- Houston Independent School District
- Formative Assessment
- Renaissance 360 Screener
Announcements
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The Renaissance Growth Platform (RGP) is now available through Clever sign-on for all users at www.houstonisd.org/screener.
Renaissance Growth Platform is the HISD Universal Screener platform used by HISD to identify students’ reading and math proficiency levels.
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New document for teachers and leaders to help you gain a better understanding of how you can use test data to inform instructional decision making.
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Renaissance Administration Windows
Renaissance EOY
Administration Window: April 28 - June 1
- Early Literacy (K-1) Kinder is Optional
- Reading (Grade 2 - ENG2)
- Math (Grade 1 - ALG1)
How do I get started with Renaissance Growth Platform (RGP)?
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Renaissance Focus Skills
- Focus Skills provide a standards-based roadmap for closing learning gaps as students move toward greater concept mastery. These grade level skills can help target high instructional needs even before the BOY assessment. HERE
Renaissance Universal Screener Resources
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Beginning of Year (BOY) Administration
- Video: Renaissance 101 Administration for Teachers (35 min)
- Video: Renaissance Teacher Reports (90 min)
- Video: Renaissance Administration for Leaders (36 min)
- Video: Renaissance Reporting in Spanish/En Espanol (30 min)
- Participant's Guide: Renaissance Reporting in Spanish/En Espanol
- Powerpoint: Renaissance Reporting in Spanish / En Espanol
- Link to Data Rich Year's Renaissance BOY Toolbox (Fall Assessments (BOY) > Renaissance > BOY)
- Task Card: Test Activity Report
- Task Card: Screening Report
- Task Card: Instructional Planning-Student Report
- Task Card: Instructional Planning-Class Report
- Task Card: Diagnostic Report
- Task Card: State Standards Mastery Report
- Task Card: Summary Report
- Schoolzilla Task Cards for School and District Leaders:
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Creating Groups
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Metric Zoom
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Our Schools
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Our Students
- Task Card: Schoolzilla District Results
- Task Card: Schoolzilla School Profile
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Student Profile
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Progress Monitoring 1 (PM1) Administration
- Video: Renaissance BOY Goal Setting (17 min)
- Participant's Guide: Renaissance Goal Setting
- Powerpoint: Renaissance BOY Goal Setting
- Video: Renaissance Progress Monitoring (28 min)
- Participant's Guide: Renaissance Progress Monitoring
- Powerpoint: Renaissance Progress Monitoring
- Task Card: Creating Groups
- Task Card: Goal Setting
- Task Card: Goal History Report
- Task Card: Progress Monitoring
- Task Card: Tiered HISD Benchmarks in OnTrack
- Task Card: Test Activity Report
- Task Card: Screening Report
- Task Card: Diagnostic Report
- Task Card: Instructional Planning Student
- Task Card: Instructional Planning Class
- Task Card: State Standards Mastery Report
- Task Card: Student Growth Report
- Video: Renaissance BOY Goal Setting (17 min)
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Middle of the Year (MOY) Administration
- Video: Believe and Achieve (23 Min)
- Video: Advanced Reporting for Administrators (26 min)
- Link to Data Rich Year's Renaissance MOY Toolbox (Winter Assessments (MOY) > Renaissance >MOY)
- Task Card: Creating Groups
- Task Card: Goal Setting
- Task Card: Goal History Report
- Task Card: Progress Monitoring
- Task Card: Tiered HISD Benchmarks in OnTrack
- Task Card: Test Activity Report
- Task Card: Screening Report
- Task Card: Diagnostic Report
- Task Card: Instructional Planning Student
- Task Card: Instructional Planning Class
- Task Card: State Standards Mastery Report
- Task Card: Student Growth Report
- Schoolzilla Task Cards for School and District Leaders:
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Creating Groups
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Metric Zoom
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Our Schools
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Our Students
- Task Card: Schoolzilla District Results
- Task Card: Schoolzilla School Profile
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Student Profile
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End of Year (EOY) and Summer (SOY) Administrations
- Video: Renaissance 101 for Teachers - Summer School (37 min)
- Participant's Guide: Renaissance 101 for Teachers - Summer School
- PPT: Renaissance 101 for Teachers - Summer School
- Task Card: End-of-year Save Your Data
- Link to Data Rich Year's Renaissance EOY Toolbox (Spring Assessments (EOY) > Renaissance > EOY)
- Task Card: Creating Groups
- Task Card: Goal Setting
- Task Card: Goal History Report
- Task Card: Progress Monitoring
- Task Card: Tiered HISD Benchmarks in OnTrack
- Task Card: Diagnostic Report
- Task Card: Instructional Planning Student
- Task Card: Instructional Planning Class
- Task Card: State Standards Mastery Report
- Task Card: Student Growth Report
- Schoolzilla Task Cards for School and District Leaders:
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Creating Groups
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Metric Zoom
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Our Schools
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Our Students
- Task Card: Schoolzilla District Results
- Task Card: Schoolzilla School Profile
- Task Card: Schoolzilla Student Profile
- Video: Renaissance 101 for Teachers - Summer School (37 min)
How do I get support?
