Michigan Department of Education August 26 2011 2 Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools Agenda Brief review of the state statute that is the basis for the state School ReformRedesign Office SRRO ID: 364149
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Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools Webinar
Michigan Department of Education
August 26, 2011Slide2
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Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools
Agenda
Brief review of the state statute that is the basis for the state School Reform/Redesign Office (SRRO)
Brief review of the state requirements for schools on the Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools (PLA) list
Review of the metrics that lead to a school being placed on the PLA list
Resources and talking points for staff and the mediaSlide3
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Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools
State Statute ReviewSlide4
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State law requires identification of lowest achieving schools by September 1 of each year beginning in 2010
List of Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools is developed following federal guidelines approved by the United States Department of Education as required in state law
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State Requirements and TimelineSlide6
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Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools
Schools on the list must submit a redesign plan to the state and implement the plan
Plans must be approved by the state school reform/redesign officer (SRRO)
Schools without approved plans or those not making progress under its plan are subject to further actionSlide7
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Some elements of the collective bargaining agreements in PLA schools may be modified to implement the redesign
plan
HB 4628 recently amended the public employment relations Act to prohibit certain subjects from being collectively bargained
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Prohibited subjects of collective bargaining
teacher placement or personnel decisions.
employer’s performance evaluation system
discharge or discipline of an employee
classroom observations decisions
performance-based method of compensation
parental notification of ineffective teachers
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Plans may take effect immediately, but no later than the beginning of the school year after approval
Per statute, plans must use 1 of 4 intervention models
Transformation
Turnaround
Restart
Closure
Plans must include any collective bargaining agreement amendments needed to implement the intervention models
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If the SRRO disapproves a plan, or if the school does not achieve satisfactory results, the SRRO will:
Place the school into the State School Reform/Redesign District (SRRD)
Impose one of the four approved intervention models
Amend collective bargaining agreement to implement plan
SRRO may appoint a chief executive officer (CEO) (for one school or multiple schools)
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Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools
SRRO must approve a redesign plan if it contains all of the required elements of the intervention
If SRRO disapproves a redesign plan, the LEA may appeal the disapproval to the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI)
SPI decision is finalSlide12
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Communicating with staff, the local board and the local media Slide13
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Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools
Timeline
August 26, 2011 Department notification
September 8, 2011 1
st
technical assistance meeting- Lansing Center
October 4, 2011 2
nd
technical assistance meeting-Plan review and revisions – Lansing Center
November 28, 2011 Deadline for submission of redesign plan
December 7-9, 2011 MDE review of final redesign plan
January 9, 2011 Approval, disapproval, or change
February 6, 2011 Changes submitted
January 9 thru Feb 7 Opportunity to appeal SRO disapproval
Jan thru August 2012 Pre Implementation activities on
approved plans
September 1, 2012 MDE notifies identified school communities regarding schools on the 2012- 2013 PLA listSlide14
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What happens if the building does not make sufficient progress?
The SRRO recommends that the school be placed in the School Reform/Redesign District (SRRD)
Duties and powers of the SRRD are transferred to the Educational Achievement Authority:
A statewide public school district
Made up of those schools assigned to it by the SRRO or schools that are under a EMSlide15
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Opportunity for Technical Assistance
September 8 and October 4, 2011
9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Banquet Rooms 1-4
Lansing Center
Lansing, Michigan
Plan to bring a team of 3-4 staff to assist with the development of the plan for turning around the school(s) in your district.
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Department staff will review the timeline, the four redesign models, the redesign template, and issues surrounding the use of existing state and federal funds, and answer your questions
Please rvsp by September 1, 2011 with the total number attending from your district to Jill Baynes at:
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Questions??Slide18
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Understanding the ranking metric
Some of you may have questions about the metric used to identify the schools on the Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools list
For those of you that don’t have questions about the metric, we will look forward to seeing you on the 24
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For those of you who would like to understand the metric in greater detail, we invite you to remain with us a bit longer for a review of the metricsSlide19
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Two Tiers of Persistently
Lowest Achieving (PLA) Schools
Two tiers of schools
Two
pools
Two
lists
Two sets of requirements
Underlined
items were items on which the State had some discretionSlide20
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Tier I
Pool
Defining the
pool
of schools from which the Tier I
list
is identified
The Tier I
pool
consists of schools meeting all of the following criteria:
At least
30
Full Academic Year students with scores on Mathematics in the most recent two years
At least
30
Full Academic Year students with scores on Reading in the most recent two years
Eligible to receive Title I funding
Receiving Title I funding
School is in a phase of School Improvement
Identified for Improvement
Corrective Action
Restructuring
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total schools are in the Tier I
pool
Note: Tier I is independent of EducationYES!
