Concept Mapping within Arch identifies concepts essential for students to master to ensure learning of identified standards. It also streamlines the process of aligning these concepts to standards, units, lesson plans, assessments, and portfolios.  First, concept mapping combines:

• Optional working copy of standards sets providing concept frameworks
• Concept statements,
• Unwrapped essential and supporting concept elements,
• Concept-based learning targets, big ideas, and essential questions,
• Depth of Knowledge agreement,
• Curriculum mapping,
• Alignment or mapping to standards elements, and
• Searchable image, video and other web-based resources and files

The searchable, web-based resources are easily found by clicking the created learning targets, big ideas, or essential questions. Once found, these resources can be added to the related concept within the concept set.

Second, once the concept maps have been created, you can now use these maps to streamline your day-to-day planning, instructional, and assessment practices while enhancing overall quality of these practices.

The 2016 Summer EOI test data has now been finalized, completing the finalization of all 2015-16 OCCT test data.  ALCA will be contacting member school districts with instructions on how to upload their Summer data into Arch.  Non-member school districts interested in analyzing their test data in Arch’s Comprehend data management system may contact ALCA at 580.227.1007 for details. Check out the Arch video below to see what Comprehend can do for you!

You can now upload your compatable assessment data sets directly into Arch. Purchased data sets for importing can be OCCT, EPAS/ACT, NWEA, DIBELS, WIDA, and CogAT with others possible. All you have to do is:

1. Log into Arch
2. Click Comprehend 
3. Click the Files tab
4. Click the Choose File button to select the file(s) to upload or simply drag and drop the files on the drop here to upload the files.
   Note: To streamline the process of uploading you files you can place them in a folder on your computer desktop. Then, you can compress the folder into a file and simply drag and drop the compressed file to upload.
   ​For more information please give us a call. ​​
5. Add appropriate file notes and click the Submit button.

Next, ALCA will then confirm the integrity of the file and import it for you. You're set to go to analyze your data! ​

Check out the video below to see just how easy it is to move forward with your assessment data!

Discover how teachers can quickly plan lessons based on analysis of state assessment results and related standards maps. The newly updated Comprehend Data Video Guide walks you through the three steps right within a Comprehend Standards Report! 

One benefit of the Arch Standards tool teachers are most excited about is not only that the standards include unwrapped content, skills, learning targets, big ideas, and essential questions, but the learning targets, big ideas, and essential questions are SEARCHABLE!

For example, clicking on a specific learning target results in a second tab browser window showing a Google search. What can be done with the results you might ask? Well, you can:

1. Select Images to locate images you can use within your Arch Plans, Assessments, and other Arch resources. 
2. Select Videos  to locate videos you can embed within your Arch Plans, Assessments and other Arch resources.
3. Select Web Pages to add links to your Arch Plans, Assessments, and other Arch resources.
4. Select other varied resources such as News, and Apps to incorporate other strategies for addressing planning and instruction.
5. Assign within student coursework, instructions for students to use the searching options to research standards-specific concepts or topics. Once researched, students may report back to peers or the class their results.
6. Quickly identify a range of Depth of Knowledge (DoK)-specific resources to support instruction and learning through a sequence of instructional plans.

Searchable standards maps streamline a high-quality process of identifying and using diverse curricular resources within your lesson plans, instruction, and assessments. It saves teachers and students alike a tremendous amount of time!

ALCA's Oklahoma Academic Standards (OAS) Trifolds are now available for purchase in ALCA's online store. The ALCA OAS Trifolds provide a simple tool to help make the alignment of standards, assessments, curriculum and instruction manageable. 
Specifically, tasks that are simplified include:

• TASK #1 ~ ​Facilitate, Simplify and Support ~ Teacher team dialogue of vertical and horizontal alignment with OAS Standards at the district, site, subject, and specific classroom.
• ​​TASK #2 ~ Facilitate and Simplify ~ Teacher team dialogue to integrate the literacy standards into any subject at all grade levels.