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Select a priority standard that will be the foundation of your team’s inquiry work
Select a priority standard that will be the foundation of your team’s inquiry work
Select a Priority Standard
Select a Priority Standard
Objective: Select a priority standard that will be the foundation of your team’s inquiry work
Purpose: To prioritize certain standards without eliminating any of them. Prioritizing the standards does not mean "lowering the bar," but instead provides focus. The difference is in the degree of focus given to certain standards over others.
Recommended time: 20-30 minutes
Preparation: Teachers must come to the meeting with some working knowledge of their grade level standards and how they progress through the year. Chart paper, sticky notes for the
Build shared understanding of required knowledge, skills, and understandings by unpacking standards
Build shared understanding of required knowledge, skills, and understandings by unpacking standards
Unpack Standards
Unpack Standards
Objective: Build shared understanding of required knowledge, skills, and understandings by unpacking standards
Purpose: Here teams will build their shared understanding of a standard that will serve as the foundation of their inquiry work. By getting clear as a team on the knowledge, skills, and understandings that a standard requires, the team will be better prepared to name a targeted Learner Centered Problem. This objective and protocol serves as a prerequisite for the Practice and Analyze Sample Test Items Protocol.
Recommended time: 20-30 minutes
Preparation: Have blank copies available of the unpacking standards template for the team to use during the meeting. Consider if you would like the team to unpack the standard as pre-work for the meeting. It can be very beneficial for the facilitator to unpack the standard before the team meeting on their own to highlight potential tensions or disagreements that might arise.
Gain familiarity with how knowledge, skills, and understandings are tested by analyzing test items that address these standards
Gain familiarity with how knowledge, skills, and understandings are tested by analyzing test items that address these standards
Practice and Analyze Sample Test Items
Practice and Analyze Sample Test Items
Objective: Gain familiarity with how knowledge, skills, and understandings are tested by analyzing test items that address these standards
Purpose: Building off of the Unpack Standards Protocol, teams analyze sample test items for a particular standard to further understand how the knowledge, skills, and understandings of a standard are assessed. This will provide valuable insights and will further prepare the team to name a targeted Learner Centered Problem rooted in standards and guided by data from assessments.
Recommended time: 15-25 minutes
Preparation: Unpacking a standard is a prerequisite to this objective and protocol. Sample test items aligned to your chosen standard can be found on Illuminate (create an assessment and find items tagged to a particular standard) or using the MCAS Question Search. Provide copies of the sample test items the team will analyze. The team can complete the sample test items before the meeting as pre-work. It can be very beneficial for the facilitator to engage with the sample test items before the meeting to highlight potential misconceptions and alignment to the standard.
Build collective capacity to apply principles of responsible data use when studying how assessment results are reported
Build collective capacity to apply principles of responsible data use when studying how assessment results are reported
Build Assessment Literacy: Practice Scenarios
Build Assessment Literacy: Practice Scenarios
Objective: Build collective capacity to apply principles of responsible data use when studying how assessment results are reported
Purpose: This protocol helps teams collectively improve capacity to analyze assessment results by building shared understanding of key assessment literacy principles. Developing this capacity is an ongoing piece of inquiry work and directly supports your team in making data-driven decisions.
Recommended time: 40-50 minutes
Preparation: All team members should read Tips for Using Data Responsibly before the meeting, so be sure to communicate that pre-work with ample time to complete it. Additionally, preview the scenarios so that you’re not reading them for the first time in the meeting, and anticipate and clarifying questions your team might have.
Build Assessment Literacy: Apply Key Concepts
Build Assessment Literacy: Apply Key Concepts
Objective: Build collective capacity to apply principles of responsible data use when studying how assessment results are reported
Purpose: This protocol helps teams collectively improve capacity to analyze assessment results by building shared understanding of key assessment literacy principles. Developing this capacity is an ongoing piece of inquiry work and directly supports your team in making data-driven decisions.
Recommended time: 35-45 minutes
Preparation: Read Data Wise pg. 37-42, and the key concepts handout so you fully understand the materials your team will engage with. If a jigsaw does not work for your team given its size, determine how your team will read and process the text excerpt (for example, consider asking your team to read the text for pre-work so you can spend your meeting time building shared understanding using the handout).
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