SIA Kansas Kick Off

In February, 2010, the Standards-in-Action Eagle team leads for the Mathematics Content Standards, Rebecca Rhaesa, Salina Adult Education Center; Janet Daley, Johnson County Community College Adult Education Center; Rosemary Lischka, Kansas City Kansas Community College On Track along with Michelle Carson, Kansas Board of Regents Adult Education made the trip to Washington D.C. for our first look at the national diffusion of the Standards-In-Action Innovations. Kansas adult education was one of only seven states to be given the opportunity to participate. After two-days of training and planning, the leads returned to Kansas to truly put our standards-in-action!

We kicked off the Kansas diffusion of Standards-in-Action on April 9 in Overland Park, Kansas.   Project leads were joined by their fellow team members and the program directors:

Salina Adult Education Center		Johnson County Community College Adult Education		Kansas City Kansas Community College On Track
Director: Kelly Mobray Lead: Rebecca Rhaesa		Director: Susan McCabe Lead: Janet Daley		Director: Rosemary Lischka Lead: Rosemary Lischka
Team Members: Myrt Falk Donna Munsch LouAnne Snavely		Team Members: Dawn Woods Margery Downey Christy Green Kathy Wiley Dixie Wantoch		Team Members: Melvin Rice Yussuf Al-Hassan Bob Davidson

Program teams participated in learning how to “unpack” standards and determine the bloom’s cognitive domain level of the standard.  Once teachers identified the skills, concepts and context of the standards, they learned how to write sample activities for each standard.  Following some practice sample activity writing, teachers played a game of jeopardy to see if they could correctly identify the standard from the description of the activity.  Armed with these new tools, the program teams went home to unpack and create in order to help them better understand the standards they teach!  We meet again May 7—look for my post after that meeting!  We will be sharing project team members’ reflections on their interaction with the implementation of the first innovation!

Michelle Carson, M.S. Adult Education
Associate Director of Adult Education
Professional Development and Program Improvement
Kansas Board of Regents
e-mail: mcarson@ksbor.org