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Robert: Thank you for logging on to the Civics

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for MCAS-Alt webinar.

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In this webinar, you'll
learn all of the aspects,

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the requirements to
complete the civics domain

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for the MCAS-Alt.

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There are several important features

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of the civics assessment.
In the civics assessment,

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there are core ideas,
practices, curriculum,

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and cross curriculum.

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The core ideas.

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This is an important unit

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or topics to understand
about the civics assessment.

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There are foundations

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and development of the US political system

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and government core idea A.

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Core idea B covers institutions

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and structures of the US
government and Massachusetts state

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and local governments.

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Core idea C covers the rights

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and responsibilities, the
US Constitution and news

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and media literacy.

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Important topic also is practices.

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Practices encourages a range
of in instructional approaches

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for each core idea.

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Each core idea integrates
specific practices,

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civics practices, and embeds
them within the entry point.

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We will talk more about
practices in the later slides.

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Curriculum. Curriculum
allows educators to teach

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and assess a cohesive civics unit.

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Rather than assessing a
single skill in isolation,

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it's really important to
know cross curriculum.

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Cross curriculum is an opportunities

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and in encourages assessment
of multiple entry points

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or access skills in a single strand, such

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as informational text, vocabulary,
acquisition, and writing.

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These are the features
of the civics assessment

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that we will go through

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and explain over the next few slides.

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On this particular slide, I'm
going to go through an overview

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of the civics assessment

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regarding the core
ideas and the practices.

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I already mentioned earlier

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that about the specific core ideas.

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It's important to know

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that the practices are embedded in each

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particular core idea.

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So for core idea A, the
foundations of the development

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of the use political
system practices one, four,

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and five are embedded in
that particular core idea.

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In core idea B institutions

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and structure of the US
government practices one, three,

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and six are embedded in core idea B

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and in core IDEA C, rights
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The US Constitution, news

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and media literacy practices one, two,

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and seven are embedded in core idea C.

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Very important to recognize is

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that there is one completed
MCAS-Alt skill survey

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that has to be submitted.

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It's completed. That
covers core idea A, B,

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and C for the MCAS-Alt civics.

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Now I'm going to,

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going to speak a little bit about the MCAS-Alt

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civics skills survey.

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There are three important
parts to remember.

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The civic skills survey is
completed, one, for each

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of the core ideas.

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Two, teachers should check boxes

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to see if a student can perform
the practice independently

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or at least sometimes independently.

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Three, then the teacher
will select entry points

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for the assessment that bets meets the

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student's level of need.

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For example, teachers working

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with students at the access
skill will check the box.

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My student cannot perform any
skills in this civics core

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idea, and that will determine whether

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or not they're going to be
working on access skills

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or entry points.

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Here's an example of the MCAS-
Alt Civics skills survey.

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This is an example for core idea B,

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and you see in the right hand side

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of your screen the title
core idea B institutions

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and structures of the US government

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and Massachusetts State
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Here's the skill survey.

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You can see the skill survey
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three, and six.

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You'll look through each of these skills

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and determine whether or not
the student can complete them.

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If the student can complete them,

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you'll put an X next to the box.

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They group less complex to more complex.

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In the bottom, you'll see in the bottom,

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my student cannot perform any

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of the skills in this civic score idea.

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If this particular box is
checked, this will indicate

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that you will need to
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for your particular student.

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We'll talk more about
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in this presentation.

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There are three important core ideas.

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As I mentioned before,
core idea A, core idea B

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and core idea C.

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The skills survey for the MCA result,

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civic exam covers all three core ideas

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for the civics practices.

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For your reference,

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the seven C civics
practices are incorporated

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into the skill survey.

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I'm going to speak a little bit
about the MCAS-Alt civics

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grade eight resource guide.

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The MCAS-Alt civics
grade eight resource guide

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has core ideas.

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Each core idea lists, related topics

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or big ideas to assist
educators to assist teachers.

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The civics resource guide and forms

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and graphs online lists
minimum entry points

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for these core ideas.

