GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MAY 11, 2009 AMANDA BUICE MSP PROGRAM SPECIALIST...

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONMAY 11, 2009

AMANDA BUICEMSP PROGRAM SPECIALIST

[email protected]

MSP FY10-11 Kickoff Session

Session Agenda

Georgia MSP FY10 Kickoff Session

Welcome and HB280 Update General Program OverviewGaDOE Mathematics and Science Program

Managers Budgets and Grants AccountingFederal Guidelines MonitoringProfessional Learning Test Administration (will end with MOSART)

Welcome

Georgia MSP Kickoff Session

I will be emailing you electronic copies of documents after today’s session.

Information will soon be updated on the GaDOE MSP website, http://www.gadoe.org/ci_services.aspx?PageReq=CIServMSP

US Dept. of Ed MSP website is located at http://www.ed-msp.net/

Info on Title II, B http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg26.html

HB280 UpdateLots to cover, but we will be in touch! We won’t

build MSP in a day!Calendars, notebooks, bags….

General Information


MSP = Reimbursement GrantGrant Cycle for Yr 1: July 1, 2009– June 30,

201060 hours intensive/20 hours follow-up annually

On-going EACH project year STEM faculty at every grade level

Renewal for FY11 Project Effectiveness Project Compliance Availability of Federal Funds

General Information


Partnership!!! LEA STEM (and in addition Teacher Training Faculty) Partnership Rubric

Handout

State and Federal Reporting Requirements Mid-Year GaDOE Report

Handout Continuation Application

Handout Year-End Report – ED

Handout: “Annual Performance Report”

Budget


GAORSGrants Accounting: Darlene Leslie @404-656-

5553 and [email protected] 414, Program 1823Completion reports by September 30, 2010

(earlier is fine)

Summary & Detail Forms Due June 12 (preferably earlier)

Amendments


Category Guidelines

Teacher Stipends Not to exceed $150 per 8-hour day during off-contract time; teacher fringe benefits may be covered by MSP grant funds. Teachers must be eligible to work in the United States.

Substitutes Up to $100/day when training sessions take place during teacher contract time

Project Management Team Salaries

Not to exceed 10% of project director’s and 5% of project leaders’ salaries. Teachers serving on the management team may be paid on honorarium at the same rate allowable for teacher stipends. DOCUMENT TIME

Coaches’ Salaries Not to exceed 35% of an instructional coach’s salary DOCUMENT TIME

Consultants and Contracts Not to exceed $50/presentation hour for consultants or presenters; not to exceed $35/presentation hour for system/RESA personnel – ½ for planning time for all contractors

Higher Education Faculty Regular salary per hour of contact time; 50% of salary per hour of planning/preparation time

Evaluator 8%-10% of total project budget must be spent on a formal project evaluator. If you’ve designed a quasi-experimental design an additional $5,000 will be awarded.

Travel Reimburse mileage, meals, and lodging according to state/system guidelines for project-related travel

Meals Not to exceed 1% of the total budget. Must be in accordance with state and federal guidelines.

Management Team Events Reimburse travel expenses for management team participation in ED and GaDOE-hosted MSP events according to state/system guidelines.

Materials and Supplies Funds may be spent on materials and supplies to facilitate professional learning of teachers, not on classroom instructional materials.

Indirect Costs Not to exceed 8% (fiscal agent…total allowed for entire grant)

What do I need to document?


EVERYTHING! Careful documentation is key.For a cost to be charged to a federal program, it

must be reasonable as to amount and necessity. It must be allocable. Is it a cost that a prudent person would incur under the given circumstances? Is the federal program bearing its fair share of the cost?

Time and effort reporting requirements emanate from the cost principles that apply to grants: OMB Circular A-21 (universities) OMB Circular A-87 (governments) OMB Circular A-122 (nonprofit organizations)

Federal Guidelines


OMB circulars can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/

The ED web site has a searchable version of EDGAR ( Education Department General Administrative Regulations). It can be accessed at http://www.ed.gov/policy/fund/reg/edgarReg/edgar.html

Note food guidelines

View PPT from MSP Regional Meeting

Human Subjects ResearchFERPAEquitable Participationhttp://www.ed-msp.net/index.php?

option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=58&phpMyAdmin=6e0ab7bfcf1b39d6cf8ec5706aab8960


Monitoring


Teacher rostersElluminate Meetings at 10amRegional MSP MeetingMid-Year ReportAnnual ReportSite VisitsAudit-type Monitoring (audit fee)

Reports


Mid-year Report due in December for GaDOE We begin to input data into the APR at this time See hand-out

Continuation Application See hand-out

Annual Performance Reports You are not yet registered but soon will be. You will receive login information for the U.S. Dept. of

Ed. http://apr.ed-msp.net/users/login

Professional Learning


Pre-GCTM, October and Pre-GSTA , February Topics for year based on reading applications—seeing

obvious needs often with few deliberate work plan to address the needs

West Ed, Math Pathways and Pitfalls (ELL) West Ed, Science for ELL NSDC, Differentiation in the Mathematics and Science

Classrooms (SWD) I would like teams to attend, support personnel working

with our MSP teachers, etc….I hope to cover most of cost, but that may require you to “register” attendees in late August to early September and project travel costs

Math Science Partnership Program of Georgia (GaMSP) Semester I Session Schedule at a Glance: June 2007 – December 2007

System/Project: Grades: Content Focus: Math Science Math & Science

Contact Name: Phone: Email:

The following information details the professional learning sessions planned from June, 2007 – December, 2007 for the GaMSP program. The project director will communicate schedule changes to the GaDOE program coordinator as they occur.

