IIS Overview

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Ohio’s Instructional
Improvement System (IIS)

Better standards.
Better teaching.
Better schools.
Data-driven results.
That's what we will reward with
our Race to the Top Fund.
~President Barack Obama, July 24, 2009
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A. State Success Factors
B. Standards and Assessments
C. Data Systems to Support Instruction
D. Great Teachers and Leaders
E. Turning Around the Lowest-achieving
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Schools

DATA SYSTEMS
• Designed to support instruction
• Fully implementing a statewide
longitudinal data system
• Accessing and using state data
• Why
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I am a deep believer in the power of data
to drive our decisions.
Data gives us the roadmap to reform.
It tells us where we are,
where we need to go,
and who is most at risk.
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~Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan,
Fourth Annual IES Research Conference

1. Expand Value Added Statewide
2. Improve Access to Student Data
3. Personalize Learning through
Formative Instruction
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Students
Can track their progress and show when
their efforts all pay off.
Teachers
Can make informed decisions about their
instruction and in the design of effective
interventions.
Principals
Can engage with teachers about student
growth and make meaningful decisions
about staffing, resource allocations,
programs, and services.
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Parents
Will have a more informed
sense of their child’s progress .
District
Leaders
Can communicate effectively to the
public, design a budget with student learning
driving resource allocation, and engage with
principals about accountability.
Community
Will have a better accountability system
that aligns student growth with
community investment.
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The IIS is a suite of technological tools that provide
teachers, principals, and administrators with
meaningful support for a cycle of continuous
instructional improvement, including activities such
as instructional planning; gathering information;
interim assessments; analyzing information with the
support of rapid-time reporting; using this
information to inform decisions on appropriate next
steps, and evaluating the effectiveness of the actions
taken .

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Structure and Components:
◦ Online access to electronic curriculum,
resources and tools aligned to the revised
standards
◦ Curriculum customization for differentiated
instruction
◦ Online formative assessments
◦ Data-analysis capabilities including earlywarning
indicators for teachers,
administrators, parents, and students.

ODE commits to provide a
State IIS to all participating RttT
LEAs in Ohio. Development
will be completed with LEA
input. The system will be paid
for by ODE during RttT.
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RttT LEAs commit to active
use of a “qualifying” IIS in
classrooms.
◦State IIS OR
◦“Qualifying” LEA IIS
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Background
- 2 States (Ohio / Florida)
- Center for Educational Leadership
and Technology (CELT)
- Define IIS Requirements
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CELT
- Statewide Brainstorming Meetings
- Focus Groups
- Cross-state Meetings
- Requirements Development
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Standards /
Curriculum
(What)
Assessment
and Growth
(How Well)
Learners
(Who)
Instructional
Practices
(How)
Educators
(By Whom)
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Standards/Curriculum
Curriculum Design
& Development
Curriculum
Evaluation
Curriculum
Maintenance
Data Analysis
& Rapid-Time
Reporting
Advanced
Analysis
(current &
historical)
Instructional
Design
Instructional
Practices
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Achievement
Reporting
Achievement
Analysis
Test Scoring
& Processing
Educator Profiles &
Professional Development
Test Delivery
& Response
Test Creation &
Storage
Assessment
Tools
Class Data
Management
Tools for
Learning
Assessments & Growth

1 – Standards and Curriculum
2 – Instructional Practices
3 – Assessment and Growth
4 – Data Analysis and Reporting
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5 – Student Portfolios
6 – Educator Profiles
7 – Data and System Integration
8 – IT Platform, Access & Security
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9 – Documentation, Training &
Support

Results of CELT work
December, 2010
COMPLETED
• Hold LEA Meetings to
document requirements
• Develop RFP
Issue RFP
December, 2011
Award Contract
March, 2012
Integration of Pilot
LEAs
December, 2012
Statewide
Rollout
Complete!
March, 2014
Statewide
Rollout
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