Closing The Gaps Focus School Support

1. Welcome! Closing The Gaps Focus School Support Spring 2013 Region 4 Education Service Center January 29 and February 6, 2014

2. Who do we have in the room today?

3. Norms for the Day -Fully participate and ask questions -Limit side conversations -Honor the schedule -Take care of your needs -Silence electronics -Be open to learning and problem solving

4. Today’s Agenda • Introduction and Objectives • Identification and Interventions • TAIS Process overview • Identifying instructional interventions • Tools, Resources, and Support

5. Today’s Objectives • Gain further clarity on the identification and interventions of a focus school • Enhance your understanding of requirements and processes for the Texas Accountability Intervention System (TAIS) • Receive a process for identifying and implementing a strong instructional intervention focused on closing achievement gaps • Learn about available tools and resources to support your work

6. What it means to be a Focus SchoolIdentification and Interventions

7. Why am I a Focus School? Title I schools ranked by the widest gaps between reading/math performance of the federal student groups (7) and safeguard targets of 75%.

8. How were performance gaps calculated to identify Focus schools?

9. Where to find the data.

10. Subjects Evaluated

11. Student groups evaluated African American Hispanic White All Student Group Special Education ELL Economically Disadvantaged

12. Minimum Student Group Size 25 Students AND 10% or 200 Federal Methodology Document

13. What you need to know? % met standard All Students Group-Math % met standard All Students Group-Reading % met standard of Student Groups that meet minimum size-Reading % met standard of Student Groups that meet minimum size-Math

14. For the All Students group and each group that meets minimum size you find the difference between the target of 75 and actual percent meeting standard. Example 63% of all students group met standard in Reading 63 12 75 Repeat for each group with Reading and Math

15. Let’s try an example: Texas School

16. Count number of student groups in Reading and Math that meet Minimum Size 12 meet minimum size

17. Target is 75

19. ADD 291

20. 291 24.25 12

21. 24.25 is the average gap between student performance groups and the 75% federal target

22. Focus School GAP Calculation Tool

23. Part 1 – Input Performance Data

24. Part 2 – Input Tester Data

25. Part 3 – Calculate Gaps per Group

26. Part 4 – Calculate Average Gap

27. Let’s Take 15 Min.

28. Interventions • Designate a district contact and • Engage in TAIS • Review ESEA TurnaroundPrinciples & Critical Success Factors

29. Interventions • Address at least 1 INSTRUCTIONAL • INTERVENTION in 2013-2014 SY to target deficiencies and close achievement gap Reasons for identification and intervention are to be included in CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLAN Work collaboratively with local Education Service Center (ESC) for support and guidance

30. Intervention • Designate a district contact and Engage in TAIS

31. Texas Accountability Intervention Systems

32. District Commitments

33. Support Systems

34. DISTRICT CAMPUS

37. Critical Success Factors Improve School Climate Family Community Engagement Teacher Quality Increase Learning Time Leadership Effectiveness Utilize Data Academic Performance Leadership Effectiveness

38. Turnaround Principles • Ensuring Effective Principal • Ensuring Effective Teachers • Redesign the school day, week, or year • Increase student learning time • Increase teacher collaboration time • Strengthen instructional program based on student needs • Use data to inform decision making • Establish environment which improves school safety/discipline • Family and community engagement

39. Intervention • Review ESEA TurnaroundPrinciples & Critical Success Factors

40. Critical Success Factors and alignment with turnaround principlesDEFINITIONS

42. School Improvement Process What does this model mean to you? Where are your campus areas of strength in this model? How effective is your campus in each of the individual processes? What is the biggest challenge of this model for your campus?

43. Intervention • Address at least 1 INSTRUCTIONAL INTERVENTION in 2013-2014 SY to target deficiencies and close achievement gap • Reasons for identification and intervention are to be included in CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLAN

44. Problem Solving

45. Lunch 1:15 Min

46. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. - Henry Kissinger

47. Accelerated Improvement Process • Concentrated improvement method • Starts with identifying a problem or goal and ends with the development of an implementation plan

48. Accelerated Improvement Process Meeting 1 • Define the scope and purpose of the work Meeting 2 • Focus on possible solutions and the analysis of those solutions Meeting 3 • Finalize the solution and develop a plan for implementation

49. Meeting 1 Define the scope and purpose of the work • Work between meetings • Gather information or data on problems related to the identified gap • Use a flowchart to help understand the identified gap

50. Identifying the Need