1. Network 536 Principal’s Institute MOSL Overview August 28, 2013
Agenda
MOSL/ADVANCE Deadlines and Overview
Baseline assessments and Growth Measures
MOSL Quiz
NYC Performance Assessments -Overview
NYC Performance Assessments – Tools for Norming with Staff.
Talk about shifts from content knowledge to content literacy…it is more holistic and less about skills in isolation as we move towards college and career readiness
CFN 536 – Gerard Beirne, Network Leader
Center for Education Innovation – Public Education Association
Facilitators: Antonio Arocho and Niobe Hayes

2. Fall Timeline See: ADVANCE TOOLS and TIMELINES
August
September
October
November
MOSL Menu Interactive Tool released.
Advance Web Application 1.0 released.
Sample NYC Performance Assessments available.
Continued MOSL training webinars and resources.
Committees recommend Local Measure. Principal approves (or chooses default). (9/9)
Principals select State Measure (where the option exists).
Teachers administer and score baseline assessments.
Schools submit baseline assessment data (optional–for inclusion in DOE targets).(10/31) (deadline is 10/4 for inclusion in DOE targets)
DOE targets for individual student goal-setting released (goal- setting only).(11/15)
Goals finalized (goal-setting only).
We can add specific date to this slide as they are released
- Review fall timeline. All of these items will be discussed throughout the day and more specific details and dates provided.
See: ADVANCE TOOLS and TIMELINES

3. MOSL Scoring Requirements
Scoring Assessments
MOSL Scoring Requirements
In accordance with state teacher evaluation law, teachers may not score their own end-of-year assessments.
Schools may opt to either:
Have another teacher in the school score both baseline and end-of-year assessments for consistency.
Have the classroom teacher score the baseline and another teacher in the school score the end-of-year assessment.
2 min
- Discuss scoring requirements. Be sure to note that this will require some work from schools in terms of thinking of new scoring protocols for assessments that are scored by teachers.

4. Who is eligible? Look at page 5 of your FAQ
Take out your MOSL guide and your MOSL FAQ
Note that teachers who teach less than 40% are rated S or U—but still subject to Danielson rubric
Look at page 5 of your FAQ

5. Baseline Assessments
Where choices exist, schools may opt to use a DOE-recommended baseline assessment or a school-selected baseline.
Remember:
Baselines only need to be selected for a few state assessments and AP exams.* All other 3rd party and Performance Assessments come with baseline assessments.
Where baselines must be selected, the PRINCIPAL chooses.
If the selected baseline is not on the DOE list, schools must use goal-setting. DOE targets provided to those schools will not include results from the baseline.
3 min
Review information about baselines
Draw attention to the fact that only principals can select baselines (there are very few instances where a committee would have to select a baseline, but where this comes up, principal needs to select – ex. If using 4th grade Science Assessment for Local but not State, or AP exams in HS)
Draw attention to the fact that goal-setting MUST be the growth measurement if baseline is school selected.
* Principals also have the option of selecting an alternative baseline assessment for Discovery Math in K only.

6. When does a principal need to choose a baseline?
The following assessments have required baselines:
Assessment
Baseline
All NYC Performance Assessments
NYC Performance Assessment (fall administration)
Performance Series
(fall administration)
State Assessments: grades 4-8 ELA and Math
ELA/Math Assessment (prior year)
Discovery Math 1st and 2nd Grade
Discovery Math (fall administration)
Look at page 9 of your FAQ

7. When does a principal need to choose a baseline?
Assessment
Baseline Choices
Discovery Math: Kindergarten (in K-2 schools only)
Discovery math (fall administration)
School-selected baseline
Advanced Placement (AP) Exams
PSAT(state assessment 8th grade if not available)
School-selected baseline (should be selected by schools if they want to use goal setting, since PSAT fall administration results will not be available until November 15 goal-setting deadline)
State Assessments: 3rd Grade ELA and Math
NYC 3rd Grade ELA/Math Performance Assessment (fall administration)
State Assessments: 4th Grade Science
NYC 4th Grade Science performance Assessment (fall administration)
State assessments: 3rd Grade Math (prior year)
State Assessments: 8th Grade science
NYC 8th Grade Science Performance Assessment (fall administration)
State Assessments: 7th grade Math (prior year)
State Regent Exams
PSAT (State Assessment:8th Grade if PSAT not available. State Assessment: 7th Grade if Regents administered in 8th Grade.)
NYSESLAT
NYSESLAT (prior year) (Lab-R if prior year NYSESLAT not available)
NYSAA
NYSAA prior year and SANDI if prior year NYSAA not available.

