Expanding the Reach of HEAP

							       Expanding the Reach of HEAP
Demonstration of the HEAP’s Web-based System
               January 28, 2010




                                              Nancy Hudson
                                   CCSSO HEAP Coordinator
                                               202-336-7008
                                        nancyh@ccsso.org
                                       www.ccsso.org/heap
                                       http://scassheap.org
     Contact Information

• Nancy Hudson, CCSSO
  – SCASS HEAP Coordinator
  – 202-336-7008
  – nancyh@ccsso.org

• Sara Moshman, Metalogic, Inc.
  – HEAP Web-based System
  – 402-474-6194
  – smoshman@metalogic1.com

• Tami Benham Deal
  – HEAP Member/University professor
  – 307-766-4284
  – benham@uwyo.edu
      Webinar Objectives
• Provide a quick overview of the HEAP

• Through exploring the technologies used by the
  HEAP to advance its work:
   – expand the reach of HEAP to better coordinate pre-
     service and in-service programs in standards-based
     health education and assessment.
   – Determine interest in helping HEAP develop and
     fund a research agenda to show impact in HEAP’s
     efforts to improve teaching and learning in school
     health education and student health literacy

• Help us explore different fiscal models for HEAP
  to help the collaborative grow and be more
  inclusive.

• Answer questions/Next Steps
     Important Acronyms

• CCSSO –
  Council of Chief
  State School Officers
• SCASS –
  State Collaborative
  on Assessment and
  Student Standards
• HEAP –
  Health Education
  Assessment Project
Goals of Public Health and Public Education
Health Education Assessment Project
 Collaborative of states and large education agencies.
   Members pay a yearly membership fee to join ($15,000)

 • Focus of this project is to:
    – modify the way teachers teach – adopt skills-based
      standards-based instructional practices
    – foster student acquisition of skills that lead to health
      literacy

 • Goal is to provide products, services, and networking to
   members to build their capacity to:
    – develop effective state training structures
    – document implementation
    – improve health, assessment & technology literacy of
      members, educators, students
 22 Members of HEAP 09-10

• Arkansas         •   Minnesota
• California       •   Mississippi
• DC Charter &     •   North Carolina
  Public Schools   •   Pennsylvania
• DoDEA            •   Philadelphia School
• Florida              District
• Hawaii           •   South Carolina
• Kansas           •   South Dakota
                   •   Texas
• Kentucky
                   •   Vermont
• Idaho
                   •   Wisconsin
• Maryland         •   Wyoming
• Michigan
     HEAP Committees 09-10


• Steering Committee
  – Meets before and after face-to-face HEAP meetings,
    have own listserv, have periodic business meetings
    by web-ex, help develop the HEAP meeting agenda

• Health and Reading Committee
  – Meet during HEAP face-to-face meetings, meet by
    web-ex monthly or more, work on the book templates.

• Item Development Committee
  – Meet during HEAP face-to-face meetings, meet by
    web-ex monthly or more, work on the cognitive
    complexity sets, and new item development
             HEALTH LITERACY


Health literacy is the capacity of an individual
to obtain, interpret, and understand basic
health information and services, and the
competence to use such information and
services in ways which are health-enhancing.
      Joint Committee on Health Education Standards (1995)
             HEAP Products




HEAP PD Resources can be purchased through ToucanEd, Inc.
              www.toucaned.com/heap
The HEAP Web-based Technology
         MetaCat technology developed by MetaLogic, Inc.
                    http://www.metalogic1.com
               HEAP website: http://scassheap.org

1. Searchable Bank of over 2000 Assessment Items
  (E, MS, HS, 4 types of items) providing teachers the ability to:
          Search, view, select and download items,
          Easily administer online testing of students, if desired, and
          Obtain test results data in real-time to inform instruction
2. Distance Learning Course
          Six PD Modules that can be adapted by members
3. Item Development Tool
    Collaborative item development with edit history
4. Cognitive Complexity Sets
          PD tool to help members and trained teachers to produce more cognitively complex
            assessments
5. Health and Reading Component
          Health related books, discussion questions, assessments teacher resources,
          aligned with Lexile levels
6. Media/Documents Libraries
          Houses media objects for assessment development/documents for training