September 14, 2016 Aligning for Alaskas Future What do we know? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

September 14, 2016

Aligning for Alaska’s Future • What do we know? • What are we doing? • What can we do together?

What do we know? (…and communicate)

About Ala laska Schools – The Basic ics • 53 school districts plus Mount Edgecumbe High School • 507 operational schools in 2016-2017 • 119 schools have fewer than 50 students • The public school system includes traditional, alternative, charter, correspondence, and residential boarding schools.

About Ala laska Schools – The Basic ics • Approximately 130,000 K-12 students on 10/1/2015 • On 10/1/2015, 9% of all K-12 students were enrolled in public correspondence schools. • 8,043 teachers, turnover rate of 12.2% • 2015-2016 Statistics (preliminary) • 8,109 graduates • Four-year graduation rate of 76.1% • Five-year graduation rate of 80.8%

10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 0 Enrollment as of October 1, 2015 14 Pelican 35 Aleutian Region 37 Tanana 72 Pribilof 81 Hydaburg 91 Yakutat 108 Kake Alaska K‐12 District‐Level 108 Skagway 114 Klawock 115 Hoonah 123 Bristol Bay 168 Chatham 168 Southeast Island 195 Saint Mary's 220 Aleutians East 238 Yukon Flats 274 Wrangell 286 Haines 307 Annette Island 308 Iditarod 313 Lake and Peninsula 332 Kashunamiut 336 Chugach 340 Kuspuk 356 Cordova City 372 Unalaska 412 Alaska Gateway 425 Copper River 426 Mt Edgecumbe 449 Dillingham 460 Petersburg 460 Yupiit 525 Craig City 585 Southwest Region 631 Valdez 714 Nome 777 Delta/Greely 876 Denali 1,066 Nenana 1,365 Sitka 1,556 Yukon-Koyukuk 1,685 Bering Strait 1,767 North Slope 2,013 Northwest Arctic 2,016 Lower Yukon 2,239 Ketchikan 2,416 Kodiak Island 4,117 Lower Kuskokwim 4,185 Galena 4,664 Juneau 8,900 Kenai Peninsula 13,763 Fairbanks 18,364 Mat-Su 47,621 Anchorage

Enrollment as of October 1, 2015 “Big 5” Districts vs. Non - “Big 5” 28.0% 36.7% 72% of Alaska’s students are in 5 of 54 districts 3.6% 6.9% 10.6% 14.2% Anchorage Mat-Su Fairbanks Kenai Peninsula Juneau All Other Districts

Urban/Rural Analysis Challenges • How is “rural” defined? • In Alaska, there are different types of rural. • Hub (Dillingham, Bethel, Nome) • Road system (Glennallen, Tok, Delta) • Remote (Ruby, New Stuyahok, Kwethluk) • A Lower-48 audience may classify cities Alaskans think of as urban (e.g. Juneau) as rural. • Some students residing in urban areas are enrolled in correspondence schools in “rural” districts (Galena, Yukon-Koyukuk, Nenana). • Mount Edgecumbe enrolls students from across the state.

Kindergarten Readiness • Districts administer the Alaska Developmental Profile (ADP) to all kindergarten students. • The ADP is a tool based on multiple teacher observations recorded during the first four weeks of school. • The ADP includes 13 sets of skills and behaviors (“goals”) in five domains. • Three ratings • 2 = Consistently demonstrates (80% or more of the time) • 1 = Progressing • 0 = Does not demonstrate (20% or less of the time)

Five Domains 1. Physical Well-Being, Health, and Motor Development 1. Social and Emotional Development 1. Approaches to Learning 2. Cognition and General Knowledge 3. Communication, Language, and Literacy

Examples • Social and Emotional Development • Goal: Regulates their feelings and impulses • Indicators: • Shows ability to control impulses, with guidance • Seeks peaceful resolution to conflict • Stops and listens to instructions before starting an activity • Cognition and General Knowledge • Goal: Demonstrates knowledge of numbers and counting • Indicators: • Counts to 10 from memory • Understands that when counting a set of items, each item must be counted only once and none should be left out • Uses math manipulatives (e.g., games, toys, and coins) in counting activities

2015-2016 Statewide ADP Results • Observations recorded for 9,909 students. • Of these students, only one out of every six students (16.3%) consistently demonstrated all 13 skills and behaviors representing kindergarten readiness. • 28.2% of students consistently demonstrated 11 out of the 13 skills and behaviors.

