Badger High School Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

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Badger High SchoolLake Geneva, Wisconsin

• Our Move to the
• Inclusionary Model

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Introduction

• The Team
• Steve McNeal Principal
• Emily Soley-Johnson Math teacher / Co-teacher
• Lise Wiesman English teacher / Co-Teacher
• Karen Livingston Special Education teacher /
  Co-teacher / Department Chair
• Dr. Maureen Griffin University of Wisconsin -
  Whitewater

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Description of Badger

• School population is between 1,350 1,400
• Special Education population of 110 125 or
  about 8 - 9 .
• Latino population of around 160 students
• 108 Certified Staff
• 9 12 Union District
• Location Lake Geneva
• Resort Community
• School and community somewhat disconnected

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Artifacts

• Geared toward upper level students
• - No importance given to Special Education or
  the Latino students
• - A great deal of self-promotion given to the
  number of AP / Honors classes offered, not the
  actual data that evaluated success.
• - Absolute resistance to heterogeneous
  grouping.
• Segregation of Latino students
• Financially very stable
• Under achieving school
• Three years ago two out of five areas below state
  average in state testing.
• Poor achieving in athletics with limited
  participation

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Creating a Change in Culture

• Strong Philosophies
• All kids are important.
• Every kid needs a home.
• Be the captain of your own ship and make it
  great!
• People make programs.
• There is no wrong time to start doing the right
  thing.

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Changing the Culture

• Becoming a Professional Learning Community
• In-servicing staff
• Visits to Adlai E. Stevenson High School
• Development of Collaboration schedule
• Changing schedules
• Getting teachers out of silos

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It all tied together

• Many changes in first year
• Not always popular
• But evaluation of our special education
  program showed what was the next big step - The
  move to inclusion.

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Where we were

• All EEN students took all test in resource rooms
• All final exams for EEN students were
  administered in the LMC
• Case loads of EEN teachers 30
• Many EEN students in Resource all day
• EEN students pulled out of core academic classes
• Separate offices for each EEN staff member
  throughout building

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Where we were

• No department chair or leadership
• County dictated who was hired
• Acknowledged concerns of EEN teachers, general
  education teachers and students
• Four team taught classes
• Recognized disregard for LRE
• Poorly written and inappropriate IEPs not
  focusing on educational and career goals
• I-pods and eating written in IEPs
• Free hall roaming

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Time to change

• No wrong time
• to start doing
• the right thing

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2006 2007 School Goals

• Goal 1--Badgers students and staff will work to
  increase our ACT score to an average of 23. We
  will increase WKCE scores in the areas of math,
  reading, and language by 3, increase scores in
  science and social studies by 2, and increase
  the writing score by .2.
• (A MAPS goal will also be added once a base
  line measure has been determined at the beginning
  of next year.)
• Goal 2Badger will decrease its number of student
  failures by 30 overall.
• Goal 3---Teachers will demonstrate an increase in
  implementation of content specific reading
  strategies which will improve student achievement
  in reading across the curriculum and test
  scores.

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2006 2007Special Education ChangesPhysical

• Central Location for Offices and Resources
• - We moved the rooms to a central and important
  location in the school, together to help share
  resources but in personal and materials.
• - We created one special education office

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2006 2007Special Education ChangesAdministrati
on

• Collaboration days implemented
• Principals role
• EEN Department Chair
• Team Teachers / assignments
• Added teacher
• Break down of grades / shrink school

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Hiring Practice

• Again, People make Programs
• Hiring Philosophy
• New staff
• Team teaching drive
• Regular Education
• Special Education
• Introduction of Mike

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De and Mike
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2006 2007Special Education ChangesStudents

• Study Halls
• Test Taking
• After school labs
• Elimination of segregation
• Reviewed IEPs for LRE
• Students remained in core classes as appropriate

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A conversation with Whitney
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2006 2007Special Education ChangesProfessional
Development

• School wide in-service
• Team teaching conference
• Professor contracted
• Surveys conducted
• University survey to track EEN students

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2006 2007Special Education ChangesCommunity /
Board

• Presentation to board
• Involved students and parents

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2006 2007Special Education ChangesFaculty

