ELL & Special Education Class of 2015

1. ELL &Special Education Class of 2015 OTG Committee November 4, 2014 Cynthia Jones Deb Ritchhart Jan Bakken Kristen Oman Linda Navran

2. Purpose Objectives • To provide the OTG learning committee with an update on progress toward graduation of special education and ELL students class of 2015. • Review 2012-2014 Grad Data • Interventions, Barriers • Celebrations and Stories • Gather suggestions for next steps Strategic Target • 1.1 a: 100% of students will graduate

3. ELL High School Demographics Number students • CHS = 80 • EHS = 85 • JHS = 37 • SHS = 10 Total = 212 Trends • Growth in south end • Increasing diversity • Other = 23 languages

4. ELL Super Seniors (2012-2014) 5 dually-qualified: 1 yellow, 2 red, 2 E

5. ELL Seniors Class of 2015 8 dually qualified: 3 green, 1 yellow, 4 red

6. Barriers to our students: ELL • Limitations on use of funding • Limitations in Contracted Bargaining Agreement • Students must be equally distributed in gen ed classes • Grading practices • Lack of scaffolding in classroom instruction • Limited understanding of stages of language acquisition • State assessments • 5/49 seniors have met all; 8 more have met all but science • On-line and FUEL not accessible to many ELL students due to language development • Increasing number of students entering with limited educational background • Parents don’t understand culture and system; can’t advocate for their children

7. ELL Student Stories: Overcoming Barriers “Ari” “Evelyn”

8. Interventions: Washington State History • WA State History Requirement • Seniors class of 2012: 4 met; 55 not met October 2012 • Instituted summer school WA State History class taught by ELL teacher • 2 sessions in both summer 2013 and summer 2014 • Focus on WA State History in middle school • Focus on ensuring ELL students enrolled in WA State History with high school ELL OTG Success Coordinators & Counselors • Seniors October 2014: 36 met; 14 not met • Not met are currently enrolled or will be second semester or, based on credits, next year

9. Interventions: Science • Science Certificate of Mastery • Seniors: 7 met; 42 not met • Current Interventions • Include in schools’ intervention plans • Summer School pre-biology class focused on biology vocabulary • PD with science curriculum specialists to integrate instructional and vocabulary strategies into gen ed science classes • Biology COE • ELL OTG focus on biology and integrated life science • CHS plan

10. SpEd & ELL: Springboard Joint approach • Scaffolding for our students • ELL teacher collaborative curriculum mapping • Integration of CCSS & English Language Proficiency Standards • Monthly meeting with curriculum specialists, SpEd & ELL • Building common approaches to assessments and student support

11. ELL CEE Data Historically, students were either ELL = Yes or ELL = No Now, we can disaggregate by: • Never ELL • Currently ELL • Transitioned out of ELL within 2 years • Transitioned out of ELL more than 2 years ago How would you anticipate these groups perform on state assessments?

12. Reading MSP/HSPE 2014

13. 2014 SpEd Cohort: How Did We Do? * 17 moved on to 18-21 transition programs: GOAL or STRIVE

14. 2014 35 Active Sped Students

15. 2012-2013: 27 Active Sped Students

16. 2015 Cohort SpeEd Active Students: 112

17. 2015 G-Y-R by Program

18. All 25 students are signed up to take the November DAPE

19. Celebrations Summer School Team Stories “Tom” “Ethan”

20. Barriers • Transfers from other districts • Increased graduation requirements • Legal requirements ~ transition students should count! • Mental health • Medical factors • Grading practices • Repeated failures and struggles • Attendance

21. 18-21 Adult Transition Students

22. Intervention Update • Review transcripts for required classes by counselors, case managers and success coordinators • Schedule changes as needed • Credit recovery summer school • Weekly monitoring of grades by case managers and special education success coordinator • “Senior in danger of failing list” • Increased communication to special education staff from special services

23. Interventions cont’d… • Coordinate efforts with high school counselors and special services to avoid duplication • Distribute Senior F grades of gen edclasses to high school administrators • Sign students up for credit recovery summer school • Special education success coordinator met with individual red seniors at each high school • Checked in to see how they are doing emotionally • Called home if student isn't attending • Checked grades/review missing assignments

24. OTG Update2013-2014 Feedback • Complete general education online high school requirements within a special education class, how can we get around the split FTE issue? Done! We now have Fuel Education in PBS/Resource classrooms, 8 students are currently enrolled. • PD: One full day for general ed teachers by department on accommodating, modifying and grading special education students. Special services will provide the trainers. No takers on this one yet. • Special Services Success Coordinator to attend building OTG meetings Need OK from buildings and meeting schedule - On going. • Update the credit “bucket” list so special education classes are correctly counted towards graduation requirements (We plan to have this completed by the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year). Completed!

25. Follow up cont’d… • 2014-2015-special services will bring back the half day “job alike” meetings for alignment, fidelity checks, progress monitoring and resolve issues such as, “My student can’t do this”! 4 meetings were scheduled by May 1 for the 2014-2015 school year for each program job-alike. 1 meeting for each group completed and the remaining 3 days were cancelled due to budgetary issues and substitute shortage. • IEP report training for administrators. Vendor should have our requests finalized this summer and individual training will start when this work is completed. Ready to go, sign up sheet for training being sent around at this meeting.

26. Where do we go from here? • Brainstorming in small groups • Ideas, suggestions, next steps for buildings and SpEd & ELL to better support our students and teachers

27. Thank you !!