Focusing on Our English Language Learners in Florida Lani Hall Seikaly Technical Assistance Provider SEC ELL Grant An Orientation to The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum

Questions that will be addressed… What are the Survey of Enacted Curriculum tools? Why are SEC data useful to educators? How are data collected, analyzed, reported? Why is your state participating in this project? What is your role in this project?

What are the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum and why do educators use them?

The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum are educational tools that can help teachers answer these questions and others to improve their instruction and student achievement.

How many educators are using the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum? 10,393 teachers took a Survey of Enacted Curriculum in the school year 4674 Math 1993 Science 3646 ELAR 80 Soc Stud 131 standards and assessments were coded.

Why are educators using the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum?

Could you improve student achievement if you had answers to these questions? How do I know that what teachers are teaching is aligned with what students are expected to learn as identified by the Florida Sunshine Standards? How do I know that teachers are spending instructional time on the right things? What do I know about our instructional program in a low performing area? Are our instructional practices consistent with research on effective practices? What professional development do my teachers need?

Could you improve student achievement if you had answers to these questions? Am I teaching what students are expected to learn? Am I spending my instructional time on the right things? Are my instructional practices consistent with research on effective practices? What professional development do I need?

The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum are a research-based, data analysis tool for analyzing the content of state standards and assessments online, web-based surveys that collect teacher reported information about what content they teach and what instructional practices they use in one class graphed reports representing the data collected from teacher surveys and coding.

The Surveys of Enacted Curriculum

Surveys of Enacted Curriculum A neutral content grid with cognitive demand The intended curriculum: State content standards— What students should learn The enacted curriculum: What teachers teach The learned curriculum: Student outcomes based on school learning The assessed curriculum: State (and other) assessments— tested learning

Enacted (3 rd Grade Teacher Reports)Intended (3 rd Grade Math Indicators)

Enacted (9 th Grade Teacher Reports)Intended (9 th Grade Indicators)

How do the surveys work? Content specialists code state standards and assessments Teachers take an online survey about what they teach, how they teach it and what professional development they have had

How are standards coded? Teams of content experts from state departments are trained to code content standards using neutral language to describe the content. The resulting descriptions are graphed so that comparisons can be made between standards and assessments or between enacted and intended curriculum.

How will the Florida Sunshine Standards be coded? SEC utilizes a two-dimensional taxonomy based on: Topic by Cognitive Demand BCDEF

The teacher online survey … Collects data on what content is taught and how it is taught. Produces reports indicating the degree of alignment between the taught (enacted) curriculum and state assessments or standards. Collects data on teacher beliefs, readiness to teach the content and readiness to instruct special groups of students. Provides a rich source of information to support teachers analysis of student learning challenges.

to compare instructional content they are teaching to the state standards and assessments. to compare their own practice with results for their school, district, and state. SEC data is never used for teacher evaluations. Individual teacher responses remain confidential and teacher ID information is never reported. The Surveys allow teachers

Content Descriptions Content Descriptions Alignment Analyses School Improvement Planning Program Evaluation Monitoring Change Curriculum Analysis Teacher Reports Content Analyses SEC Taxonomy

SEC Online Contour Maps are also available. Drop-down menus allow you to select grade-specific and course-specific results for your school, district and state, in addition to reports of your own results.

SEC Online reports instructional content using tile charts. Drop-down menus allow you to select grade-specific and course-specific results for your school, district and state, in addition to reports of your own results.

Survey results can be summarized using a collection of Instructional Practice and Characteristics Scales Results are displayed using floating bar charts to report mean and standard deviation results to describe variations of teacher responses

A teacher’s own results.

Why is your state and district participating in the project? What do they hope to learn?

Florida is one of nine states to participate in the SEC - ELL Grant, an enhanced assessment grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to CCSSO and a consortium of states to better understand and support the achievement of English Language Learners.

In too many schools, English Language Learners are a subgroup whose performance is not meeting the AYP targets. Schools, divisions, and states across the country are trying to find answers to how to best provide access to and support ELL students in attaining state standards and NCLB targets.