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Formative Assessment Coordinator (FAC) Support
- PowerPoint for FACs to use for campus orientation, including Renaissance
- Participant Guide for Job Alike FAC training
- FAQ for Formative Assessment, including Renaissance
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Planning
- Task Card: Basic Navigation and Settings - Basic navigation, preferences, manuals and support options
- Task Card: Instructional Planning - Plan instruction for your class or individual students in Renaissance.
- Task Card: Creating Groups - The Record Book is the starting place for the goal-setting process. You will be guided through a goal setting wizard to set individual goals for your students.
- Task Card: Goal Setting - Teachers can set goals for the entire class or groups of students on the same screen for all Renaissance assessments, in both English and Spanish. VIDEO
- Web Resource: Math Focus Skills - In these documents, Renaissance presents the Focus Skills™ of each grade. They are the foundational skills that are essential to advancing learning and supporting the development of future skills.
- Web Resource: Literacy Focus Skills - In these documents, Renaissance presents the Focus Skills™ of each grade. They are the foundational skills that are essential to advancing learning and supporting the development of future skills.
- Web Resource: Renaissance Administration Manual - This manual provides general information about the Star assessments and specific guidelines for administering Star Early Literacy, Star Reading, and Star Math.
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Test Administration
- Task Card: Student Login Process - Student login task for teachers
- Task Card: Student Login Cards - Create login cards to assist students with clever login information
- Task Card: Add/Remove Team Teachers - Add and remove team teachers to view reports
- Task Card: Assigning Accommodations - How to provide available accommodations in Renaissance.
- Task Card: Remove Test Score (Deactivate) - School administrators can use the Deactivate feature from Star Record Book report to remove assessment scores.
- Task Card: Set Estimated Instructional Level - Star Math, Star Math Spanish, Star Reading, and Star Reading Spanish normally start a student's first test with questions slightly below the student's grade level. If the student has taken one of these tests in the past six months, the program uses the results from the last test to decide the starting difficulty level for the next one. However, when students have an Estimated Instructional Level set, the program uses that level to decide how difficult the first question should be. Change the Estimated Instructional Level when a student's starting level does not align with the student's grade. Setting the Estimated Instructional Level will only impact the student's very first assessment or if the student has not assessed within a 180-day span.
- FAQ: Accommodations FAQ
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Reporting
- Task Card :Review Previous Student Scores - Use this report from OnTrack to review the students' previous scores in Renaissance.
- Task Card: Completion Reports - How to view student testing completion status in Renaissance
- Task Card: Printing Parent Letters - Printing Parent Letters to share screener results with parents (Note: This is NOT the Superintendent's Literacy Letter sent home after each testing window.)
- Task Card: Renaissance Data in OnTrack - How to view, tier, and sort data in OnTrack.