8. Review: Growth Measurement Options
After choosing assessments and target populations, committees must select one of two growth measurements for each assessment.
Growth Models: DOE calculates student targets, results, and teacher scores. Results are shared after assessments have been administered so student growth can be compared to similar students’ performance on assessments.
Goal-Setting: DOE provides targets for how students will perform on assessments that principals and teachers can adjust based on their knowledge of students. Principals approve targets.
2 min

9. Content Review: Growth Models9
Content Review: Growth Models
Growth models allow us to compare the progress that students make in a year to similar students.
In the State Growth Model, similar students are defined by four student- level characteristics at the student and classroom levels:
Academic history
Economic disadvantage
Disability status
Language learner status
Citywide models account for similar characteristics to the State model.
Growth models control for the degree to which students are expected to make gains given their achievement history and demographic characteristics.
3 minutes

10. Content Review: Growth Models
Does not introduce additional work in schools.
Enables schools to compare their students’ performance to similar students.
Gives teachers credit for the degree to which students exceed predicted growth.
Better able to account for unexpected outcomes resulting from unfamiliar, new assessments.
Growth model score results are not available until after assessments have been administered (i.e., the following spring/summer).
Benefits
Challenges
5 minutes

11. Goal-Setting Administer baseline assessment
DOE sends predicted student targets
Teachers review DOE- predicted targets
Principals approve or adjust targets
Administer end of year assessment
Teachers’ Ratings
Baseline assessment administered (not required for all assessments).
Report baseline assessment results.
DOE sends predictions for how individual students will perform.
Predictions are based on baseline performance, student achievement history, and student demographic characteristics.
Teachers may choose to adjust these targets based on additional information about their students.
Teachers submit student targets to principal.
Principal (or designee) reports finalized student targets.
10 minutes
End-of-year assessment administered to students.
Teachers’ HEDI ratings are calculated with a conversion chart based on students’ performance on outcome assessments relative to their targets.

12. Goal-Setting Benefits Challenges
Particularly valuable for teachers/schools with unique student populations or high mobility.
Allows teachers and principals to individually tailor student goals.
Requires additional time/resources.
Teacher’s rating is based on the percentage of students who meet their target, but does not consider the degree to which students fall below or exceed their target.
Targets must be set early in the school year, possibly before much diagnostic info is gathered
Setting goals may be challenging if:
Teachers are not familiar with the comparability between assessments
Assessments are new or changing
Benefits
Challenges
5 minutes

13. Goal-Setting Considerations
This is not the same as the goal-setting you may typically see in schools.
Goals are scored against a state conversion chart which makes the target-setting process difficult and non-intuitive.
Before considering goal-setting, make sure you understand the work and additional training this entails.

14. Goal-Setting: Fall Implementation Steps
By 9/9
School Local Measure Committees recommend whether or not to use goal-setting for Local Measure.
Principals decide the same for State Measure (where the option exists).
September
Schools who choose goal-setting norm on expectations across classrooms.
Schools administer baseline assessments.
9/24 – DOE target reference tables and goal-setting worksheets released on Intranet.
October
By 10/4 – Schools submit results of baseline assessments if they want data included in DOE-suggested targets (otherwise submit by 10/31).
By 10/15 – Principals submit grade/school level goals to superintendent for review.
Teachers start process of goal-setting using baseline data and reference tables.
November
11/1 – Schools can access goal-setting worksheets which include baseline results and DOE-suggested targets.
11/15 – Principals finalize teacher-set goals. Superintendents finalize school/grade goals.
3 min
Remind participants that apart from these dates, should consider additional time needed to norm on target setting, gather background data for adjusting goals, printing forms, completing targets, approving targets, etc.

15. Goal-Setting – Who Sets Goals?
Teachers set goals for students in their classroom (target population: individual), but when goals go beyond an individual teacher’s students (target population: grade or school), the principal sets the goal and the superintendent approves.
Target Population
Teachers
Principals
Super.
Individual Level
By student; or
By subgroups of students; or
Whole class goal
Set
Approve*
Grade Level
Whole grade goal
Approve
School Level
Whole school goal
2 minutes
- Several goal types by target population, will go into detail in a minute. Most important thing here is the set vs. approve for different target populations. For an “individual” target population teacher sets, discusses and adjusts with principal, principal approves. However, and this is new information, for school and grade target populations, the principal sets the goals and the superintendent approves.
* If a teacher fails to submit goals, the principal will set the goals for that teacher. The principal should not simply “approve,” but rather work with the teacher on adjusting targets as necessary.

16. (First principal finished will receive a prize!!)
MOSL QUiz
Please use your MOSL FAQ Document to complete the MOSL quiz (orange paper)
(First principal finished will receive a prize!!)

