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September 11, 2008
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Review of process to date
Understand core elements of SIG/Beacon Proposal
Engage in open dialogue
Test support for proposal going forward toward October 1
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Listen to understand, not to reload
Share air time
Encourage and respect diverse perspectives
Be crew, not passengers
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Early Mobilization (2004 - 2006)
Defining Vision and Values (2006 – Feb. 2008)
Configuration Brainstorming and Selection (February – June 2008)
June - Today: Refining Vision, Expanding Network, Clarifying Proposal
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1. What will really be different as a result of this grant?
2. What is the Public Education & Business Coalition, and how will they help improve student achievement?
3. What would the partnership with DU really look like?
4. What will ensure that we truly have a culture of excellence in our schools as a result of all this work?
5. What is this ECE or ECE-K Early Learning Center proposal, and how would it work?
6. How can parents be involved in this process?
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Higher student achievement and stronger culture
Addresses the enrollment challenges throughout the feeder pattern
◦ Merrill’s total enrollment◦ ECE demand at all schools◦ Grade level groupings at Cory
Rebuilds sense of community cohesion across entire feeder pattern
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25 years old, based in Denver, known across the country
Professional Development Based on improving teacher and principal practice by:◦ Build a clear and shared vision of effective instruction◦ Create systems to support teacher and student learning◦ Literacy best practices to support content
understanding◦ Curriculum Instruction Assessment Achievement◦ Build instructional leadership capacity to ensure
learning
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Why do Community Engagement?
Why does DU engage with DPS?• We believe in creating citizens in
Denver’s Schools
• Service-Learning teaches students real skills to make a difference in their own community that they don’t learn in regular school
• College coaches gives students a perspective of the reality of post-secondary education
SuccessesOf Public Achievement Participants:
• 66% felt more connected to their community, and
• 82% desired to get involved in order to improve their
community.
• 57% of the students involved in PA reported liking school more
because of Public Achievement.
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Community Engagement: University of Denver in DPS
Bruce Randolph School• Current Public Achievement
partnership (2007-present)– In 2007-08: 100 sixth, eighth
and tenth grade students involved
– 2008-09: 130 ninth grade students participating through required Speech and Debate course
Bryant Webster• 2005-2007 Public
Achievement Partnership– Students addressed issues
ranging from their school playground to gangs and domestic violence.
– Program was part of a leadership initiative in BW’s school reform plan
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Elementary Partnerships• Ellis Elementary– Partnership with Earth Force– Ongoing training and support for service-learning
initiatives• University Park Elementary– Partnership initiated and led by students
• Cory Elementary– Looking to pilot Tutoring program this Fall– Working to have a team of DU Students adopt
Cory
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Public Achievement at Merrill Middle School
• Close collaboration with Principal Stacy Miller and teachers Katy Larson and Laura Breetz
• Integration of Public Achievement into 6th grade Service-Learning elective
•Students will begin with expanding the school recycling program while learning about local and global environmental issues
• Currently running pilot; potential for expansion could include school-wide service-learning components
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“There is substantial evidence that results are virtually inevitable when teachers, working in teams:
• Focus substantially--though not exclusively--on assessed standards.
• Review simple, readily available achievement data to set a limited number of measurable achievement goals in the lowest-scoring subjects or courses and target specific standards where achievement is low within that course or subject area.
• Work regularly and collectively to design, adapt, and assess instructional strategies targeted directly at specific standards of low student performance revealed by the assessment data (e.g. "measurement" in math; "voice" in writing; "sight reading" in music).”
--Mike Schmoker, “Up and Away.”
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Improvement In Average Organization Scores from February-April
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Pretest Avg.Postest Avg.
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Summary Points
• Teachers used a common task and a common assessment to calibrate expectations and gather data
• Teachers focused on a single, clear goal• Teachers worked collaboratively to decide on
the best methods to improve learning• Teachers re-assessed for progress and
modified instruction based on results
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“I have recently written of the marked success of five whole school districts and a number of individual schools, most of them facing formidable socioeconomic challenges (Schmoker, 2001). The most arresting reason for their exceptional improvement is the simplicity of their efforts--all built around the same themes: setting goals (few in number); using data to identify areas of lowest performance; and then finding, creating, and continuously refining better ways to teach to those skills using a baseline and measuring the number of students who actually learn the specific targeted skills. (Schmoker, “Up and Away”)
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Basic idea: use garden level at Merrill to create a self-contained early learning center for the feeder pattern (and beyond)
8 classrooms, ECE or ECE-K
Feeder pattern elementary schools could use them as affiliate ECE rooms to help meet demand
Benefits include ◦ professional development for teachers◦ self contained environment for children◦ reduction of enrollment pressure for middle school◦ feeder pattern connection
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Review of process to date
Understand core elements of SIG/Beacon Proposal
Engage in open dialogue
Test support for proposal going forward toward October 1
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School improvement driven by professional development focused on results, community engagement,
ECE or ECE-K Early Learning Center driven by both philosophical and practical concerns
Important to maintain connection among all participants to move this forward
Important to build on what is already working