1 Supporting LASS High Schools 21 st Century Skills, Technical Writing, and Lexile Scores Lakeshore Alliance for Student Success, Inc Edward Schoenfelt, Executive Director 220 S. 13 th Street, Chesterton, IN Wednesday, March 9, :00 a.m. – Noon CST

2 21 st Century Skills Tony Wagner skills for survival Over coming the global achievement gap with a learning fill. All students/adults need new skills. A high school diploma is a ticket to a minimum wage job, nothing else. Schools need to be reinvented not just reformed.

3 1 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving 2 Collaboration across Networks and Leading by Influence 3 Agility and Adaptability 4 Initiative and Entrepreneurialism 5 Effective Oral and Written Communication 6 Accessing and Analyzing Information 7 Curiosity and Imagination 21st century skills learned through the curriculum, which is interdisciplinary, integrated, project-based, and more, include and are learned within a project- based curriculum by utilizing the seven survival skills advocated by Tony Wagner in his book, The Global Achievement Gap:

4 On the next slides state what is occurring in your school. Items 1 & 2, Items 3 & 4 what would you like to see happening. ASIGNMENT Pair up and share. Document ways these skill are occurring at your school and how you can enhance them at your school.

5 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

6 Collaboration across Networks and Leading by Influence

7 Agility and Adaptability

8 Initiative and Entrepreneurialism

9 Effective Oral and Written Communication

10 Accessing and Analyzing Information

11 Curiosity and Imagination

12 Technical Writing Teach students to compare and contrast topics of global interest/to gain competitive rigor. Teach students how to use: *Chicago Manual of Style handbook *Modern Language Association (MLA) style. *American Psychological Association (APA) style scientific writing process

13 Lexile Scores / SRI A Lexile measure is a valuable piece of information about either an individual's reading ability or the difficulty of a text, like a book or magazine article. The Lexile measure is shown as a number with an "L" after it — 880L is 880 Lexile The idea behind The Lexile Framework for Reading is simple: if we know how well a student can read and how hard a specific book is to comprehend, we can predict how well that student will likely understand the book. Knowing a students lexile measure will help school challenge growth !

14 Stay On Message LEADERSHIP

15 Lexile Scores The median Lexile® measure for Military texts is 1105L, while the median measure for Citizenship texts is 1230L. Workplace texts—with a median difficulty of 1260L—have the broadest range of difficulty, extending both below and above all of the other text collections. Further, though the median text demand is fairly uniform across the workplace, military and citizenship domains, it is higher for postsecondary education: 1295L for two year institutions and 1395L for four-year institutions. Do you know this? Where do your students rate? Can this help to create an urgency for SIP?

16 Reading Facts: - HS graduation no longer guarantees students are prepared for postsecondary challenges - Graduation rates have declined - Common Core Standards grade by grade K-12 Eng and Math released and adopted - High percentage need remedial courses in reading, writing, and math upon entering tech school, community college, of four year universities - 42% entering community college take at least one remedial course. - 20% entering universities take at least one remedial course. - 91% of HS teachers believe they are preparing students for college work. - 26% of College professors believe students are ready. -Over the last 50 years the text complexity of K-12 texts have trended downward. Where as the text complexity for reading demands in college, careers, and citizenship have held steady or increased.

17 Shift is happening! Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges (in Lexile measures) Text Complexity Previous Lexile Ranges Aligned Grade Bands Lexile Ranges to CCR Expectations K–1 N/A N/A 2–3 450L–725L 450L–790L 4–5 645L–845L 770L–980L 6–8 860L–1010L 955L–1155L 9–10 960L–1115L 1080L–1305L 11–CCR 1070L–1220L 1215L–1355L

18 Measure your Students College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA) Measures - critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication ($40 per student with minimum of 100 tested) National Student Clearinghouse $450 per report, start with last five Connect your graduates to postsecondary accomplishments, not based on students surveys.

19 References 21 st Century Skills Rethinking how students learn, James Bellanca & Ron Brandt editors Alliance for Excellent Education. (2006). Paying Double: Inadequate High Schools and Community College Remediation. Washington, DC: Author. The Reading-Writing Connection by Malbert Smith, III, Ph.D., President, MetaMetrics, ACT. (2009). ACT National Curriculum Survey® Iowa City, IA: Author. Bridging the Readiness Gap: Demystifying Required Reading Levels for Postsecondary Pursuits by Malbert Smith III, Ph.D., President, MetaMetrics, October 2010 Tony Wagner, (2010) The Global Achievement Gap, CELL Conference Hirschman A. O. (1970) Exit, voice and loyalty: responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press Mr. Edward Schoenfelt, Executive Director, LASS, Inc. Lake, Porter, and LaPorte Counties of North Indiana