West Hempstead School District Measuring Student Growth

1. West Hempstead School DistrictMeasuring Student Growth Board of Education Presentation April 17, 2012

2. Promoting Academic Excellence and Improving Student Performance: How Do We Measure Student Growth?

3. MeasurementMetric: a standard of measurement • Quantitative • Qualitative “Not everything that counts can be measured. Not everything that can be measured counts.” Albert Einstein

4. 2011-2012 Presentations Sharing Student Data • BOE Student Assessment Report (8/16/11) • Community Meeting to Launch Year (8/31/11) • Community Forum on Academic Achievement (1/19/12)

5. Strategic Plan 2011-14

6. Using Data to Improve Instruction “The goal is to transform data into information, and information into insight.” Carly Fiorina

7. What metrics do we use to measure student achievement? Kindergarten • Dial 3 Screening Instrument • Fountas and Pinnell Assessment (letter and sound identification, rhyming and word list) • Fundations Unit Assessments • Math benchmark assessments How is data used? Jumpstart Summer Program, Differentiating Instruction, Small Group Instruction, Guided Reading, AIS Reading, Data Team Goal Setting, Instructional Improvement, Targeting Extra Help Practice Sessions

8. What metrics do we use to measure student achievement? First and Second Grade • Fountas and Pinnell Assessment (letter and sound identification, rhyming, word list, running record) • Fundations Unit Assessments • Everyday Math assessments • Science and Social Studies Unit Assessments • BOCES ELA and Math benchmarks How is data used? Differentiating Instruction, Small Group Instruction, Guided Reading, AIS Reading, Data team, IST Team, Grade Level Meetings, Instructional Improvement, Extra Help

9. What metrics do we use to measure student achievement? Third—Fifth Grades • Fountas and Pinnell Assessment (running record) • Fundations Unit Assessments (third only) • Everyday Math units assessments • Science and Social Studies Unit Assessments • NYS ELA and Math Assessments (fourth and fifth only) • Acuity Assessments • Wilson Just Words Screening How is data used? Differentiating Instruction, Small Group Instruction, Guided Reading, AIS Reading, AIS Math, Data Team, IST Team, Grade Level Meetings, After School AIS Groupings, Instructional Improvement, Extra Help Sessions

10. What metrics do we use to measure student achievement? Sixth--Eighth Grades • NYS ELA and Math Assessments • Acuity Assessments • Wilson Just Words Screening • Classroom and unit assessments • Midterms and finals How is data used? Differentiating Instruction, Small Group Instruction, Guided Reading, AIS Reading, AIS Math, IST Team, Grade Level Meetings, After School AIS Groupings, Instructional Improvements, Extra Help Sessions

11. What metrics do we use to measure student achievement? Ninth—Twelfth Grades • Quarterlies, Midterms, Finals • NYS Regents and RCTs • AP tests • PSAT and SAT tests • Wilson Just Words Screening • Classroom and unit assessments • Graduation and Regents Diploma rates How is data used? Differentiating Instruction, IST Team, Department Meetings, Instructional Improvement, Regents Review Classes, Extra Help Sessions, Leadership/Mentor Program

12. Data Access and Use • Instructional Data Warehouse (GAP, CHAP, WASA, Item Analysis reports) • Teacher Interface • Acuity Data Reports Reports are reviewed at staff, department, grade level, team, data and IST meetings

13. Academic Excellence “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. “ Aristotle “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” Steve Jobs

14. 2011-2012Instructional Improvements • High expectations clearly set for all • Push-in pilots for AIS reading, math and ESL • Early morning Literacy Prep at high school • Creation of building data teams • Wilson Just Words Program • Training of five teachers in Wilson Reading Program • Focus on vocabulary development • Schoolwide Enrichment Pilot—Independent Investigation Method (IIM) • Expanded use of Study Island, Castle Learning and Acuity Instructional Resources • Consistency of instruction and grading • K-12 Conversations facilitated by Academic Directors • Leadership/Mentor Program at the high school

15. Educational Equity “The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.” Pablo Casals “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

16. Subgroup Analysis • Focus on alignment of instruction in the special education settings and in the general education settings • Push-in AIS and ESL pilots to ensure continuity of instruction (K-5) • Push-in AIS Math teaching assistant at the middle school • Expansion of summer school support program (K-8) • Expansion of Wilson Reading Program (Just Words and teacher training)

17. Performance Targets 2011-2012 Increase the percent of: Proficiency on all NYS assessments Mastery on all NYS assessments Regents diplomas Regents diplomas with advanced designation Students taking AP exams Students scoring 3 or above on AP exams

18. 2012-2013 Strategies toRaise Student Achievement • Quality classroom teaching • Differentiated instruction • Continued use of data to inform, improve and drive instruction • Expansion of HS leadership program • Additional reading teacher at the high school • Extensive curriculum writing to align instruction with CCSS • Expansion of Wilson reading support

19. Three Simple Steps to Reach Our Goal: • Know each student—academically and personally • Believe in each student • Match instruction to the needs of each student

20. Lifelong Quest for Learning “Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.” Gilbert Highet

21. One Goal: Raise Student Achievement “Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can lift things a little higher, a little farther, towards excellence.” Author Unknown