Lake Forest Elementary

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Lake Forest Elementary

• State of the School
• 2009-2010

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Lake Forest Elementary

• Who are we?
• 108 employees (update for 09-10)
• 71 certified/37 classified
• 38 have advanced degrees
• 2 Doctorate
• 5 Specialist
• 31 Masters
• All are Highly Qualified under No Child Left
  Behind

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• Total Enrollment /- 625
• PK-5th grade 625 total enrollment
• 80 of the students are eligible for academic
  support programs (English Language Learners,
  Special Education, Early Intervention)
• 87 Hispanic
• 8 Black
• 4 White
• 96 Free and Reduced Lunch

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• Title I Schoolwide
• Generates just under 500,000.00 additional
  Federal Funds to Lake Forest to support
  instruction for students and parent education and
  involvement.
• School Improvement is focused on improving
  reading, math and science through professional
  development, research based strategies and
  parental involvement.
• Entire plan will be available on the schools
  website for parents and the community and on the
  teacher share server for staff.

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1. Student Achievement

• Increase student achievement in reading
• Increase student achievement in math
• Increase student achievement in science (Title I)

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Increase Student Achievement in Reading

• of students who meet and exceed grade level
  expectations on the CRCT in grades 3-5. (AYP-all
  students)
• of students who meet benchmarks by grade level
  (K-3) on the Lake Forest Literacy Screener
• of students who meet the benchmarks by grade
  level for fluency in grades 1-3
• of students who increase by one tier or one
  band on the ACCESS test (grades 1-5)

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Indicators

• of students who meet and exceed grade level
  expectations on the CRCT in grades 3-5. (AYP-all
  students)

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Adequate Yearly Progress

• Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) measures a
  schools progress toward meeting the No Child
  Left Behind..
• When determining AYP, Reading and
  English/Language Arts are combined in determining
  the number of level 1 students.
• The percentage of students meeting grade level
  expectations increases yearly until 2013-2014
  when all students are expected to meet state
  determined grade level expectations.

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Adequate Yearly Progress ELA (73.3)
73.3 for 2010 and 80 for 2011
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CRCT Reading
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Sample of Non-Program Student Achievement
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Language Arts
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Indicators

• of students who meet benchmarks by grade level
  (K-3) on the Lake Forest Literacy Screener

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Lake Forest Literacy Test Phonics
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Lake Forest Literacy Test Sight Words
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Lake Forest Literacy Test Comprehension
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• of students who meet the benchmarks by grade
  level for fluency in grades 1-3
• Kindergarten 30 words per minute
• First 60 words per minute
• Second 90 words per minute
• Third 120 words per minute

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Fluency
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Increase Student Achievement in Math

• of students who meet and exceed grade level
  expectations on the CRCT in grades 3-5. (AYP-all
  students)
• of students in grade 1 who score level 2/3 on
  the CRCT
• of students in grade 2 who score level 2/3 on
  the CRCT
• of students in grade 3 who score level 2/3 on
  the CRCT

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Adequate Yearly Progress Math (58.3)
66.7 required to meet for 2009-2010
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CRCT Math
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Student Achievement Data
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First Grade CRCT
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Second Grade CRCT
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Third Grade CRCT
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Fourth Grade CRCT
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Fifth Grade CRCT
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CRCT Science and Social Studies
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Top Three Performers ELA Brookview, Lake Forest,
Hembree Springs
Top Three Performers Science KIPP, Lake Forest,
Gullatt
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2. Stakeholder Satisfaction and Involvement

• Important Considerations
• Staff and Teacher Survey
• Use the existing Fulton County survey that we
  have used in the past.
• School Based Surveys for shared decision making
• Student Survey
• Use the Education for the Future surveys. The
  elementary and middle school survey will be the
  same and the high school survey will be geared to
  high school students.
• Grade levels 3, 4, 7, 9 and 11 per design team
  recommendation. The survey will be online only.
• Parent Survey
• Use the Education for the Future survey.
• Teacher Retention
• Family, business, and community involvement

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3. School Management

• Staffing
• Highly Qualified Staff
• Facilities
• Budget aligned to goals
• Data Quality
• Informal classroom walk through, formal
  observation and evaluation, IQT observations,
  pre-kindergarten mock and formal observations,
  reading observations and feedback in grades K and
  1

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4. School Initiatives/Professional Development

• Standards
• Data Utilization
• Differentiation
• Student Focused Climate/Culture
• Professional Learning Communities
• Authentic Assessment
• Technology Integration

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Lake Forest Professional Development

• Standards
• Unit design and alignment
• SIOP
• WIDA
• Word Walls (Academic Vocabulary)
• Standards Implementation

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• Data Utilization
• SAMS (utilized to plan instruction)
• Checkpoints
• CRCT
• ITBS
• Math Units
• Lake Forest Literacy Test (including fluency)
• GKIDS
• Prekindergarten Developmental Skills Checklist

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5. Student Focused Climate/Culture

• Student of the Month
• Treating all students with respect
• Student Attendance Data
• Data Based Decision Making Student Clubs (ex
  Patrols, Chess, Musicals, etc.)
• Discipline Data
• Family Programs (ex Thanksgiving Dinner, Movie
  Night, Game Night, Carnival, Performances)

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6. Financial Performance

• Indicators are all centrally measured
• Percentage of carry over (/lt 5)
• Positions 100 within QBE formulas
• Audit Exceptions

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We Made It!

• Congratulations to each of you for your hard
  work, dedication and commitment to the students
  and families at Lake Forest.
• We made AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) across all
  subgroups!

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Direction for 2009-2010

• Amplify
• Your
• Potential
• We will continue to implement and expand the
  strategies we determined to be effective, adjust
  strategies that did not appear to have an impact
  on student achievement and seek best practices to
  improve our performance across all content areas,
  particularly with ELL and Special Education
  Students.

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Initiatives for 2009-2010

• Increase knowledge and implementation of
  value-added school improvement
• System and School Accreditation
• Development of school vision, mission and beliefs
• Follow through on professional learning
  initiatives (SIOP, Orton Gillingham, Guided
  Reading and Assessment, Differentiation, Academic
  Vocabulary, Response to Intervention, Previewing
  Academic Content)
• Investigate additional best practices for ELL and
  special education students