Solution Tree Updates and Announcements

In February
  • 2/25:  Leadership series session 5 based on Scales, Rubrics, and Feedback  (handouts are attached.  If you are using the digital format, people will need copies of pages 2, 6, 9, 10, 11, and 20.  
  • 2/26:  Workshop series session 4 based on assessment design from the cancelled day.   These are the pages you already have printed.       


In April:  
  • 4/2:  Workshop series session 5 based on Scales, Rubrics, and Feedback.  If you are using the digital format, people will need copies of pages 2, 6, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, and 23.  
  • 4/3:  Workshop series session 6 based on evaluation, interrupter reliability and effective use of data.  You do not have these handouts yet.
  • 4/4:  Leadership series session 6 based on evaluation, interrupter reliability and effective use of data.  You do not have these handouts yet.



Session 6 will require that people bring something with them.  Because we are doing the work of creating inter-rater reliability, we will need participants to do the following between now and April:

  • Give an assessment that is performance or constructed response oriented (can be a single item on a math test, for example, that requires students to explain their thinking) and will generate a tangible product (if the performance assessment is a speech or a child reading, then the performance would need to be recorded and brought along on a handheld device such as an iPad or Chromebook, etc.)
  • Have the developed proficiency scale or rubric that goes with the assessment, established in advance of giving the actual assessment.  
  • Take 10 random samples of student work (not 3 low, 3 middle, etc., but random samples) from the top of the pile and copy them without student names attached and BEFORE any feedback or scoring is provided on the document.  (In the case of recorded performances, we would only want about 5 or 6 samples.)
  • Bring the assessment, the scoring tool, the student samples, and a small packet of yellow post it notes to Session 6.  Be prepared to engage colleagues in a scoring activity with the work that was brought along.
Leadership series ~ We can use some of the sample sets that were generated on the April 3 day for the April 4 day with leaders.  This means that on April 3, the planning team will want to ask a few of their participating teachers to share their materials for temporary use (exact same activity) on the next day with administrators.  The materials shared with NOT be used to evaluate the teachers; they will only be used to discuss creating inter-rater reliability and finding errors/planning interventions.