ADL 0607 School Report Night

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ADL 08-09 School Report
Our Champion
37ADL Spelling Competitors
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Demographics

• Enrollment

• Grade Female Male Total
• 6th 50 68 118
• 7th 60 44 104
• 8th 68 45 143
• Total 365

• 22 Free and Reduced Lunches
• 5 ELL Population

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Student Support

• 10 of our students are on IEPs
• 5 of our students have 504 plans
• 7 of our students have EST plans
• After school support is offered in homework
  clubs Monday through Thursday
• Double dosing of math fluency was given to 20
  6th graders, 10 7th graders, and 23 8th graders
• Homework Club has serviced an average of 5-8
  students after school every Monday-Thursday

Attendance

• 96.5 Attendance Rate (8/30-5/27)
• 95 Tardy Rate (8/30-5/02)

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• Behavioral Data
• 9 Full Day In-school Suspensions
• (8 individual students)
• 2 Half Day In-school Suspensions
• 16 One Day Out-of-school Suspensions
• 1 Half Day Out
• (14 individual students)
• 2 Two Day Out-of-school Suspensions
• (2 individual students)

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Library/Media Center Data
Library Read Alouds Students who are not in
band, chorus or orchestra can choose to come to
the library during Activity Period for a Read
Aloud once a month. During the 4 months this
program has been running, 204 students have
enjoyed listening to books being read aloud to
them.  Poetry Slam 82 students in 7th and 8th
grade participated in this years Poetry Slam.
  Dorothy Canfield Fisher Program 115 students
participated and read 306 DCF books. Students
also enjoyed quarterly DCF Dessert Discussion
Days, reading incentives along the way, and a
Voting Celebration at years end. Circulation
Stats 07-08 year 7,196 items 08-09 year
9,574 items
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Academic Data

• 32 of our students in grades 6-8 qualified
  through Johns Hopkins University to take the
  ACTs or SATs (scored at the distinguished level
  on the NECAP assessments).
• Of the students who took the ACT or SAT, 6 were
  recognized to receive a State Award with High
  Honors, and 1 student was recognized with
  Distinction for scores that equaled or exceeded
  the average scores for college bound high school
  seniors
• An average of 44 of ADL seventh and eighth
  grade students were on the honor roll each
  quarter (All As and Bs). 18 of the students
  in grades 6-8 received all As for quarters 1-3.

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Bye Bye Birdie We love you Conrad, oh
yes we do!
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Participation in Intramurals Clubs
Intramurals 175 Students Knitting Club 8
Students Peer Leadership 60 Students Steering
Committee of 7 Chess/Cribbage Club 20
Students Drama Musical 45, Improv.
10 Technology Club 5 Students Mural Club 15
Students Homework Club 5-10 Students Geo
Bee 15 Students DCF Club 30 Students Lunch
Bunch Groups 60 Students Yearbook Club 20
Students 6th Grade Writers Club 20
Students E-Zine 29 Students VKAT 10 Students
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ADL Gymnastics Team-09 State Champions
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• ADL Interscholastics Participation
• Fall Boys Soccer 40
• Girls Soccer 32
• Field Hockey 26
• Cross Country 32
• Total 130
• Winter Boys Basketball 24
• Girls Basketball 24
• Gymnastics 24
• Cheerleading 6
• Total 78
• Spring Softball 15
• Baseball 23
• Track 126
• Total 164
• Nearly 200 students overall participate in ADL
  sports.

