Frederick Harris Elementary School

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Frederick Harris Elementary School 2006
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Designing Delivering Debriefing

• Effective Instruction with an
• Emphasis on Response to Literature
• From Pockets to Practice at
• Frederick Harris School

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Harris Schema for Fidelity

• Dr. Burkes charge
• Culture of Achievement
• School Improvement Plan
• Improved MCAS scores
• Step-Up Springfield
• (District Formative Assessments
• and Proficiency Targets)
• District Plans (District Reading Plan,
• Pupil Progression Plan)

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Harris SchoolWere All on the Way

• Leadership
• Teachers
• Students
• Parents

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Leadership Teams Role for Improving Student
Achievement

• The Harris School Leadership Team is comprised
  of
• the Principal
• the Collaborative Professional Development
  Teachers
• the Cornerstone Coaches
• the Literacy and Math Teams
• the School Improvement Plan Team Members

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Leadership Teams Role

• The team met to
• analyze data and
• identify the standards to be improved
• The team determined that Massachusetts English
  Language Arts Standard 8 should be a teaching
  and learning goal
• Students will identify the
• basic facts and main idea
• in a text and use them as
• the basis for interpretation.

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Leadership Teams Role

• The team determined a focus on Response to
  Literature through multiple choice and open
  response questions
• The team communicated findings and determinations
  to the learning community
• The team developed a plan and timeline to
  benchmark progress

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Leadership Teams Role

• The team determines materials for benchmarking
  progress with the use of monthly literature
  samples and assessment questions
• The team collects scores and analyzes grade level
  progress monthly
• The team ensures teachers are using data to drive
  instruction by providing opportunities for Lesson
  Study at grade level teams to meet and discuss
  strategies and lessons for improvement

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Leadership Team Works Together
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Harris SchoolWere All on the Way

• Teachers
• Planning...
• Teaching
• Conferring...
• Reflecting...

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Teachers Roles for Improving Student Achievement

• Design, deliver and debrief using a variety of
  effective literacy practices.
• Teachers use a form of the
• lesson study model to
• Plan
• Instruct
• Assess
• student achievement

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Teachers Plan

• Teachers meet with grade level teams and coaches
  to develop lessons that require open responses to
  literature
• Teachers study teaching strategies, such as
  highlighting evidence in texts and Zone of
  Relevance charts

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Teachers Plan at Grade Level
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Teachers Plan

• Teachers and coaches select materials for
  teaching and assessing students understanding of
  open response questions
• Teachers confer and research how to score open
  response questions
• Teachers study exemplars and learn the attributes
  of the scores that are given to open response
  questions

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Teachers Instruct

• Teachers show students how to access the test
  taking questions
• Teachers explain the different types of questions
  to students

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Jackie Why is it Important to be a Detective?
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Teachers Instruct

• During crafting sessions, teachers model answers
  to open response questions
• Teachers show sample questions and responses to
  engage students in dialogue and understanding of
  texts

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Amy Model
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Teachers Instruct

• Teachers confer with
• students while looking
• at student work to
• highlight strategic thinking and opportunities
  for better understanding
• further inform instruction

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Teachers Assess

• Teachers meet with grade level teams to reflect
  on teaching practices
• Teachers design new lessons to further meet
  student needs
• Teachers attend professional development to
  formulate new teaching strategies

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Teachers Assess

• Teachers meet with grade level teams to evaluate
  student work
• Teachers discuss and collaborate when scoring
  student work
• Teachers record scores to benchmark student
  achievement

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Harris School Were All on the Way

• Students
• Working
• Conferring
• Reflecting
• Learning

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Students Roles for Improving Student Achievement

• While composing meaning, students work with rigor
  to demonstrate improvement
• Students talk to each other to share learning and
  increase understanding

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Students Roles for Improving Student Achievement

• Students reflect on the school quote
• What are you doing?
• What are you learning?
• Why is it important?

