You Cant Bring a Football to Play a Baseball Game

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You Cant Bring a Football to Play a Baseball
Game!

• Using Data to Create
• a Game Plan
• D. Baker, T. Bruce, B. Vincent
• Alvin ISD

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Purpose of Session

• To understand that you must look at your data
  differently to be successful in both State and
  Federal Accountability.
• Look at different data playbooks from three
  administrators with unique campuses.
• To acknowledge that successful campuses can miss
  AYP without a focused game plan.

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INTRODUCTIONS - Coaches

• DeeDee Baker Principal
• Longfellow Elementary (Grades 4-6) Recognized
  Campus
• Experience
• Campus Data
• Economically Disadvantaged 70
• White 40
• Hispanic 55
• Other 5
• LEP 12
• Bilingual 9
• Special Education 17
• At Risk 39
• Mobility 27
• Gifted and Talented 3

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INTRODUCTIONS - Coaches

• Terri Bruce Principal
• Passmore / Wilder Elementary (Pre K-6) Recognized
  Campus
• Experience
• MP Campus Data
• E D 57
• White 46
• Hispanic 51
• Other 3
• LEP 11
• Bilingual 9
• Special Ed. 12
• At Risk 29
• Mobility 18
• G T 13

LW Campus Data E D 23 White 19 Hispanic
13 Asian 36 African American 32 LEP
20 Bilingual - 0 Special Ed. 5 At Risk
35 GT 10
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INTRODUCTIONS - Coaches

• Brenda Vincent Principal
• Mark Twain Primary (Grades Pre K-3) Recognized
  Campus
• Experience
• Campus Data
• Economically Disadvantaged 75
• White 36
• Hispanic 60
• Other 4
• LEP 30
• Bilingual 28
• Special Education 9
• At Risk 28
• Mobility 28
• Gifted and Talented 2

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Assumptions

• Highly Qualified Teachers
• TEKS Aligned Curriculum
• Benchmark Testing
• Vertical Alignment between Campuses
• Relationship between administrators
• District Support
• RTI Procedures

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AYP in a Pre K-6 SettingGame Plan 1

• Terri Bruce
• Principal, Alvin ISD

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Student Data Scouting

• Management and understanding of student programs
• Knowing what programs all students belong to
• Knowing initial program numbers and monitoring
  changes avoids surprises at testing time
• Tracking how many students must pass to meet
  requirements

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Weige Report

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African American
African American
Hispanic
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White
Economically Disadvantage
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African American
LEP
Special Education
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Early Interventions Fundamentals

• Benefits from all grade levels on one campus
• Knowledge of students over time
• Able to set early interventions, building
  foundations for learning
• Able to track progress from one grade to another

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Early Interventions Fundamentals

• Use of benchmark testing data
• System for monitoring student groups and their
  progress
• System of layered tutorials Academics vs TAKS

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Scheduling Decisions- Recruiting

• Impact of student services
• Services must match which assessment the student
  will take
• Teachers and support staff must have a working
  knowledge of curriculum, including TEKS and TAKS
  objectives

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Testing Decisions The Line Up

• Understanding of available testing options
• Blueprints of TAKS, TAKS Acc, TAKS Mod, TAKS Alt
• Awareness of all accommodations and appropriate
  usage
• Use of accommodations on a daily basis

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Tracking System- Stats

• Development and usage of tracking system
• tbs Student Bible
• Grade Level Meetings
• Report Card / Progress Reports
• Assessment Reviews
• DRA / RR Updates
• Monitoring Wall

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AYP in a Pre K-3 Setting

• Brenda Vincent
• Principal, Alvin ISD

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Vision for Pre K - 3

• Look at Campus as a Pre K-6
• Striving for all students to be Commended on TAKS
• Early Interventions in Bilingual Classroom to
  help students exit by grade 3
• RTI Procedures to reduce number of Special
  Education Students

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Student Data Scouting

• Management and understanding of student programs
• Procedures for looking at data
• DRA
• PAPI
• Pre-K End of Year Assessments
• Benchmark Testing (K-2, 3rd)
• Grades
• Current / Past Interventions
• Retention
• Student Information tracked on a data-based
  program
• RTI Folders

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Early Interventions Fundamentals

• Programs Available after looking at data
• Reading Recovery (English Spanish)
• Literacy Groups (English Spanish)
• Math Intervention Groups (English Spanish)
• Retired Teacher (2 English, 1 Spanish)
• Afterschool Tutoring
• Summer School Program (different from District)
• Summer Writing Program

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Tracking System- Stats

• Development and usage of tracking system
• Student Database
• Monitoring Walls
• Weige Report

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AYP in a 4th-6th Grade Setting

• DeeDee Baker
• Principal, Alvin ISD

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Student Data Scouting

• Management and understanding of student programs
• Target your Group (LFs SpEd LEP)
• Snapshot student Database (LEP Sp. Ed)
• AYP Report on number of students needed
• LEP tracking of waiver, ESL, and Bilingual
  students
• Special Education Tracking
• Staffing on all students
• Keep form on all students through all testing
  years
• Tracking of Sp. Ed students scores after each
  benchmark test. (Courville Method)

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Weige Report
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Scheduling Decisions- Recruiting

• Impact of student services
• Special Education students Full Inclusion with
  pull out resource if needed.
• Placing struggling students with experienced
  teachers.

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Testing Decisions The Line Up

• Tutoring of all Special Education Students
• Belief that all students will pass if appropriate
  assessment is chosen
• Staffing discussion on Testing accommodations
  that can make students successful on assessment
• Classroom/Small group/Individual testing looking
  at where children can perform their best.

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Tracking System- Stats

• Development and usage of tracking system
• Individual Form for Special Education students
• Snapshot student data base for Weige Report
• Analyzing data after each benchmark test
• AYP report of number of students needed in each
  category
• Having LEP students test in both languages on
  Benchmark tests
• Monitoring Walls
• Curriculum Meeting after each benchmark
• TAKS Talks with teacher after benchmark

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District Support- League

• Campuses must know the AYP numbers of District
  special education students to be successful
• Allow campuses to visits and gather information
• Curriculum must be vertically aligned

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Question Answers
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Contact Information

• Contact Information
• DeeDee Baker Longfellow Elementary
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail - dbaker_at_alvinisd.net
• Terri Bruce Wilder Elementary
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail - tbruce_at_alvinisd.net
• Brenda Vincent Mark Twain Primary
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail - tbruce_at_alvinisd.net