Dinowitz asks what structure DOE will use to review rubrics for rigor citywide
Dinowitz asks what level—school, superintendent, or central—will review rubrics. Cheng outlines the sequence: state standards, DOE academic guidelines, curriculum team quality review, and backward mapping from Portrait competencies.
And I just, that was the easiest answer you ever got.
And I just want to make sure, certain schools report that in the past, rubrics were submitted to the state for a rigor review.
What structure does the DOE anticipate?
And at what level, school superintendent central, for ensuring the rigor?
Is it?
I heard you say you review his rubrics for the portfolio-based assessment.
Your goal is to review all of the rubrics across the city centrally?
So I think I want to outline sort of the sequence of things and the system that has to be in place.
The state education department sets out the state standards.
And for a long time, they've set an exit exam for specific courses.
But you know what we will do here in the city is to be able to work with our Office of Policy and Evaluation.
We lay out really clear academic guidelines.
We have our curriculum and teaching team that works with our teachers and our schools to be able to assess the quality of each of the content.
And within that, what we're layering on is that as part of this transition, the state has said across our portrait of our graduate competencies, these are specific.
Proficiencies that are critical for students to be able to find ways of mastering over time.
And so what we're excited about doing is to be able to work collaboratively with our schools to be able to say, once that language that the state is able to put out,
And then we can then begin to backwards map and say, well, what is the progression for us to be able to get there?
We know that this does not only occur in high school.
We need to be able to develop research skills in elementary schools as well as middle school.
That then results in a set of standards and progressions that is tailored to each of our grade bands.
From there, we will work collectively with our schools to provide the...
necessary training and norming around what are the different ways that students can use to be able to demonstrate mastery of that particular skill over time.