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Students Reflect on Work
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Students Roles for Improving Student Achievement

• Students work with partners while looking at text
  and questions
• Students engage in conversations around
  strategies for responding to questions

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Partners
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Students Learn to Use the Zone of Relevance
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Students Roles for Improving Student Achievement

• Students confer with teachers to better
  understand how to respond to text
• Students learn the types of questions and how to
  interpret and respond to these questions

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Students Discuss Their Work
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Students Roles for Improving Student Achievement

• Students use highlighting text, sticky notes, and
  graphic organizers to support their understanding
  of text response
• Students articulate what they can do to help
  themselves better understand text response

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Mike How Partners Help Us Learn
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Students Roles for Improving Student Achievement

• Students learn to identify the qualities of open
  response scores
• Students study rubrics for open response
  questions and apply their learning for these as
  they strive for improvement

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Students Roles for Improving Student Achievement

• Students identify ways in which they can improve
  their work

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Harris School Were All on the Way

• Parents
• Reading
• Talking.
• Having fun
• Learning

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Parents Role for Improving Student Achievement
in Literacy

• Some opportunities are offered to parents for the
  purpose
• of understanding and supporting student
  achievement in
• Literacy
• Homework Connection
• Reinforced practice using sample
• questions and texts
• PTO meetings
• Parents are invited to attend to take
• advantage of the opportunities to
• understand test data as explained
• by the principal

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Parents Role for Improving Student Achievement
in Literacy

• Newsletter
• Parents read about the instructional
  opportunities that occur each month. Future
  articles will focus on comprehension strategies
• Take Home Book Bags
• Read books and respond in the
• journals/response sheets with
• their child each week
• Use strategy cards that
• accompany the bags to
• discuss the text with
• their child

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Parents Support Children Through Home-School
Connection
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Parents Role for Improving Student Achievement

• Reading Is Fundamental Program
• National program to foster reading. Families are
  given books and asked to read and respond as a
  family
• Mass Mutual Readers Program
• A community-sponsored program to foster reading
  and family involvement. Children read and discuss
  25 books with their families to earn rewards

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Parents Role for Improving Student Achievement

• Literacy Nights for families
• Ice Cream Social an event sponsored by the
  parent group that featured
• Student work in all curriculum areas
• Comprehension strategies were displayed
• Parent made video of a read aloud with their
  child. This demonstrated how to talk to your
  child about a book

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Parents Role for Improving Student Achievement

• Bingo For Booksan event sponsored by parents to
  build community and receive books

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Parents Role for Improving Student Achievement

• Classroom Literacy Events
• Parents are invited to Authors Teas and Readers
  Breakfasts to listen to their childs literacy
  achievement. Strategies that support literacy at
  home are also explained at these events by
  classroom teachers.
• Making Books Workshop
• Afternoon workshop for parents to understand the
  DRA levels, and make books at their childs
  reading level

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Parents Are Informed
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Key FindingsHow Has Harris Changed?
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Harris School Change is on the Way

• Benefits
• For
• All

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Benefits to Leadership

• Goals are clear
• Actions are outlined
• Evidence is gathered
• Progress is benchmarked monthly and can be
  reviewed
• Leadership supports at grade levels, when and
  where needed, as suggested by the evidence
• Professional development has a clear and
  meaningful focus

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Benefits to Teachers

• Teachers are involved in designing, delivering,
  and debriefing the SIP goal
• Teachers have a greater awareness of how to
  implement the SIP
• The plan has clear guidelines for implementation
• The data has been translated into an action plan
• Teachers are more knowledgeable in lesson study

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Benefits to Students

• Students are exposed to a variety of strategies
  and instructional techniques
• Students have more opportunities for reflection
  and are learning to articulate their learning
• Students are reading and writing for different
  purposes and have an understanding of these
  purposes
• Students see exemplars and rubrics to further
  their understanding of tasks to be accomplished

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Benefits to Parents

• More opportunities to read and engage in
  meaningful discussion with their child
• Increases understanding of the strategies for
  comprehension and how to work with their children
• Opportunities to learn about assessment at the
  state, district, and school levels

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Impact on Student Learning

• Reflection prompts students understanding of
  how they can improve

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Impact on Student Learning

• Documentation
• reveals evidence
• of growth
• over time
• Were All on Our Way!

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Celebrating Success
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