Instructional Leaders Roundtable October
Business Meeting
Hannah Pitmann reviewed where to find meeting materials. These resources can be found at
Click on Professional Divisions, andthen click on Instructional Leaders. The materials can be found on that page.
See the flyer for upcoming events from SCASA.
•Tuesday, October 28 School Climate and Safety Summit
•Wednesday, October 22 Seminar Series: Turn Early Learners into Avid Readers
•Thursday, October 23 Instructional Leadership: Guiding School Improvement through Effective Classroom Observations
Sheila Huckabee asked for discussion on the proposed regulation change to increase the amount of minutes that high school teachers can teach from 1500 to 1560 minutes. Sheila stated that if you had thoughts you could email her to share.
This is the web site where the slide decks for today's meeting are located.
Welcome
Dr. Cindy Van Buren Deputy Superintendent, Division of School Effectiveness
Dr. Van Buren stated that customer service is a focus for the Divisions of School Effectiveness and Accountability. An emphasis for the meeting today is on who to contact for specific topics. The Directors from the two offices were present to provide updates. (See handout for organizational chart for School Effectiveness.)
Web Site with Slide Decks:
Office of Career and Technology Education Update- (See Slide Deck)
Ms. Susan Flanagan
It is referred to as CTE atthe national level, but in SC it is called CATE (Career, Academics, and Technology Education). There are currently 16 career clusters offered in South Carolina. Aerospace may be the 17th career cluster developed due to Boeing in Charleston. Approximately 186,000 students were enrolled in at least one CATE course in 2012-2013 in the State.
State funding details can be found on the slide pertaining to Carl D. Perkins Careerand Technology Education Improvement ACT of 2006.
June 21-24, 2015 Education and Business Summit- Today's Learners, Tomorrow's Earners
Office of Adult Education Update
Dr. David Stout
Between 40,000- 50,000 adults are reached per year via Adult Education Programs. The number of adults attaining the traditional high school diploma has been dwindling, but now that the exit exam does not exist, that number could be impacted in the future.
Funding for adult education is based on census data.
Learn to Earn - Federal Incentive Grant Project (Handout)
Office of Educator Services
Ms. Mary Hipp, Director
Educator Professions and Licensure
•Alternative Licensure
•Educator Preparation
•Cultural Exchange Programs
•Teacher of the Year
•Professional Practices
•Academic Licensure
Alternative Licensure
•Work-based Licensure (CATE)
•PACE
•ABCTE
•Teach for America
•Adjunct
Major Priorities
•Proposed amendments to Regulation 43-62, the regulation covering additional areas of certification
◦Clarify definitions of "add-on" and "endorsement"
◦Update language to reflect norms
◦Add endorsement areas
◦Post-secondary Transition Specialist, Teacher Leader, Project-based Learning, Computer Science, Literacy (to align with Read to Succeed)
◦Endorsement- relfects expertise
◦Remove course-by -course requirements from legislation and move to SBE guidelines
Proposed Amendment To
•R 57.5 Military Experience
Educator Preparation
•Transitioning from NCATE to CAEP Standards and Accreditation
◦More emphasis on clinical partnership with districts
◦Graduate impact on student learning
Office of School Leadership Update (Handout)
Mr. Bruce Moseley, Director
•Information was provided on leadership development opportunities offered by the SC SDE.
Office of School Transformation Update
Ms. Jennifer Morrison, Director
•Read to Succeed (Handout)
A content area reading and writing course is being developed in an online format for the varied roles that need the course for the Read to Succeed requirement. It will likely be next fall before it is ready. It will be an online and job embedded course.
Jennifer Morrison stated that legislation required that the coursework be based on the SC Literacy Competencies. What districts and higher ed institutions have been doing in the past will not meet the requirement because they would not be aligned with the newly developed SC Literacy Competencies.
Office of Virtual Education Update (See slide deck.)
Mr. Bradley Mitchell, Director
•elearningSC- online professional development
•VirtualSC- Offers supplemental courses for South Carolina high school credit in grades 7-12
•Rebranded to VirtualSC
•Elementary keyboarding program
•Virtual learning lab
◦course not available to your school
◦unable to find a licensed teacher
◦emergency situations
◦Virtual Learning Lab Robot Pilot- new this year
•Franchise Option
Office of Student Intervention Services Update
Dr. Sabrina Moore, Director
Dr. Sabrina Moore shared updates from the Office of Student Intervention Services. She reminded the group to adhere to the guidelines for IGP conferences.
Office of Assessment Update (See slide deck.)
Ms. Elizabeth Jones, Director
Elizabeth Jones updated us on the protest period for the procurement of the assessments. A question was asked whether this could impact our ability to administer the testand the response was we will have to wait and see. A hearing is set for October 23.
Paper pencil dates- May 7 & 8 with makeup through the 15
Online science 7th -22nd
Social studies 8th -22nd
Readiness Assessment - ALL K students must be administered the readiness assessment. The test must be completed by the 45th day of the district's school year. Results and intervention strategies must be provided to parents in writing. Results may not beutilized to deny entry into K or first grade.