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Entry points include multiple skills

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and allow the teacher

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to differentiate the activity based on the

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student's abilities.

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There are also access skills.

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Access skills have their
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of each core idea.

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Please know that we
have only the big ideas

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and essential entry points
and access skills listed

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and the resource guide.

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Each MCAS-Alt result

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for the civics domain must
include a strand cover sheet

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for the civic strand.

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Here is an example of the
civic strand cover sheet,

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which will include the
student's name, the grade,

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and information on the three
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B, and C.

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Again, this is the strand cover
sheet that will be included.

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I will speak a little bit about
the essential requirements

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for the civics MCAS-Alt.

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Each core idea requires
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Again, there are three
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to be covered, A, B, and C.

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So for each of these you'll
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that includes what entry point

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or access skill, the
evidence that is attached

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that demonstrates the
selected skill or skills

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and which documents accuracy

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and independence for the evidence.

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Also, you'll have included self-evaluation

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on the summary sheet.

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Here you'll see an example
of a civic summary sheet.

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Each of these, again, will be
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They'll include a
student's name, date, that

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the skill was completed on, and the grade.

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You'll indicate whether
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or access skill.

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You must include a detailed
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and summarize the student's
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and independence for the
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or the evidence if you will.

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And in the bottom of this
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you'll include the self-evaluation

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for the student for your reference.

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Here's examples of entry
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guide for civics.

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For core idea A,

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you'll see on the left
there's a list of entry points

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for core idea B.

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You'll see in the middle
slide a middle picture.

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There are entry points
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and for core idea C,

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you'll see here these are the entry points

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that you'll select from

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for the particular students
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Here's a more detailed aspect of how

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to select an entry point
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You'll see on the left hand side

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of this detailed entry
point picture the core idea

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below the core idea of the practices

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and the list of entry points.

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You can see the entry point
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for this particular student,

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and these are how the core ideas

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and practices are embedded
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This particular entry point
that I selected is identify

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or create a list of rules

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that students follow in
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or community, using information
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text images, and or other media.

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to selecting entry
points is the process

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to select access skills
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However, an important distinction
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to proceed for an access skill.

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First, you'll select the skill
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For example, I will select grasp, release,

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or give materials in an
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I'll be collecting data on this
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in the content area.

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So after I selected that particular skill,

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I'm going to select the content.

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The core idea is going to be
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that access skill with identifying

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or creating a list of rules

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that students follow in the classroom.

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And on the next slide, you'll see
how this looks when I slept,

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when I select step one
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Here's a sample of an access skill, grasp

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or release give materials

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and an activity related to identifying

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or creating a list of rules

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that students follow in the
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Using information from firsthand
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and or other media.

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Again, access skills
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here's a completed sample
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You have three civics summary sheets,

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three pieces of evidence,
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of the summary sheets and three
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One self-evaluation for each piece

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of evidence and summary sheet.

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These are the requirements
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for the MCAS-Alt as an overview, here's

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what a completed MCAS-Alt
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for student in grade eight.

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The step-by-step requirements,

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you'll have one Civics
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You'll need one Civics strand cover sheet,

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and three civics summary sheets.

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Again, it's important to know you need one

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for each core idea A, B, and C.

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Each summary sheet will document the entry

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point or access skill.

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Again, the evidence that
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access, skill and accuracy
independence for the student.

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Remember, this particular
MCAS-Alt for civics is only

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for students in grade eight.

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And now let's see how we're going

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to build this particular portfolio.

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I guess all for grade eight
civics and forms and graphs.

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Kevin: So here we are on forms and graphs.

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Again, this is the login page.

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I'm not going to go into
the the whole building of

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to create an account and
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If you've never used your this
site, if you are new to this,

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just make sure you go back

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and watch the core concepts session,

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particularly part A in
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We break down how to create
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and create a student for the first time

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and then the real building blocks.

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But for the purposes of this,
we're just interested in how

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to do this civics strand.

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So I'm going to log in

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and here I have my student
list that I have going.

