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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">Paid Virtual Panelist Opportunity for Maine Educators </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">The Maine Department of Education (DOE) is currently recruiting elementary and secondary educators in grades 3-8 and high school to participate in an upcoming
educator committee opportunity for the State general assessment in Reading and Math, the
</span><a href="https://www.maine.gov/doe/Testing_Accountability/MECAS/NWEA" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Maine Through Year Assessment</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050"> Maine
educators and the DOE play a crucial role in the development of this assessment. Assessment development is an iterative process in which educator committees meet annually to review and improve elements of the Maine Through Year Assessment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">While no prior experience is required, panelists should be experts teaching the students who participate in the Maine Through Year Assessment and, also have a
thorough understanding of the Common Core State Standards in their subject area(s) of expertise: Reading and Math.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">Panelists will support the
<b>Embedded Standard Setting (ESS) and Alignment Study</b> for Maine’s Reading and/or Math Assessments. Panelists will review the Common Core State Standards and provide ratings regarding the alignment of the Maine Through Year Assessment forms, items, and
achievement level descriptors (ALDs) for each grade, 3 through 8 and grade 10. The educator panels will be grade and content-area specific for a total of 14 panels. Given the adaptive structure of the assessments in grades 3 through 8, panelists will review
three test forms for each content area in each of these grades. One form will represent the items that a student earning a lower score would have experienced, one form the items that a student scoring in the mid-range of the score scale could have experienced,
and one form the items that a student earning a higher score would have experienced. For grade 10, which is not yet adaptive, panelists will review a fixed form. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">ESS analyses will be performed to identify achievement level cut scores that optimize the consistency between alignment study panelists’ item-ALD alignments and
empirical data. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#505050">Current needs include:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#505050"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">Subject </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">Date/Time* </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">Location </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050"># of Educators </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">Stipend</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">Reading </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">July 18-20, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">Virtual </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">5 educators per grade-level panel </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">$300 ($100 per day) </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">Math </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">July 25-27, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">5 educators per grade-level panel </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">$300 ($100 per day) </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">*Participants must be able to attend all three days. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#505050">Please consider applying and sharing this upcoming opportunity with colleagues. The expertise and contributions of Maine educators are a critical element of the
continued development cycle for the Maine Educational Assessments. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#505050">Interested?
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Complete the </span></span><a href="https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7358975/2023-Maine-Through-Year-Assessment-Standard-Setting-and-Alignment-Study" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">panelist
registration survey</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#505050;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> by Tuesday, June 20, 2023. </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#505050"> </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If you have any questions, please reach out to
<b>Krista Averill</b>, Assessment Coordinator, at </span><a href="mailto:krista.averill@maine.gov"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">krista.averill@maine.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> or (207) 215-6528.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">________________________________________ <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Danielle M. Saucier, M.Ed. Literacy Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Inclusive Education Literacy Specialist & Dyslexia Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Office of Special Services & Inclusive Education
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Maine Department of Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">23 State House Station <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Augusta, Maine 04333<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Email</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">:
</span><a href="mailto:danielle.m.saucier@maine.gov"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">danielle.m.saucier@maine.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Phone</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: 207-441-1383<br>
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DOE Newsroom</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <b>|</b> </span><a href="https://maillist.informe.org/mailman/listinfo/maineliteracy"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Maine Literary ListServ</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
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