ACCESS is a new assessment for ELLs.
Work Keys- ACT is set up to work directly with the schools on the administration of Work Keys
Formative Assessment Adoption List - This list is on the assessment web site, and iStation is on the formative adoption list. It was added via a proviso.
Alternative Assessments on Alternate Achievement Standards-
Suzzane Swaffield
Science and social studies will be assessed as will ELA and math. We will test students ages 9-14 in 2015.
Note for 2015 only - no high school science/biology
(NCSC)- We are involved in a pilot, and many decisions remain to be made and will be made upon pilot data. This is an online computer-based assessment.
There is an alternate ACCESS for ELLs beginning in grade 1. The K assessment is accessible to all students, but beginning in grade 1 there is an alternate assessment.
Guidance for IEP Teams on Determining Participation in the South Carolina Alternate Assessments may be found at
Many questions are arising about accommodations and general assessments, and with the assessments currently not being named there are many questions. IEP teams have been asked not to provide accommodations that will invalidate the results.
Office of Federal and State Accountability Update
Mr Roy Stehle, Director
OFSA office is divided into teams. Below are the teams as well as the team leaders.
State Team - Darlene Prevatt
Title I, Part A Team - Jewell Stanley
Special Populations Team - Evelyn Towns
The responsibilities of the State and Federal teams were outlined on the slides.
Accreditation Updates- State Accreditation or AdvanceEd- if you are all clear on district or school you have the option to go with AdvanceEd or State.
There are some regulations are before the State Board for revisions.
R43-205 minutes per week proposed change to 1560 minutes per week for high school
R43-232 - credits in middle school
R43-234- removes exit exam language
SBE Waivers
Community Eligilibty Provision and Impact on Federal Programs and Accountability- They are working through the issues. Community eligibility had some snags to work out in regards to Federal programs.
Preparation is ongoing for ESEA Felxibility Waiver Extension for 2015-2016. The Office does not expect reauthorization of NCLB any time soon. If the waiver goes away we go back to AYP and sanctions.
Supplement not supplant was reviewed. Mr. Stehle asked that we call if we have questions so that his office can provide clarification.
Dear Colleague Letter- Equity in Education Resources- USED OCR - This is a very significant guidance document,and one of the most significant the SDE has seen in a long time. This letter originated in the Office of Civil Rights. We are urged as districts to look at this letter carefully. It was reported that if OCR shared that if it receives a complaint from a system and comes to review it, they are likely to find something. Reminder - Funding is not an excuse. If district leaders have not seen the letter it is recommended that you contact Mr. Stehle for a copy.
ESOL, Homeless, and Migrant Education are core programs. Even though we may not receive full dollars we are not excused from providing services. Special education is A GIVEN as a core program. Sometimes districts do not believe they have to fully offer ESOL.
Office of Special Education Services Update
Mr. John Payne, Director
Mr. Payne provided an Enrich update reporting out on districts that were live and those that were behind schedule.
The old IEP product is available for read only until next July. You can use it for running archived records.
The State has failed to meet maintenance of effort from 3 years ago. If a 36 million dollar penalty for this is enacted then 20 - 25% of allocations would be lost.
SC SDE is working with colleges to train college faculty on explaining some items in Enrich in pre-service training. CCU is one of the institutions working with Enrich University.
Resource materials have been developed to support the Enrich implementation.
SC is doing well with procedural compliance; however, according to data states are not seeing improved results for children and youth with disabilities.
At third grade there is already a reading achievement gap between disabled and nondisabled students. SSIP will be focusing on reading.
What do we need to focus on with children of disabilities to improve their reading?
How do we support school districts that will result in improved results for students with disabilities?
Office of Instructional Practices and Evaluations Update (See slide deck.)
Dr. Briana Timmerman, Director
Dr. Briana Timmerman shared updates on standards and educator evaluation.
Standards:
Standards cyclical review process (see slide with dates)
Districts can follow the process on the development of the standards New ELA / Math Stndards for South Carolinafrom web site:
Timeline
Drafts will be posted the month of November for comments.
Drafts will be finalized in December.
They will go to the SC State Board in January for first reading.
They will go to the EOC in February
They will be presented to the SC State Board for second reading in March
The standards will be released to the public.
Expanded Educator Support and Evaluation System Guidelines
The system has been in pilot form for the last 2 years
The State has requested a waiver from USDOE, and they believe the waiver will be approved.
The SC SDE stated this is our year to practice and encouraged that once districts have indificuals trained in SLOs that we get them started with practice SLOs for the spring semester.
Dr. Timmerman reported that no one got the writing of SLOs right the first time out of the box, so districts should be practicing and have this work underway.
Discussion of ESEA Grade Release
Dr. Nancy Busbee, Deputy Superintendent, Division of Accountability
Dr. Busbee provided an overview of the ESEA report card release.