1. Kansas Leads the World in the Success of Each Student.

13. Kansas Education Systems Accreditation (KESA)
Systems Approach vs. Buildings
Outside Validation Team vs. Assurances
Stakeholder Participation
5-Year Cycle vs. Annual
5 R’s Framework vs. Quality Criteria
Process with Multiple Results vs. AYP Target

14. KESA Must: Help the Board move its vision forward.
Support school districts where they are.
Be rigorous enough to challenge everyone’s thinking.
Be unique enough to meet the various needs of our districts (size, demographics).
Much like the Board’s vision, needs to be flexible.

15. Balanced Assessment System
Formative Tools
Based on learning maps
Provide additional information on identified weakness on exact misconception or lack of knowledge
Includes instructional resources to build student learning
Interim Assessment
Optional
Teacher choice
Diagnostic information
Tracks growth
Predicts summative
Items look like summative
Summative Assessment
End of year
Used as a snapshot
ESSA eliminated punitive consequences
Information & transparency
All based on Kansas Standards and Kansas Goals for Students

16. Shrinking the Assessment Summative Footprint
For purposes of estimating assessment time, the Kansas State Department of Education calculates one session as 45 to 60 minutes.
Source: Assessment Fact Sheet, July 2016, KSDE

17. College and Career Competencies
Gaumer Erickson, A.S., Soukup, J.H., & Noonan, P. (2013). College & Career Competency Wheel. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning. Derived in part from Pellegrino, J.W., & Hilton, M.L. (Eds.). (2012). Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

18. Helping students become socially engaged, career equipped, lifelong learners
Gaumer Erickson, A.S. & Noonan, P.M. (2012). College and Career Competencies Framework. Lawrence KS: University of Kansas, Center for Research on Learning
Mission is focused on supporting educators do what they do better so that students can be become socially engaged, career equipped, lifelong learners

19. No Project or Initiative will ever lead to Student Success if it is not implemented with a Passionate Group of People.

20. Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas
Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas. Kansans Can achieve anything and, together, Kansans Can lead the world in the success of each student.