Warrior Run School District Educational Goals

1. Warrior Run School DistrictEducational Goals • Collaboration as Professional Learning Communities in grade level teams, subject area teams, and curriculum departments across grade levels will provide ALL students with similar, high quality instruction. • Research Based Instructional Strategies and Grading Practices will be implemented with consistency on a daily basis in the classroom. • Assessment data will direct daily classroom instruction as well as the interventions for scaffolding and/or acceleration in order to assist ALL students to achieve at levels on or above grade level. 

2. Warrior Run School DistrictEducational Goals • Daily instruction will be differentiated (content, process, products) to meet the various needs and learning styles of all students. • Creativity, problem solving, technological applications, and authentic assessments will be incorporated into planned instruction to develop Twenty-First Century Skills in our students.  • The district will strive to meet all proficiency rates established by the No Child Left Behind Law through straight achievement or by growth measures. 

3. Warrior Run School DistrictEducational Goal # 1 • Collaboration as Professional Learning Communities in grade level teams, subject area teams, and curriculum departments across grade levels will provide ALL students with similar, high quality instruction.

4. Summer Collaboration • Department Head Training • MOU • Curriculum Work • PSWB • Full Day K Planning • New Teacher Orientation

5. Warrior Run School DistrictEducational Goal #6 The district will strive to meet all proficiency rates established by the No Child Left Behind Law through straight achievement or by growth measures. 

6. Meeting Annual Yearly ProgressPerformance Targets

7. 3 Year Look at our Data: MATH 56 target 67 target

8. 3 Year Look at our Data: READING 63 target 72 target

9. 3 Year Look at our Data: WRITING

10. 3 Year Look at our Data: SCIENCE

11. IU Rankings: 3rd & 4th Grade Reading

12. IU Rankings: 5th and 6th Grade Reading

13. IU Rankings: 7th and 8th Grade Reading

14. IU Rankings: 11th Grade Reading

15. IU Rankings: 3rd & 4th Grade Math

16. IU Rankings: 5th & 6th Grade Math

17. IU Rankings: 7th & 8th Grade Math

18. IU Rankings: 11th Grade Math

19. Cohort Comparison: This year’s 11th Grade Class

20. Cohort Comparison: This year’s 8th Grade Class

21. PSSA Results by Building

30. Warrior Run School DistrictEducational Goal #2 • Research Based Instructional Strategies and Grading Practices will be implemented with consistency on a daily basis in the classroom.

31. Instructional Strategies 2011-12 • Lesson Essential Questions • Summarizing • Distributed • At the end of a lesson • Vocabulary

33. Lesson Essential Question • At the end of the lesson they should be able to answer this (to summarize!). • By asking what you need to teach in order for it to be answered, you get your Assessment Prompts for Distributed Summarizing. • Comes from the standards. • Posted at some point. • Student friendly.

34. Lesson Essential Question • Essential Questions Stems/ Examples • How would you recognize a __________ if you saw one? • How do readers _______________________to better understand what they read? • How do writers _________________________________? • How do I solve _________________________________? • What is the relationship between __________ and __________? • What were the major causes and effects of ________________________? • Why would we study __________________________________________? • How are ______________________ useful in _________________________? • What influence did __________________________ have on _______________________?How does _________________________ impact _________________________?

35. Summarizing: A LEARNING strategy more than a TEACHING strategy Teachers provide regular opportunities to summarize Students answer the lesson essential question Checking for understanding (KWL, Tickets, 3-2-1, collaborative pairs) Journaling Show Me - Distributed Guided Practice Reflections Throughout the lesson and at the end

36. Summarizing: 1. DURING THE LESSON ~ Distributed Summarizing: Assessment Prompts Using Assessment Prompts During Teaching

37. Vocabulary Select difficult vocabulary from instructional context Preview this vocabulary with direct instruction Make words accessible to students in a visual, graphic, and organized way Provide multiple exposures and opportunities to use vocabulary

38. Vocabulary

39. Monitoring Choose 2 classes to implement in MS and HS: 2 “preps” EL: LA (Storytown Focus Skill) and Science

40. Monitoring Walk-throughs Collect data using look fors and ask abouts Use data to have meaningful conversations about instruction and achievement Support Instruction / Support Teachers 8 five minute walk-throughsper year Building principal(s), director of curriculum, director of special education, superintendent Unobtrusive (business as usual) Lesson plan says what 5 minutes cannot Electronic copy of data collection Non-evaluative May require follow-up conversation for ask abouts

41. Essential QuestionsLook Fors & Ask Abouts • ASK ABOUTs • How do you use the essential question in a lesson? • How did you have students answer the essential question in your most recent lesson? LOOK FORs Essential question is posted Essential question guides instruction

42. VocabularyLook Fors & Ask Abouts • ASK ABOUTs • How are students aware of current vocabulary? • What vocabulary strategies do you usually use? • How is your current vocabulary organized for learning? • How do students use vocabulary for reading and writing? LOOK FORs Vocabulary is content driven The visual representation of vocabulary is well organized, easy to use, and graphic Uses research-based strategies and direct instruction to preview vocabulary at the beginning of lessons and units Vocabulary is built through writing, reading, discussion, etc. throughout the lesson

43. Summarizing Look Fors& Ask Abouts • ASK ABOUTs • What summarizing strategy did you use in your lesson? • How do you provide an opportunity for all students to summarize? • What evidence do you have of student learning? LOOK FORs Summarizing reflects evidence of student learning All students have the opportunity to participate in summarizing Summarizing is guided by the essential question

44. Lesson PlanPlan for the content NOT for the day! • Lesson Essential Question • Vocabulary and Strategy • APs • Final Summarizing --------------------------------- • May be an add-on, may be your lesson plan format.

45. Warrior Run Acquisition Lesson Plan Form An acquisition lesson is not designed to be adaily lesson plan. A lesson is designed to teach the acquisition of a topic, concept, or skill. Therefore, typically there may be 1-3 lessons per week, but rarely 4-5 lessons per week.

46. AWESOME

47. Room Breakout for Departments • K-4 & 5, 6 Grade LA: Sue Welteroth, Steph Zettlemoyer, and Michael Freeborn • Stay in the cafeteria • Science 5-12: Linda Shupp and Michelle Ebner • MS 110 • English 7-12: Bernadette Boerckel • MS 103 • History 5-12: Patti Kramer and Cathy Grow • MS 104 • Math 5-12: Daniel Carpenter and Chris Long • MS 108 • Fine Arts (Music, Art, and PE): Greg Alico • HS Band Room • Vocational Technology (FCS and Tech Ed) and • Info Lit. & Tech (Library, Computer, Business): Katie Makatche and Jane-Marie Terefencko • MS Library • Special Eduation 5-12:Choose a content above that you will be monitored in.