KSDE Update
QPA Advisory April, 2008
5 Steps to the Future
MTSS
Careers Academics
Teaching in Kansas
Standards for 21st Century Schools
Integrating Accountability
Additional Changes
Kansas State Course Codes
Growth Model Assessments
Literacy & Numeracy
Electronic File Sharing
School Dashboards
Assessment Re-design
KSBE Goal/Objectives:
Helping all students meet or exceed academic
standards
Designing/Redesigning the educational system
to meet our students’ changing needs
Providing effective teachers in every classroom
Providing visionary leaders
Improving communication with all groups
Teaching in Kansas
Regulations and Initiatives
KS Data Says…
42% of our teachers leave the field after seven years
36% of our teachers can retire within the next 5
years
25% fewer students are going into teaching over the
past six years
86% decrease in KS teacher biology licenses in 6
years
50% decrease in chemistry licenses
67% decrease in physics licenses
Why Do Teachers Leave?
Isolation from colleagues
Too many regulations
Assignments outside their area of
training Lack of mentoring or induction
programs
Lack of appreciation or respect
Class size
Feeling discouraged
Not enough support from
Feeling frustrated administration
Feeling left out of the decision- Undisciplined, poorly motivated
making students
Poor school management Uninvolved parents
Lack of classroom resources Unreasonable expectations
specifically
Lack of resources
What We Do Know…
Support: personal, problem-focused, critical reflection on
teaching practice
Professional development: rigorous, ongoing, job-embedded,
deepening content knowledge, instructional strategies, time,
mentoring
Instruction & assessment: comprehensive plan, sound design,
evidence-based practice, analysis
Teacher leaders: intervene early, aligned curriculum, progress
monitoring, parent partnerships
Advocate: teachers make a difference
Promising Practices
Preparation
Salaries
Benefits
Working conditions
Licensure
Mentoring
Peer assistance
Recruitment
Retention
New regulation changes effective
August 10, 2007
Removal of GPA for conditional teaching license
Restricted school specialist
Recognition of experienced OoS school
counselors without teaching background
Provisional license options expanded
One year nonrenewable without existing offer of
employment
TKC Target Areas
Working conditions
Teacher Preparation
Salary and Benefits
Image and Promotion
Regulations/Requirements/Data
Short Term Goals
Working conditions
Protect individual teacher instructional planning
time
Require additional support and development for
administrative leadership
Provide equitable access to 21st century
instructional technology resources
To enhance curriculum delivery and student
learning
To enable teachers to make data driven
decisions
Short Term Goals
Teacher Preparation
Develop standards for application of 21st
century technology to enhance
instruction/student achievement
Include awareness of Federal and state
laws/regulations (NCLB/QPA/IDEA)
Short Term Goals
Teacher Preparation
Ensure that every teacher is prepared to
gather, interpret and respond to data in
order to improve student achievement
Develop guidelines and create equitable
funding for compensation to student
teachers (and university supervision)
Short Term Goals
Teacher Preparation
Develop national standards based
Professional Development Schools PDS
(P-12)
Promote Mid Career Access to the
teaching profession
Create additional scholarships
Teach Grants
Higher Education Act
KBOR
Short Term Goals
Image & Promotion
Create a statewide marketing campaign
to promote:
the value of public education in a civic
society
teaching as a profession
options that exist for teacher preparation
Mid Career Access to teaching
Short Term Goals
Image & Promotion
Encourage districts to create “Grow Your
Own” teacher programs
USD/IHE scholarship partnerships
Funding resources/business partnerships
Future Teacher Organizations
Celebrate successes of Kansas public
education
Short Term Goals
Regulations/Requirements/Data
Encourage the Kansas Board of Regents
(KBOR) to review, revise and/or create
regulations:
transfer rule (9 hour limit)
community college partnerships with IHE’s,
geographic jurisdiction,
Short Term Goals
Regulations/Requirements/Data
Require KSDE to publish an annual
summary of KS educational statistics
related to recruitment and retention of
teachers
Encourage legislative action to continue
to set funding levels at least one year in
advance for districts
Intermediate Goals
Working Conditions
Create and systematically implement
state wide standards based Induction
and Mentoring Programs
Offer intentional, strategic, purposeful
professional development
Intermediate Goals
Working Conditions
Implement career ladder opportunities
Create flexible opportunities for full year
/extended contracts
Incentivize Business partnerships for
educational benefit
Intermediate Goals
Teacher Preparation
KSDE Standards Review/Revision
Funding resources for IHE’s to
develop/implement programs
Require similar quality of preparation
across institutions (Consistency of
preparation across institutions)
Intermediate Goals
Salary & Benefits
Develop salary continua that recognizes:
Pre-service educator
Initial
Professional
Accomplished
Intermediate Goals
Salary & Benefits
Redesign the current retirement system:
to provide flexibility and options for
recruiting and remaining in the teaching
profession (remain in district)
Improve level of compensation
Improve cost of living adjustments
Reduce vesting
Intermediate Goals
Salary & Benefits
Create funding to provide improved
benefits;
affordable full family health care,
loan forgiveness
district payment of transferable retirement
benefits
accessibility to state or pool benefits
Long Term Goals
Teacher Preparation
Develop business partnerships to
promote students to enter the teaching
profession
Tax incentives for business partners
Long Term Goals
Regulations/Requirements/Data
Seek an earlier date (April 1) for
continuing contract notifications
Incentivize early notification by teachers
Review, clarify and communicate KSDE
licensing regulations
Structured
for
Professional
Growth
Strategic Progression
Move KPA Highly effective Highly effective Protect Individual
instruction instruction Plan Time
Compensation
for ST Systematic Protect Individual Peer Coaches
Induction & Plan Time
Create additional Mentoring National Board
scholarships programs Extended contract Certified
opportunities
Expand loan Protect Individual Flexible Scheduling
forgiveness Plan Time Teacher Leader
Teacher Leader
Develop & Tuition forgiveness Create funding to
provide improved Community /
Promote “Grow- & assistance school leadership
your-own” benefits
programs Extended contract Paid sabbaticals
opportunities Require additional
Prepared to support and Create funding to
improve student Develop Business development for provide improved
achievement Partnerships administrative benefits
leadership
Require additional
support and Improve Extended contract
development for compensation opportunities
administrative
leadership Renew with KPA Successfully
complete with KPA
Improve
compensation
21 st Century Education
Promoting Integration and Re-design
Guiding Principles
1. Establish high expectations and provide students with frequent
feedback.
