2007 Assessment Conference Agenda

Monday April 23, 2007

7:00 am - 8:30 am Hotel Lobby	Late Registration and Pick Up Conference Packets
7:30 am - 8:30 am Ballroom	Breakfast - sponsored by Touchstone Applied Science Associates
8:30 am - 8:45 am Ballroom	Opening Remarks - Conference Kickoff Linda McCulloch and Judy Snow
8:45 am - 9:45 am Ballroom	Steve V. Winnick, Senior Counsel, Holland & Knight LLP Building and Using State Education Systems Consistent with Federal Student Privacy Laws
9:45 am - 10:00 am	Break - Sponsored by Measured Progress
10:00 am - 11:15 am Clark	Flexible Grouping from Data (DIBELS)
10:00 am - 11:15 am Senate	8th Grade Technology Literacy Requirements of NCLB
10:00 am - 11:15 am Lewis	Formative Assessments
10:00 am - 11:15 am Gallery	AIM Nuts & Bolts
10:00 am - 11:15 am Montana	English Language Proficiency (ELP) Assessment
10:00 am - 11:15 am Governor	Leading Teachers through Instructional Alignment with iAnalyze
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Lewis	Life of an Item
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Clark	Monitoring New Principals - Leadership Coaching & Support to Become an Excellent Instructional School Leader
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Gallery	AYP A to Z
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Montana	LEPs: Unsolved Mysteries
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Senate	CRT - Alternate and Interrater Reliability
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Governor	Using the "Step Up to Writing" Format & Literacy Strategies to Increase Reading Test Scores
12:30 pm - 1:30 PM Ballroom	Lunch - Sponsored by OPI, Vantage Learning & Riverside Publishing Capital High School Jazz Band will be performing
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Lewis	Formative Assessment Panel
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Clark	School Support Teams - Correlates and Indicators for Effective Schools
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Gallery	Using Data to Inform Instruction (K-2)
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Montana	Assessing the Instructional Effectiveness of Online Courses
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Senate	Supporting Students with Disabilities to participate in MontCAS (Accommodations)
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Governor	iAnalyze and CRt Released Item Training
3:00 p.m - 3:15 pm Ballroom	Break
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm Lewis	Measuring Growth on the Criterion Referenced Test
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm Clark	More Meaningful Classroom Assessment
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm Gallery	Science Standards & Science CRT
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm Montana	Teachers' Expectations of Student Performance
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm Senate	Student Test Scores: Is the School All that Counts?
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm Governor	Using Data to Drive Instruction & Meet AYP Targets - A Principal's Perspective

Tuesday April 24, 2007
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.	Registration and Pick Up Conference Packets
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast - Sponsored by OPI & CTB/McGraw Hil
8:30 am - 8:45 am	Welcome - Bud Williams and Judy Snow
8:45 am - 9:45 am	Kati Haycock, Director, The Education Trust Improving Achievement and Closing Gaps Between Groups
9:45 am - 10:00 am	Break - Sponsored by Measured Progress
10:00 am - 11:15 am	AIM Update
	Quality Control in State Assesment
	Culturally Proficient Instruction & Indian Education for All
	iAnalyze - Security & Reporting
	Test Security - What You Need to Know
	Classroom Activities to Familiarize Students with the Math Portion of the CRT

11:15 am- 12:30 pm	Tips & Ideas on How to Use Data to Positively Impact Your Students' Performance
	MontCAS Update & NAEP
	Use of Accommodations for Instruction & Assessment of Students with Disabilities
	Using Smart Board & Classroom Performance System Technolog to Improve Student MontCAS Performance
	Assessment Data to Classroom Strategies: Designing a PIR Day for Staff

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch - Sponsored by Infinite Campus
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Roundtable Conversations and Questions and Answers
	AIM - OPI and Infinite Campus
	College Students Questions & Answers
	Test Coordinators
	iAnalyze Security and Reporting Roundtable
	AYP & Effectiveness Reports