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Tier I
List
Identifying schools on the Tier I
list
Two paths to get onto the Tier I
list
Path 1—from the Tier I
pool
Calculate percentile ranks (explained later)
School is on the Tier I
list
if the school percentile rank is less than 5
Path 2—from the Tier I
pool
School is on the Tier I
list
if it is a secondary school with a graduation rate less than 60% for three years running
Results
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total schools on the Tier I
list
5 from path 1
4 from path 2Slide22
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Tier II
Pool
Defining the initial
pool
of schools from which the initial Tier II
list
is identified
The initial Tier II
pool
consists of schools meeting all of the following criteria:
At least
30
Full Academic Year students with scores on Mathematics in the most recent two years
At least
30
Full Academic Year students with scores on Reading in the most recent two years
Eligible for, but not receiving Title I funding
Is a secondary school (serves at least one grade in the range 7-12)
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total schools are in the Tier II
pool
Note: Tier II is independent of
both
AYP and EducationYES!Slide23
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Tier II
List
Tier II—Identifying schools on the Tier II
list
Three paths to get onto the Tier II
list
Path 1—from the Tier II
pool
Calculate percentile ranks (explained later)
School is on Tier II
list
if school percentile rank is less than 5
Path 2—from the Tier II
pool
School is on Tier II
list
if it is a secondary school with a graduation rate less than 60% for three years running
Path 3—from the Tier I
pool
School is on Tier II
list
if it ranks lower than or equal to (on a statewide ranking of all schools) the highest ranked school that got onto the Tier II
list
through path 1
Results
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total schools on the Tier II
List
29 through path 1
0 through path 2
60 through path 3Slide24
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Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools by Tier
Tier I
List
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Tier II
List
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Total 98Slide25
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Calculating Percentile Ranks
Details and schematic in the next slide
Incorporate both mathematics and reading
Incorporate both achievement level and improvement rates,
weighting
achievement more heavily than improvement
Level the playing field
across
High schools versus Elementary/Middle schools
Reading versus MathematicsSlide26
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Start with raw data
% proficient
% improving minus % declining (MEAP)
% improvement trend slope (MME)Slide27
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Calculate z-scores
Z-scores are
a statistical method used
to level the playing field
between…
ELA and Math
Elementary/Middle and High schools
Achievement and Improvement
Positive z-scores show how many
standard deviations (SD) above the
pool average the school is
Negative z-scores show how many
standard deviations (SD) below the
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Calculate a combined
Proficiency/improvement
score and percentile
rank for each…
Subject
(ELA vs. math)
Level of School
(elementary/middle
versus high school)Slide29
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Calculate average and
overall percentile rankSlide30
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Examples
Examples are shown for a high school and for an elementary/middle school in the following slidesSlide31
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Specific School Data
You can see an individual school’s data in the schematic format by clicking on
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PLA Statewide Ranking
The Federal regulations require comparing schools from the Tier I and Tier II pools.
However, the Tier I and Tier II pools are non-overlapping
Therefore, a PLA ranking of schools was also calculated.
Some schools did not receive a PLA ranking because they tested fewer than 30 students in…
Reading and/or Mathematics in…
School years 2008-09 and/or 2009-10.
This PLA percentile ranking was calculated using the same methods as for the Tier I and Tier II pools.
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Creating the PLA Statewide list
Start with all schools that tested at least 30 full academic year students in both reading and mathematics in the most recent two years
Then, rank the schools top to bottomEach gray bar (to the left) represents a single schoolThis is the PLA Statewide Ranking (in 2010-2011, used only to identify PLA schools).
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Creating the PLA Statewide List
Your school might be anywhere on this statewide list.
