Mrs. Elaine BuxtonWalt Whitman Elementary School

Principal’s Quarterly ReviewApril 2012

Whitman Performance Evaluation Eight Levels of Innovations at Walt

Whitman Elementary will be identified using the respected research of G. E. Hall and S. M. Hord (1987) to analyze and illuminate our progress.

Dashboard Data will include attendance update, suspension update, and our discipline plan outcomes.

Whitman Performance Evaluation Student Achievement Data will feature

achievement levels and goals, assessment progress and results, RSA utilization and student data and revision plans.

Whitman’s culture of collaboration will be exhibited by the included artifacts.

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LEVELS OF USE

When learning a new strategy, process, or skill

LEVELS INDICESNON-USE NON-USE

ORIENTATIONORIENTATION

PREPARATIONPREPARATION

MECHANICAL MECHANICAL USEUSE

ROUTINE USEROUTINE USE

REFINEMENTREFINEMENT

INTEGRATION/ INTEGRATION/ COLLABORATIOCOLLABORATIONN

RENEWALRENEWAL

No action taken—user doesn’t know about it.

User has just acquired or is acquiring information and is exploring it.Preparing to use it, finding out more, gathering the necessary materials, and getting organized.

Use requires focus day by day on steps involved.

Use has become routine and comfortable for the user. If changes are made, they are convenient.User makes changes to improve the process and outcome for students.Deliberate effort is made to collaborate with others to achieve broader changes (grade level or schoolwide).All refinements possible have been made, user now seeks more effective alternatives, new approaches, and abandons the old in favor of the new.

Return to Non-Use and the cycle begins again —Karen Olsen, The Mentor Teacher Role, 1989

NON-USE:NON-USE: August 2010 – Training began as soon as principalship started.

ORIENTATIONORIENTATION Acquiring & exploring information in the following areas:•School culture•Instructional Strategies•PLCs started in 2010 (grade level, staff and ILT)•Analyzing & using data to improve instruction•Staff collaboration meetings•Standards based curriculum•Staff Development Teacher began 2011•Embedded Professional Development

PREPARATIPREPARATIONON

•Intentional/ job-embedded staff development•Develop SMARTE goals•Community Circles•Instructional Focus (i.e. Comprehend & Apply what we read•DIBELS•12 Power Words•Gradual Release Response

MECHANICAL MECHANICAL USEUSE

•Walkthroughs – Positive Environment Feedback•Grade Level/Staff/ILT PLCS•PBIS

ROUTINE USEROUTINE USE •Students moving from intensive to strategic to benchmark in DIBELS•Higher Benchmark Score from Grades 3-6•Teacher Evaluation•Brag boards•Staff Person of the Week•Teacher Attendance boards•Student of the Month Boards•Clean and organized rooms and school

REFINEMENTREFINEMENT •Fluctuations in Student Attendance and Suspension Rates•Grade Level/Staff/ILT PLCS•Partners in Education

INTEGRATION/ INTEGRATION/ COLLABORATIONCOLLABORATION

•Grade Level/Staff/ILT PLCS•PBIS•Partners in Education

RENEWALRENEWAL •Partners in Education

Dashboard Data

Attendance Updates

Essential Question: What are we doing to increase student

attendance? Attendance incentives (Photo Artifact) Suspensions update

Whitman Attendance Statistics

Whitman Suspension 2011-12

Dashboard Data

Behavior Response Plan Essential Question:

How are we implementing the SchoolWide Discipline Plan?

PBIS – Discipline Plan

PBIS Form PBIS Folders

Student Achievement Data

Essential Question: What is our current level of student

achievement? Goals to improve In-house Formative Assessment Progress DIBELS & SRI results RSA funding plans Student & teacher charting data Below level reading and math activities

Culture of Collaboration - PLCs Essential Question

Are Whitman teachers collaborating effectively? Norms and protocols to clarify expectations

have become routine Artifacts of PLC pedagogy analysis and

improvements Artifacts of PLC teamwork and learning

Literacy Night – Cultivating Literate Community

Parent Involvement

Parental Involvement - Literacy

Parental Support

PLC Norms

PLC Community Building

PLC Newsletter Gene Gibbs TRIBES

Staff PLC Artifact – 4 Ps

PLC Vocabulary Classroom Application

Teachers Track Student DataStandards Linked to Literacy

Math Linked to StandardsLiteracy

Instructional Strategies:Thinking Maps

Beginning Thinking MapHigher Cognitive Level Thinking Maps

Higher Cognition Levels

Refinement of Thinking Maps

Transference

DIBELS Assessments

Classroom DIBELSClass Averages – Informal Assessments

Posting of Informal AssessmentsFormative Assessment Posting

Assessment by Standard

Community Circles

Inference Game Student Community Buiding

Perfect Attendance - Teachers

Attendance Incentives

Class Attendance School Attendance

A Welcoming School Culture

Affirming School Culture

Acknowledgement of Excellence

Honor Roll Example

Data Walls of Student Achievement

Mrs. Hagood – 3rd Grade Mrs. Jones - Kindergarten

Brag Board

Principal’s Brag Board Ms. Templeton - Kindergarten

Partners in Education - Tutor

Asbury Tutor Asbury United Methodist

Continuing on Our Journey…