MSP Session Description (including content and/or pedagogy focus)

Date Time Specific Location # of Teachers

Grades IHE Involvement

Role of Evaluator


Pretest and Posttest Administrator LMT and MOSART, High School Math forthcoming!

Formative Assessment Feedback regarding necessary modifications

Data CollectionData AnalysisMid-year and Annual Performance ReportsSite visitsCLASS KEYS resource, rubric for Standards-

Based Intruction

CLASS KEYS


Classroom Analysis of State Standards How Does the Teacher Teach?

Standards-Based Instruction Standard #1: The Teacher consistently uses research-based practices in the classroom.

Standard #2: The teacher challenges all earners to achieve high levels of learning as defined by GPS.

To see the complete document visithttp://www.gadoe.org/tss_teacher.aspx

Refer to blue notebooks which contain hard copies.

Evaluation Instruments


Learning Mathematics for Teaching (LMT) Elementary and Middle School Levels:

a) numbers and operations, b) geometry, c) patterns, functions, and algebra

Misconceptions-Oriented Science Assessment Resource for Teachers (MOSART) Elementary and Middle School: a) earth science, b)

physical science, c) astronomy/space science High School: a) physics, b) chemistry, c) earth

science, d) astronomy/space science

Learning Mathematics for Teaching

Assumptions and aims of LMT work To develop items that measure mathematics that

teachers use in teaching, not just what they teach To orient the items around problems that all teachers

might face in teaching mathematics To produce useable measures:

With items that are not grade-specific With items that do not represent any single view of

teaching (e.g., “reform”) Which can discriminate among teachers’ capability in this

area To make progress in developing theory of knowledge

for teachingMeasures copyright 2005, Study of Instructional Improvement (SII)/Learning Mathematics for Teaching/Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE). Not for reproduction or use without written consent of LMT. Measures development supported by NSF grants REC-9979873, REC- 0207649, EHR-0233456 & EHR 0335411, and by a subcontract to CPRE on Department of Education (DOE), Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) award #R308A960003.

MOSART


Misconceptions-Oriented Student Assessment Resource for Teachers

Mission: provide assessment instruments linked to the K-12 physical and earth science content of the national standards and research literature documenting misconceptions of science concepts. Probe how teachers’ scientific ideas compare to

those of scientists. Probe for conceptual shift as a result of PD.

High School Mathematics

We are pulling together a committee to work on this project.

We still have room if any of you are interested in helping us select and create test questions.

We will work to have this test to you as early in July as is possible…we realize it is a PRE-test after-all


Our tests are just one piece of the puzzle…

In the APR, annual performance report, you will have to record matching pre- and post-tests on these common assessments.

However, in the evaluator’s narrative report, you can expand and explain all other pieces of the assessment puzzle (formative, instructor –made, observations, qualitative surveys……)


General Testing Procedure


Project evaluators or MSP Leader administers pretests. Scantron forms:

4-digit ID# left justified First 4 letters of lead organization under last name Name of test and level written under subject

Pretests mailed to GaDOE as complete set. Scores used to modify instructional plan.

Project evaluators or MSP Leader administers mid-point/posttests. Analyze results to evaluate effectiveness of PD.

Terms of Use

Copyright information must be included on all instruments.

Measures cannot be used to publicly demonstrate teachers’ ability or lack of ability in mathematics, specifically including: Not publicly discussing raw frequencies or number correct; Not comparing participants from one project to other

participants in any way that reveals raw frequencies or number correct.

Measures cannot be used to evaluate individual teachers for tenure, pay, hiring, or any other use with high-stakes consequence.


Terms of Use

The privacy of participants must be safeguarded. LMT non-released items cannot be used in any

presentation, paper, article, or other public form. Changes may not be made to any assessment item. Copies of measures may not be distributed outside of

the Georgia MSP project directors’ circle. Test administrators must generally abide by the

standards put forth in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA/APA 1999).


GADOE Terms of LMT and MOSART Use

GADOE will provide the LMT and MOSART measures in hard copy to MSP project directors who may only use them for MSP professional development assessment purposes.

Participating MSP project directors will administer the forms as pre and post measures and will not keep records of teachers’ answers or ID numbers.

Participating MSP project directors will not score the tests but will instead mail them to the MSP state director.

Participating MSP project directors will not alter the forms in any way.

Participating MSP project directors will include the data collected from pre and post instruments in their Annual Performance Reports to USED.


Cautions


Double check that participants have not chosen duplicate identification numbers.

Make sure that answers have been bubbled in appropriately with a PENCIL.

Send answer forms for scoring in bundles by content and grade level.

Use cover sheets!LMT will go on-line…more tomorrow..

Thanks!

Let the fun begin!If you are not administering the MOSART

assessments, because you are doing math only, you are free to leave. Safe Travels!

Refer to you calendar and all with any questions!

If you are working with teachers in the area of science, 3-12, please take a short break (10 minutes) and return for a brief training.


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