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LEADS knox residency

   

Knox County School District
Wednesday, October 21, to Friday, October 23, 2009

 

This residency will explore Knox’s work with value-added, student growth models. In particular, its work with the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVASS) established in 1992 to track student academic growth to determine the effectiveness of school systems, schools, and teachers.

Among other things, we will explore how Knox is working to:

• Teach teachers how to interpret testing companies and state department of
education reports;
• Simplify information through easier-to-read reports, and
• Create comparison reports that show how one school compares to another.

Tentative presenters are Dr. Bill Sanders and Dr. June Rivers. As pioneers and leaders in this work, they will share their two decades of experience in Tennessee. They will also discuss the effects of federal approval of growth models as a valid measurement in calculating student growth as more states adopt the value-added model.

For more information contact Linda Carstens.

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"LEADS focuses on a critical arena in school reform, and it is founded on operating principles that promote high quality practice and effective outcomes. First, all arrows point to instruction. The implicit, sometimes explicit theory guiding the work is that districts are there to support effective teaching, and every practice and policy needs to be assessed in that light. Second, it emphasizes the importance of evidence - decisions informed by careful analyses of information - which is so critical and all too rare at both district and school levels. Finally, LEADS stresses the importance of documenting knowledge that can be shared among participants and beyond. We spend too much time re-inventing the wheel in education. Learning about best practices is just as important at the district level as it is at the classroom level, and LEADS participants contribute to as well as benefit from that knowledge base."

— Deborah Stipek, Dean, Stanford University School of Education

 

 

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