CI for the Little Guy: Win Small, Win Early, Win Often

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CI for the Little Guy Win Small, Win Early,
Win Often!

• Producing a steady stream of success.
• Mike Schmoker

Ann Buckley Steph Stulken Kindergarten Teachers
Continuous Improvement Trainers
National Quality in Education Conference
2009Jacksonville, Florida
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Presenters

• Steph Stulken Ann Buckley
• Kindergarten teachers and Continuous Improvement
  trainers

Cedar Rapids Community Schools Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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CI for the Little Guy

• Goals for today how we
• Define quality with primary students
• Construct quality process that engage the little
  guy
• Implement SMART goals
• classroom student
• Use of data folders as a communication tool
• Conduct student involved conferences

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How did it make a difference?

• Marcus Story
• Fall-Lowest 5 of ALL kindergartners in Cedar
  Rapids
• Winter-Lowest 10 of ALL kindergartners in Cedar
  Rapids
• May-Highest 10 of ALL kindergartners in Cedar
  Rapids

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Our History
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What do I want to be when I grow up?
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How do we encourage them to reach their dreams?

• Have focused learning goals
• Communicate learning goals to students through
  meaningful classroom instruction
• Track student learning by using formative
  assessment
• Celebrate learning
• Robert Marzano, The Art and Science of Teaching

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What is Quality?

• Think of two words to describe a quality
  presenter.
• Write them down
• Turn to the person next to you and share.

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Quality -Setting the Stage for Learning

• Roles and responsibilities of support staff
• Professional Learning Communities guiding
  questions
• What do we want them to know or be able to do?
• How will we know if they learned?
• What happens if they struggle or dont learn?
• What happens if they already know it?

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Quality -Students Involved in Setting the Stage

• Quality teacher quality student
• Ground rules (norms)
• Mission statement
• Behavior expectations rubric

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What does Quality look like?

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Quality -Whole Group Reading

• Tools
• Data center/ quality tools
• Quality work rubric
• Student Learning Expectations
• Classroom learning goals
• PDSA
• Concepts
• Quality work/personal best
• Tracking growth/data driven decisions
• Collaboration/teamwork
• Self-efficacy

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What does Quality look like?
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Quality -Guided Reading Groups

• Tools
• Student Learning Expectations (SLE)
• Lotus Diagram
• Common Formative Assessments

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Student Questions

• What do I need to know or be able to do?
• Where am I now?
• How will I get there?
• What happens if I struggle?
• What happens if I already know it?

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What does it look like?
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Quality -Whole group instruction

• Tools
• Student Learning Expectations
• Quality tools
• Formative assessments
• Rubrics/proficiency defined
• Concepts
• Clear learning targets,
• making obscure not obscure
• Tracking learning/quality tools

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What does it look like?
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Quality -Goal Groups Intervention Block

• Tools
• I can statements
• Individual goal setting
• Formative assessments
• Data folders/quality tools
• Goal certificates
• Chart of individual goals met/class celebrations
• Concepts
• Self-efficacy
• Quality work/personal best
• Tracking growth/data driven decisions
• Collaboration/teamwork

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Individual SMART Goals

• Specific-Student Learning Expectations, scaffold
• for skills needed by the learner
• Measurable Individual tracking sheets made
• for each goal
• Attainable - Put the student on a track of
• success
• Results-oriented- Proficiency levels
• identified by
  PLC
• Time bound- Fast paced to promote success

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Student Learning ExpectationExample
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Individual Goal Time
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Quality -Addressing all learners

• Intervention
• Scaffold SLEs
• Individual goal setting
• Supplemental Intensives (RTI)
• Enrichment
• Vertical alignment
• Individual goal setting
• Parental involvement

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What does it look like?
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Quality -Celebrate Success

• Class celebrations
• Student involved conferences
• Announcements

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What does it look like?
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Quality -Outcomes Results
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Students who are engaged ACHIEVE

• We strive to help students
• Understand learning targets
• Engage in self-assessment
• Watch themselves grow
• Talk about growth
• Plan next steps
• Stiggins, Arter, Chappius and Chappius (2004)

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In closing

• Discussion

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Final thoughts

• Questions
• Contact information
• sstulken_at_cr.k12.ia.us
• abuckley_at_cr.k12.ia.us
• Presentation Posted
• http//quality.cr.k12.ia.us/

Cedar Rapids Community Schools Cedar Rapids, Iowa