To help our ELL students, we need to better understand… What is the nature of the language that students need to meaningfully engage with and achieve academic content? Given the expected student outcome, how do we expect students to use (receive, produce) language to acquire/demonstrate understanding of the content? What are the language demands and complexity of the Florida Sunshine Standards? What do the Florida Sunshine Standards require in their language complexity and demands?

To help our ELL students, we need to better understand… Are our ELL students being taught the Florida Sunshine Standards? What instructional strategies and activites are being used to help ELL students learn the content? Are regular education teachers supporting the language needs of their ELL students in any ways? Are the language proficiency skills aligned with the Florida Sunshine Standards?

This SEC ELL Consortium is studying the following questions:  To what extent do ELL’s have opportunity to learn academic content and skills in state standards?  What is relationship of state ELP standards and assessments to state academic standards?  What instructional practices/strategies are used to teach English language skills across content areas?  What is relationship of alignment of instruction (to standards) with student achievement?

Florida is focusing on a subset of the grant questions:  To what extent does the content and the amount of ESOL training that teachers receive assist them to address the needs of the English Language Learners (ELLs) in the content area classes (Language Arts and Math)?  How do content area teachers address language demands of ELLs in order to provide access to the content (language arts and math)?  To what extent are language arts teachers incorporating the English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards in English Language Arts classes?

What can Florida educators gain from participating in the Surveys?

School and district leaders can… Identify the extent to which instruction is aligned to the Florida Sunshine Standards and assessments Understand what instructional activities and strategies are being used in classrooms

School and district leaders can… Identify the extent to which language proficiency standards are aligned to language proficiency assessments Identify alignment of language complexity and demand in the Florida Sunshine Standards (English Language Arts) Identify priority needs for professional development

Teachers can… Identify the extent to which what they teach is aligned with the Florida Sunshine Standards and assessments Better understand what they need to be teaching more or less See how their instructional practices compare to other teachers in their school or district Identify the language complexity and demand of the Florida Sunshine Standards they teach Identify priority needs for professional development

In addition to what teachers will learn about their instruction, teachers will also …. Receive a gift certificate to a book store

What is your role in this project? What is the state’s role?

The state’s role … To participate in a nine state collaborative with CCSSO (Council for Chief State School Officers) and WCER (Wisconsin Center for Educational Research) to identify study questions, implement the survey in their respective states, and analyze the results. To identify which divisions will participate in taking the survey, the target number of participants and content areas and grade levels that will be included in the project. Each district has been asked to provide 5-15 Language Arts and 5-15 Math teachers who have ELLs in their classrooms Preferably one grade level from elementary (3-5), middle (6- 8), and high schools (9-12) To coordinate the coding of selected Florida Sunshine Standards and the language proficiency standards for their state and send content and linguistic specialists to participate in the coding workshops.

Your role … Select which schools and teachers participate in taking the survey and the timeframe for completion Plan and lead an orientation presentation to the participating teachers Administer or monitor the administration of the survey Attend a one day training on how to read and interpret the data results from the survey Facilitate a discussion with the participating teachers about their data results

Administering the Surveys: What is involved?

Online Survey Administration Approximately 100 minutes to complete either the English Language Arts or Math surveys May be completed in multiple sittings Data is saved as each section is completed Teachers may use their planning book or calendar

To set up the online survey for your schools, you need to WCER the following information two weeks in advance: Name of Project/Group/Region Participating District Participating School(s) Survey Start Date Survey End Date Contact name, and phone #

The Florida DOE has set the following expectations for participation and completion of the survey: The first date that teachers may take the survey is May 1, 2008 The surveys should be completed by June 15, teachers from each district will take the survey

Let’s take a look at the online registration process and the survey process to see what teachers actually need to do.

SEC Online Registration From the Home Page, click on “Registrar’

SEC Online Registration Registrar Area If not registered, select your group from the drop- down menu, then click on Register button. If registered, enter your username and password, then click on Login button.

