Willowville Elementary Road Trip to Excellence 20062007

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Willowville Elementary Road Trip to
Excellence2006-2007
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Willowville Status
Indicators to be Met
Rating State Indicators Met
04-05
05-06

• Excellent
• Effective
• Continuous Improvement
• Academic Watch
• Academic Emergency

• 3rd Reading
• 4th Reading
• 5th Reading
• 3rd Math
• 4th Math
• 5th Math
• 4th Writing
• School Attendance

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What That T-Shirt Really Means Your Teacher Has

• Assessed your Phonics Skills, Phonemic Awareness,
  Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension while
  Monitoring your Progress toward Benchmark
• Dissected and evaluated your Mock OAT data to
  differentiate your instruction
• Secured the resources to meet your needs as a
  learner
• Created interventions to keep you from falling
  through the cracks

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This Journey Began Without A Drivers
Manual! POLICY or Practice, Teacher,
Resource Level
IBS
RTI
OISM
PBS
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How do WE become that ONE person?
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Created a Collaborative Culture..We Changed our
Attitude and our Behaviors

• High Expectations for ALL students.
• Higher level thinking.
• Shared Responsibility between student, teacher
  and parents about learning.
• Analyzing our instruction and the lessons that we
  teach to improve our instruction.
• Facilitating Cooperative Learning / Independent
  Learning
• Creating a framework for student learning.
  (objectives are visible and spoken, modeling is
  present, application and questioning occurs,
  assessment of student performance, data
  collection, interventions as needed and follow up
  occurs)
• Our Passion is Present as we model life-long
  learning. (staff
  meetings, study groups, CIP, OISM, team meetings)

Most children learn early in school that
mistakes are signs of weakness instead of data to
use. Saphire Gower
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How we Created a Collaborative Culture..We
Changed our Attitude and our Behaviors

• Changed our School Wide schedule to Create Daily
  Common Planning Time
• Cancelled all Staff Meetings- Established Grade
  Level Meetings
  (Team Meeting Tuesday)
• I set the agenda- Focus Student Concerns,
  Evaluating Student Data, Discuss Decision Rules
  to see if we need to move to Tier 1, 2 or 3.
• Create Inclusive Practices / Co-teaching /
  Teacher Student Responsibility
• Tier 2 Interventions- Meet as a Grade Level- What
  are we missing? How Many kids need the
  intervention? When can we start it? How will we
  pay for it? (REWARDS, 6 Minute Solution)
• Tier 3- Parent Meetings, Data Collection,
  Monitoring Intervention, Change Instruction
• Establish a Level of Accountability by ALL
  Parties Every Year
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  YOU CANT LET UP!

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Intervention Tune Up- Rebuilding the System

• Resources- People and Money
• Setting Clear Expectations with your staff-
  Having difficult conversations
• Finding the Right People and putting them in the
  right positions
• Professional Development (Inside)- My Goal was to
  Empower Teachers to Take a Lead Role i.e.. Study
  Group, Mock Testing Analysis (Outside) TESA, Lab
  Classrooms, Read Well, SOCI , DIBELS Summit

• Advocate for materials- Grants, Central Office-
  Will you pay half?, PTO-Raz-kids, Study Island,
  ELO, Fast Math, Study Group, Books and Breakfast,
  Professional Development for Teachers (Costa
  Rica), Russia, PBS-Colorado
• All Monies are spent on Continuous Improvement!

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We all developed a POSITIVE ATTITUDE of
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The Quest Continues!
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Our expectations for students turn into
self-fulfilling prophesies. Maybe every school
needs a person in charge of exceeding
expectations. Saphire and Gower
How High Are Your Expectation? How will your
children meet those expectations?
If you Believe it, You can Achieve it!
Nazzarine, Murphy Schmidt