HiQ2

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Making HiQ2 Work
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Agenda

• What is the HiQ Program?
• How does HiQ work?
• What does HiQ tell us?

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Non Agenda

• Detailed discussion of the definition of highly
  qualified - No
• I have a teacher who shows up as not HiQ.
  Why? - Ask me later
• Is someone with a certificate in who passed a
  test in going to be highly qualified to teach
  - Ask me later

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What is HiQ?

• HiQ is an online educator inventory system
• HiQ is a database
• HiQ is found in the Professional Standards
  Commissions portal, www.gapsc.org

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What is HiQ?

• HiQ is an online educator inventory system...
• to assist school systems
• to determine if an educator meets the Federal
  definition of highly qualified when placed in a
  particular teaching assignment
• and to gather data to report to USDOE, to use
  for AYP, etc.

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What is HiQ?

• HiQ is a database
• Updated annually by combining the DOEs Fall CPI
  data collection and the PSCs Certification
  Information System (CIS)
• Subjected to a manual edit cycle
• Automatically updated from the Certification
  Information System (CIS)

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What is HiQ?

• HiQ is found on the Professional Standards
  Commissions portal, www.gapsc.org
• accessible to authorized account holders
• rights are edit or view-only
• scope can be building-only, system-only,
  RESA-wide, or State-wide

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What is HiQ?

• HiQ is found on the Professional Standards
  Commissions portal, www.gapsc.org

Active users of www.gapsc.org 800 Users with HiQ
edit rights 400 Users with HiQ view-only
rights 100
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Highly Qualified?

• Bare-bones Definition of Highly Qualified
• A highly qualified educator has documentable
  knowledge of the subject area content when
  teaching a core subject.
• Core Subjects
• English, Reading, Math, Science, Civics and
  Government, History, Geography, Economics, Art,
  Foreign Language, Early Childhood
• (In Georgia Art is Chorus, Music, and Visual
  Arts)

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www.gapsc.org - the Portal
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HiQ Main Page
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HiQ Main Page Detail
Locate an educator directly or from a list
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HiQ Main Page Detail - Select System
List educators by school system
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HiQ Main Page Detail - Select Building
List educators by school building
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HiQ Main Page Detail - Select Status
List educators by HiQ status Not
HiQ HiQ Cannot Determine - check coding HiQ
not applicable Corrected records
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HiQ Main Page Detail - Select Type
List educators by type Teachers Paraprofession
als (Title I schools only) Long Term Subs
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HiQ Main Page - Selections Made
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HiQ Main Page - List Records
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HiQ List - Two Options!!!
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HiQ Lists - Two Options!!!

• Printable View - prints ALL rows on All pages of
  the list
• Download Records - generates a file suitable for
  opening in Excel

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HiQ List - Click SSN to See Detail
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Alternative to the List - enter SSN or
Certification Number to see detail
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HiQ Detail - Bottom of Page
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HiQ Detail Summary

• Name (SSN)
• HiQ status for each teaching assignment
• Subject, job and part-of-day can be edited
• Some assertions can be made (terminated, HOUSSE,
  possible error, etc.)
• If subject/job codes are ambiguous , a list of
  possible code edits
• If not highly qualified, a list of
  certificates/tests needed to be considered highly
  qualified
• Certificates currently held
• Tests passed

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HiQ Detail - Status

• What are the possible values for the HiQ status?
• Highly qualified
• Not highly qualified
• Cannot determine
• Not applicable
• Note for final report, the percent highly
  qualified is

Highly qualified (Highly
qualified Not highly qualified Cannot
determine)
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Example 1 - Not HiQ
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Example 1 - Not HiQ continued
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Example 2 - Not HiQ
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Example 2 - Not HiQ continued
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Example 3 - Not HiQ
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Example 3 - Not HiQ
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Agenda - Recap

• What is the HiQ Program?
• How does HiQ work?
• What does HiQ tell us?

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HiQ - Whats It Good For?

• Narrow point of view...
• HiQ reveals the percentage of
  highly-qualified educators for reporting to
  USDOE and the State of Georgia

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HiQ - Whats It Good For?

• Thinking outside of the box...
• HiQ exposes mis-alignment of teaching
  credentials to subjects/grades being taught

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HiQ - Alignment

• Opportunities for realignment of teaching
  assignments
• Opportunities for professional development when
  available workforce lacks sufficient credentials

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HiQ - What-if...

• HiQ might be used by a school system to compare
  the current workforce to future needs
• HiQ might be used by a teacher to ask
• what can I teach right now
• what could I teach if...

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HiQ - What-if...

• An expanded HiQ might ask...
• Where are we assigning educators out-of-field?
  (Not limited to those teaching NCLB core
  subjects)

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Thank you!!!!
Chuck McCampbell Professional Standards
Commission chuck.mccampbell_at_gapsc.com (404)
232-2627 For more information and a copy of the
presentation visit... www.gapsc.com/nclb/home.ht
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