ADP Strengths & Weaknesses • Strongest goal: Demonstrates strength and coordination of large motor muscles • Weakest goal: Demonstrates phonological awareness • The three weakest goals were all in the domain of Communication, Language, and Literacy. • The other two weakest goals were • Demonstrates awareness of print concepts. • Demonstrates knowledge of letters and symbols

2015-2016 Kindergarten Readiness 16.3% 11.9% 71.8% Students Demonstrating Kindergarten Readiness on all 13 Goals Students Demonstrating Kindergarten Readiness on 11 or 12 Goals Students Demonstrating Kindergarten Readiness on 10 or Fewer Goals

Note: Alaska ranked 49 th out of 52 jurisdictions. 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 207 New Mexico District of Columbia California 213 Alaska Mississippi Nevada Average Scale Score by State Hawaii Arizona Louisiana West Virginia NAEP Grade 4 Reading Michigan Alabama Texas South Carolina Arkansas Tennessee Oregon South Dakota Kansas 221 National public Idaho Oklahoma Georgia Illinois New York Missouri Maryland Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa Delaware Maine Colorado North Dakota Montana Ohio Rhode Island North Carolina Washington Utah Nebraska Pennsylvania Florida Indiana Kentucky Wyoming Connecticut Virginia New Jersey Vermont New Hampshire DoDEA 235 Massachusetts

Note: Alaska ranked 42 nd out of 52 jurisdictions. 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 248 District of Columbia Mississippi New Mexico Average Scale Score by State Louisiana Hawaii Alabama Arkansas NAEP Grade 8 Reading California Nevada West Virginia 260 Alaska South Carolina North Carolina Texas Georgia Delaware Oklahoma Arizona New York Florida 264 National public Michigan Tennessee Rhode Island Ohio Kansas Illinois Virginia Missouri North Dakota South Dakota Washington Oregon Kentucky Maryland Colorado Iowa Indiana Maine Idaho Pennsylvania Wyoming Nebraska Utah Wisconsin Montana Minnesota New Jersey Connecticut Vermont Massachusetts New Hampshire 277 DoDEA

Note: Alaska ranked 42 nd out of 52 jurisdictions. 190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 231 Alabama New Mexico District of Columbia Average Scale Score by State California Nevada Mississippi Louisiana West Virginia Arkansas Michigan NAEP Grade 4 Math 236 Alaska Georgia New York South Carolina Illinois Arizona Oregon Hawaii Rhode Island Delaware Idaho Missouri Maryland South Dakota Oklahoma 240 National public Connecticut Tennessee Kansas Montana Colorado Kentucky Maine Utah Florida Vermont Wisconsin Pennsylvania Iowa Ohio North Carolina Nebraska Texas North Dakota Washington New Jersey Virginia Wyoming DoDEA Indiana New Hampshire Minnesota 251 Massachusetts

Note: Alaska ranked 33 rd out of 52 jurisdictions. 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 263 District of Columbia Alabama Louisiana Average Scale Score by State Mississippi New Mexico West Virginia Oklahoma Arkansas Nevada Florida NAEP Grade 8 Math California South Carolina Kentucky Michigan Tennessee Georgia Hawaii Delaware New York 280 281 Alaska Missouri National public North Carolina Rhode Island Illinois Oregon Arizona Maryland Pennsylvania Idaho Texas Kansas Connecticut South Dakota Maine Ohio Colorado Utah Iowa Nebraska Washington Wyoming Indiana Montana Virginia North Dakota Wisconsin Vermont DoDEA New Jersey Minnesota New Hampshire 297 Massachusetts

2012 PIS ISA Results • PISA is administered every three years “to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students .” • In 2012, about 510,000 15-year-old students in 65 countries and economies took PISA. • 2015 results not yet available. • Reading: U.S. ranked 24 th out of 65. • Similar to United Kingdom and Denmark • Math: U.S. ranked 36 th out of 65. • Similar to Slovakia and Lithuania PISA: Programme for International Student Assessment (http://www.oecd.org/pisa/aboutpisa/)

What are we doing? (…and communicating)

Standards and Assessment • The Alaska State Board of Education and Early Development adopted the Alaska English Language Arts and Mathematics Standards in June 2012. • Alaska school districts first administered an assessment aligned to these standards in the spring of 2015 (Alaska Measures of Progress).

20% 40% 60% 80% 0% 81.6% Grade 3 76.7% 75.2% 2014 Statewide SBA Proficiency 78.3% Grade 4 76.9% 74.2% 81.1% Grade 5 76.8% 70.5% Reading 78.2% Grade 6 70.4% 67.3% Writing 81.3% Grade 7 72.9% Math 65.9% 83.5% Grade 8 75.7% 68.3% 81.1% Grade 9 72.9% 61.5% Grade 10 75.4% 76.0% 63.9%

2015 Statewide AMP Results Percentage Meeting the Standards 80% 60% 42.2% 40.6% 40.0% 38.8% 37.5% 35.5% 34.6% 32.9% 31.9% 31.2% 40% 30.0% 29.7% 28.6% 26.3% 25.8% 20.2% 20% 0% Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 AMP ELA AMP Math

2016 Statewide AMP Results Percentage Meeting the Standards

SBA vs. NAEP Proficiency Reading/Writing 83.5% 78.3% 76.9% 80% 75.7% 60% 40% 34.8% 32.7% 31.4% 29.9% 20% 0% Grade 4 Grade 8 SBA Reading SBA Writing NAEP Reading-ALASKA NAEP Reading - U.S.