• Presentation to HIDOE leadership team, HSTA

• Letter of Intent to submit application by December 17, 2018
• Application not submitted

• Initial planning to take next steps towards Innovative Assessments
• Memo sent out to invite applicants to serve on the Innovative Assessments Stakeholder Committee

• Convened three Stakeholder Committee meetings
• Consideration of Stakeholder recommendations to strategize next steps

• Submitted Letter of Intent for the IADA Pilot to U.S. Department of Education
• Continued to share information and engage HIDOE leadership
• IADA application period open
• Teachers invited to participate in the Innovative Assessment Pilot Program (memo)

• Submitted the IADA application to U.S. Department of Education
• Innovative assessment pilot preparation; schools continue with instructional practices (e.g. Project-Based Learning); training to be provided for teachers in the pilot
• Application for the U.S. Department of Education’s Competitive Grant for State Assessments submitted

• U.S. Department of Education informed HIDOE that its IADA application was not approved
• Innovative assessment pilot placed on indefinite hold

• U.S. Department of Education awarded HIDOE a $500,000 Competitive Grant for State Assessments to develop an innovative assessment model and submit a new IADA application
• An Innovative Assessment Design Team was established and met on three occasions to review innovative assessment designs and to prioritize models the meet the needs of HIDOE
• Teacher focus groups convened to discuss prioritized innovative assessment models

• HIDOE Leadership informed of Design Team’s prioritized innovative assessment models

• Performance Assessment Development Institute established to develop tasks that will be used as part of the innovative assessment program
  

• Educators that participated in the Performance Assessment Development Institute developed tasks that will be used as part of the innovative assessment program. The task bank may be found at this website. Educators will continue to contribute to the task bank through the Performance Assessment Development Institute.
  

Additional Information on IADA

• The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): Assessment Flexibility under Title I Assessments Section 1111(b)(2)
• The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): Section 1204, the Innovative Assessment and Accountability Demonstration Authority
• Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority 
• NCLB: Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA)

Innovative Assessment Stakeholder Committee

In May 2019, the Hawai'i Department of Education (HIDOE) announced the opportunity for community groups to collaborate on the design of Hawai'i's innovative assessment system. A broad spectrum of stakeholders (or their representatives) from the Hawai'i State Legislature, Hawai'i State Teachers Association, Hawai'i State Public Charter School Commission, Kamehameha Schools, Hawai'iKidsCAN, Hawai'i Association of School Psychologists, parents, and HIDOE were selected to serve on the Innovative Assessment Stakeholder Committee. 

HIDOE stakeholders representing eight Complex Areas, including administrators, curriculum specialists, Hawaiian language/culture specialist, and teachers from multiple disciplines (English Language Arts (ELA), math, science, social studies, and STEM), participated in the Stakeholder meetings. 

WestEd facilitated the Stakeholder meetings that were held on June 18, July 2, and July 16, 2019 on O'ahu. The learning objectives and outcomes for each Stakeholder Committee meeting are provided in the table below. 

The ideas, recommendations, and reflections from the Stakeholder meetings, which are summarized in the HIDOE Innovative Assessment Planning Project Summary Report, will serve as guiding principles for developing the HIDOE's Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) pilot application. 

Innovative Assessment Design Team

In November and December of 2020, the Innovative Assessment Design Team met to discuss various innovative assessment models to prioritize the designs that would best meet the needs of HIDOE as described by the Stakeholder Committee.