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If you've joined us, we,

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we've built out a grade
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and that core concepts and in writing.

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But because now we're
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to have a grade eight student.

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Civics is only required for
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So I'm just going to drop in a new student,

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give it a name.

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I'm going to leave everything else blank.

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I'm just going to get
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to have a grade eight student.

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So I'm going to drop in
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and now I'll go to my table of contents

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for my grade eight student that I have.

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And just like any other
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for MCA salt, you still need to start

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with that skill survey.

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So we'll click skill survey.

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I'll drop in a new skill survey

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to actually launch it.

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You get generic line, go to skill survey,

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and there's just one choice for civics.

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So civics, skill survey,
grade eight, start

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with the date at the top,

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and then you can just
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There's some instructions at the top,

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but the, the real essence of
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the slides previous, you'll
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core idea B, and core idea C.

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And you just need to make
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each of those three.

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So you can read through the skills

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and identify what the student can do

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independently at least some of the time.

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And then you're just going
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or whatever is appropriate for

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the ability of the student.

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So I've got one in section A, section B,

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I'll click off a few.

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beyond the current level of the student,

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if they're all just a little
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down at the bottom, you'll see
my student cannot perform any

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of the skills in that civic core idea.

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So you can click that and that'll count

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as at least one click.

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We'll go back to the
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page, they'll all turn green.

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So if you skip a section,
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that you missed one, because
it will not unlock the strand

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when you create it if you don't have a

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complete skill survey.

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checkbox in each of the three core ideas.

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So we, we did that.

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So let's go back to our table of contents.

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And we did our skill survey.

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So now let's create that civic strand.

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We'll go to our strand cover
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We want civics, click. Okay.

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And there's only one civic strand.

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So there's not much of a choice here.

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So it'll pre-select it for you.
Just click select strand.

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And here you go. So it started
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It's pulled in the student
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and then it'll pre-populate
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So the re remember the
requirement is you have to have

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a civic summary sheet, one each
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So it's pre-populated it here for you.

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You just need to fill in the blanks.

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So you have to submit A, A, A, B,

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and a C to launch each summary sheet.

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Just click on the line, go to
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and then we'll give it another date.

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And then if you've done any MCAS-Alts

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or done any of the trainings

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before, this is somewhat similar

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where you're selecting an entry point.

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These look like check boxes.

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You can try to click on
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When you select the skill,
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and development of the
US political system.

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The full resource guide is here too.

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So if you want to look ahead of
time and you can just do that

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and it'll just launch the
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for you, which I know I'm scrolling fast.

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But here are all the standards.

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And then the related, once we get to them,

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there's lots of standards,

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entry points and access
skills for civics grade eight.

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But you can use this big
red button, find entry

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and access to actually just
pick one direct from the site.

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You don't have to go
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they'll be filtered for you.

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The resource guide will
open everything core idea

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A, B, and C.

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But when I click find entry

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or access, it'll start you on entry.

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That's where most of you will go.

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And access skills, we'll look
at when we do core idea B,

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but it'll automatically
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And it's a short list by default.

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There's not a ton to choose from,

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but they're all linked
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So you just need to find
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that you want to do with the student.

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So let's choose show express,

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why communities have rules or laws.

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Click it and it'll drop
that right in there for you

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and put in a resource guide page number.

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And then there's really
not a ton more to do.

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you just do a description of the activity.

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So what is it that you're
going to do with the student?

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What represents the evidence
that you're going to submit?

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This is just a a big old text box.

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So you can just, just like
any other strand in MCAS-Alt,

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just describing what it is,
the materials, the approach,

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how this student addressed the skill.

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And then you have got a spot for accuracy

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and a spot for independence.

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And then self-evaluation.

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We won't dip into
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Again, I believe that's part B

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of the core concepts breaks
down self-evaluation.

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So you can describe a choice
the student made here,

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or if you've got a standalone
form that you use for all

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of your self-evaluation,
the ever popular C attached,

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it's just giving you a box to describe

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how self-evaluation took place.