17. Performance Assessments – Overview
NYC Performance Assessments are available in multiple K-12 subjects, some as optional, others as required. These include baseline and end-of-year assessments (no additional selections for baseline needed).
If the principal and/or committee chooses the default option, the mandated NYC Performance Assessments in grades 4-8 ELA for the Local Measure do not need to be administered as all teachers in the school will use the default measure.
There are Performance Assessments required in some grades/subjects for the State Measure. Those assessments are not affected by the selection of the default option for the Local Measure.
In most grades/subjects with Performance Assessments, there is one type of assessment. However, in K-8 ELA, committees have two options within the Performance Assessment category:
Running Records NYC Performance Assessment (using one of three reading programs) (TC, DRA, F&P)
Writing-based NYC Performance Assessment
3 min
Review all points on slide
Focus on the optional vs. mandatory nature of performance assessments and how choosing the default option gets rid of the 4-8 ELA Local Measure requirement (but not in other places where performance assessment mandated for State Requirement)
Focus on the fact that there are two options for the K-8 ELA performance assessments – will review both today

18. Performance Assessments: NYC Performance Assessments
Considerations:
Review of where they exist on assessment list
ELA (writing-based): K-12
Math: Grade 3, Integrated Algebra
Social Studies: 6-8, Global History, U.S. History
Science: 4, 6-8, Living Environment
In K-8 ELA, also have choice of Running Records.
All NYC Performance Assessments (except ELA) translated into 9 languages.
Require norming on rubrics at the school level.
Samples available for download (final versions by 9/9).
2 min
- These were all on the old assessment list except 8th grade science, which was added in the new version
- Need to remind people on this slide that we are now talking about the “other” type of performance assessment – this type exists across several grades and subjects, whereas the running records are just specific to ELA K-8

19. Performance Assessments: Implementation Steps
By 9/9
Final performance assessments released online
School Local Measure Committees recommend whether or not to administer Performance Assessments where optional. Principal approves or chooses default.
For ELA K-8, principals and committees decide between Running Records and a writing-based performance assessment.
Principals plan necessary teacher support around administration and scoring.
September
Schools develop scoring protocols.
Schools norm teachers on Performance Assessment rubrics to ensure a shared understanding of demands of the rubric and scoring across student work.
Teachers administer Performance Assessments.
October
Schools score and scan Performance Assessments. Must submit scores by 10/4 for inclusion in DOE targets (otherwise by 10/31).
2 min
- Review points on slide. Timeline isn’t different for performance assessments, but does include some additional work in terms of norming in September.

20. Deep Dive: NYC Performance Assessments Activity #1 – Task Design Investigation
Objective
Participants will be able to interpret a sample NYC Performance Assessment by analyzing the requirements for students and predicting students’ strengths and struggles.
Activity
Preview the sample NYC Performance Assessment and consider the four key questions on the handout. Use the chart to take notes while you’re reviewing the task and texts. Share your reflections with your table.
15-20 min. (More importantly, Activity #1 + Activity #2 should take an hour total)
-Distribute / Identify materials for participants:
Sample Task
Rubric
Handout 1
- Introduce the Task Design Activity  ex: We’re going to take a few minutes to review a sample NYC Performance Assessment. As you’re reviewing the task, we’d like to pay attention to two key questions. First, what will students need to know in order to complete the assessment? Second, what will they have to do? After considering those two questions, imagine how students in your schools will approach this task? What will show off their strengths? What will they struggle with?
- Ask participants to take 5-7 minutes reviewing the task and texts and taking notes on the Handout 1 chart.
- Invite participants to share their responses for 5-7 minutes in pairs or aloud to the whole group.
- Wrap up the conversation and smoothly transition into Norming and Scoring.

21. Deep Dive: NYC Performance Assessments Activity #1 – Task Design
This slide is for illustrative purposes only – handout is provided, but may use when introducing activity to let participants know what handout they should be looking at.

