1. Prepared Especially for the Secondary Professional Learning Community of MIDDLESEX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS by Dan Mulligan, Ed. D. January 2010

2. MOVING from ETCH-a SKETCH Learning To Each STUDENT UNDERSTANDING

5. Content-Related Evidence of Validity (Intended Curriculum) Essential Skills Essential Knowledge Essential Vocabulary Learning TARGET (content validity)

6. Health SOL Essential Knowledge What are some physical environmental influences on your personal health? Essential Vocabulary What does environment mean? Essential Skills Determine how noise pollution affects your personal health?

10. Stacking Cups Supplies Please send a team member to obtain the supplies for your team.

12. Self-Assessment Tool

13. My only skill is taking tests. Moving BEYOND “the correct answer”

15. The value of teacher teams analyzing student achievement data to improve TEACHING and LEARNING is dependent on the VALIDITY and RELIABILITY of the assessment used to generate the achievement data. Mulligan, 2006

17. http://epals.com

18. http://visualblooms.wikispaces.com

20. “ If you don’t know where you are and you don’t know where you are going, anything you do will get you there”

22. Record your responses on the last page…

24. Middlesex County – On-time Graduation Rate - Class of 2009 Subgroup # in Cohort Adv. Dip. Stand. Dip. Mod. St. Dip. Spec. Dip. On-Time Rate GED Cohort Completion Rate Dropout Rate All 133 40 64 < < 85.0 < 88.7 9.0 Female 74 28 35 < < 90.5 < 93.2 5.4 Male 59 12 29 < < 78.0 < 83.1 13.6 Black 32 < 16 < < 87.5 0 87.5 12.5 White 100 32 47 < < 84.0 < 89.0 8.0 Disabled 24 < 10 < < 83.3 0 87.5 12.5 Poverty 56 < 31 < < 80.4 < 83.9 12.5

25. SOL Reading Results – Middlesex County White Black All SWD Does the system perform?

26. SOL Math Results – Middlesex County White Black All SWD Does the system perform?

27. SOL Science Results – Middlesex County White Black All SWD Does the system perform?

28. SOL History Results – Middlesex County White Black All SWD Does the system perform?

29. SOL Writing Results – Middlesex County White Black All SWD Does the system perform?

36. Research on Imagery as Elaboration Students who used imagery to learn vocabulary, on average, performed # of studies 6 37 percentile pts. higher than… … students who kept repeating definitions. 4 21 percentile pts. higher than… … students who were using the terms in a sentence.

39. http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

40. 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 100 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Principal Organizing Theme: Things someone would say… Student Teacher Superintendent Parent Cafeteria Worker Triangle Trivia EDUCATIONAL STAKEHOLDER EDITION

41. 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 100 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS FINE ARTS ILLUSION ARCHITECTURE VISUAL COMPOSER MELODY RHYTHM

42. 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 100 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Health/PE Wellness Equipment Body Mass Nutrition Endurance Movement

43. 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 100 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS YOUR TURN!!! page 28

48. High-Yield Instructional Strategies

49. Self-Assessment Tool

53. High-Yield Instructional Strategies

54. BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY Higher-order thinking Creating Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing. Evaluating Justifying a decision or course of action Checking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging Analyzing Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships Comparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating, finding Applying Using information in another familiar situation Implementing, carrying out, using, executing Understanding Explaining ideas or concepts Interpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining Remembering Recalling information Recognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding page 8 & 9

61. Table of Content Samples

67. 2008-09 RLR6 RLR7 RLR8 RLR11 MTH6 MTH7 MTH8 Alg1 Geo Alg2 Writ.8 Writ.11 All Advanced 46 49 42 36 59 12 44 18 14 31 0 24 Proficient 46 41 53 59 37 60 42 73 72 67 88 66 Fail 7 11 5 5 4 28 13 9 13 2 13 9 Female Advanced 43 51 36 37 55 15 49 15 12 31 0 33 Proficient 53 44 57 57 43 52 45 81 68 66 88 60 Fail 4 5 6 6 2 33 6 4 21 3 13 7 Male Advanced 50 44 48 36 64 9 40 21 17 32 0 18 Proficient 39 38 48 60 30 67 40 65 77 68 88 71 Fail 11 18 4 3 7 24 21 14 6 0 13 11 Black Advanced 41 47 15 19 50 25 29 6 3 30 0 22 Proficient 45 47 77 67 43 25 50 78 71 70 83 48 Fail 14 7 8 15 7 50 21 16 26 0 17 30 White Advanced 51 48 45 42 63 9 47 22 19 33 0 25 Proficient 44 40 49 57 34 67 40 71 72 65 87 72 Fail 5 13 5 1 3 24 13 7 9 3 13 4 Disabled Advanced 10 - 6 16 - 0 0 0 0 - 0 12 Proficient 40 - 71 68 - 50 53 73 63 - 44 59 Fail 50 - 24 16 - 50 47 27 37 - 56 29 Poverty Advanced 40 44 35 21 51 22 48 10 8 - 0 7 Proficient 51 53 61 69 44 56 45 72 73 - 88 70 Fail 9 3 6 10 5 22 6 17 19 - 12 23

68. 2008-09 Sci8 Bio. Chem. Ea. Sc. USI USII CE VA/US WH1 WH2 All Advanced 43 14 8 38 26 75 57 30 54 57 Proficient 55 79 89 53 53 23 39 62 42 42 Fail 2 7 3 9 21 1 3 8 4 1 Female Advanced 35 11 4 31 16 74 55 21 58 51 Proficient 63 80 91 60 56 23 43 67 42 46 Fail 2 9 4 8 26 3 2 13 0 3 Male Advanced 50 17 13 43 36 76 60 39 51 62 Proficient 48 77 87 47 49 24 36 58 42 38 Fail 2 6 0 10 15 0 4 4 7 0 Black Advanced 25 3 - 9 24 73 33 23 29 27 Proficient 75 84 - 79 48 27 50 62 68 73 Fail 0 13 - 12 26 0 17 15 3 0 White Advanced 44 19 10 51 25 77 59 32 65 63 Proficient 53 76 87 40 56 22 40 63 30 35 Fail 3 5 3 9 19 2 1 5 5 2 Disabled Advanced 13 - - 0 - - 25 0 25 - Proficient 75 - - 69 - - 69 80 58 - Fail 13 - - 31 - - 6 20 17 - Poverty Advanced 34 7 - 26 17 73 59 31 42 43 Proficient 63 83 - 61 51 27 38 62 55 57 Fail 3 10 - 13 32 0 3 8 3 0

69. BRAIN BREAK Select Team Leaders

71. DO OR