RIT Brief
volume 2, number 7, March 2017
KEA/K-3 formative assessment news for the piedmont-triad and northwest regions
2017 KEA district team meetings
Join us for the KEA District Team Meetings offered in each region this spring!
- March 14, 2017: Piedmont-Triad Spring 2017 KEA District Team Meeting - 8:30 am to 2:00 pm at the Asheboro Professional Development Center (1221 South Park St., Asheboro, NC). District Team Leaders register HERE.
- March 16, 2017: Northwest Spring 2017 KEA District Team Meeting - 9:30 am to 3:00 pm at Horizons Elementary Preschool Resource Staff Development Room (332 Greenhaven Drive NW, Lenoir, NC). District Team Leaders register HERE.
Purpose: The Spring 2017 KEA District Team Meeting will be an opportunity for:
• Teams to create a KEA implementation plan for the 2017-18 school year
• Learning about KEA resources
• Learning from/sharing ideas with other teams
• Receiving the latest KEA updates
Who attends?
This session will provide teams with blocks of time throughout the day to plan for KEA implementation for 2017-18. We recommend that district teams attend and be prepared to spend the day planning together.
Teams can preview and download resources for the 2017 KEA District Team Meeting on our wiki's DIT Resources page.
Digging Deeper Into the Construct Progressions - Following Directions
The 60th day Status Summary is one part of the larger Formative Assessment Process. Teachers across the state are digging deeper into the construct progressions from January to June.
This month we are focusing on the Language Development and Communications Domain and digging deeper with the Following Directions Construct Progression. Take a look at our Quick Guide for Following Directions. This Quick Guide can be found on our KEA Resources page. It provides a jumping off point for you to plan Professional Development for your teachers so that they gain a deep understanding of the construct--and, at the end of the Quick Guide, you'll find several activities for teachers to use to elicit evidence for the construct!
What is the Impact of the KEA?
An Elementary Administrator Shares Her Experience With the KEA/K-3 Formative Assessment Process
In the video below, Ramona Warren, Principal at Morgan Elementary School in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, speaks about her involvement with the KEA/K-3 Formative Assessment Process.In this brief clip, Ms. Warren shares how the KEA/K-3 Formative Assessment Process has helped her and her teachers to prioritize developmentally appropriate practice in kindergarten classrooms. She also emphasizes the value of embracing the K-3 Formative Assessment Process as a philosophy of teaching and learning that extends throughout the school year.
Ms. Warren will be presenting, along with other state educators, in a panel at the Collaborative Conference on Student Achievement on Monday, March 20, 2017 from 2:30 - 4:00 in Greensboro (click HERE for more information). Her talk will focus on the KEA as the first step in teaching the whole child. She will share the role of administrators in supporting teachers with the Kindergarten Entry Assessment process and the impact of continuing formative assessment of the 5 Domains throughout the year to guide instruction of the whole child.
Looking for additional resources for Administrators? Check out the Coaching and Administrator Resources page on our wiki!
k-3 literacy connections
Join us at 3:30pm on March 21st to explore comprehension strategies in our next webinar: Retell, Recount, and Summarize. In this webinar, we will break down each of these strategies through read aloud to strengthen comprehension instruction at every level. Check out the Read to Achieve Livebinder to view archived webinars and stay abreast of current RtA information.
Quick Link: NC Read to Achieve LiveBinder
Contact information:
Piedmont-Triad: Rebecca Belcastro at rebecca.belcastro@dpi.nc.gov
Northwest: Mia Johnson at mia.johnson@dpi.nc.gov