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Leading and Learning in a Time of Unprecedented Change: What it Means to Be a Leader Today!
Presenter: Sandra Alberti, Director, Field Impact Team, Student Achievement Partners
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Assessing Student Achievement with PARCC: New Developments in the Process
New Jersey is a member state in the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a consortia of states developing next generation assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards. These assessments will be implemented in the 2014-15 school year and field testing in New Jersey will begin this spring. Jeff Nellhaus will review the priorities and key advances of the new assessments, the test design, and development process; review sample assessment items; provide a national perspective on upcoming field testing; and discuss next steps for the consortia. He will also connect participants to resources to support implementation, technology readiness and classroom teachers.Presenter: Jeff Nellhaus, Director of Policy, Research and Design for PARCC -
PARCC's Impact on Assessment
This presentation will provide updated information on the issues connected to the implementation of PARCC assessments.Presenter: Bari Erlichson, Chief Performance Officer, New Jersey Department of EducationThe site will be updated when this presentation becomes available. We apologize for any inconvenience. -
PARCC's Impact on Teaching and Learning
This presentation will address how leaders can leverage the CCSS and prepare for PARCC to improve teaching and learning.
Presenter: Tracey Severns, Chief Academic Officer, New Jersey Department of Education -
PARCC's Impact on Teacher/Leader Evaluation
This presentation will address the importance of integrating the Common Core State Standards throughout teacher preparation, evaluation, and ongoing professional development.
Presenter: Peter Shulman, Chief Talent officer, New Jersey Department of Education -
Effective Instruction and Effective Instructional Leadership
Effective Instruction and Effective Instructional Leadership: Building Individual and Collective Capacity through Collaborative Conversations that Support Common Core Implementation
Learn how professional learning community teams can support one another in creating and implementing units of study that align to the Common Core. The workshop will focus on specific essential collaborative conversations that will foster consistent implementation across grade levels and content areas with a focus on using student data to drive instructional decisions. Understand how PLCs can create the tools that teachers need to ensure student learning and principals’ need to be effective instructional leaders.Presenters: Pat Wright, Executive Director, NJPSA and Donna McInerney, Coordinator of Program Development and Design, FEA
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Preparing for PARCC: A Shared Responsibility Across Content Areas
With the first PARCC administration approaching in the 2014–15 school year, it is time to prepare our schools, our teachers, and our students for the new rigors of this assessment. In this session, we will review PARCC performance-based tasks (research stimulation, literary analysis, and narrative) that will extend across all disciplines. Looking at these interactive literacy and writing tasks through the context of English language arts, social studies, science, and elective courses, we will demonstrate that while this is a challenging assessment, it is doable for our students, as long as the responsibility and effort are shared throughout all departments, are interwoven schoolwide, and are unified across an entire district.Presenter: Dennis Fare, Supervisor of English Language Arts, Mahwah Public Schools and Kristen Trabona, Supervisor of Science, Mahwah Public SchoolsPlease use these links to access the resources for this presentation. -
Integrating Technology and Social Media to Enhance Teaching and Learning in Preparation for PARCC
Social media and technology have transformed the way educators connect, collaborate, and learn on a daily basis. In today’s world, learning takes place 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in many different forms. This presentation will discuss how students, teachers, and administrators can leverage the power of technology and social media tools in preparation for PARCC. Learn how technology and social media can be integrated into the learning process and address PARCC from the perspective of a teacher, vice principal, and a superintendent; understand how we connect and work with one another on a weekly basis to influence the education world on Twitter and beyond.
Presenters: Scott Rocco, Superintendent, Spotswood Public Schools; Brad Currie, Assistant Principal/Supervisor of Instruction, Chester School District; Bill Krakower, Teacher, B. Gilmore School, Woodland Park School District -
Implementing Curricula & Assessments that Integrate Common Core & PARCC~ Increased Student Outcomes
Having an effective and dynamic curriculum is the foundation of a school/district’s instructional program. Ongoing assessment is the core component of evidence-based instructional success. The curriculum, instruction, assessment triad intricately drives and affects student achievement. This workshop will provide participants with an overview of standards-based curricula, exemplar curriculum units of study focused on the CCSS shifts, and assessment types and samples aligned with PARCC. Participants will consider the curricular implications offered in the PARCC Model Content Frameworks.Presenters: Adele Macula, Consultant and Former Associate Superintendent and Willa Spicer, former Deputy Commissioner of EducationPlease access these links for resources that accompany this presentation. -
Are We "Doing" the Core?
This presentation will offer strategies based on the Instructional Shifts in the Common Core with assessments modeled on and necessary for PARCC.
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Carol Ann Tomlinson's Presentation, NJASCD 2014 State Conference.
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@ Every Student: Tech Tools for PARCC
Presenter: Bill KrakowerTopic: @ Every Student: Tech Tools for PARCCDate: February 4, 2014Time: 1:00 PM- 4:00 PMLocation: FEA Conference Center, 12 Centre Drive, Monroe Township, NJ 08831With the release of the PARCC assessments, how we incorporate technology into the Common Core Standards to prepare students is on great importance! Some technology skills that students will have to know and do while taking the PARCC assessment include: cut and paste, keyboarding, manipulate windows, and use different Internet browsers. The Common Core is the focus of the PARCC assessments; students will need to be ready to take the assessments online.
