As we transition to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), I would be remiss if I didn't take a little time to make the connection(s) between the great work you've started with Differentiated Accountability (DA) with ESSA.
Below you will find a helpful graphic that begins to connect these two initiatives. You will find the support and requirement at each level of both ESSA and DA. The celebration is that as I mentioned earlier....some of this work has already started in your district.
So....where do you go from here? Below you will find a few recommendations to get started with:
- Begin talking to your stakeholders! Below you will find a couple of resources that might help
- Make sure you have a team in place that is meeting on a regular basis to start working the Differentiated Accountability action plan
- Confirm that all PK-6 students are completing the Universal Screening assessment (i.e., FAST) 3 x per year
- Establish classwide interventions in classrooms that struggle to meet benchmarks
- Assign interventions to learners for whom universal instruction alone is not sufficient. To identify initial instructional needs, we highly recommend completing Learner Step 2 (Instructional Sorts)
- Ensure that students that are not meeting benchmark are provided with a research-based interventions that will remediate the identified skill deficit
- Frequently monitor the effectiveness of interventions and make appropriate adjustments
- Verify that weekly progress monitoring occurs and is recorded properly for those students that are Persistently at Risk or At-Risk
- CELEBRATE the successes you see.
RESOURCES to use to Begin Talking to Your Stakeholders about ESSA
- Every Student Succeeds Act in Iowa ppt from Statewide Curriculum Network (Fall 2017)
- Iowa Department of Education ESSA webpage
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