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Willowville Elementary Road Trip to Excellence

2006-2007

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Willowville Status

•Excellent

•Effective

•Continuous Improvement

•Academic Watch

•Academic Emergency

Rating =State Indicators Met Indicators to be Met

04-05 05-06

•3rd Reading

•4th Reading

•5th Reading

•3rd Math

•4th Math

•5th Math

•4th Writing

•School Attendance

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What That T-Shirt Really Means…

Your Teacher Has…

•Assessed your Phonics Skills, Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension while Monitoring your Progress toward Benchmark

• Dissected and evaluated your Mock OAT data to differentiate your instruction

•Secured the resources to meet your needs as a learner

•Created interventions to keep you from falling through the cracks

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This Journey Began Without A Driver’s Manual!

POLICY

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Practice, Teacher, Resource Level

IBS

PBS

RTI

OISM

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How do WE

become that ONE person?

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Created a Collaborative Culture…..We Changed our Attitude and our Behaviors1. High Expectations for ALL students. 2. Higher level thinking. 3. Shared Responsibility between student, teacher and

parents about learning.4. Analyzing our instruction and the lessons that we teach

to improve our instruction. 5. Facilitating Cooperative Learning / Independent Learning6. Creating a framework for student learning. (objectives

are visible and spoken, modeling is present, application and questioning occurs, assessment of student performance, data collection, interventions as needed and follow up occurs)

7. Our Passion is Present as we model life-long learning. (staff meetings, study groups, CIP, OISM, team meetings)

“Most children learn early in school that mistakes are signs of weakness instead of data to use.” Saphire

& Gower

80%

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District

LimitedBasicProficient

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How we Created a Collaborative Culture…..We Changed our Attitude and our Behaviors•Changed our School Wide schedule to Create Daily Common Planning Time

•Cancelled all Staff Meetings- Established Grade Level Meetings (Team Meeting Tuesday)

•I set the agenda- Focus = Student Concerns, Evaluating Student Data, Discuss Decision Rules to see if we need to move to Tier 1, 2 or 3.

•Create Inclusive Practices / Co-teaching / Teacher Student Responsibility

•Tier 2 Interventions- Meet as a Grade Level- What are we missing? How Many kids need the intervention? When can we start it? How will we pay for it? (REWARDS, 6 Minute Solution)

•Tier 3- Parent Meetings, Data Collection, Monitoring Intervention, Change Instruction

•Establish a Level of Accountability by ALL Parties Every Year

YOU CAN’T LET UP!

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Intervention Tune Up- Rebuilding the SystemResources- People and Money

•Setting Clear Expectations with your staff- Having difficult conversations

•Finding the Right People and putting them in the right positions

•Professional Development (Inside)- My Goal was to Empower Teachers to Take a Lead Role i.e.. Study Group, Mock Testing Analysis (Outside) TESA, Lab Classrooms, Read Well, SOCI , DIBELS Summit

•Advocate for materials- Grants, Central Office- Will you pay half?, PTO-Raz-kids, Study Island, ELO, Fast Math, Study Group, Books and Breakfast, Professional Development for Teachers (Costa Rica), Russia, PBS-Colorado

All Monies are spent on Continuous Improvement!

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We all developed a POSITIVE ATTITUDE of…

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The Quest Continues!

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“Our expectations for students turn into self-fulfilling prophesies. Maybe every school needs a person in charge of exceeding expectations.” Saphire and Gower

How High Are Your Expectation?

How will your children meet those expectations?

“If you Believe it, You can Achieve it!” Nazzarine, Murphy & Schmidt