Updated SRSN BOE Presentation 043025

Success Ready Student Network Presentation to the Board of Education April 30, 2025

Success Ready Students Network (SRSN) ● Collaborative initiative connecting Missouri public schools ● Goal: to build districts’ capacity to understand and use a competency-based approach to personalize learning for every student to have the knowledge, skills and dispositions they need to be high school, college, career and workplace ready

Competency Based Learning ● Students are empowered daily to make important decisions about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning. ● Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence. ● Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs. ● Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time. ● Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing. ● Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems. ● Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable. ● Students engage in Real World Learning experiences that support high school, college, career and workplace readiness.* A competency-based school should implement all seven elements of the definition. Strong implementation also requires policies, pedagogy, structures, and culture that support every student. * Real World Learning as an eighth element is a Missouri addition to the definition of CBL. Source: https://aurora-institute.org/our-work/competencyworks/competency-based-education/

Clayton’s Membership ● SRSN Initial Membership- 2023-2024 school year ○ Innovative Learning Design Zone ■ Monthly Professional Learning ● BOE approved our participation in SRSN-System Design Zone (SDZ) 3 in fall 2024 ○ SDZ participants engage in study and research to deepen understanding of competency based learning practices and collaborate on state and federal waiver requests ● Cohort Meetings ● Professional Learning ● Demonstration Project

SRSN- Demonstration Project - Waiver Request ● Utilizes Statute 161.214 to request a waiver from specific statutes, MSIP 6 rules, standards and indicators. Continuous Improvement Framework with Dashboard (telling our story including use interim assessments). Federal accountability is separate link on the Dashboard. ● Separate from the Statutory 161.214 process participate with DESE in a federal waiver request to use interim assessments as evidence of meeting 3-8 federal testing requirements and for a period of time defined in the request to not administer MAP. This will include addressing accountability requirements.

SRSN SDZ Cohort 3 Items Requested to be Waived in the SRSN Innovation Waiver Plan Recommendation (1) Replace the existing Missouri School Improvement Program (MSIP) 6 Annual Performance Report (APR) with an alternative APR. Recommended1 (2) Develop alternative measures of literacy and numeracy for students in grades 3-8. Recommended1 (3) Develop alternative measures of literacy and numeracy for students in high school. Recommended1 (4) Demonstrate student employability and postsecondary readiness through Market Value Assets. Recommended1 (5) Implement Market Value Assets leading students to attain career readiness credentials. Recommended1 (6) Use SRSN-designated assessments in state accountability systems instead of the MAP Grade-Level and End-of- Course assessments. Recommended2 (7) Hold classification status constant for member LEAs. Recommended3 (8) Waive school calendar requirements for member LEAs. Not Recommended

What are Market Value Assets? (Future Ready Skills) ● A market value asset (MVA) is a cornerstone experience that prepares a student for future learning and employment. MVAs are authentic previews of the world of work or post-secondary education. While the professional and academic worlds are ever-changing, the outgrowths students develop when they work on authentic projects with real employers and mentors are durable enough to benefit them throughout their lives.

State Examples of MVAs ● Internships ● Client Connected Projects ● Entrepreneurial Experiences ● Industry Recognized Credentials ● College Credit ○ AP ○ Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit

Clayton Examples of MVAs ● Global Education Experiences ● Seal of Biliteracy ● Catalyst ● Project Lead the Way (PLTW) assessments ● Early College Program ● Advanced Placement (AP) ● Client Connected Projects ○ Global Stem Squads ○ Geometry in Construction ○ AMPed on Algebra ○ …

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Timeline ● Spring 2025 - Board Resolution ● Fall 2025 - State Board of Education Approval of Resolutions for Cohort 3 ● 2025-2026 school year - Clayton begins to use alternative measures and reporting ● Ongoing work with SRSN to change MAP to a standards aligned series of interim assessments