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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

1. The key is to have high quality standards aligned/based resources that are easily and readily accessible to educators. It looks like a classroom teacher could use these resources fairly well (though some questions around the amount of time for implementation/use).
2. Seems like extending to k-2 is a worthy idea.
3. Identifying issues of equity is probably a very useful activity.
4. Prioritizing among these would be a challenge--especially given the diversity of the student make-up of each state.
5. When engaging in nationally created resource: strength is having state educators involved; meeting the needs of cultural context of native students will those be addressed to consortium as a whole.

What would you like Smarter staff to consider when planning?

1. How do we appropriately surface some of the resources and give enough instruction around those items to help understand why they are different and how certain subgroups are as valuable as others.
2. Smarter's ability to respond to these three? In the equity, Smarter is in a good place to respond because of the diversity among its members. Also, Smarter has experience working across states when making decisions about equity and representation (e.g., Jim Green's point re: n size not being the key decision point re: which student subgroup to address). Where the k-2 would need a new group to get involved--so maybe not quite as straightforward as the equity piece.

Is this something you want Smarter staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

These are critical resources given the use throughout the school year in the classroom--as opposed to the one-time summative test. These resources can also generate good will towards the summative.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

DE - has been asked for grade 2
J - Patience - important area, but have to be patient to avoid errors that may not work K-2

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

with time, energy and resources start with one grade and add to it later

Consider chunking content

adding new stuff now may be risky - refine first

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

J - enthused professionals can fail to detect flaws, want materials to work, study current materials and make them better versus playing with Kindergarten

J - Anything that deflects you from making your product better should be avoided

K- agrees

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

Not currently a path forward for K-2 teachers.
Possibly useful for students who take alternate assessments.
Grade 3 teachers using K-2 resource to support student performing at lower levels.
K-2 teachers haven't had resources available to them.

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

Appropriate use of standards.
Possibility of adding G2 Interims?
Consider early childhood spectrum.
Pilot these kinds of resources in different ways; provide more details about interactions (consider developmental differences for K-2 students).
Consider pedagogy of teaching early childhood

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

IN—High Priority. Yes, valuable contribution. Would need to figure out how standards would work.
CA—High priority

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

- desire for a complete package for educators.

What would you like staff to consider when planning?
- consider existing K-2 resources and testing outside of SB
- (CA) may not require the same depth of resources as the 3-12 resources.
- communicate with LEAs and educators throughout process
Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?
- make sure that 3-12 work is highly developed first, so that k-2 can be strongly supported.
- focus on other enhancements first

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

make the resources better first - avoid other projects and make this better so it is not retired.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

1. Reiterating and demonstrating and making connections to best practices--especially for early career teachers--benefits in different ways.

What would you like Smarter staff to consider when planning?

1. How teachers react to idea of formative assessment: once you got people 'into it' they were very receptive. So, this approach enables new teachers to immediately get involved/invested in the use of formative tools. This will help both teachers and students.

Is this something you want Smarter staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

1. Wouldn't say it was the top priority when looking at all of the development.
2. Important to keep engagement with state educators as new resources are created.
3. Could SEA staff get accounts?

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

MT - Would help with the learning progression continuum if K-2 resources were made available.

ID - Pushing K-3 literacy, but not a lot of supports around it. Resources from Smarter would help. Same for Math. Will give states an opportunity to work backwards from the assessed grades to scaffold down to earlier grades and have resources that are aligned in similar ways to the assessed grades.

USVI - Additional resources at earlier grades would provide alignment up to the assessed grades.

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

ID - Start with grade 2 and scaffold down.

USVI - Start with the lower grades and consider connections to the grades we assess.

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

MT - Difficult to answer considering additional priorities we are working through (i.e. short BP, remote admin, reporting, etc.). Assuming those elements are in place, this work could be considered a priority.

ID - Would be easier to answer if states had a menu of sorts to look at and be able to choose among other priorities. Also difficult to know what next year will look like. That said, instructional supports are very important to support educators. Just need to know where it fits into the overall group of priorities for this upcoming year.

