BCIC June 2014

Here is the agenda (slides) for the OCM BOCES Curriculum and Instruction Council (BCIC) meeting, 8:30am, June 19, 2014, Henry Large Conference Room. Click for minutes

Welcome and Introductions

Updates

• SED
• Legislative
• Instructional Technology and Design (ITD home page)
• Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment (CIA)
• Teacher Centers
• Higher Education
• Instructional Support News
  • RSE TASC
  • SE-SIS
  • SLS
  • Science Center
• CNY NYS ASCD home page

District Sharing

• June share: Fayetteville-Manlius, FM Writes
• September share:
• October share: 

Race To The Top

• Standards 
  • Updating the curriculum and assessment chart
  • Social Studies Field Guide Status
    • Framework guide   slides
• Data-Driven Instruction
  • PLCs follow-up: Summer Plans
  • Turn Your RtI Upside-Down (connected to PLCs) October 24, 2014
    • $35 per person for components
    • $65 per person for non-components
    • Registration for individuals is up.
    • For districts that want to register large numbers of people we also have a spreadsheet that you can fill out and send to us and then we will do the registration .
  •  PLCs at Work Institute August 12-14, 2015, OnCenter/Civic Center. 300 @ 30% off
    • Prices this year at Solution Tree institutes is $649, so our price would be approximately $475
  • Our coaches are being trained by Solution Tree early this fall
  • District Assessment Leadership Team Project
    • Lessons learned so far: rational for any initiative is important
    • Also learned: four approaches to an assessment audit
      1. Equity
      2. Thematic
      3. Quantity Reduction
      4. High Stakes Focus
  • Assessment Academy Project
    • RFP going
    • Baldwinsville, Cortland, Liverpool, North Syracuse, West Genesee
    • We will be building CI&A capacity as a result
• Professional Practice (including APPR)
  • Evaluator Training attendance summaries have been sent to superintendents
  • What should we do next year to help our principals be instructional leaders?
    • PBL
    • Instructional Leadership
    • Time Management
    • Growth Producing Feedback and Crucial Conversations
  • Lead Evaluator Training for 2014-2015
  • Principal Evaluator Training for 2014-2015
• Culture
  • New Teacher Welcome Project
    • September 11th
    • SUNY Oswego Phoenix Center
    • Joint Oswego/OCM/Oswego-CNY Teacher Center Project
    • No cost for participation
• Long-term planning for RTTT (example plan)
  • Have you revisited your plan?
  • Have you extended its reach?
  • Protocol for checking in with a long-term plan
• NT Reporting

Regional Vision

• InnovationTech
• Tours of Tech Valley High School (next year? being strategic)
• Ideas for business partnerships: PBL "Speed-dating" event on October 17th
• OCM's PBL model (Buck Institute + New Tech + Edutopia = PBL-NY)
• Announcing PBL 102 projects for 2014-2015
  • Humanities
  • ELA and science
• PBL NY registration is now active
  • wait lists at this point
  • confirmations have gone out
• PBL NY will be scheduled in 2015 and 2016?
• PBL for School Librarians   entry document    slides    projects

Assessment

• 3-8 Regional Assessment
  • Discussion about sending exams out for scoring
• June Regents Scoring
  • Status check
  • Culture check
  • Test security office is visiting

Future Meeting Planning

• Next year we will hold our meetings in the Rodax 8 Large Conference Room: