I Come to School to Learn, Grow and Achieve

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Pecos Valley Regional Education Cooperative
8 Providing support for Dexter Consolidated
Schools Hagerman Municipal Schools Lake Arthur
Municipal Schools Loving Municipal Schools

• I Come to School to Learn, Grow and Achieve

Presented at the Career Clusters Institute June
2008 By Lena Trujillo-Chavez, Director Michael
Grossman, Superintendent Pecos Valley Regional
Education Cooperative 8 Lake Arthur Municipal
Schools Artesia, NM Lake Arthur, NM
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AGENDA

• Purpose of the Presentation
• Introduction
• Pecos Valley Regional Education Cooperative
• Vision, Mission, Values and Goals
• Lake Arthur Municipal Schools
• Lake Arthur High School
• Career Clusters Implementation
• Student Centered Learning
• Vision, Mission, EPSS, Focus Areas and Goals,
  Performance Creed
• Career Development
• Career Clusters Framework
• High Schools That Work Design
• Distance/Online Education
• Statewide Data Collection System
• Mentor System
• Next Steps for Continuous Improvement
• For more information

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Purpose of the Presentation

• The purpose of todays presentation is to
• Share Lake Arthur High Schools success in
  ensuring students are prepared for higher
  education and the workplace with a focus on its
  structured mentoring system.
• Communicate the ability to replicate the
  structure for any size school.
• The two critical components this presentation
  will focus on are

Student learning is the FOCUS!
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Introduction

• State statute provides for the formal
  organization of educational service agencies in
  New Mexico
• Regional Education Cooperatives (REC) are created
  by local boards of education, when districts come
  together to cooperatively share resources.
• New Mexico has nine RECs

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Introduction

• Pecos Valley Regional Education Cooperative
  (PVREC) 8
• Vision
• Supporting Excellence in Education
• Mission
• The mission of the PVREC is to provide
  educational services to students, staff and
• families of the member districts and
  communities.
• Values
• ? We promote teamwork, compassion, trust and
  understanding among all staff
• positions.
• ? We develop and support excellence in
  education by striving to be professional
• and compassionate toward staff, students
  and families.
• ? We will model knowledge and professionalism
  in all we do.
• ? We are committed to professional,
  compassionate, caring work with
• accountability.
• ? We will acknowledge and support, with
  sensitivity, all cultural diversities.

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Introduction

• PVREC (continued)
• Goals
• ? All PVREC member districts students will
  receive educational services
• as identified by the school district.
• ? All PVREC member districts staff will have
  access to educational
• resources in support of district and
  student goals.
• ? All PVREC member districts families will
  have access to educational
• resources in support of student
  achievement.
• ? PVREC educational services will be provided
  on an as needed basis to
• surrounding communities.

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Introduction

• Pecos Valley Regional Education Cooperative 8s
  four member districts
• Dexter Consolidated Schools
• Hagerman Municipal Schools
• Lake Arthur Municipal Schools
• Loving Municipal Schools

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Introduction

• Dexter Consolidated Schools
• Demographics
• Dexter, New Mexico
• Population 1,235
• Median Household Income 30,707 annually
• High School Diploma 52.4 (Population over 25)
• Bachelors Degree or Higher 10.5 (25 and over)
• Dexter High School
• Approximately 325 students
• Student Achievement
• Academic
• New Mexico Standards Based Assessment (NM SBA)
• Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP)
• Career-Technical Education
• Career Clusters Program of Study
• Transportation, Distribution and Logistics
  Automotive Technology

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Introduction

• Hagerman Municipal Schools
• Demographics
• Hagerman, New Mexico
• Population 1,168
• Median Household Income 23,295
• High School Diploma 56.4
• Bachelors Degree or Higher 7.1
• Hagerman High School
• Approximately 145 students
• Student Achievement
• Academic
• New Mexico Standards Based Assessment (NM SBA)
• Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP)
• Career-Technical Education
• Career Clusters Program of Study
• Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Animal
  Science

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Introduction

• Lake Arthur Municipal Schools
• Demographics
• Lake Arthur, New Mexico
• Population 432
• Median Household Income 22,386
• High School Diploma 53.9
• Bachelors Degree or Higher 4.9
• Enrollment
• Approximately 51 students
• Student Achievement
• Academic
• New Mexico Standards Based Assessment (NM SBA)
• Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP)
• Career-Technical Education
• Career Clusters Program of Study
• Health Sciences Medical Assistant

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Introduction

• Loving Municipal Schools
• Demographics
• Loving, New Mexico
• Population 1,326
• Median Household Income 22,414
• High School Diploma 54.8
• Bachelors Degree or Higher 5.9
• Loving High School
• Approximately 158 students
• Student Achievement
• Academic
• New Mexico Standards Based Assessment (NM SBA)
• Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP)
• Career-Technical Education
• Career Clusters Programs of Study
• Five Career Clusters Eight Programs of Study
• Architecture and Construction Cluster
  Construction Pathway

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Introduction

• Lake Arthur Municipal Schools
• Vision
• Mission
• Staff Performance Creed
• Educational Plan for Student Success
• School Level Goals
• Mathematics
• Reading
• Parental Involvement
• Safe Schools
• Teacher
• Evaluation Performance Descriptors
• Professional Development
• Student
• Performance Creed
• Class Mission
• PDSA