Registration Page SEC Online Registration

Final Step SEC Online Registration After submitting your personal information you will be prompted to enter ausername and password Enter a valid address. This will be important if you forget your username or password. Both Username and Password are required to log back in. You will receive an verification of your username and password after registration is completed. Save for your records.

Survey Menu SEC Online Sections assigned for your group will be pre-checked. Sections you have completed will appear with green text. Sections you have not completed will appear in white text. Note Instructions for Selecting the Target Class!

For all questions, please respond only for the selected subject. If you teach more than one class in this subject, respond only for the first class that you teach each week for this subject. If that is a split class (i.e., the class contains more than one group for instruction, and each group is taught separately), respond for only one group. Instructions for Selecting the Target Class SEC Online

Your data is saved each time you click on a Submit button.

You may log-off at any time by simply closing your browser.

Reporting Instructional Content Encourage use of lesson plans, grade books, text, etc. to recall Topic Coverage organized and reported by Content Area (e.g. math) Number Sense, Properties, Relationships Operations Measurement Consumer Applications Basic Algebra Advanced Algebra Geometric Concepts Advanced Geometry Data Displays Statistics Probability Analysis Trigonometry Special Topics Functions Instructional Technology

Reporting Instructional Content Cognitive Demand reported for each topic covered (e.g. math) Memorize Facts, Definitions, Formulas Perform Procedures Demonstrate Understanding of Mathematical Ideas Conjecture, Generalize, Prove Solve non-routine problems, Make Connections Avoid assigning same level of emphasis across categories of cognitive demand

Step 1: Report time spent on topics taught Reporting Instructional Content Review the list of topics presented for the current Content Area. For each topic in the list that is taught to the target class, select a radio button corresponding to 1,2, or 3 based on the following definitions: 0 = Not covered 1 = Less than 1 lesson 2 = 1-5 lessons 3 = more than 5 lessons

Step 2: Set expectations for students for each topic taught. Reporting Instructional Content For each topic selected from the previous screen set the cognitive expectations for students for each of 5 categories of cognitive demand, using the following definitions 0 = No emphasis 1 = Slight emphasis 2 = Moderate emphasis 3 = Sustained emphasis Focus on target class & reporting period.

Editing Results Survey Completion Completed survey sections may be reviewed/edited until: 1)The survey completion window has closed 2)You review results for a given survey section To review/edit responses: Check the box on the Survey Menu Screen next to the section you want to review/edit. (Completed sections will be identified by green text.)

Online Report Generator Reviewing Results

Taking a look at the survey items Please take the next 10 minutes to read through some of the questions in each Instructional Content section of the survey. Record any questions you have, and we will address them with entire group at the end of this time.

What questions do you have about the survey items?

Taking a look at the survey items Please take the next 10 minutes to read through some of the questions in each Instructional Practices section of the survey. Record any questions you have, and we will address them with entire group at the end of this time.

What questions do you have about the survey items?

Planning and Leading the Orientation Session

What do you need to tell teachers about taking the survey? What do teachers need to know to be able to do a good job taking the survey? Where and when will teachers take the survey? What do teachers need to bring? What data will teachers receive after they take the survey? How will their confidentiality be protected? Are there any additional incentives for their participation?

What happens after teachers take the survey? The state, districts, and schools will have invaluable data to analyze for a variety of purposes. Next fall, you will participate in a training workshop on how to read and interpret your data. After that training, you will facilitate a data discussion with your schools about how to read their SEC data and what lessons they are learning as a result of their survey data.

Who are your primary contacts for this project? At the Florida State Department …. Dr. Semire Dikli, Program Specialist Academic Achievement through Language Acquisition 850 At CCSSO … Lani Seikaly, Technical Assistant

Where can you find additional information? Facilitator packet –Resources for leading the orientation –Handouts for teachers SEC Website: ( –Surveys of Enacted Curriculum –SEC Resources –Online training PPTs and handouts