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Using the T-STEM Blueprint to Design Rigorous Alignment with Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment to Promote Student

Using the T-STEM Blueprint to Design Rigorous Alignment with Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment to Promote Student Achievement. Jerry Adams, Ed.D . Principal STEM Director New Deal High School . Kyle Conatser Math & Science Teacher STEM Coordinator New Deal High School .

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Using the T-STEM Blueprint to Design Rigorous Alignment with Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment to Promote Student

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  1. Using the T-STEM Blueprint to Design Rigorous Alignment with Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment to Promote Student Achievement Jerry Adams, Ed.D. Principal STEM Director New Deal High School Kyle Conatser Math & Science Teacher STEM Coordinator New Deal High School STEM Cluster Meeting UT – Dallas October 11, 2011 New Deal High School STEM Academy – Preparing Student to be College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready

  2. THSP Video • THSP visited our campus in May, 2011. • Student STEM Ambassadors conducted tours of our campus. • Students and teachers were interviewed about their STEM experiences at New Deal. • Project-based learning lessons were showcased and discussed throughout the process. College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready!

  3. How can you use the Blueprint Benchmark # 5 – Curriculum, Instruction, and Alignment – to align your school with the STEM Academy culture and design? Guiding Question New Deal High School STEM Academy – Preparing Student to be College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready

  4. New Deal High School – STEM Academy • Our Mission … • Provide every student a quality education at the highest level of academic skill by meeting individual needs, building positive character, challenging all minds, and promoting lifelong learning in a safe environment • Our Vision ... • Prepare students to be college ready, career ready, and life ready New Deal High School STEM Academy – Preparing Student to be College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready

  5. Demographics • Student Enrollment – 198 • Faculty & Staff – 24 • High School Only – 15 • Shared between Middle & Elementary – 9 • Ethnicity • White – 45% • Hispanic – 50% • Black – 5% • Economically Disadvantaged – 53% • At-Risk – 59% • Student Participation in Extracurricular Activities – 95% New Deal High School STEM Academy – Preparing Student to be College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready

  6. Accountability Ratings • Named a national Higher Performing by National Center for Education Achievement and ACT, Inc • Named one of the Best High Schools in Texas by Texas Monthly • Named one of the Best High Schools in America by US News and World Report • Best Practices Clearinghouse for Data-Driven Decision Making • Recognition from TEA Commissioner Robert Scott for Outstanding Use of High School Allotment New Deal High School STEM Academy – Preparing Student to be College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready

  7. Data • Distinguished Achievement Plan • 2011 – 13 • 2010 – 14 • 2009 – 13 • 2008 – 2 • 2007 – 2 • College Enrollment Rate • 2011 – 82% • 2010 – 78% • 2009 – 48% New Deal High School STEM Academy – Preparing Student to be College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready

  8. College Hours • South Plains College Dual Credit • 36 hours • Tech Prep Courses through CTE Program • 12 hours (make at least a B in the high school course and must take corresponding course at South Plains College upon enrollment at SPC) • Project Lead the Way (PLTW) • 12 hours (upon completion of school certification) • TOTAL = 60 college hours New Deal High School STEM Academy – Preparing Student to be College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready

  9. Blueprint • Explains “how to do it” … excellent guide • Serves as a comprehensive needs assessment • Sets and reframes goals • Growth model • Must know who you are and what you do well • Make the blueprint work for you … you don’t work for the blueprint New Deal High School STEM Academy – Preparing Student to be College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready

  10. New Deal High School STEM Academy – Preparing Student to be College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready

  11. Alignment • Summer PBL Planning • Freshmen (agriculture) – 2009 • Sophomores (entertainment) – 2010 • Juniors (wind energy/renewable energy) – 2011 • Content Area Meetings • PBL Projects/Student Work • Data College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready!

  12. The Instructional Core • The instructional core anchors any school- or district-level instructional improvement process. • The instructional core is composed of the teacher and the student in the presence of content. College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready!

  13. The Instructional Core STUDENT TEACHER CONTENT College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready!

  14. The Instructional Core • It is the relationship between the teacher, the student, and the content – not the qualities of any one of them by themselves – that determines the nature of instructional practice, and each corner of the instructional core has its own particular role and resources to bring to the instructional process. • Theinstructional task is located at the center of the instructional core. Simply stated, this is the actual work that students are asked to do in the process of instructions. College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready!

  15. The Instructional Core STUDENT TASK TEACHER CONTENT College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready!

  16. Principles of the Instructional Core 1.Increases in student learning occur only as a consequence of improvements in the level of content, teachers’ knowledge and skill, and student engagement. 2. If you change any element of the instructional core, you have to change the other two. 3. If you can’t see it in the core, it’s not there. • The real accountability system is in the tasks that students are asked to do. • We learn to do the work by doing the work. College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready!

  17. The Instructional Core STUDENT TASK TEACHER CONTENT College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready!

  18. STAAR Readiness Survey • Protocol • Complete the STAAR Readiness Survey (used by permission, Collier Consulting Group) • Compare results • Identify suggestions for improvement or “next steps” as a campus • Compile campus data College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready!

  19. Thank You Questions? Dr. Jerry Adams Principal STEM Director jerrya@ndisd.net Mr. Kyle Conatser Math & Science Teacher STEM Coordinator kyle@ndisd.net New Deal High School PO Box 250 New Deal, Texas 79350 New Deal High School STEM Academy – Preparing Student to be College Ready, Career Ready, and Life Ready

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