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Lake Arthur High School

• Lake Arthur High School is among the few schools
  in the state New Mexico who have exceeded student
  achievement targets for No Child Left Behind and
  was named as a Bronze school by U.S. News and
  World Report. A key component to this success is
  the focus on the student, where students take
  ownership of their learning through a structured
  mentoring system.
• U.S. News and World Report
• December 2007

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Career Clusters Implementation Student
Centered Learning

• Vision
• Lake Arthur Municipal Schools will represent THE
  high performing standard for student achievement.
• Mission
• Lake Arthur Municipal Schools staff will
  promote optimal learning opportunities through
  quality instructional practices for students to
  become self-directed confident learners in a safe
  learning environment.
• Staff Performance Creed
• Lake Arthur Schools staff will come to work
  each day to perform, continuously improve and
• reach the high performance standard required
  for excellence and in turn assist each staff
• member to do the same.
• Focus Areas
• ? Academic Continuous improvement in student
  performance in the core content areas.
• ? Parent/Community Involvement Continuous
  improvement in establishing an inviting
• school centered on parent/community
  involvement to promote student achievement.
• ? Safe Schools Continuous improvement in
  establishing a safe, healthy, and positive
• learning environment.

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Career Clusters Implementation Student
Centered Learning

• Goals
• Academic
• Reading The percentage of student scoring at or
  above the proficient level in reading on the New
  Mexico Standards Based Assessment (NMSBA) will
  increase to meet or exceed the Annual Measurable
  Objective (AMO) or meet or exceed grade level
  performance indicators.
• Writing The percentage of students scoring at
  or above the proficient level in writing on the
  Measurement of Academic Progress (MAP) and
  6-Trait Writing assessment to meet or exceed
  NMSBA grade level writing performance rubric
  score of 3 or better.
• Mathematics The percentage of students scoring
  at or above the proficient level in mathematics
  on the NMSBA will increase to meet or exceed the
  AMOs or meet or exceed grade level performance
  indicators.
• Parent/Community Involvement
• Increase family and community knowledge of the
  school setting and student learning expectations
  as measured by a parent student learning
  monitoring task (parent survey) and its
  relationship to improvement of student
  achievement performance.
• Safe Schools
• All students will attain self-directed productive
  traits that contribute to student learning,
  personal health, and safety as measured by
  student behavior performance rubric or a score of
  3 or better.
• All students will exhibit behavior that
  contributes to an invitational school setting
  that demonstrates the development of non-bullying
  culture as measured by anti-bullying survey
  results.

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Career Clusters Implementation Student
Centered Learning

• Performance Creed
• Through these doors pass Lake Arthur students
  who come ready each day to learn, grow and
  achieve and in turn help their classmates do the
  same.
• Positive Behavior Support System
• Panther Traits
• ? Be Respectful
• ? Be Responsible
• ? Be Safe
• ? Be Accountable

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Career Clusters Implementation Career
Development

• Career Clusters framework
• Kuder Career Planning System
• NM Program of Study design
• NOCTI Employability and Career Development System
• High Schools That Work design
• Distance/Online Education
• Statewide Data Collection System
• Common Course Numbering
• Course Sequencing

STUDENT
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Career Clusters Implementation Career
Development

• Characteristics (from the League for Innovation
  in Community Colleges)
• Secondary Level
• Meets state academic standards
• Meets high school testing and exit requirements
• Provides preparation for college readiness
• Meets college entrance requirements
• Provides academic and career-related knowledge
  and skills in the chosen career cluster
• Provides opportunities for students to earn
  college credit/certification(s)
• Postsecondary Level
• Opportunities for student to earn dual credit
• Alignment and articulation with baccalaureate
  programs
• Industry-recognized knowledge and skills
• Work-based learning opportunities
• Pathway Partners
• Regularly collect qualitative and quantitative
  data
• Use data for planning and decision making
• Maintain an ongoing dialogue

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Career Clusters Implementation Career
Development
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Career Clusters Implementation Career
Development

• Characteristics (continued)
• 2008-2009 Common Academic Calendar
• Memorandum of Understanding between the four
  member districts and three two-year postsecondary
  institutions
• Dual Credit Courses
• Shared Professional Development
• Seven period day
• Matrix for Shared Courses
• Interactive Television Courses
• On-line Courses
• Face-to-Face Courses

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Mentor System

• Structure
• Each student has an adult mentor in the school
• Teachers monitor data for
• Academic Achievement
• Attendance
• Behavior
• Conference with the Teacher every two weeks
• Academic Achievement
• Attendance
• Behavior
• Student-led Parent/Teacher Conferences
• 1 Student
• 2 Parent
• 3 Teacher
• What happens when a student does not learn?
• Determine the cause
• PDSA
• Intervention(s)

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Mentor System

• Data, Data, Data
• Data Rooms At Lake Arthur High School this is
  called the Strategy Room
• Visually presenting 3-Tiered Academic Profile on
  each student.

MONITOR THE DATA!
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Next Steps for Continuous Improvement

• Power of I
• Health Sciences Pathway expansion

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For more information

• Michael Grossman, Superintendent
• Lake Arthur Municipal Schools
• 575.365.2000
• michael.grossman_at_la-panthers.org
• Lena Trujillo-Chavez, Director
• Pecos Valley Regional Education Cooperative 8
• 575.748.6100
• lchavez_at_pvrec8.com