Welcome

Michele Dorrance, 2nd grade teacher

Lynne Marzen, 2nd grade teacher

Greg O’Connell, Principal

Karen Wildhagen, Instructional Coach

Wright Elementary School, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Imagine having a 20 minute school-wide intervention block dedicated to daily targeted instruction……

how do you think this would impact student achievement?

Collaboration in grade level teams with support staff (What do we want each student to know and be able to do?)

Analyzing student formative and summative assessments (How do we know? What evidence do we have of learning?)

Flexible and fluid grouping for differentiated instruction (How do we respond if they struggle or don’t learn? How do we respond if they know it?)

Three Main Ideas

District Overview

District Plan on a Page

District School Improvement Plan (SIP)

Building SIP

Demographics

Demographics CRCSD/Wright Elementary Enrollment 16,503(Ak-12) 865 preschool/ 259

(K-5) 40 preschool Free/Reduced 50.2%/ 57% Ethnic Diversity 24.6%/ 15% Individualized Education

Plan (IEP) students 7.5%/ 6%

Student Learning Expectations (SLE’s) Creation Implementation Alignment

Seeing things in a variety of ways

What is an intervention block?

Data 2010-11 Math Student Learning Expectations (SLE)

Graphs

Scaffolding Student Learning Expectations (SLE)

SLE

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I Can Statement Pre-test Post-test

I can identify a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter and know the value of each coin.

I can count a combination of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollar bills

I can write amounts of money in dollar and cent notation.

I can show money amounts in more than one way.

Money I Can

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1-struggling to meet the expectation

2-Making progress toward meeting the expectation

3-Meets the expectation consistently and independently

Money Intervention

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Identification/value Counting combinations Writing amounts Demo 2 ways

Scaffolded Skills

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Video clip - students

The students tell all…What happens when they do not get it?

Who helps them to identify where they are and where they need to go?

Mizell and Isaac

Intervention Groups

Intervention block

Subtraction Facts Data

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< 50% 51% - 79% 80% +

Levels of Proficiency

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Post-test

Post-test and beyond...

How is this information used?

Parent Connection

SLE homework connection (differentiated homework)

Helper sheets Parent sharing

Student/Teacher Data Clip

Lexi and Jade

Additional Differentiation

Treasures – leveled reading

Test taking strategies Goal setting Small group in addition

to whole group instruction

Push-In (Title 1/Level 1 Special Education) as much as possible

Carousel Walk

Time to look at some of our data, charts, forms and ask questions

How does this relate to your school and students?

Collaboration in grade level teams with support staff (What do we want each student to know and be able to do?)

Analyzing student formative and summative assessments (How do we know? What evidence do we have of learning?)

Flexible and fluid grouping for differentiated instruction (How do we respond if they struggle or don’t learn? How do we respond if they know it?)

Three Main Ideas

Questions

What questions do you have for us?

Resources

Cassandra Erkens/Process for Common Assessments Anam Cara Consulting, Inc.

http://www.anamcaraconsulting.com/index.php

Solution Tree Professional Development http://www.solution-tree.com/Public/

ProfDev.aspx Analyzing Student Work Protocol

New Teacher Center University of California-Santa Cruz www.newteachercenter.org

Grant Wood Area Education Agency Kim Owen, Regional Administrator Emily Thomson, Professional Development New Teacher Center www.newteachercenter.org

University of California-Santa Cruz

Justin Schaffer for the video assistance Becky Martin for her continuous improvement

assistance Staff & Students at Wright School for all the

photos

A Special thanks to:

Contacts

Cedar Rapids School District site http://www.cr.k12.ia.us/ http://quality.cr.k12.ia.us/

Michele Dorrance mdorrance@cr.k12.ia.us

Lynne Marzen lmarzen@cr.k12.ia.us

Greg O’Connell goconnell@cr.k12.ia.us

Karen Wildhagen kwildhagen@cr.k12.ia.us