Turnaround Lessons

1
Turnaround Lessons

• School Assistance Improvement Team (SAIT)
• Program Improvement (PI)

2
2 types of school intervention

• SAIT
• State voluntary participation several years ago
  (II/USP)
• API growth
• 9 essential elements
• State board approves and monitors
• CV--may exit
• WM--1st full year

• PI
• Federal
• AYP targets
• State recommends 9 essential elements
• Local board monitors
• WR, RC, MLS--may enter this year

3
9 essential elements

• 1. Adopted core program, ELA Math
• Adopted intensive intervention program, ELA
• 2. Instructional time, ELA Math
• Includes strategic interventions
• 3. Principal VP training in ELA, Math
• 4. Fully credentialed teachers, ELA, Math
• Teacher training, ELA Math

4

• 5. Assessment monitoring (6-8 wks)
• Edusoft or similar
• 6. Site coach, ELA Math
• 7. Collaboration, ELA Math
• Minimum 1 hr/mo ELA, 1 hr/mo Math
• Identify students not meeting benchmarks, provide
  strategic or intensive interventions
• 8. Use of pacing, ELA Math
• 9. Use of categorical funds for 8 elements above

5
Which ones are most important?

• Pacing
• Assessment
• Collaboration
• Use of strategic interventions
• Also extended-day interventions
• Teacher principal training
• Focused use of funding

6
PI plans need to include

• Collaboration meetings
• Person to schedule, facilitate, followup, link
  with principal
• Time 2 hrs/mo/teacher (grade/dept)
• Each student by name
• Use of Edusoft data (benchmark testing)

7

• Interventions
• Strategic
• Elementary ELA 45 minutes Math 15 minutes
• Secondary 2nd period
• Intensive
• Read 180---very careful selection of students
• Avenues/Shining Star---beginning EL students
• Extended day
• 6 week, specific standards
• Kindergarten beginning EL---Avenues

8

• AB466 training (5 day plus followup)
• ELA teachers
• Math teachers
• Intensive intervention teachers
• AB75 training
• Principals, VP (secondary)

9
Costs

• Site coaches
• Pacing assessment
• Lead collaboration meetings
• Edusoft
• Teachers for intensive interventions
• Read 180 (additional)
• Avenues, Shining Star (regular, variable size)
• Support period at secondary (regular, smaller
  size)
• Time for collaboration (2 hrs/mo/tchr)
• AB466 training

10
Resources

• Professional Development Academy
• Lead teachers, Coaches
• Site Title I resource teachers
• Site intervention teachers (hourly)
• Site meeting days
• Elementary Thursdays
• Secondary Short day (Wednesdays)

11
Resources, continued

• Turnaround funding
• In addition to regular site categorical (9)
• SAIT-funding for activities at CV, WM
• Title I setaside funding for activities at WR, RC
  (0607)
• Use for site coach, Read 180 teacher,
  collaboration, or Edusoft/intervention teacher

12
District support

• Instructional Advisory Committee (IAC)
• Meets on Tuesdays, coordinates priorities
  efforts
• Asst Supts, Lead Teachers, State Fed,
  Music/PE, Health, Family Support Services,
  Interventions, Special Ed, Technology
• 20 lead teacher for ELA and Math for Mills
• Sherian Kutzera inside monitor for PI schools
  work with SAIT schools
• PI setaside
• Support for Read 180 teacher at RC
• Support for (TBA) at WR
• Interventions Coordinator (D. Knight)

13
Next steps

• Breathless anticipation of STAR results
• Did CV exit SAIT?
• Did WR, RC, or Mills enter PI?
• Look at new block grants for application to
  SAIT/PI efforts
• Write PI specific plans, send to board
• Work with SAIT teams to monitor plans
• Work on funding PI plans for at least 2 years
• decrease in Title I
• decrease in allocations to RC, WR, MLS
• added mandatory setasides in 0708 (SES)