2007-08 Adopted Plan - Wake County Public School System

Changes in Standards/ExpectationsSTATE INITIATIVESPre ABC's 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02General Assembly passes ABCs implementation High Schools ABCs model Continued modification of MAY 2000 SBE approves EOC prediction formulas for SBE approved newABC's legislation. 10 school begins for schools w/K-8. implemented. Incentive high school model. Some using prediction formulas for 10 EOCs implemented, achievement levels insystems pilot the ABC's Model includes growth and bonuses paid to teachers in alternative schools added to 10 end-of-course tests bringing the highmathematics.performance. Assistance Expected or Exemplary ABCs.(bringing the K-8 and 9-12 school/elem-middle schoolteams formed. 1st ABCs Growth schools.models into alignment). An models into alignment.report submitted to Generalalternative AssessmentAssembly in August 1997.Portfolio for students withdisabilities was added.Prior to 1992, schools hadparticipated in CAT testingin selected grades.1992-1993 - First use ofEnd of Grade Tests inGrades 3-8.APRIL 1999 SBE approvesStudent AccountabilityStandards requiring thatstudents demonstrateproficiency at Grades 3, 5,8. Alternative Schools wereadded to the model.Computer skills test atGrade 8 added toperformance composite.Schools of Distinction wererequired to make at leastexpected growth.A course of study isrequired for entering 9thgraders.FEDERAL INITIATIVESJANUARY 2002 PresidentBush signs NCLB legislationinto law.WCPSS INITIATIVESThe PLC root - Serge's(1990) work on learningorganization in thecorporate world.1998 Summit: AchievingNew HorizonsGOAL 2003 95% ofstudents in 3-8 will be at orabove grade level.1998 Wake County Board of 2000 Summit: 2001 Summit: 2002 Summit:Education adopts Goal 2003 Getting It Right from the Taking Off the Mask - Investing in the GoalStartQuality, Confidence and Resources, Resolve andResults in Public Education. Quality Public Schools1999 Summit: Readers toAchieversContinual Improvement anduse of data Demings PDSA(Plan, Do, Study, Act) CycleHord, Dufour, and Eaker(1998) used the termProfessional LearningCommunity361 FY 2007-08 Plan for Student Success