• EEN teachers assigned to PLC
• Resource books for resource room
• Accountability
• Conducted monthly department meetings
• Team roles unclear
• 19 teams

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WKCE Results

• Reading 3 7 above state average
• Language 6 9 above state average
• Math 4 7 above state average
• Soc Studies 1 7 above state average
• Science 3 10 above state average

10 above state average
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Students Scoring Minimal

• Reading Langauge Arts
• 2003 14 2003 13
• 2004 13 2004 11
• 2005 10 2005 8
• 2006 6 2006 7
• Mathematics Science
• 2003 11 2003 13
• 2004 12 2004 12
• 2005 10 2005 8
• 2006 7 2006 9
• Social Studies
• 2003 13
• 2004 15
• 2005 9
• 2006 11

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ACT Results

• Second best results in Badger history
• Exceeded School Goal of .4 increase by achieving
  a .6 increase.
• 20 more students taking the ACT than before.

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AP Results

• 73 of our students scored a 3 or above out of
  the 251 test taken!
• Best Badger results with more kids taking test.
• Enrollment for this year in AP classes
• 05-06  274
• 06-07  348
• 07-08  459

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ESL Students Moving Up in Access Test at least
one Language Level

• 9th grade 7 of 25 test takers 28
• 10th graders 14 of 31 test takers (in
  addition, one achieved a level 6) 45
• 11th graders 8 of 27 test takers (in addition,
  one achieved a level 6) 29
• 12th graders 3 of 17 test takers 17

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Reduction of Failures
Leadership 100 Math 31 PE 50 Reading
76 Science 29.5 Social Studies 36 Technolog
y 40 World Language 25

• Agriculture 33
• Art 33
• Business 43
• EEN 73
• English 26
• FCE 17
• FORT 100
• Health 41

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2006-2007 ResultsEEN Failure Rates

• English down 64
• Math down 75
• Social Studies down 62
• Science down 60

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2007 2008 School Goals

• Complete Curriculum by Year End
• All curricular areas will have all curriculums
  for every course at Badger completed and entered
  into the Eclipse software with a minimum of two
  common assessments for each semester by the end
  of the 2007 2008 school year.
• Associated Strategies
• Continue inservicing on use of the Eclipse
  software.
• Schedule curricular time to input curriculum into
  Eclipse.
• Continue work during collaboration to develop
  common assessments.
• Increase Emphasis on the ESL Population
• Badger High School will increase the number of
  students who advance one level of proficiency on
  the ACCESS test by 10.
• Associated Strategies
• Continued growth of the Maldef program for Latino
  parents.
• Increase communication to Latino population.
• Coordinate efforts from teachers, coaches, and
  advisors to actively recruit more Latino students
  into a wider variety of school activities.
• Implement Differentiated Instruction
• Badger High School will put a strong emphasis on
  inservicing and implementation of differentiated
  instruction during the 2007 2008 school year.
• Associated Strategies
• I nservice staff on one or two key times during
  2007 2008 school year.
• Encourage staff to attend conferences then have
  them take on leadership roles upon return.
• Utilize shared drive and develop web-sites.
• Tap into staff members with expertise in this
  area.

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2007 2008Special Education ChangesFaculty

• Collaborated
• ESL department
• Joined specific academic areas
• Proportionate placement
• Assigned case loads to match counselor
• We in the classroom
• Matching teams
• Specialty according to interest and skill
• Staff buy in

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Sheri and Jackie
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2007 2008Special Education ChangesProfessional
Development

• EEN Teacher Survey
• Steering Committee
• Dr. Griffin
• Types Frequency of Consultation
• Topics Addressed
• Tools Used
• Introduction to Lise and Karen

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Lise and Karen
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2008 2009Team Teaching Plans

• Common Preps
• Classroom Procedures
• Home-School Relations
• Accountability
• Differentiated Instruction
• New EEN Staff Member
• Introduction to Emily, Bridgette and Sarah

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Emily, Bridgette and Sarah
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Introduction to Emily and Alan
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Soleys Failure Rate
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Emily and Alan
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Conclusion

• Leadership with a Vision
• Building Relationships
• Accountability
• Equitable Education

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Questions???