and Limited English
  Proficient Students are provided the special
  education services because they are not
  proficient to begin with
• While there are additional federal resources for
  NCLB and IDEA, they are not sufficient
• Federal funding currently falls well short of the
  promised 40 of costs for IDEA It funds it at
  less than half at approximately 18
• Kansas Title I allocation for 2004 was reduced by
  8 million leaving 21,000 for all school
  improvement activities, 20,000 of which must be
  allocated to the districts
• There are no state funds for QPA
• Even though QPA raised the graduation
  requirements, there is no assurance that all
  courses are created equal

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Grade 10 Writing Assignment
A frequent theme in literature is the conflict
between the individual and society. From
literature you have read, select a character who
struggled with society. In a well-developed
essay, identify the character and explain why
this characters conflict with society is
important.
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Grade 10 Writing Assignment
Write a composition of at least 4 paragraphs on
Martin Luther Kings most important contribution
to this society. Illustrate your work with a
neat cover page. Neatness counts.
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Ensure Programs and Services

• In terms of IDEA
• Medicaid funding has resulted in fewer federal
  dollars
• The Senate and House versions place a cap on the
  state administrative set aside while additional
  responsibilities require additional staff with no
  new dollars allocated to hire staff
• Additional responsibilities include new data
  systems, risk pools, professional development
  systems, focused monitoring and technical
  assistance, other alternate assessments, and
  increased early interventions
• Lack of increased federal dollars have meant
  states and locals have absorbed additional costs
  as the federal funds increase and the fiscal
  responsibility is redistributed, states and
  districts must be able to reduce their
  expenditures without being penalized to maintain
  their fiscal efforts as long as the requirements
  of IDEA are being met

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Make an Annual Determination

• NCLB requires the meeting of an absolute bar LEP
  students and students with disabilities do not
  learn the same amount of material in the same
  amount of time or in the same way
• While an annual determination is made, annual
  paperwork is not required in QPA
• Proposed IDEA recommends a three-year IEP
• A school improvement plan is not required in NCLB
  until the school is identified as being on
  improvement

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Make an Annual Determination

• Changed confidence intervals from 95 to 99
• Added a confidence interval to safe harbor
• In reading, only 47 out of 152 schools used safe
  harbor
• In math, only 54 out of 256 schools used safe
  harbor
• By applying a confidence interval (taking the
  size of subgroups into account) to safe harbor,
  13 more schools in reading and 17 more schools in
  math will be helped
• K-4 reading performance and K-3 math performance
  will now be used
• No reading assessment in 107 schools had to use
  5th grade reading scores
• No math assessment in 77 schools had to use 4th
  grade math scores

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Make an Annual Determination

• Students with an IEP who take more than four
  years to complete their course of study will be
  included in the graduation rate
• NCLB excluded students who took longer than 4
  years to complete the requirements
• Attendance will not be an indicator used at the
  high school
• Attendance was selected as the additional
  indicator for elementary and middle schools
• This will benefit the use of safe harbor

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Labeling Schools

• IDEA does not require the identification of
  schools on improvement the focus is the
  individual student
• NCLB requires identifying Title I schools and
  districts on improvement based on subgroup as
  well as total group performance
• QPA identifies schools on improvement by subgroup
  as well as in total, however, no school will be
  conditionally accredited or not accredited based
  on subgroup performance

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Accreditation
Quality Performance Accredited

• Meets the minimum performance and quality
  criteria
• For two consecutive years fails to meet AYP (for
  all students or by subgroup) or three or more of
  the quality criteria
• For three consecutive years, fails to meet AYP
  for all students (NOT SUBGROUPS) or four or more
  quality criteria
• For five consecutive years, fails to meet AYP for
  all students (NOT SUBGROUPS) or four or more
  quality criteria

Accredited Accredited on improvement Conditional
ly accredited Not accredited

Leadership and Support for Student Learning
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Labeling States

• NCLB labels states as being on improvement
• IDEA proposes to label states as being
  egregiously non-compliant and does not define
  the criteria for making this determination
• QPA is based on a high standard of quality and
  performance for all schools in the state

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Sanctions

• NCLB clearly delineates sanctions for Title I
  schools, districts and states
• IDEA delineates possible loss of funds if out of
  compliance
• QPA delineates sanctions based on loss of
  accreditation

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Using Assessments

• NCLB requires the use of state assessments based
  on state standards using a standardized process
• QPA requires the use of state assessments, which
  are criterion based
• IDEA requires individual assessment data

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NCLB requires
For each school identified for school
improvementthe local educational agency (i.e.,
the district) serving the school shall ensure the
provision of technical assistance as the school
develops and implements the school plan
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Levels of Technical Assistance
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Levels of Technical Assistance
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Levels of Technical Assistance
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Current TA Model
SSS
SIA
   
Learning Services Division
TEAL
SFP
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Model for Work
Effective Practices and Dissemination
Compliance Monitoring, Interpretation, and Grants
Management
   
District Assistance
Research and Planning
Standards and Assessments
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Their minds are in our hands.
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Fearless Leaders

• Bill Hagerman
• Director, State and Federal Programs
• Jeannette Nobo
• Assistant Director, School Improvement
  Accreditation
• Martha Gage
• Director, Teacher Education and Licensure
• Zo Ann Torrey
• Director, Student Support Services