Linking Teacher Practice Directly to Student Acheivement :

Description: Not High Stakes. Not Annual. Not even quarterly. Learning is NOT determined by the annual alignment of curriculum--or test scores. One of the most powerful factors in student learning is feedback. Research studies report between 21% and 41% impact on student achievement outcomes-- when used with certain criteria. The questions are: What feedback? How soon? How much? In what format? Data that is diagnostically useful to educators (and to students for feedback purposes) must be available now - about the skill or objective of focus for today's instruction. This workshop demonstrates how two schools have used a new method to dissect curricular standards/objectives, convert them into simple 3-5" classroom assessments, and generate representations of student and class achievement levels within minutes.

Learning Outcomes ~ Participants will:

• View student learning objectives
• See the data organization
• See the immediate charts and graphs of student achievement levels

Effects on Student Learning:

• Students, when provided feedback soon after a lesson and practice, understand their successes and challenges in a more discrete, useful way.o Teachers, when able to clearly identify student learning needs TODAY, can plan TOMORROW's lesson in a more focused manner, specifically addressing demonstrated student need--by class, by group, or by individual.
• myScholaris Software for managing the cycle of teaching and learning.
• myScholaris.com is a web-based program that provides an efficient way to effectively monitor student progress on targeted objectives and requisite skills for success. It provides immediate feedback to building leaders, teachers or students-as desired by the user.
• This system simplifies the process of making informed decisions regarding student capacities and potential "real time" adjustments for reemphasis or review. It also allows teachers and school leaders to pinpoint opportunities to adjust practices based on individual student, small group and whole class successes.
• The process, documented by the software system, can be orchestrated at different levels and on adjustable time-lines.

Levels Time-line Interval Uses: District - Annually; Building - Quarterly; Department - Monthly; Grade - Weekly; Team/Academy - Daily; Small Group - As Needed; Program; Individual