Arizona Department of Education

STANDARDS ARTICULATION BY GRADE LEVEL PROJECT

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Dr. Wade McLean Nadine Mathis Basha Superintendent Tom Horne Armida G. Bittner Dr. Michael M. Crow Dr. Matthew A. Diethelm Joanne Hilde Evangelina "Conkie" Hoover Catherine D. Kasper President 2003 Vice-President 2003 Executive Officer County School Superintendent University President Public Member Public Member Community College Board Rep. Classroom Teacher

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STANDARDS ARTICULATION BY GRADE LEVEL PROJECT

ADMINISTRATION
Tom Horne
Superintendent of Public Instruction

Tacy Ashby
Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction

Pat Loughrin, Ed.D.

Associate Superintendent for Research, Standards and Accountability

FACILITATING STAFF MEMBERS FOR STANDARDS AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Ron Carriveau, Ph.D.
Deputy Associate Superintendent

Donna Kongable
Education Program Specialist

Marie Mancuso
Deputy Associate Superintendent

Beverly Ross
Education Program Specialist

Charles Bruen, Ed.D.

Education Program Administrator

Angeles Rothermel
Administrative Assistant III

Paul Young, Ed.D.

Education Program Administrator

Christine Moody
Administrative Assistant III

Kathy Hrabluk
Education Program Specialist

Brenda Martin
Administrative Assistant III

Kathy Kay
Education Program Specialist ii

Linda Edgington
Librarian II

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READING TEAM
Sylvia A. Allen Cathy Amanti Rich Badone Heather Bates Johanna Bazzill Marilee Beach Frank Brashear Heather Campbell Maria I. Ceniceros Erik G. Chapman Elaine Conway Greg Czekaj Christine DeWitte Kathy Evans Natalie Fernandez Tonya Ford Diane J. Fox Roberta Friedly Vicki Geiger Shannon Gibson Nelda Golden Richard R. Guise Pamela T. Headrick Linda Hedges Nellie Jo Hendricks Kathy Hrabluk Linda James Barbara E. Johnson Kathie Josephs Ilene Kemp Linda Kleck M. Jean Martorana Mary McAskill Dawn Melarvie Debra Miceli Terri Moore Tammy Newell Bobbie Oosterbaan Terry W. Owen Melody M. Pinkston Dee Puff Jennifer Reed Monica S. Reyes-Worman Sandra S. Salabye Dora Samson Marichu Sharp Cheryl Shelley Wilma Soroosh

Nancy Southern
Mary Valenzuela Elaine Watkins Cynthia S. Williams Robert Wortman Whitney Yow Martha Zaye-Kinlicheenie Ann C. Zirkle

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STANDARDS ARTICULATION BY GRADE LEVEL PROJECT

STATE REPRESENTATION
Teachers who worked on the grade level articulation of the mathematics and reading standards came from the cities listed below. The goal was to have representation from large and small districts, urban and rural schools, and geographic and ethnic diversity. Ajo Apache Junction Arizona City Avondale Casa Grande Chandler Claypool Cornville Cottonwood Crown King Douglas Eagar Ganado Gilbert Glendale Hereford Keams Canyon Kingman Lake Havasu City Lakeside Litchfield Park Mammoth Marana Mesa Nogales Oracle Payson Peoria Phoenix Pinetop Pinon Prescott Prescott Valley Queen Creek Safford Sahuarita San Manuel Scottsdale Sierra Vista Somerton St. Michaels Surprise Tacna Teec Nos Pos Tempe Thatcher Winslow Yarnell Yuma

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STANDARDS ARTICULATION BY GRADE LEVEL PROJECT

EXTERNAL REVIEWERS/CONSULTANTS
READING
Louisa Cook Moates, Ed.D., Director of Early Reading Interventions Project, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, is a researcher and author of Parenting a Struggling Reader: A Guide to Diagnosing and Finding Help for Your Child's Reading Difficulties by Susan L. Hall and Louisa C. Moates, and Straight Talk About Reading: How Parents Can Make a Difference During the Early Years by Susan L. Hall and Louisa C. Moats.

Deborah Rhein, MS, a doctoral candidate in Special Education at the University of Arizona and reading researcher, is also a bilingual speechlanguage pathologist. Her interests include the relationship of second language acquisition with literacy acquisition and school success. She is very involved in choosing and collecting data on student assessment measures, assists with teaching the RIME course, and work on a variety of other tasks with Project RIME. Janice Sammons, MA, (University of Arizona) is a reading researcher, Project Coordinator, and contact person for anyone seeking information about Project RIME or Project RIMES 2000. She oversees the general organization of the grants, and works with the collection of articles, materials, and microtasks associated with the project. In addition to her work as a project coordinator, she works as a diagnostician for students seeking information on their learning abilities and needs. Previously, she was an elementary school teacher in California. Sandra Stotsky, Ed.D., (Harvard) is a Senior Associate Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Education. In the past three years, she has directed complete revisions of the Departments English language arts/reading standards, mathematics standards, science and technology/engineering standards, and history/social science standards, all of which were approved by the state Board of Education. She has also planned and directed two research projects on middle school mathematics education, as well as the data collection for numerous research reports on various curricular areas in PreK-12. She is editor of, and a contributor to Whats at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers (Peter Lang, 2000), author of Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Childrens Ability to Read, Write, and Reason (Free Press, 1999, reprinted by Encounter Books, 2002), and Connecting Civic Education and Language Education: The Contemporary Challenge (Teachers College Press, 1991). Dr. Stotsky is also editor of, and a contributor to an appraisal of English language arts standards in 28 states in a 1997 Thomas B. Fordham Foundation monograph, as well as an appraisal of English language

