Mike Kelley Jarred Jagger

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Tackling the ECA Beast!

• Mike Kelley Jarred Jagger
• Andy Dudley Portia Naze
• Frankfort High School

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Tackling the ECA Beast!

• Mike Kelley Jarred Jagger
• Andy Dudley Portia Naze
• Frankfort High School

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Frankfort, Indiana
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Frankfort High School
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Frankfort High School
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Frankfort High School
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Frankfort High School
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Frankfort High School
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Frankfort High School
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Frankfort High School
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Trimester System

• Increased number of credit opportunities
• Flexibility in scheduling
• A 6th period for various uses
• Small group Instruction
• Remediation
• Test or lab make-up time
• ECA GQE Exam preparation time

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Meeting the Needs of our Students

• Scheduling

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Scheduling Options For Freshmen

• Geometry
• Algebra XY
• Full Year Algebra
• Full Year Algebra Co-Taught
• Full Year Algebra Resource

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Course Content

• Are we preparing our students to succeed?

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Course Curriculum Reevaluated

• 8th grades standards What should they already
  know?
• State Standards
• ECA Content
• Vocabulary

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Structured Vocabulary

• Review state list of important words for algebra
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• Decide as a department on words requiring a
  higher level of importance
• Create chart to organize words, textbook
  sections, definitions, and pictures/examples
• Integrate time to complete chart and discuss
  terms into daily lessons

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Department Planning

• Standards are divided into 4-week increments and
  a test is given every 4 weeks
• Each test covers several standards

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Student Success Process

• The lowest standard in re-taught for one week
  during mini lessons
• Students are quizzed at the end of the week on
  only the standard that has been re-taught

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Mastery learning

• Students much achieve 80 mastery on a standard
  in order to master it
• Students are grouped by mastery or non-mastery on
  each standard

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Student Success Process

• Students who still have not achieved mastery
  during mini lessons are required to stay for 6th
  period during the next week
• During 6th period, we can do one-on-one work and
  try different methods of teaching to help the
  students learn the material

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No permission to forget

• Students are not allowed to forget old standards
  because the tests are cumulative
• The same standard can be addressed in more than
  one SSP cycle

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SSP is a school-wide effort

• Our administration supports us in saying that SSP
  6th period trumps all other 6th period
  assignments
• Our faculty is united in this idea, which
  stresses to our students the importance of Algebra

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SSP helps our students

• Students are motivated to do well on SSP quizzes
  so that they wont be required to attend 6th
  period
• Students can see their own progress by graphing
  their percentage on each standard

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How SSP relates to ECA

• Emphasis is placed on core standards
• SSP assessments use the same vocabulary as the
  ECA
• It helps us identify the areas that our students
  need to work on, and we can fill in those gaps

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6th Period ECA Preparation

• ECA Wednesdays
• The 20-Day Plan

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ECA Wednesdays

• All teachers assigned to a group of students
• Met every Wednesday to work on skill remediation
  and reinforcement
• Materials provided to the teachers
• Student volunteers

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20-Day Plan

• 5 weeks prior to the test we increased the
  meeting time to 4 days a week.
• Application of skills
• Practice tests
• Gridded Response

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Benefits

• Parent Communication
• School wide effort
• 775 minutes (approximately 13 hours)?
• Carried over to English ECA preparation.

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What do we do with our scores?

• Students who pass go on to Geometry
• Students who fail are placed in 1 trimester of
  mathlab for remediation, then move on the
  Geometry for 2nd and 3rd trimesters

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Math Lab Remediation

• Placed students in class as a result of failing
  score on algebra I ECA
• Created course calendar to provide daily guide
  for curriculum
• Created possible curriculum related to calendar
  with each unit approximately one week in length
• Created waiver packet tests over 10 of the most
  relevant ECA topics (ex. Systems of equations and
  solving quadratics)

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Math Lab (Continued)

• Required minimum score of 80 to pass waiver
  packets
• Allowed students to revise waiver packets during
  bonus period to improve score
• Stored waiver packets in individual binders for
  each student
• Recorded waiver packet passing results in
  spreadsheet for each class

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Benefits of Mathlab

• Students earn 1 credit
• Students get intensive ECA remediation
• Trimester schedule allows scheduling flexibility
  so that students stay on track

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