- Web Resource: Spanish Renaissance to STAAR Spanish Linking Study - This linking study applied results from two interim assessments, Renaissance Star Reading Spanish® and Renaissance Star Math Spanish®, to help you predict whether individual students are on track or need more assistance to succeed on the year-end summative State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness Spanish (STAAR Spanish) tests in reading and mathematics in grade 3 and 4.2
- Web Resource: Star Key Report - Gain a better understanding of how you can use data to inform instructional decision making.
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Renaissance Troubleshooting
- Task Card: Checking Rosters - Class rosters are uploaded into Renaissance from HISD Connect each night. If a student is on the Renaissance roster, but still cannot access their assessments, the issue may be related to product assignment. Call the Formative Assessment team after checking the Renaissance Roster.
- Task Card: Product Assignment (the assignment of tests to a class of students) is done automatically through student enrollment in a course. Course title changes from year-to-year or new course additions may prohibit automated class assignments. Check product assignments with this task card, and call Formative Assessment if you need assistance with product assignment.
- Task Card: Investigating Missing Students - HISD Connect schedules can be at the root of students who are not seen on class rosters and therefore have no access to their tests. Check the student's schedule to ensure there are no overlapping or missing courses.
- Task Card: Practice Questions - some students, especially at lower grade levels, may have difficulty getting through the practice questions at the beginning of the assessment. Check to see if your students are struggling with the issue and troubleshoot with this task card.
- Task Card: Domain Scores - Find data from the diagnostic report and domain scores that are uploaded into EASY IEP.
- Task Card: Add Team Teachers - Campuses may wish to include multiple teachers in a single classroom to give ancillary teachers access to student scores.
- Task Card: Deactivating a Test - Renaissance is an open website and students may test at any time from any place. Teachers may have a need to deactivate these tests, if a student tests off campus, or tests outside the testing window, or rushes through a test.
- Task Card: Tier II and Tier III Report - Campuses may need assistance in finding their Renaissance Data in OnTrack to help with the identification of Tier II and III students.
- Task Card: Verifying EOC Rosters - High school campuses may wish to clean up their EOC retester rosters to eliminate students that have a reason to be exempted from testing. This task card helps the teacher verify the students who are retesters, but who may not be currently enrolled in a course for which they need to retest.
- Task Card: Star Custom Reporting - Campuses that require unique reporting may create their own custom reports on grade level TEKS.
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Create A Service Desk Ticket
- Use this link to start an email to the service desk.
- One of our team will answer in the order received, include school, teacher, and example student information in your ticket to help us resolve it more quickly.
Renaissance Professional Development
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Book a FREE PLC Session with a Renaissance Consultant
- Link to Book FREE Sessions with a Renaissance Consultant
- Measuring Growth and Achievement with Renaissance
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- Moving toward Mastery with Renaissance
- Renaissance 101 Administration for Teachers
- Renaissance Benchmarks - Changing the Lens
- Renaissance Curriculum Based Measures (CBM)
- Renaissance Data - Now What?
- Setting Goals with Renaissance CBM Data
- Intervention with Renaissance Star CBM
- Link to Book FREE Sessions with a Renaissance Consultant
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Asynchronous Courses in OneSource
- Renaissance Data Dig 1 - Instructional Planning for Teachers OneSource: 1476040 (Active Soon)
- Renaissance Data Dig 2 - Student Growth Percentile (SGP) (Coming Soon)
- Renaissance Data Dig 3 - Schoolzilla for Leaders (Coming Soon)
- Managing Groups in Renaissance (Coming Soon)
- Progress Monitoring with Renaissance (Coming Soon)
- Renaissance Administration for Dyslexia Screening OneSource: 1464052
How do I request admin access for staff? (For Principals)
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For Principals - iDelegate Ren360 Access Request Form
- Principals and SSOs can use this iDelegate form link to give access for up to six campus staff to administrate Renaissance.
Contact us
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For Technical Issues
713-892-SERV (7378)District Support TeamFormative Assessment Manager
Gabriel ParshallFormative Assessment AdministratorsRenaissance Team
