BROAD BROOK SCHOOL 20072008 Team Presentations

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BROAD BROOK SCHOOL2007-2008 Team Presentations

• Pre Kindergarten
• Kindergarten
• Grade 1

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District Strategic Improvement Goal

• East Windsor students must have the
  opportunity to obtain academic achievement to the
  highest level of their potential to insure that
  each individual becomes a productive and
  responsible member of society.

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Building Strategic Improvement Goals

• Broad Brook School students will increase
  performance in Language Arts by moving 10 of
  students from Levels 1, 2 and 3 to goal or above,
  as measured by CMT in the areas of reading and
  writing over the next two .years

• Broad Brook School students will increase
  performance in Mathematics by moving 10 of
  students from Levels 1, 2 and 3 to goal or above,
  as measured by CMT over the next two years.

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PreK Team Members

• Eleanor Matroni
• Linda Lanz
• Rebecca Kwasnik

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SMART Goal

• By May 2008, 70 of all Pre K students will be
  able to use multiple word sentences or phrases to
  describe ideas, feelings and actions.

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Choosing the SMART Goal

• Language is an essential skill for young children
  who will need to be able to express themselves
  orally before they can express themselves through
  writing and understanding reading.
• 13 of students have a first language other than
  English and an additional 13 have identified
  speech and language needs.

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Students Will Need to Know and Be Able To

• Use strategies to generate ideas for speaking,
  writing, and visual activities.(3.2b)
• Dictate and tell stories beginning to use
  organizational patterns appropriate to the mode
  of writing. (3.1c)

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What students will be doing-Performance Tasks

• Language screening
• Answering wh questions to describe details,
  events, or character traits and explain cause
  and effect
• Sequencing 3-5 pictures and describing what is
  happening in each picture

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What the teachers will be doing- Instructional
Strategies

• Model before, during and after reading strategies
• Reread stories to foster remembering, organizing
  information and sequencing.
• Write class news with students, encouraging them
  to extend and elaborate events.

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Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth

• Pre K Language Screening
• Anecdotal Records of Small and Whole Group
  Activities.
• Checklists
• Teacher Developed Formative Assessments

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Kindergarten Team Members

• Amy Lupoli
• Julie Berry
• Laurie Felber
• Stacy Willey

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SMART Goal

• By May 2008 75 of Kindergarten students will
  advance two stages in the writing process as
  indicated by the continuum of writing stages.

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Reason for Choosing SMART Goal

• Second year focus on writing
• Writing prompt scores had stagnated
• Close connect between reading and writing
• Research shows that students learn to write
  before they read

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Students will know and be able to

• Write and tell stories using organizational
  patterns appropriate to modes of writing. (3.1c)
• Use strategies to generate and develop ideas for
  speaking, writing and visual activities. (3.1b)

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What students are doing-Performance Tasks

• Adding more to a story by writing two sentences.
• Using strategies to add elaboration to sentences.
• Stretching out words and segmenting to produce
  more words in sentences.
• Daily Writing samples
• Quarterly writing prompt

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What the teachers are doing-Instructional
Strategies

• Oral Language activities
• Phonemic awareness activities, including Fountas
  and Pinnell resources
• Writers Workshop
• Conferencing
• Modeling Writing
• Daily interactive sentence writing

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Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth

• Daily writing samples
• Quarterly Writing Prompts

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Grade 1 Team Members

• Jane Labbe
• Debra Bechard
• Lynn Greer
• Marsha Francis
• Michelle Wylie
• Joelle Burgess

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SMART Goal

• By June 2008, 80 of the students will accurately
  decode and encode one syllable words using
  knowledge of sound/symbol relationship and the
  alphabetic principle.

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Reason for Choosing SMART Goal

• Fall DRA results showed that 35 of grade 1
  students scored at or above benchmark in the
  areas of decoding, fluency and comprehension.

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Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth

• Winter and Spring DRA
• Quarterly Writing Prompts
• Monthly spelling assessment with dictation

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Students will know and be able to

• Apply knowledge of letter-sound correspondence,
  structural and contextual clues to read and
  understand words. (1.3 a)
• Demonstrate use of capitalization, punctuation
  and spelling skills.
• (4.3 b)

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What Students Are Doing-Performance Tasks

• Phonics lessons and activities
• Guided reading
• Spelling practice and activities
• Writers Workshop

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What Teachers are Doing-Instructional Strategies

• Develop phonics lessons and activities from
  Fountas and Pinnell Phonics resources.
• Practice with student vowel books.
• Create minilessons for Writers Workshop

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Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth

• Common formative assessments
• Monthly spelling assessment
• Sentence Dictation
• Running Records
• Developmental Reading Assessment