USVI - Difficult to answer the question now. K-2 resources will be helpful especially for teachers who teach across different grades.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

VT - Looks great, valuable tool.
Marketable beyond testing grades. Quality resources for all teachers.
MT - ditto rethink the the idea of creating playlists, don't need to make them for k-2.
SD - like the idea.
What would you like staff to consider when planning?
Trepidation is the prioritization of other resources.
Creating a barrier for non testing grades, for example, MT does not test HS, but testing coordinator would have to make sure ALL teachers have access.

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?
Only after 3-HS is done.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

would be great

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

like to see some items like IAIP for K-2 as well

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

not necessarily that soon but don't forget

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

Q: is 97 too many
Rank the top 5 Focus on these FIRST - praise and exemplify,
then move to 10

Here too many
no time to go through them

Accessibility Tools - too many for teachers to use 54 (just overwhelming)

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Participants: OR (Erin Weeks-Earp), CA (Monica Lin), MT (Stephanie Swigart)

What benefits will this provide to your educators?

MT: Significant benefits, for teachers to be able to access wide range of students teachers serve, be very helpful …

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

MT: Focus on early literacy as essential need for our youngest learners …

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

MT: Absolutely …
OR: get the initial
launch going, and then elementary teachers would want this, but maybe
prioritize down the road …

CA: balanced HE perspective vs elementary involvement, if resources there, teachers would use, encourage SBA appropriate comms resources to let teachers know about them …

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

It will support a cohesive system K-12.

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

Consider K-2 Interims. Some states already have K-2 assessments in place.

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Yes, if it doesn't impact 3-HS development.

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Spend approximately 5 minutes discussing each enhancement topic.

1. K-2 Resource Development

2. Additional strategy resources

3. Review resource quality criteria for equity, diversity, and inclusion

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

Seems to have the most benefits of the three, due to the absence of k-2 materials. Connection to Interims needs to be considered...what information.
This shift could prioritize focus formative process and support provided (centered on standards).
WA and ID Rank:
1. K2
2. Enhance strategies
3. Enhance quality criteria
HI: sees the very high value of K2, but perhaps some review of T4T materials to ensure appropriateness (#3).
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CA—definitely a consideration for K-2 populations
VT—not many resources geared toward 'gap' students with intellectual disabilities who struggle with grade level content. Happens for EL students often too.
MI—Distance learning absolutely important

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MI—High priority, especially for Distance Learning
IN—High priority
CA—High priority

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What would you like staff to consider when planning?
- connecting the entire eccosystem of smarter resources
- not overwhelming educators with too much "new".

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?
- - focus the strategies around the support needed.
-(CA) distance learning strategies highly prioritized

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What would you like staff to consider when planning?

provide survey to introduce K-2 teachers to T4T, and gather input on what they would want/need

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Need to speak to with teachers before prioritizing

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

It would benefit many folks who already utilize distance learning

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

so many different languages; is it straight translations or new content?
tease out content that is particularly troublesome for non-english-native speakers

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Yes

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What would you like staff to consider when planning?

make sure group determining criteria is not homogeneous

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Yes

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

This is something educators are looking for at this grade level. Elementary teachers would be excited about this.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

We know that grade 3 is a critical grade, so the k-2 and transition from 2 to 3 is a key transition to focus on.

What would you like Smarter staff to consider when planning?

Continue to prioritize grades 3 - 8 and HS.

Is this something you want Smarter staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Consider conducting a survey of all k12/educators/SNEs. Group thinks this is a good priority but somewhat concerned about taking away resources from more resources for 3-8 and HS

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

Like the idea for distance teaching and learning strategies. Like Doug Fischer (ask people to queue up their answers in the chat and then click send later).

Add to the resources a why is this importance component.

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

Maybe there is an opportunity for more of a why.

Is this something you want Smarter staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

not as high a priority as the others.

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See notes in first box about equity.
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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

Gold standard would be anti-racism but DEI is a good start.