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And that's it, that that.

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And then you have the evidence
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And that would be at least core idea.

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A, you fill this from top to bottom

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and you're one third of the way there.

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They, you've met the
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So let's go back to our strand cover sheet

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and we'll take a look at core idea B.

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And this time we'll
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'cause it's a little bit different than

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what you might have seen
choosing an access skill in the

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past for other strands.

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So let's go to summary sheet for B

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and pretend it's today again,

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and everything's the same
except now it's filtering

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everything for core idea B institutions

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and structures of US government.

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So when I do fine entry
access here, again,

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it'll start me at entry points.

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So here are all those entry points for B,

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but when I do access skills

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and it, it works the same for A, B

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or C, it, it doesn't matter.

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The approach is the same.
It's a two step process.

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So the first thing it's going
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that skill that you're addressing?

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What is the real access skill

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that you're taking data
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Are they grasping and releasing materials?

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Are they tracking materials?

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So it's sort of the functional
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that you will be addressing
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So step one is it says you,

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you choose whatever approach it is.

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It's a list of about 14 or
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So let's say we're going to grasp, release

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or give materials in
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And part two is the second
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So once I choose this,
it'll unlock the skills.

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So here you have the
route that we selected,

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and if you change your mind

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or you just selected the wrong one,

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if you just do view list
change skill, it'll pop back

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to there and you can
select something else,

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but we'll, we'll stick with our grasp.

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And then you're just
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of the content that's related to that.

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Again, you're going to take data
on their ability to grasp,

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release, or give
materials in the activity,

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but it's within the context
of with the academic context

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for civics is, and they
match all the entry points.

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It's the same skill. So if
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and you've got some access

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and some entry, you can
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but you're just, again,

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taking the data on this
part when you're truly

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doing access skills.

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So let's say we're going to grasp, release

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or give about proposing

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or revising a classroom or community rule.

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So when I select the content,
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So it'll take the root of that access

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and then put the content.

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And that will give you your access skill.

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So same but different.

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It's just a two step approach
to do the access skill.

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And then the rest of the
form is exactly the same.

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If you're doing an access
skill, you've got your

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description,

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accuracy and independence,
and then self eval.

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So that's a entry point you,
you necessarily wouldn't mix

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and match an entry in an access skill.

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But I just wanted to
show you both approaches.

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So if we go back to
our strand cover sheet,

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now we've done A, and it's
populated, we've done B,

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you lather, rinse, repeat
that process for C,

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it's the exact same thing.

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You launch this summary
sheet, select an entry point,

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just time just for C,

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and then complete the rest of that form.

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And then when you go back, other
than attaching the evidence

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to each of those for
A, B, and C, that's it.

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That's a complete civic strand.

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You just need to have a selection of A, B,

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and C one of each.

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All need to be represented.

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And then to print this out,

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every page you could print individually,

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but if you've seen the other
presentations, it's here.

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Again, this print options,

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you can just print the cover sheet,

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but if you do the print multiple,

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it'll stitch it all together for you.

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It'll open a new tab,
grab that cover sheet.

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We didn't finish C, but that
would be complete if you did,

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it'll look back and
grab your skill survey.

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And then here's our A, our B,

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and our partially done C.

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So it'll stitch it all together
for you. And that's it.

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There's really not a whole lot to it.

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It's really just the two forms.

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You've got your cover sheet,
and then you've got your

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summary sheet for A, B,

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and C, including the
evidence for each of those.

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And you are done. It's
pretty straightforward,

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not a whole lot to submit,

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to do a complete civics for grade eight.

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So there you go. Thank you.

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And now we'll go back to the presentation

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and, and wrap things up.

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Thank you.

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Robert: Okay. I want to thank you for listening

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to this particular webinar
for understanding how

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to complete a civics MCAS-Alt
for students in grade eight.

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If you have any questions,
please email mcas@mass.gov

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or call 781-338-3625
for more information

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on the MCAS-Alt.

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Thank you for your time.