GLEs

Washington State has completed the reading grade level expectations and I have been working with grade level teams to complete the first level of alignment. The documents are done and will soon be posted on the PSD website. This has been an enormous undertaking, so I am feeling a great deal of accomplishment as we work to decide how we now move to deep alignment, the next step. It is essential for us to help staff understand the importance of this work.

The writing GLEs are now also complete. So now the work begins anew to align our curriculum to the writing GLEs. This past week I presented at OSPI with my Classroom Based Assessment Group from all around the state. We have developed three modules so far. One is a high school 4 week summer school class based on what students most need to know and be able to do in writing based on WASL results. The second is focused on writing strong introductions and conclusions. The third module is on the critical elaboration piece.