What would you like Smarter staff to consider when planning?

Who would we partner with? Balanced of working with

Is this something you want Smarter staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Highest priority.

It would be great to have a cyclical process for gathering feedback.

Create a synergy to what's going on in the system. What are the pieces that connect. How can we draw lines between all of the different components. Drawing more links between the system - for the short-form - what are some resources for T4T.

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What would you like staff to consider when planning?
Existing quality criteria could be leveraged an enhanced to integrate this.

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?
Yes - is it possible to integrate this along with ongoing development to include it?

Yes; what strategies will be considered to bring in the right people to consult on this?  make sure a wide net is cast. make sure it's not a homogeneous group

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Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Not as high as creating more resources

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- needs lots of time to think about it thoughtfully
- build the quality reviews into the process.
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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

MT: social-emotional learning beneficial; and specific distance learning is the same thing in this context?

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

MT: social-emotional learning beneficial; and specific distance learning is the same thing in this context?

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Lowest priority ...

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Will help teachers with social emotional and trauma based instruction.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

educators need virtual instruction strategies; cross walk formative assessment page with comparable virtual instruction strategies

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

we would like virtual instruction strategies; enhance it for ELs; social/emotional learning

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?
yes

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

MT - Newer resources may include some distance learning already, it's the expansion. Greater emphasis on these strategies for all students.
VT - EL resources are good for ALL learners.
Distance Learning is on point and timely. ( Things to consider section) This is not going away.

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

T4T may not be the platform for specifically called SEL.

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

EL resources. Professional Learning, accessibility strategies.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

Rich development for teachers early in their careers.

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

Think about teachers early in their career--new to their profession or on an "alternate route" to the classroom. Scaffold for those teachers and for experienced teachers.

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Second priority.

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IN: Important for SB in general, but maybe not priority here for TFT. SB should be considering this anyway.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

ID - Smarter Balanced is a leader in the industry when it comes to accessibility. Strengthening the accessibility of the assessment system will help states to justify staying with Smarter Balanced (i.e. "If we go elsewhere, we will serve fewer students.").

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

Do not have enough information to know what this may look like, but love the idea of how to make the tools more accessible to diverse learners.
yes, it should be a part of the process of creating, vetting, and posting.

Recruitment  is essential.
What would you like staff to consider when planning?

Time crunch - SNE's

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?
Someone with a broader eye, within SB or a contractor to do this work.

Recruitment is top priority to ensure   that the group resembles the students being served.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

System approach to K-12 as a complete system; focus on K-12 will connect them to the expectations starting at grade 3.

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

Instructional practices, formative assessments, accessibility strategies tailored to kinder, 1st, 2nd grade teachers. Often students with disabilities are not identified until later.

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Might be the highest priority of the three options.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?
This is something not taught in teacher prep programs, so it would get teachers thinking about it.
It may be touched on, but not in a deep way.

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

Will it be the same conversation for each state? Might be a different need in each state.

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Could be a different priority depending on the state. #3 for this group.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

What would you like staff to consider when planning?

OR: like how specific this is, framing equity in SB projects; be very authentic and very intentional, has some resources behind it, focus groups, inputs from educators, student climate data …

CA: the way this reads, falls short on reviewing the criteria and then moving forward with improved (applying the approved quality criteria ) …

OR: if SB is standard based and CC curriculum, is there room for white framing and CC has that initial root problem? If we reflect the standards, a place the consortium provide feedback on the content of the standards … the work would provide second enhancement (in remote learning)

MT: Indian education for all (standards), other states pursuing this … it needs to be specified because of it’s unique …

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

Yes: CA, MT, OR

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What would you like staff to consider when planning?

Yes, include equity and inclusion.

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What benefits will this provide to your educators?

always a benefit to establish inclusion as a quality criterion, this is really important

What would you like staff to consider when planning?
consider the resources being used -- more diverse literature/passages/stimuli

Is this something you want staff to prioritize in 2021-2022?

yes

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Use it - really use it
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