Present: Roger Bordeaux, Sherry Johnson, Barb Paquin, Alfreda Janis, Brian Oconnor, Dee Lone Hill, Ted Hamilton, John Cedar Face.

Review Last Meeting Notes:

Barb Paquin: Found a good bit of materials and brought copies here (will be posted to www.osdlc.org) also available at http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/stateplans03/index.html

Nebraska is using a program called STARS called School Based Teacher Led Assessment Reporting System. At http://www.nde.state.ne.us/stars/index.html

Nebraska has decided to do a writing, reading, multiple-performance test and a national test. Lots of information and very definitive. Best place to start is accountability workbook. On Page 9 you are given a url for access to Star.

State Accountability workbook for South Dakota is also available on government site. Nebraska bases a great deal of work on portfolio with Mastery components. Base system on four components Five level of performance for rubric. Have not been able to find State report number or how they figure that number.
Six critical areas for assessment, checklists, stars format, portfolio documentation, observations of teachers. Mostly based on rubrics.

Looks like a model that we would like to look at seriously. (Roger)
Two good points is rubrics and process for mastery must be addressed (Barb)

Continue to look at other models. Send stuff to Brian and have him post as related link.

Content Standards Stuff

Barb brought Scope and Sequence. Needs to forward to Ted/Brian so she can send it to everyone.

Roger sent Tiospa Zina and State scope and sequence to review.

Assessment Stuff

Wounded Knee and Enemy Swim

Sherry called DOE and received blueprint of Dakota Step test. Only in reading comprehension and math problem solving. Only part state is dealing with is the fifty questions in comprehension for accountability. Only the augmentation that they are rating the state AYP system on. You can access that under assessment. Document should be posted there. You can see reading/vocabulary.

In math 111 questions according to state plan 42 questions are meaningless in AYP calculations. Document stuff is broken 3-8,11.

Sherry reported on Tuesday’s meeting with BIA/State

Dr. Smith talked about BIA transitional plan and state accountability plan. Walked people through the document with state representative State Kruismark (SP?). Eight points on BIA transitional plan. Since BIA time frame ran out, since negotiated rulemaking is not done, we are in limbo. If we decide to go with state reporting method you have to use the whole thing, not part of it. We can report NCE’s in past or all of state school. It was stated that each school chooses what they want to report.

48% was reported at San Diego, then told us completely different thing at Pierre. BIA plan is an old plan and is an MOA and that negotiated rulemaking has not put something in place. Must state which data must be reported. Need to tell CSI. Very adamant about getting cd-roms to verify data. Some test scores are coming back to schools.

Does this provide an open door for a school that does not make AYP because of limbo. Tell them reportable data and then it is up to CSI to respond. Annual report is supposed to be on-line and Bonnie Haines has copy in her possession. Present plan does not have a safe harbor provision in it.

Other thing that we need to do as a group is to find with augmented portions of Dakota Steps we need to find out what reliability and validity for sub-groups of Native American and if those data are available. Had a hard time to find that for SAT 9 and would be surprised if they can do that.

[Roger]
Need to find out what BIA is going to use for AYP. Apparently there is a question as to what assessment you can use. May have complete choice. One of us need to write to state superintendent and ask for validity and reliability information.

Cost work on determining language and culture Elfreda said schools have to pay for edutest. When we get to point to get to joint standards these companies and others can be some that would help.

Ted needs to contact Nebraska to see what they are doing.

Little Wound was going to work on N. No report at this time.

Other two
Relationship to doing a timeline/graduation rates all supposed to be done by Chris. Barb mentioned that Bonnie Haines mentioned that graduation was based on enrolled seniors and how many graduate.

What we need to do is:

Blueprint that we could fill out is on another site. Barb will send site to Ted. Go to DOE web sites and put in accountability workbooks you will get a blank document.

[Roger]Main thing to convince schools is area of content standards and assessments of those content standards. Doubts if BIA will be ready for this by next year. Negotiated Rulemaking will be earliest by next September. Main stuff is developing workable content standards and then assessments for those standards.

Create set of standards for 3-8 in reading and math and any grade in High School. Determine if we look at spring of sophomore year or Senior year.

How do we do research this summer?

Have person hired by OSEC to collect content standards by schools and to put together a first draft of what the schools have. Is there money within ILC to do some contract work to bring reading and math people together and pay them a stipend and travel to create a first draft. Brian Oconnor and Ted will gather existing content standards by grade and subject area. Then an analysis of all three and what is same at grade level.

Bring some reading and math people together in July and use staff people in schools to work with those people based on what Brian puts together.

Sherry and Roger will try to put together a week session. Will put agenda together for reading and math people with two representative with authority to approve initial draft.
Stipend and travel costs in coordination with that

We can get vendors together discuss what to do after the standards have been created.

Elfreda will talk to ONEC this weekend. Roger will talk with Debbie too. As soon as BIA sends out there rulings we can then use OIEP for technical assistance.

Sherry says the buzzword is everyone is waiting to see what Roger is doing.

June 21st will be our next meeting. Pierre and if we need to meet with Pierre and two other sites. Will be starting at 12:00 noon. CST. Pine Ridge, Pierre as sites.