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Federally Approved Requirements for Identify-
ing Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools
Therefore pools of schools that are eligible to become part of the Tier I list or Tier II list of PLA schools are subsets of the top to bottom list.
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Identifying the Tier I
Pool
Next, identify the subset of schools in the Tier I poolSchools in the Tier I pool meet all of the following conditionsThey receive Title I fundingThey are in corrective action, restructuring, or improvement (have not made AYP for at least two years in a row)Shown in pinkThis is the pool of schools from which the Tier I list is identified
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Next, identify the lowest achieving 5% of the Tier I
pool
These are the schools in the Tier I list of PLA schools that fall under the responsibility of the State School Reform and Redesign Officer (SRRO)Shown in bright redNote also that any high school in the Tier I pool with a graduation rate of less than 60% for three years running also becomes part of the Tier I list (not shown in the schematic)Creating the Tier I List
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Next, identify the subset of schools in the Tier II
pool
Schools in the Tier II pool meet all of the following conditionsThey are eligible to receive, but do not receive, Title I fundingThey are secondary schools (meaning they instruct students in any grade in the range 7-12)Shown in light blueThis is the pool of schools from which the initial Tier II list is identifiedIdentifying the Tier II Pool
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Next, identify the lowest performing 5% of schools in the Tier II
pool
This is the initial Tier II list of PLA schools. These schools are under the responsibility of the SRROShown in bright blueNote also that any high school in the Tier II pool with a graduation rate of less than 60% for three years running also becomes part of the Tier II list (not shown in the schematic)Creating the Tier II List
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Finally, identify any schools from the Tier I
pool
that did not qualify for the Tier I list, but whose ranking was lower than the highest ranking school in the initial Tier II listThese are schools in pink lower than the highest school in bright blueCreating the Tier II List
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Finally, identify any schools from the Tier I
pool
that did not qualify for the Tier I list, but whose ranking was lower than the highest ranking school in the initial Tier II listThese are schools in pink lower than the highest school in bright blueSwitch these schools to bright blueThis is the rest of the Tier II list of PLA schools. These schools are also under the responsibility of the SRROCreating the Tier II
List
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Note that because of the way the Tier I
pool
and Tier II pool are defined in Federal guidelines, it is possible for a low achieving school to not be on either the Tier I list or Tier II list of PLA SchoolsThese are the schools in gray whose performance is lower than the highest school in bright red or bright blue.These schools are not under the responsibility of the SRROOther Low Achieving SchoolsSlide45
How Can a Low Achieving School Not Show Up on the PLA Schools List?
Based on federally approved requirements, this depends on the school’s AYP status, whether the school receives or is eligible to receive Title I funding, and whether the school is a secondary school:
Some low achieving schools may not be eligible to be considered a PLA School because of the way the pools were defined in federal requirements
School Title I
Funding Category
School AYP Status
Not in Corrective Action, Restructuring, or Improvement
(Making AYP)
In Corrective Action,
Restructuring, or Improvement
(Not Making AYP)
Receives Title I funding
Not eligible for any pool
Eligible for the Tier I Pool
Is a secondary school that is eligible for but does not receive Title I funding
Eligible for the Tier II Pool
Eligible for the Tier II Pool
Is not a secondary school, and is eligible for but does not receive Title I funding
Not eligible for any pool
Not eligible for any pool
Is not eligible to receive
Title I funding
Not eligible for any pool
Not eligible for any pool
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Top to Bottom Ranking
MDE will publish a separate Top to Bottom Ranking of all schools, using our preferred methodology.
To view this ranking, go to http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,4615,7-140-37818_56562---,00.html The PLA statewide ranking is produced only in order to implement the federal rules for identifying PLA schools.
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Contact Information
For Persi
Deborah Clemmons
State School Reform Office
clemmonsd@michigan.gov
Jill Baynes
Department Analyst
517-335-2741
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Contact Information
For Questions Regarding Data or Metrics:
Joseph Martineau, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Bureau of Assessment and Accountability
martineauj@michigan.gov
Venessa Keesler, Ph.D.
Manager, Evaluation, Research and Accountability
keeslerv@michigan.gov
517-373-1342
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