Achieving School Improvement with the Three Rs:

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Achieving School Improvement with the Three Rs

• Rigor, Relevance, and RelationshipsMay 7th, 2009

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School Population

• 83 Free and reduced lunch
• 1/3 African American
• 1/3 Caucasian
• 1/3 Hispanic

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Coaching Model

• Work with students
• Push in intervention groups
• Ketchup room
• Guided study groups
• Provide demonstration lessons/ coverage while
  staff observe each other
• Resource gathering
• Professional development for staff
• Support for staff
• Child studies
• Data analysis
• Research of best practices

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School Improvement Team

• Cheryl Gedraitis
• Danielle Letter
• Gayle Matoy
• Patty McCallum
• Karen OBrien
• Julie Tolfree
• Rae Ann Cronk
• Chuck Lesser

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• If special education is the only significant
  intervention tool available in a school, it is
  inevitable that the school will come to rely upon
  that intervention too frequently.  A school with
  a multi-step system of interventions arms itself
  with a variety of tools for meeting the needs of
  its students and thus is more likely to find the
  appropriate strategy
• - Taken from Whatever it takes How a
  professional learning community responds when
  kids dont learn

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Academic Intervention Pyramid 07-09
Child Studies

• 4,5,6
• MEAP
• Teacher referral

Teacher Referral

• I,2,3
• DRAs (below level)
• Report Cards
• Teacher Referral

Grades 3,4,5,6 Incomplete assignments
Inclusion is utilized in 5th and 6th grades 08
-09.
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Academic Intervention Pyramid 09 - 10
Inclusion is utilized in 5th and 6th grades.
Possible 4th grade inclusion classroom.
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Success Stories

• A number of students have made significant
  improvement and no longer need special education
  services.
• This is attributed to the skills of instructors,
  interventions, and inclusion.

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Behavior Intervention Pyramid 07 - 09
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Behavior Intervention Pyramid 09 - 10
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Saginaw ISD CoT Series

• Ron Ritchhart Project Zero, Harvard
  Intellectual Character
• Dr. Rod Rock and Geralyn Myczkowiak Thinking
  Routines

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Book Studies 08 09 Titles

• The Daily 5 Fostering Literacy Independence in
  the Elementary Grades
• 50 Problem Solving Lessons
• Teaching the Qualities of Writing
• 6 1 Traits of Writing

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Supporting the Under Supported

• Identify needs
• Define goals
• Create intervention
• Non-negotiables
• Defining the system
• Identify discussions
• Identify Roles
• Develop timeline
• Define two cycles of success
• Public Relations
• Add to Pyramid of Interventions
• Taken from Gayle Karhanek 2007
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Future Goals

• Book Studies with Choice
• Parent View Online Grades/Attendance
• Standards Based Learning
• Continue Cultures of Thinking
• Analyze Data/Articles
• Common Planning Time

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Bibliography

• DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Karhanek, G.
  (2004). Whatever it takes How a professional
  learning community responds when kids dont
  learn. Bloomington, IN Solution Tree (formerly
  National Educational Service
• Eaker, R., DuFour, R., DuFour, R. (2002).
  Getting started Reculturing schools to become
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• Ritchhart, Ron (2002) Intellectual Character
  What it is, Why it Matters, and How to Get it.
  San Francisco, CA Jossey-Bass
• DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R (1998)
  Professional Learning Communities at Work Best
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• DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T.
  (2006) Learning by Doing. Bloomington, IN
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• Reeves, D. (2004) Accountability for Learning
  How teachers and school leaders can take charge.
  Alexandria, VA ASCD