BCIC March 2014

Here is the agenda (slides) for the OCM BOCES Curriculum and Instruction Council (BCIC) meeting, 8:30am, March 20, 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
• Regional Summer School
• CNY NYS ASCD home page
• Innovation Tech (New Tech High School)

District Sharing

• Homer: Chromebooks
• April: need volunteer
• May: need volunteer
• June: need volunteer

Race To The Top

• Standards 
  • Updating the curriculum and assessment chart
• Core Research  flyer
  • Resources and support from NT, CI&A, and SLS
• Data-Driven Instruction
  • PLCs follow-up -- how can we support you?
  • Turn Your RtI Upside-Down (connected to PLCs) October 24, 2014 
  • PLCs at Work Institute August 12-14, 2015, OnCenter/Civic Center. 300 @ 30%
  • Formative Assessment
    • "The Bridge Between Today's Lesson and Tomorrow's" article
    • Grading video clip (funny one)
    • Formative Assessment video (serious one)
    • Formative Assessment research summary
  • Assessment Leadership Team Project
    • Joint project with Oswegoe BOCES, Oswego/CNY Teacher Center, Cincinnatus Teacher Center (and perhaps more partners)
• Professional Practice (including APPR)
  • Lead Evaluators Year One will begin in August
  • Lead Evaluators Ongoing will be three (half) days in 2014-2015
  • Principal Evaluator Ongoing will be three (half) days in 2014-2015
  • Will we need Principals Year One?
• Culture
• Long-term planning for RTTT (example plan)
  • Have you revisited you plan?
  • Have you extended its reach
• NT Reporting
  • No cost extension -- langauge preapred
  • Billing starting up again soon (letter just out)

Regional Vision

• InnovationTech
• Tours of Tech Valley High School (next trip is March 25th)
• OCM's PBL model (Buck Institute + New Tech + Edutopia = PBL-NY)
• PBL school implementation rubric
• PBL NY registration is now active (will now be advertised throughout state)
  • 50% full at this point
• College & Career Readiness (School Success Rubric exploration) -- where in our programs to we explicitly program for College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness?

Other Business

• Testing of 8th Graders who are in accelerated math
  • Press release
  • Explanation memo
  • Double-testing slides

Assessment

• 3-8 Regional Assessment
  • BOCES papers testing contacts
  • "Opting Out" Discussion
• June Regents Scoring
  • Status check
  • Common Core ELA scoring training

Future Meeting Planning

• The next BCIC meeting is April 10, 2014, in the Henry Large Conference Room.
• Next year we will hold our meetings in the Rodax 8 Large Conference Room: