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Calvin U. Smith Elementary School

Opening Day Faculty Meeting 6 October 2014 8 – 8:45. Calvin U. Smith Elementary School . Meeting Agenda. Reports Leadership Teams Professional Learning Strategic Intents Grade Levels NWEA Fusion Conference – Matt Cornacchio High Quality Instruction. Reports –Leadership Teams.

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Calvin U. Smith Elementary School

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  1. Opening Day Faculty Meeting 6 October 2014 8 – 8:45 Calvin U. Smith Elementary School

  2. Meeting Agenda • Reports • Leadership Teams • Professional Learning • Strategic Intents • Grade Levels • NWEA Fusion Conference – Matt Cornacchio • High Quality Instruction

  3. Reports –Leadership Teams Minutes/Agenda for Leadership Teams are online • Building Leadership Team • District Character Building Plan (DASA) • Rossi Symposium • Dismissal Procedures • Mentoring Program • Action Teams • Parent/Student Handbook

  4. Reports –Leadership Teams • SEMT Team • Safety Documents online • Updated Safety Plan & documents • Securing Classrooms & Teacher Keys

  5. Reports –Leadership Teams • Inquiry Team • Continue to Develop Professional Learning for staff Meetings - HQI • Review of student achievement data • Building Improvement Plan • District Strategic Intents

  6. Elementary Level Strategic Intents- New Targets Strategic Intents 2014-2015 • NY State averages for ALL Students: • Grade 3- 32% (exceeded) • Grade 4- 33% (exceeded) • Grade 5- 30% (exceeded)

  7. Elementary Level Strategic Intents- New Targets Strategic Intents 2014-2015 • NY State averages for ALL Students: • Grade 3- 42% (exceeded) • Grade 4- 43% (exceeded) • Grade 5- 40% (exceeded)

  8. Elementary Level Strategic Intents- New Targets Strategic Intents 2014-2015 • A curriculum review window will remain as part of the 4th grade pacing plan. • Field trips aligned to support relevance. • Field trips have been enhanced through communication with community partners to increase rigor. • Participation in the district science fair is strongly encouraged and supported

  9. Grade Level Data Days • Outcome from Cross-Grade Level Meeting • Common Themes/Standards • Building Improvement Plan

  10. NWEA Fusion Conference Clarifications to NWEA Scores- *seasonal grade level RIT scores stand for scoring at the 50th percentile When looking at a specific Goal Strand / Learning Continuum, there will be three columns.

  11. NWEA Fusion Conference • Change OUR Thinking- not students At Risk, but students At Opportunity • Class View - now groups students based on skills and concepts they need to develop to meet their learning goals. -This will allow you to group students by standards. -You can now filter by standard and grade level. • APrincipal at The American School of Tunis, and MAP presenter shared: There will ALWAYS be 1 or 2 students who will not do well on this assessment due to uncontrollable circumstances, and it will be difficult to figure out the why. (A little alarming for us since we use it as an evaluation tool.) • STAFF Meet and Greet- I had an opportunity to ask this question: “ How do we know this assessment shows a valid measure of students ability when students click it and go on? How do we know they are truly engaged? -This is where I met a “Gamer”. He mentioned an idea he pitched to the NWEA Association and is currently working on a project to make the assessment more engaging to all students. He is putting a Zelda meets Mario Brothers twist on it where children may have an opportunity to control which board they go to and t hey can collect coins for correct answers. He plans on it being in the “works” for several years though.

  12. NWEA Fusion Conference My BIG QUEST- search for technology, since we place such a heavy emphasis on an assessment with very little practice on the computer to prepare children to know how to test. We also need to find ways to teach ALL of the skill deficits when the curriculum doesn’t always, and the amount of time to teach on the side of our curriculum, RTI, is vanishing. How can we teach smarter and not harder? *Free Online Tools with MAP *Classworks.com- This is an interactive program that is individualized to each student. This is a program that teaches skill deficit mini lessons, using a head-set, followed by questions. If the student shows a solid understanding they advance to the next skill deficit level. More than one child could be doing this at once. A Hampton County School District 2 (SC) utilized this program along with incentives, and students were able to excel their learning by having the capability to use Classworks at home. This school district climbed out of a deficit, in need of improvement situation *check out the Khan Academy Resource by RIT when looking at student and class data.

  13. High Quality Instruction

  14. HQI – Data Driven Instruction Many 3rd Party companies are providing academic support using data provided by NWEA. Khan Academy example http://support.nwea.org/khanrit https://www.khanacademy.org/commoncore Technology Resource page

  15. HQI – Moving Forward • November – Review of HQI 1-3 • Data Walkthroughs • Expectations of Implementation • Share Out

  16. Questions

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