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Participation in music

• 94 Concert band students
• 22 Wind ensemble students
• 15 Jazz band students
• 88 Chorus students
• 8 Hand bell students
• 22 Select chorus students
• 22 Orchestra students

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7th Grade Medieval Faire
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8th Grade Spaghetti Dinner
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ADLs Mission Statement
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community eveloping a respectful
environment for ife-long learners in the
global society.
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ADL Vision Statements We will foster the love
of learning and belief of self in a safe, healthy
and caring environment.     We will value and
respect the contributions of all members of our
learning community by collaborating and
connecting with each other.   We will utilize
research-based strategies to promote individual
growth and encourage positive contributions to
the global society.
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• Changes Made in 08-09
• Longer blocks of teaching time-57 minute classes
• Heterogeneous classes in all sixth and seventh
  grade classes
• Reading and English combined into a language arts
  class in grades 7 and 8. Focus on reading and
  English in grade six will be more integrated into
  a language arts approach. A focus on reading and
  writing across the content areas
• Drama no longer in the unified arts rotation
• 6th grade foreign language-1 semester French, 1
  semester Spanish, then will choose which to
  continue with in grade 7
• Changes for 09-10
• Heterogeneous classes for all grades and classes
• Algebra offered as a seminar for any 8th graders
  wishing to take the class
• 7 and 8th graders with same teachers both years
  on either a four teacher interdisciplinary team
  or on a 7/8 two teacher multiage team

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Draft of ADL 09-10 Action Plan Goals

• Reading
• 7th Grade-35 of the students who scored 1s and
  2s on the 08 NECAPs will move from
  substantially below proficient to partially
  proficient and from partially proficient to
  proficient in reading on the NECAP.
• 8th Grade-32 of the students who scored 1s and
  2s on the 08 NECAPs will move from
  substantially below proficient to partially
  proficient and from partially proficient to
  proficient in reading on the NECAP.
• Action Steps
• Continue professional development in the area of
  differentiated instruction. (Working with a
  consultant August-June)
• Provide professional development in reading
  across the content areas that will result in
  consistent reading strategies being used
  throughout the school. (Faculty meetings will
  focus on literacy instruction)
• Provide professional development in understanding
  the framework of
• poverty and build on strategies that will
  increase the achievement scores of our low income
  students.
• Through team and school level ESTs track student
  progress for both low performing and high
  achieving students and adjust instruction
  accordingly.

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• Mathematics
• 7th Grade-40 of the students who scored 1s and
  2s on the 08 NECAPs will move from
  substantially below proficient to partially
  proficient and from partially proficient to
  proficient in
• mathematics on the NECAP.
• 8th Grade-41 of the students who scored 1s and
  2s on the 08 NECAPs will move from
  substantially below proficient to partially
  proficient and from partially proficient to
  proficient in
• mathematics on the NECAP.
• Action Steps
• Continue professional development in the area of
  differentiated instruction.
• Provide professional development in understanding
  the framework of poverty and build on strategies
  that will increase the achievement scores of our
  low income students
• Through team and school level ESTs track student
  progress for both low performing and high
  achieving students and adjust instruction
  accordingly.

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• Writing
• 65 of our 8th graders will be proficient or
  above in writing on the 8th grade writing NECAP.
• Action Steps
• Provide professional development in writing
  constructed responses across the content areas
  and opportunities during faculty meetings for
  calibration.
• Utilize the school-wide writing rubric to be used
  in all classes.
• Provide faculty meeting time to collaborate by
  subject areas to benchmark pieces of writing
  using the writing rubric.
• Science
• Science proficiency scores will improve by 18.
• Action Steps
• Science teachers will implement a plan to address
  the areas of below standard performance (earth
  science and inquiry)

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• Differentiated Instruction
• Meet the academic needs of each student through
  differentiated instruction.
• Action Steps
• Work with consultant Bill Rich throughout the
  school year and into the next 2-3 years as a
  faculty, in small groups and individually.
• Read together Differentiation from Planning to
  Practice Grades 6-12 by Rick Wormelli.
• Faculty meeting to focus on the areas of
  differentiated instruction, formative assessment,
  literacy and technology.
• Safe, Healthy and Student Centered Learning
  Environments
• Promote and model positive behaviors.
• Action Steps
• Administer student surveys in fall and spring to
  establish baseline data.
• Research social skills curriculum that will fit
  the needs of ADL.