Data Instruction Assessment, (DIA) Team Agenda

Date: January 9, 2017

Time: 4:00-5:30

The DIA Mission:

1)To Empower teachers to collaboratively analyze data and to make critical instructional
decisions (aligned to our 2015/2016 Work Plan).

2) To support the logistics around key assessment periods-specifically Istation/MAP/MPG

Interims and Spring CMAS/PARCC dates.

3) To empower students to own their data-and recognize it is a journey.

4)To Encourage and develop healthy mindset around assessment-for both staff and
students. Its a point to work from

Work Plan Goals:

Learning Targets for the meeting:

1. I can create a plan for next steps/outcomes development based on recommendations

and vertical team discussions.
2. I can report what is going well for my team and what needs work regarding the Math
curriculum.

Norms: Our Norms: Be Open, Go Deep, Open Doors, Unpack

Be Present Risk Honesty Share The Air
Make It Fun Take Care Of Each Other Respect Time
Reach Out Be Open to Change

Be Open Go Deep Unpack

Open Doors

Logistics for the meeting:

Mobile

Preparations for the meeting:

Check-in with the 15-16 WORK PLAN
*Are we on track with our timeline?
*What data gathering needs to be done?
*What are the next leadership targets to be addressed?
*What are the next faculty targets to be addressed?
Agenda:
Time Agenda Item Notes/Materials

4:00 Greeting: Check in...Grab Snacks, Eat, Share, Unwind- Snacks

How was break?

4:15 Review of Staff Meeting Discussions Shari/Heather

What do we prioritize for next actions? Chart Paper

Pair and Share

4:45 Math Discussion:Bring back thoughts from your grade

level. Questions from
What is going well? What needs tweaking? Discussions with
teams (Heather)
**Two discussion points from previous meetings:
1. Review of Curriculum Maps
2. Deciding how long to continue our building focus on
Math?.

5:15 Wrap up and Next Steps:

MAP/MPG Testing Window coming up beginning the week

of:
1/17-2/3

FCE 2016/2017 Assessment Calendar

FYI Additional PARCC Test items released

ELA and Math Additional Test Items released for Grades 3-

8
The PARCC consortium has released test items from the 2015-16 assessments
for grades 3 through 8 for both English Language Arts/literacy and
mathematics. The test items, which are actual questions from last years
assessments, can be found on the Partnership Resource Center (PRC). These
serve as a resource to prepare for the upcoming spring assessments.
The released assessment items are in PDF format and represent
approximately one full test per grade level. Also posted on the PRC are
scoring rubrics associated with the test questions, along with learning
standards guidelines that demonstrate specifically which competencies are
being measured by each question. For the open-ended writing portions of the
PARCC assessments, there are anonymous student responses for each of the
five PARCC scoring levels to provide the most accurate representations of
what kinds of answers will earn various scores.
Meeting Notes:

Heather will make a shared document

Actions based on Summary:
Feb-April Horizontal Conversations about which units/which parts we think we
should keep, skip, rethink, differentiate
April-May (maybe Summer Institute, too) Neighbor Vertical Conversations: K-
1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, Unit selection (which units should we prioritize
Do we start with 6th-5th? What will be in place to make sure we dont
add too much to K-1?
Do we base it on PARCC, standards, the textbooks, big concepts,
etc?)
o Perhaps at end of year when it is still fresh and after weve had exposure to
lessons
Summer Institute Three Vertical Teams K-6--

Side note: We need to figure out and be mindful of differentiating math for advanced
mathematician.

Summary of Staff Meeting Vertical Team Review: Trend

Vertical conversation--prioritize units

Vertical understanding--vocab trend
Vertical decisions: Vocabulary Alignment conversation in recognition that we cannot cover all 16
units(What are your units? Of those, these would best prepare them for where we need them to be when
they come to the next grade)
Prioritizing units--where will we get the best bang for your buck with this?

Summary of Staff Meeting Vertical Team Review: Lingering Questions

How do you resolve vocab consistency but still allow students to grapple?
What happened to vocab books? Why didnt they work out? What common agreements are needed?