22. Deep Dive: NYC Performance Assessments Activity #2 – Norming & Scoring
Objective
Participants will be able to apply the rubric as an evaluative tool for scoring student writing and establish a shared understanding of the expectations of the NYC Performance Assessments.
Activity
Individually read and score Sample 1 according to the rubric. For this experience, you are only asked to grade the rubric dimension of “Focus: Position”, and then discuss your findings with your table. Refer to evidence in the sample of student work and the rubric to justify your choices and seek consensus. Repeat the process for Sample 2 (time permitting).
40-45 minutes (More importantly, Activity #1 + Activity #2 should take an hour total).
-Distribute / Identify materials for participants:
Sample Student Work
Rubric
Handout 2
- Introduce the Norming and Scoring Activity  ex: School teams will be responsible for norming their scoring practices by using the rubric. It is important that all scorers are calibrated to the rubric to ensure fair grading practice across students, teacher and schools. We’re going to have an abbreviated norming session to experience a bit of what schools will be doing in the fall.
- Distribute Sample 1 to the participants. Ask participants to read the student sample carefully alongside the rubric and then to score the sample based on their interpretation of the rubric. The student sample should receive a unique score for each trait/dimension of the rubric (rather than a single, holistic score).
- After scoring the sample individually, ask participants to share their scores and to the whole group, or in pairs/trios. Using the chart as a guide, ask participants to share out and justify their scores using evidence from the rubric and the student work sample. Guide the conversation towards consensus for each score. Refer to the anchor paper commentary to negotiate any disagreements.
- After norming Sample 1, repeat the process for sample 2.
- Time permitting, consider the following discussion questions:
How did your scoring change between Sample 1 and Sample 2?
How is the rubric similar or different than others you/your schools have used?
What are some of the implications on the scoring processes for schools, given the ultimate restrictions on teachers’ scoring their own students?
- Close the conversation on Norming practices after 45 minutes. If the table is behind schedule, sample 2 can be cut short.
- Transition into the next activity by asking participants to select one sample that they’d like to investigate in more depth.

23. Deep Dive: NYC Performance Assessments Activity #2 – Norming & Scoring
12th Grade ELA Sample A
12th Grade ELA Sample B
Rubric Dimensions
My Score
Normed Score
Evidence from the Text
Focus:
Position
Development: Elaboration
Development: Textual Analysis
Development: Counterclaims
Reading
Organization
Conventions
This slide is for illustrative purposes only – handout is provided, but may use when introducing activity to let participants know what handout they should be looking at.

24. Deep Dive: NYC Performance Assessments Activity #3 – Planning For Instruction
Objective
Participants will be able to analyze a sample of student work within a specific element of the rubric to consider the implications of assessment practices on instruction and the development of student skills.
Activity
Choose one dimension/trait (in this case, we will choose “Focus: Position”) from the rubric to analyze in-depth. List the rubric dimension and key characteristics of the rubric, then use this as a lens to reread and analyze the sample. With this new lens, consider the student’s strengths and struggles as well as strategies that might support the student’s growth.
By analyzing student work samples with the lens of the rubric, teachers will be able to identify strengths and struggles in student performance that inform their instruction throughout the year and support student growth.
- Ask participants to select one sample of student work they’d like to examine in more depth. Then, ask participants to select a single dimension/trait from the rubric to use as a focus. Using the chart as a guide, ask participants to write down the key points or essential attributes of the rubric dimension they selected.
- After selecting the sample and the trait, ask participants to re-read the sample of student work, looking only for evidence of their selected trait (ignoring all others). They should take notes on their findings including identifying students strengths, struggles and potential strategies for supporting the student.
- Ask participants to debrief their findings—sharing their ideas with others who analyzed the same student sample.
- As participants complete the analysis, invite them to review other potential tasks and discuss the range of tasks available to schools.

25. Deep Dive: NYC Performance Assessments Activity #3 – Planning for Instruction
This slide is for illustrative purposes only – handout is provided, but may use when introducing activity to let participants know what handout they should be looking at.

26. Deep Dive: NYC Performance Assessments Activity #4 – Implications
Objective
Participants will reflect on the cycle of assessment and identify the implications of this assessment option for a variety of stakeholders. They will then plan next steps.
Activity
As you review additional sample tasks, consider the implications of the NYC Performance Assessments on various stakeholders. As a result of today’s activities, what are the next steps? What questions, comments, or considerations are you contemplating?
15 min.
- Distribute / Identify materials for participants:
Additional Tasks for Review
Handout 4
- Transition from analyzing student work into reviewing additional tasks. Participants may want to consider the following questions:
How are these tasks sequenced?
How do expectations change from year to year?
How do the tasks address the standards?
How accessible are the tasks to students at each grade range?
Ask participants to consider the implications of their experience with the Performance Assessments on the various stakeholders. What are the next steps for each group? Encourage participants to discuss with one another at their tables as they debrief the activities.
To close the conversation – ask participants to share with the table one item on their “To Do” list as a result of the day’s activities.

27. Consider the implications of the nyc Performance Assessments on various stake-holders. As a result of today’s activities, what are the next steps? What questions, comments or considerations are you contemplating?

28. Please include your name on any index card questions so that we may respond via if we do not respond today