College Access SummitREGIONAL STRATEGY SESSION ON ACCESS TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

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Race to the Top Update

Total Race To The Top Funding For Region

School District AmountBrevard $7,390,533Citrus $1,931,206Lake $4,057,975Marion $6,811,399Orange $23,659,585Osceola $5,754,457Seminole $4,931,174Sumter $1,050,485Volusia $11,695,193

Total $67,282,007

Florida’s Race to the Top

Purpose of Race to the Top Grant Funds

Improve our ability to assess student learning against rigorous, common core standards

Improve our ability to collect, analyze, and use data to inform classroom instruction, guide professional development of teachers and administrators, and link compensation to performance

Create evaluations of teacher and administrator performance that are strongly linked to student learning outcomes

Transform our lowest performing schools to high performing schools

Race to the Top AssurancesRace to the Top Assurances

Standards and AssessmentsStandards and Assessments Data Systems to Support InstructionData Systems to Support Instruction Great Teachers and LeadersGreat Teachers and Leaders Turning Around the Lowest-Achieving Turning Around the Lowest-Achieving

SchoolsSchools

Standards and Assessments

Modify school schedules to accommodate lesson study

Implement a high school career and technical STEM program

Increase the number of STEM accelerated courses

Ensure that each school possesses the technology for improved classroom instruction and computer-based assessment

Data Systems to Support Instruction

Accessing and using State data Provide customer-friendly access to state

data systems and informationUse state-level and local data to improve

instructionAcquire a Learning Management SystemProvide requested data to FLDOE

Great Teachers and Leaders

Design and implement teacher and principal evaluation systems

Use evaluations to inform professional development, compensation, promotion and retention

Implement a compensation system to: ensure equitable distribution of effective

teachers and principals provide incentives for the recruitment of effective

teachers in hard-to-staff subjects and specialty areas

Turning Around the Lowest-Achieving Schools

• Expand opportunities for students to attend career and professional academies, especially STEM academies

• Expand or introduce proven programs to encourage advanced classes, positive behavior support systems, mentoring, and curricula that provide high-need students with college-ready, career-ready, or other postsecondary skills

RTTT’s Impact on Postsecondary Education

• Over forty states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

• Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) – $350 million of Race to the Top Fund set aside for

awards to consortia of states to design and develop common K-12 assessment systems aligned to common, college- and career-ready standards

– Administer new assessments statewide by 2014-2015

PARCC Governing Board States

• Governing States will pilot and field test the assessment system components during the 2011–12, 2012–13 and 2013–14 school years, and administer the new assessment system during the 2014-15 school year

• Governing States will use the results from the PARCC assessments in their state accountability systems

• The chief state school officers of the Governing States serve on the PARCC Governing Board and make decisions on behalf of the Partnership on major policies and operational procedures

• Arizona• Arkansas• District of Columbia• Florida (Fiscal Agent)• Georgia• Illinois• Indiana• Louisiana• Maryland• Massachusetts (Board Chair)• New York• Rhode Island• Tennessee

Source: PARCC Overview PPT 2-8-11

PARCC Assessments Measure students’ mastery of Common Core State

Standards Provide a common measure of college and career

readiness Include a range of item types that allow for the

assessment of higher-order skills Leverage new technologies in assessment and

reporting to get actionable student data to educators and parents in real time

Mitigate challenges associated with student mobility by ensuring students will have the same expectations wherever they live

Source: PARCC Overview PPT 2-8-11

For more information:

• http://www.fldoe.org/ARRA/RacetotheTop.asp

• http://www.achieve.org/parcc