+ 1 Episode 3 Model Cornerstone Assessments: choose them, use them, make them your own October 16, 2014 Host, ASN Executive Director, Kristy Callaway

+ Kristy Callaway, Executive Director And your Webinar Host Got an idea for a webinar? Please to About: Arts Schools Network is dedicated to providing leaders within arts schools quality resources, support, and networking opportunities. Arts school leaders have unique, contextual needs for professional development specific to school-type and job. By convening with peers and representatives from relevant industries, they are collectively creating tomorrow's artists and patrons. 2

+ 3 Who are our members? Public, private, charter, residential Elementary Schools Middle Schools High Schools Colleges Conservatories Universities Non-profit organizations We are hundreds strong in the USA and around the world!

+ Cory Wilkerson, Project Manager, State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) Ms. Cory Wilkerson is a former arts educator currently working in arts consulting and administration. Ms. Wilkerson was a contributing editor to the Pennsylvania Arts and Humanities standards, served on the Pennsylvania Assessment through Themes project, co-chaired the Arts Committee for Pennsylvania Standards Aligned Systems, and consults on the Pennsylvania Student Learning Objectives initiative. In her capacity as Project Director for the State Education Agency for Directors of Arts Education, Ms. Wilkerson served with the National Coalition for Core Arts (NCCAS) standards working on the new national core arts standards; and is a member of the NCCAS Media Arts leadership committee. 4

+ DESCRIPTION National Core Arts Standards - Arts Standards for the 21st Century The new national core arts standards bring a world of expressive and purposeful ideas for dance, music, theatre and visual arts, and for the first time, they include national arts standards specific to the emerging art form of Media Arts. Housed in an interactive home and created by educators for educators, these standards and their accompanying model cornerstone assessments are a valuable tool to guide arts curriculum planning and instruction now and into the future. 5

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+ To meet the needs of 21 st century learning To remind us all that the arts are a core academic subject Why rewrite the 1994 standards?

Artistic Literacy Lifelong Learning The Arts as Communication The Arts as Creative Personal Realization The Arts as Culture, History and Connectors The Arts as a Means to Well Being

+ Artistic Processes are the way the brain and body make art and define the link between art making and the learner

+ The Core Arts Standards  Are built on four Artistic Processes and eleven Anchor Standards

Performance Standards By Artistic Process PK-8 grade by grade 3 levels of proficiency at HS Discipline Specific Performance Standards

Instructional Resources Process Verbs EUs/EQs Model Cornerstone Assessments Discipline Specific Instructional Resources

Students Educators Administrators & Parents Access Advocacy, Communication Literacy Standards

+ What is a standard? A level of attainment An idea or thing used as a measure, norm or model A document that provides guidelines or characteristics that can be used consistently A directional device/road map

+ Standards – instruction - assessment Standards Instruction Assessment

+ Model Cornerstone Assessments

+ at the benchmark grades of 2, 5, 8 and the three high school levels (proficient, accomplished, advanced) are examples of the type of evidence needed to show student achievement aligned to targeted performance standards.

+ What is an MCA? Based on Understanding by Design (UbD): Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins Examples of observable and measurable assessment tasks for teachers based on the new standards. Models of methods that richly assessing student learning which teachers can modify and use.

+ MCAs… …are substantive in nature and require students to apply factual knowledge, concepts, skills, higher-order thinking, and habits of mind in order to be successful. They are worthy of being taught to.” Jay McTighe

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+ Sample template

+ MCA’s bring to life a method of measuring targeted learning goals

+ MCA are examples for you to adapt

+ Spread the word

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+ 28 October At ASN’s conferences and other events, members are truly getting it….together. ASN’s annual national conference, summits, and other events bring together the innovative, the informative, and the inquisitive to network, share, learn, and recognize excellence. Together, we refresh and reinforce our expertise and efforts.

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