Mission Statement for Monroe Local Schools:

1. Monroe Local School District School Data ProjectAmie MacDonaldSummer 2013 EDL 630ADr. Sally Lloyd

2. Mission Statement for Monroe Local Schools: The Monroe Local School District Board of Education will provide all students with the highest quality education preparing them for future endeavors. Goals: The Monroe Local School District Board of Education... ...is dedicated to the implementation of effective policies and governance practices. ...will assure an educational environment conducive to providing a 21st Century education for all students. ...will improve public awareness, foster partnerships, and open communication will all stakeholders. ...acting as stewards of the public's money, accepts the responsibility of defining and communicating the financial needs to reach the District's goals. ...will provide and maintain quality facilities, equipment, and technology that meet or exceed the needs of the students and community. Mission Statement at Monroe Local Schools for Students with Disabilities: It is our mission to plan, coordinate, and implement specialized services that remove barriers to learning. We provide these services in partnership with students, parents, teachers, and other members of the Monroe learning community.  We believe every child is a unique individual able to learn, deserves to feel a sense of true belonging to our school community, and deserves to reach his or her full potential and become a contributing member of society.

3. Burning Question: I want to know how school districts that are similar in size and demographics to Monroe are meeting AYP. For this project I am going to compare two schools that have met AYP to two schools that haven’t.

4. Background of Monroe Local Schools: • Monroe Elementary School • Monroe Junior High School

5. Edgewood School District Demographics of the schools being compared: • Bloomsfield Elementary School • Seven Mile Elementary School • Edgewood Middle School

6. Wayne Local School District Demographics of the schools being compared: • Waynesville Elementary School • Waynesville Middle School

7. Ross School District Demographics of the schools being compared: • Elda Elementary School • Morgan Elementary School • Ross Middle School

8. Why am I interested: For the past three years at Monroe Local Schools we haven’t met Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in the subgroup of students with disabilities. As an intervention specialist this is very crucial because the pressure is on us that if students don’t meet AYP this coming school year, even if we meet all of our indicators, we cannot be a school of excellence anymore. I want to know how school districts that are similar in size and demographics to Monroe are meeting AYP. I want to know what they are doing differently and how their test scores compare to ours.

9. What is AYP? AYP stands for Adequate Yearly Progress. This came about when the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 came about. It requires that all states measure each public school’s and district’s achievement and establish annual achievement targets for the state. All children are required to score at least proficient (A score of at least 400 in the state of Ohio on their Ohio Achievement Assessment) on their state assessments in reading and mathematics by the year 2014. Each year, the state calculates the school and/or district’s AYP to determine if the students are improving on their performance based on the established annual targets. There are sub-categories where AYP is calculated, for the particular project I am focusing on the category of students with disabilities, because this is the area Monroe Local Schools is failing to pass.

10. What has Monroe done to try and meet AYP: Two years ago, Monroe spent over 1 million dollars on a reading intervention program called Specialized Program Individualizing Reading Excellence (S.P.I.R.E). We were told it was an intensive, multisensory reading intervention with PROVEN results. It focuses on all the important elements of reading.

11. What do we do with data: • Analyze and decide if there is a identified trend between schools not meeting AYP and their data or vise-versa.

12. Focus of project: • Compare schools NOT meeting AYPs demographics to schools meeting AYP • Compare any available data

13. Reading OAA Results of Students with Disabilities for the 2011-2012 School Year:

14. Math OAA Results of Students with Disabilities for the 2011-2012 School Year:

15. 2011-2012 School Report Card Data : Monroe Local School District Edgewood Local School District Ross Local School District Wayne Local School District

16. Understanding the results: • The higher percent of student with disabilities means the lower percent of students who score at least proficient (400) on the Reading and Math OAA • Students who have met AYP have a higher Performance Index Score

17. Differences in schools: • As to be expected, Monroe on average scored lower than the two scores that met AYP (Ross and Wayne). • As already mentioned, it appears that schools who have a higher percent of students with disabilities tend to score lower on average on the OAA in regards to Reading and Math.

18. Questions I still have: • Why aren’t schools in Butler County meeting AYP overall? • Are schools that are meeting AYP instructing students differently, or do they just have less students on IEP’s? • Although I got a lot of good information from this data, there was limitations. The information I found was only a diminutive amount of data. I want to know what other data I could use to help me find more answers?

19. Conclusions: • Where do we go from here? • What can the administrators/teachers do to help?