Indiana Coalition for Public Education--MCSCI February 11, 2013
Contact: Cathy Fuentes-Rohwer, Chair FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cell Phone: 812-320-4400
Email: tojanama.cathy@gmail.com
INDIANA COALITION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION PRESENTS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION ON ISTEP
Panel to Include Local Educators
Bloomington, Indiana--Hours before local students sit down to take the applied skills portion of ISTEP, the community will have a chance to learn more about how the state standardized test functions. Parents, teachers, and others are invited to "What Does ISTEP Tell Us? A Community Conversation About Measuring Student Success" on Monday, February 25, from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Bloomington City Hall Council Chambers.
Panelists will include Richland-Bean Blossom assistant superintendent Carol Gardiner; a teacher, a parent, and principal Tommy Richardson from MCCSC; and Ben Edmonds, a professor at the IU School of Education. The evening will include audience questions and discussion.
ISTEP has been used primarily to measure schools' performance since the inception of No Child Left Behind. In the last year, the stakes for schools increased with the implementation of the A-F grading system for schools and the new requirement that teachers' evaluations be based, in part, on their students' ISTEP scores.
Panelists will address how ISTEP is used by school corporations and how it impacts districts and their classrooms, including educational practices. They will examine the legislative purpose of ISTEP and its acuity and reliability as a measure of student achievement. In addition, the conversation will explore other ways that we can measure student success.
This event is sponsored by the Indiana Coalition for Public Education--Monroe County and South Central Indiana (https://sites.google.com/site/icpemonroe/).
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For further information, please contact Cathy Fuentes-Rohwer at 812-320-4400.
Contact: Cathy Fuentes-Rohwer, Chair FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cell Phone: 812-320-4400
Email: tojanama.cathy@gmail.com
INDIANA COALITION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION PRESENTS COMMUNITY CONVERSATION ON ISTEP
Panel to Include Local Educators
Bloomington, Indiana--Hours before local students sit down to take the applied skills portion of ISTEP, the community will have a chance to learn more about how the state standardized test functions. Parents, teachers, and others are invited to "What Does ISTEP Tell Us? A Community Conversation About Measuring Student Success" on Monday, February 25, from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Bloomington City Hall Council Chambers.
Panelists will include Richland-Bean Blossom assistant superintendent Carol Gardiner; a teacher, a parent, and principal Tommy Richardson from MCCSC; and Ben Edmonds, a professor at the IU School of Education. The evening will include audience questions and discussion.
ISTEP has been used primarily to measure schools' performance since the inception of No Child Left Behind. In the last year, the stakes for schools increased with the implementation of the A-F grading system for schools and the new requirement that teachers' evaluations be based, in part, on their students' ISTEP scores.
Panelists will address how ISTEP is used by school corporations and how it impacts districts and their classrooms, including educational practices. They will examine the legislative purpose of ISTEP and its acuity and reliability as a measure of student achievement. In addition, the conversation will explore other ways that we can measure student success.
This event is sponsored by the Indiana Coalition for Public Education--Monroe County and South Central Indiana (https://sites.google.com/site/icpemonroe/).
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For further information, please contact Cathy Fuentes-Rohwer at 812-320-4400.