arts standards in 49 states in a 2000 monograph, and Civic Writing in the Classroom (Social Studies Development Center at Indiana University, 1987). She has authored many research reports, essays, and reviews in English language arts and reading journals. From 1991-97, she served as editor of Research in the Teaching of English, the research journal sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English.

Mathematics
Valerie DeBellis, Ed.D., (Rutgers University) Associate Director for Leadership Programs, CMSCE, at Rutgers University, has a forthcoming book publication with Dr. Joe Rosenstein, of the Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, on Discrete Mathematics for the Navigation series of the NCTM. Her main interests are mathematics education and interactions between affect and cognition during mathematical problem solving. Susan K. Eddins, NBCT, MA, (Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign) is a mathematics teacher, an Instructional Facilitator and the Curriculum and Assessment Leader in mathematics at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. She has been an educator since 1970 and was recently nominated to the NCTM Board of Directors. She serves on the Math Standards Committee for the National Board Professional Teaching Standards. As a member of the Council of Presidential Awardees in Mathematics (CPAM), she has done

extensive work on state and local standards as a writer and reviewer, and has been very active in math professional organizations. She was a co-author of the NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.
Ralph Raimi, Ph.D., (Mathematics, University of Michigan) Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, at University of Rochester (1952-Present) has served as a mathematics standards consultant for K-12 mathematics for New York and California, the Learning First Alliance, ACHIEVE, ABCTE, ACT, the Abell Foundation (Maryland), the Empire Foundation (New York), and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (D.C.). He was a Reviewer of the NCTM Standards 2000 (PSSM), referee for the Mathematics Teacher (NCTM), author of forty-five publications, including State Mathematics Standards: An Appraisal of Mathematics Standards in 46 States, the District of Columbia, and Japan (Fordham Foundation), and Judging State Standards for K-12 Mathematics Education, The State of State Standards, 2000 (Fordham Foundation).

Measurement
Jerome V. DAgostino, Ph.D., (University of Chicago) is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Arizona. His research interests include measuring achievement growth, achievement assessment in schools, evaluation of compensatory education programs, and needs assessment evaluation. Dr. DAgostinos teaching specialty areas are measurement, evaluation, and quantitative methods. He is a member of the National Assessment and Accountability Committee for the Arizona Department of Education.

Thomas M. Haladyna, Ph.D., Professor of Educational Psychology at Arizona State University West Campus, is a nationally known expert on testing. He has received a yearlong appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, N.J., and will participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress Testing Program, starting in July 2003. He has written several books and journal articles about achievement testing and has served as a consultant on testing issues for many clients, including state departments of education, school districts, and national certification and licensing boards. Dr. Haladyna's research focuses on test score validity. He is a member of the National Assessment and Accountability Committee for the Arizona Department of Education.
Joseph M. Ryan, Ph.D., (University of Chicago), Professor of Education and Collaborative Programs, and Director of ASU Wests Research Consulting Center, is a nationally known expert in psychometrics, measurement and item response methodology. His work includes the identification of student test score patterns that decrease validity. Dr. Ryan has numerous publications in the field of tests and measurement. He is the chairperson for the steering committee of the National Assessment and Accountability Committee for the Arizona Department of Education.

Project Primary Consultant

Susan Pimentel, J.D., (Cornell University) Co-Founder, StandardsWork Hanover, New Hampshire, specializes in standards-driven school reform and works as an education writer, analyst, and consultant. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in early childhood education and a law degree, she worked in the Maryland state legislature, serving as senior policy advisor for Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer, and then as special counsel to former Superintendent John Murphy in Prince George's County, MD, the nation's sixteenth largest school district. Her efforts resulted in the phase-out of student tracking, an enriched core curriculum, advances in school-site management, and a results-based school accountability program. Subsequently, she was director of the World Class Schools Panel (impaneled to sculpt a concrete plan of action for school transformation) in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC. In recent years, her work has focused on academic standards with corresponding work in principal evaluation, student assessment, and school accountability. Her efforts stress standards-setting, constituency building, policy analysis and strategic planning in such varied jurisdictions as Beaufort, SC; Chicago, IL; Red Clay, DE; Jackson, TN, Ardmore, OK, Elaine and Marvell, AR; and the states of Arizona, California, Georgia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Ms. Pimentel is co-author with Denis P. Doyle of the best-selling book and CD-ROM, Raising the Standard: An Eight Step Action Guide For Schools and Communities.