2. Require each student to complete an integrated academic core
and a CTE concentration of study.
3. Provide students access to a structured system of work-based
and high-status school-based learning resulting in an industry-
recognized credential and employment in a career pathway.
4. Provide the essential concepts of the college-preparatory
curriculum and motivate students by encouraging them to apply
academic content and skills to real world problems and projects
using 21st century skills.
5. Allow students and their parents to choose from programs that
integrate challenging high school studies and work-based
learning that are planned by educators, employers and students.
Guiding Principles
6. Create an organizational structure and schedule enabling
academics and career/technical teachers to have the time to plan
and provide integrated instruction aimed at teaching high-status
academic and technical content;
7. Engage students in academic and career/technical classrooms in
rigorous and challenging proficient-level assignments using
research-based instructional strategies and technology.
8. Involve students and their parents in a guidance and advisement
system directed at completion of a program of study with an
academic and career/technical concentration.
9. Provide a structured system of additional time and resources to
assist students with high-level academic and technical content.
10. Create a culture of continuous improvement by utilizing student
assessment and program evaluation data.
Design 21
OLD PARADIGM NEW PARADIGM
Teacher-centered instruction Student-centered learning
Single sense stimulation Multi-sensory stimulation
Single path progression Multi-path progression
Single media Multimedia
Isolated work Collaborative work
Information delivery Information exchange
Passive, receptive learning Active, inquiry-based learning
Factual, knowledge-based Critical thinking, informed decision making
Reactive response Proactive, planned
Isolated, artificial context Authentic, real-world context
Board Actions
Create/Approve Gold Standard assessments (industry-
recognized credentials/certifications) for each of the Career
Clusters that support high expectations.
Integrate core content standards with technical program
standards utilizing the 16 career clusters as the organizing
principle.
Support implementation of Individual Career Plans of Study
for all students in 8th grade and above.
Improve Access to Career and Technical Education by
removing barriers and promoting partnerships.
Board Actions
Recommend KBOR to Update Qualified Admissions
Create 21st Century School Standards to help guide reform
and/or redesign of public schools
Support Professional Development for teachers (e.g.
mentor-mentee model) to help guide students in planning
for future careers.
Revise Teacher Preparation Program Standards to reflect
the integration of content standards.
Support the creation of dynamic funding systems that
respond to the changing workforce and economic
development needs.
Integrated Accountability
It’s a state of mind
Not a process
Integrated Accountability
Data
Decision
Implementation
Support
Compliance
Kansas Improvement Notebook
Continuous Improvement
Gather &
Organize Data
Needs Assessment
Review &
Analyze Data
Revise
Orientation &
Readiness
Monitor Prioritize &
Implementation Set Goals
Research &
Develop &
Identify Effective
Strategies
Implement Plan
Multi-Tier System of
Support (MTSS)
Shift in Thinking
Change in How the System Responds
From…. To…..
Which What help does
Student students need each student
help? need?
Having Intentional
programs and design/redesign
System
people of our services
available as resources
(Dan Reschly, 2004)
What is MTSS?
Response to Intervention
Early Intervening
School Improvement
System Design/Redesign
Each Student will Achieve
So What Conditions Must Exist
for MTSS to be Successful?
Kansas Multi-Tier System of Support (MTSS)
Behavior Academics
• Student centered planning
• More intense supplemental targeted skill interventions
• Customized function-based interventions • Customized interventions
• Frequent progress monitoring to guide • Frequent progress monitoring to guide intervention design
intervention design
• Supplemental targeted skill interventions
• Supplemental targeted function-based interventions • Small groups
• Small groups or individual support • Frequent progress monitoring to guide intervention
• Frequent progress monitoring to guide intervention design
design
• All students, All settings
• Positive behavioral expectations • All students
explicitly taught and reinforced • Evidence-based core curriculum & instruction
• Consistent approach to discipline • Assessment system and data-based decision
• Assessment system and data-based making
decision making
KSDE - July 2007 Draft
Kansas
Multi-Tier System of Support
What are the benefits of MTSS?
Improves academic achievement for each
student
More Information
www.kansasmtss.org