Results Driven Accountability Federal Programs Division Hanna Skandera Secretary of Education
New Mexico Public Education Department
Denise Koscielniak Director of Federal Programs
Results Driven Accountability (RDA) History • Message from Secretary Arne Duncan • Shift from compliance to outcomes • 2011 Continuous Improvement Visit (CIV) • Must focus on measurable indicator(s) • 2nd State to pilot plan
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NM’s RDA Plan • Stakeholder Meeting 2011 o Focus on state efforts o Elementary-level reading o Overall school improvements (school grades) o Lowest quartile (students with disabilities, low socio-economic status, Native American students)
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RDA • NM’s plan o Supports A-F school grading o Focuses on reading growth rates especially in grades K-3 o Supports Reads to Lead o Math and positive behavioral interventions and supports o Includes parent involvement and funding for parent centers for parent training
o Title I and Special Education Collaboration o Shared FTE o IDEA B State Directed Activities funds o Fiscal plan – support RDA activities o REC Support o IDEA Advisory Panel
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RDA Cont’d • Site Selection and Consideration o C, D or F school grade o Quartile 1 Grade o High % spec. ed. enrollment o School-wide Title I o Elementary Schools o 50% sites high Native American population
• Coordination with Priority Schools Bureau • Collaboration with Literacy Bureau
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• Keep on implementing plan • Guidelines forthcoming
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“It’s Official” RDA Next Steps Other States
• RDA announced o Accountability o State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP)
• How to scale up o Infrastructure o Alignment of state initiatives o Implementation • HR • Fiscal
New Mexico
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RDA or SSIP • Student oriented • 5 year plan (2014/152018/19) • Does not have to be state-wide • Includes scale up • Must relate to other indicators o Reading Proficiency – direct o Disproportionate Representation – direct o Other indirect indicators 12
Phase I SSIP
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Phase I
IDEA Data Center
RDA Data Analysis • State Reading Assessment • NAEP • NMSBA & PARCC • Graduation Rates • Drop-out Rates • Suspension/Expulsion • Disproportionality • State Demographics, including poverty 15
Increased Graduation Rates
Decreased Drop Out Rates
Improved Q1 grade
Reading Proficiency through Early Reading Initiative
Decreased Discipline Infractions
Improved School Grade
Decreased Inappropriate Referrals
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RDA in the Title I Bureau • RDA is housed in the Title I bureau of PED, funded through special education (the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act – IDEA Part B and D) • In-kind support Title I staff and combined FTE • At risk students and students with disabilities tend to score in the lowest quartile (the lowest 25%) • Focus is on lowest quartile, but important to support entire school improvement o Most students with disabilities spend most of their time in general education classrooms
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Priority Schools Support Results Driven Accountability Interventions Desk-top Monitoring
State-identified Measurable Result(s) (SIMR) for Children with Disabilities A description of the result(s) the State intends to achieve through the implementation of the SSIP. The State-identified result(s) must be aligned to an SPP/APR indicator or a component of an SPP/APR indicator. The State-identified result(s) must be clearly based on the Data and State Infrastructure Analyses and must be a child-level outcome in contrast to a process outcome. The State may select a single result (e.g., increasing the graduation rate for children with disabilities) or a cluster of related results (e.g., increasing the graduation rate and decreasing the dropout rate for children with disabilities).
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SIMR New Mexico’s State Identified Measurable Result (SIMR) is: By federal fiscal year (FFY) 2018, 47.8% of students with disabilities in Results Driven Accountability schools will score benchmark on the End of Year DIBELS-Next Composite. Baseline data and targets are measurable and rigorous Baseline data from 2013 indicate that 37.8% of students with disabilities in Results Driven Accountability (RDA) schools scored benchmark on the End of Year DIBELS-Next Composite. Reaching the 2018 goal of 47.8% represents a 26% increase in achievement from the baseline data, collected in FFY 2013. FFY 2013 – FFY 2018 Targets FFY Target
2014 39.8
2015 41.8
2016 43.8
2017 45.8
2018 47.8
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Phase II SSIP
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Phase II
IDEA Data Center
Measures Outputs • Program Accomplishments • Direct Results of Activities • Description and number of products and events • Customer contacts with products and events • Fidelity of program activities
IDEA Data Center
Short-Term Outcomes • What customers and people learn as a result of outputs • What awareness, attitudes, or skills they develop
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Measures Intermediate Outcomes • Changes in adult actions or behaviors based in knowledge • Fidelity of the planned interventions • Improved organizational functioning • Improved system functioning IDEA Data Center
Long-Term Outcomes • Broad program outcomes • Results that fulfill the program’s goals • Impact on children and families • Program sustainability, or what ensures or promotes scale-up and sustainability 25
Formative Evaluation
IDEA Data Center
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Summative Evaluation
IDEA Data Center
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We are seeing results with result driven accountability