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Our Purpose

This session is designed to get you back in tip-top Continuous Classroom Improvement (CCI) shape before we start the 2013-2014 school year. You will be given a brief overview of Steps 1-4 and review the expectations for Steps 5-8 as we move into our second year of CCI. This is a great way to refresh your CCI knowledge and get any of your CCI questions answered before the start of the year.

Steps 1-4: Above the Line Steps

1)Learning Requirements

2)Strategic Yearlong Goals

3)Charting Learning Goals

4)Mission Statement(s)

Step 1: Learning Requirements: Clarify and communicate Common Core Standards and/or Content Area Standards to students and their families.

Communicate: The WHAT will be taught and HOW it will be learned

These are your paw print posters! If you took them down, you need to put them back up as part of putting your room back together. Newbies to Ridge... You should have paw print posters in your room with your learning requirements. If you don’t please let Annette Steele know.

Step 2: Class Learning Goal: Post a learning goal for a specific class/content area.

All Deer Valley goals will include 100% of students working to get a goal of 90% or higher

Step 2: Learning Goal Expectations

Specific date: Dec. 20, 2013 or May 22, 2014 – this depends on whether or not you have a semester or yearlong goal. You must include the year!Double Percentage: 100% of students will earn 90% or higherMultiple Measurements: More than just the final exam!

Step 2: Learning Goal Expectations

Example:By May 22nd, 2014 100% of students will demonstrate mastery of the English Language Arts learning requirements as measured by earning 90% or higher on quarterly benchmark and final exams.Template:

By DATE100% of students will demonstrate mastery of the CONTENT AREA learning requirements as measured by earning 90% or higher on quarterly benchmark and final exams.

Step 3: Chart Learning Results: Graph your major benchmark results (aligned quarterly or semester assessments) as well as your pre-test data.

All graphs need a title, x- and y- axis labeled, dates!

More information on the in’s and out’s of graphing with CCI will come

later!!

Step 4: Mission Statement: The mission statement is designed to answer three questions: Why are we here?, What do we have to do well together?, How will we make that happen?

Communicate: Your department mission statement needs to be posted and communicated to your learners! If you want, you can choose to create a mission statement with your classes.

New to Ridge? Partner with your department leader to get a copy of your department’s mission statement. Want to draft a mission statement for your individual classes? You can use the step-by step directions found in the Creating a Classroom Mission Statement power point on the CCI Resource page of our school website!

Steps 1-4 all go above the line!!

All of the above the line items need to be posted on the first

day of school with the exception of your pre-test data! Your pre-test data

needs to be posted by August 23, 2013.

Remember, steps 1-4 do not change throughout the semester/year!

Steps 5-8: The Cycle

5)Plan6)Do7)Study8)Act

Steps 5-8 happen all the time! You should constantly be somewhere in the cycle!

Cycle lengths will vary by unit and by class, but your cycle should ideally run 7-10 days.

Step 5: PLAN:• Include the dates of the cycle with the

year• Identify the specific knowledge or skills

that you are going to focus on and that, if mastered, will bring learners closer to meeting or achieving the class strategic learning goal. This is the learning target or objective for this short-term learning cycle. Communicate:

You need to communicate the goal/objective with your learners and include how it will be assessed.

Remember, the objective or goal stated in the PLAN should be directly aligned to your learning goal for the year or semester.

April 1-5: ObjectiveOur learning target for April 1 – April 5, 2013 is to compose a micro-argument where a personal bias is defended and the opposing viewpoint is refuted with

strong credible research.

Measurement of Proficiency1. A score of 85% (42.5/50) or

higher on the personal bias micro-argument.

Step 6: DO• Determine what both the teacher

and students will DO to ensure that everyone learns the objective in the PLAN step

This should not be a laundry list of teaching/learning tasks! These should be high-yield strategies that benefit all learners. You will have a teacher and a student “DO.”

Remember, you can find a comprehensive list of high-yield strategies on the resources page on the website!

Teacher will… Students will…• Lead Close Reading steps paying close attention to author’s persuasive purpose

• Form small group learning communities to allow students to write and talk about text

• Identify QAR (Question-Answer-Relationships) when answering all questions

• Participate in small group learning communities to gain a deeper understanding of the text

Step 7: STUDY• What do our results tell us about the

processes used in the learning cycle? What worked really well? What needs to change? Your students complete a plus/delta during this step to set you up for step 8 and your next cycle!

Chart your data and display for students to see: pick the graph that will best represent the data. Include dates, timeline & form of measurement. Refer to the data frequently so that it has meaning!

Remember, there are TWO parts to the “study part.” You also need to include the dates of the cycle on everything!

+What Worked

∆Changes to Make

• Think-pair-share focused on sharing reader’s written responses

• Responding to text first in writing

• Close reading article too long

•Lexile Level needs to increase

Step 8: ACT• Create an action plan

with your students for the next cycle.

In this step you should determine what both you and your students need to do to continue to be successful and work towards your learning goal.

Steps 7 & 8 work together to set the next cycle up for success!

Teacher will… Students will…

• Carefully select next Close Reading article, making sure it is not too long

• Analyze Lexile level to ensure it is challenging and engaging for all students

• Write responses citing text evidence to support answers

• Explain author’s persuasive purpose with reasoning to support thoughts

CCI Norms: 2013-2014 School Year

• Choose one prep• You will need to select the prep

you teach the most• If you have specific concerns

regarding the prep you will be working with for CCI, you need to email your evaluator

• 90% mastery of learning requirements for the semester/year long learning goal

CCI Norms: 2013-2014 School Year

• Cycles should be continuous so that there is direct alignment between the plan (step 5) and the curriculum being taught

• Steps 1-4 need to be up on the first day of school – the exception being step 3 (pre-test data) which needs to be up by the end of the second week of school (August 23, 2013).

CCI Norms: 2013-2014 School Year

• Track individual learning data – more information on this will be shared throughout the year through prep talks and other professional development opportunities

CCI Resources

Everything that you need to be successful with CCI this year can be accessed on the CCI Resource page (under the For Teachers header) on the MRHS website!