ILEARN Assessment: Setting Students Up for Success in Grades 3-8 Math 

With all the efforts teachers have made to prepare students for the ILEARN Assessment, scores, especially math scores, declined. By correlating the ILEARN Assessment Blueprint with the Indiana Mathematics Standards and identifying the Power Standards to focus on in your classroom, we will begin to address this issue. Teachers will start to formulate a plan to use these resources to direct their classroom instruction to maximize students’ achievement on the math portion of the ILEARN Assessment. The types of questions used on the ILEARN Assessment will be discussed and shown. Best mathematical practices to increase student performance for those questions will be demonstrated. Resources, activities, and ideas for increasing student performance will be discussed.

Presenter: Bill Reed, INcompassing Education 

Cost: $125 ESC Member / $250 Non-member (HB1008 funds eligible)

Lunch: On your own

Bill Reed, Incompassing Education

Bill is a licensed Secondary Math Teacher who has taught at every level from 7th grade through community college. He was a classroom teacher for over 30 years in a combination of both Indiana and California. He has taught every secondary math class from 7th Grade Math to Calculus. Bill has been a Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science State Finalist in both California and Indiana. After retiring from classroom teaching, he was the Secondary Math Specialist at the Indiana Department of Education and then a Regional Director for the Indiana GEAR UP Grant at Purdue University before joining the INcompassing Education team in 2021.