1-25-19 Professional Learning: Priority Standard Alignment to MAP

MAP and January 25th

Staff,
As you are wrapping up your MAP testing, I wanted to give you some reminders about the upcoming January 25th PD day. Our building SMART goal and your SLOs have an increased emphasis on using MAP data as some of our targets. The rationale for this shift is it's more predictive of students being college and career ready. Below is our overall district SMART goal and the two Houlton targets using the MAP.

District SMART Goal:  By the end of 2020-2021, 70% of elementary students will score proficient/advanced on the Forward Exam in ELA (92%ile of WI schools based on 2016-17 Forward Exam Data).  

Houlton MAP Growth Target for Spring 2019:  70% of 1st-5th grade students will meet their spring to spring growth target.

Houlton MAP Achievement Target Spring 2019:  68% of K-2nd grade students will meet the college and career benchmark (scored at the 61st percentile or above on the Spring Reading MAP).

After the mental health training on January 25th, you'll have time to continue your work connecting the priority standards within the ELA curriculum maps with the concepts and skills in NWEA MAP continuum to plan whole group mini lessons or guided reading. Your focus will be on the months of February and March. You will need:

• a device to access reports if you want to take a look at from NWEA; we will be providing K-5 teachers a hard copy of their winter class breakdown by goal and 2nd-5th grade teachers the winter class breakdown by projected proficiency. 
• your ELA curriculum map if you have your own notes on them; each teacher will get a hard copy of the learning continuum document and a copy of their grade level ELA curriculum map. 

 This time is meant to support teachers' mid year SLO, aligned with our SMARTgoal and also anchored to the standards, within our core ELA curriculum, that we've prioritized. Here's a link below is the full day schedule for January 25th:  Jan 25th Schedule for Staff

Finally here are the two video tutorials that were created to support teachers in the alignment process - connecting our Priority Standards from the ELA Curriculum Guide to the NWEA MAP continuum. These will be shown on the 25th, but I wanted to share them with you ahead of time if you want to preview them.  

• Primary Example
• Intermediate Example

Please let me know if you have any questions - I'm looking forward to a great day of learning!
Sue

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