CADDO PARISH AND AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

1. CADDO PARISHANDAMERICAN BOOK COMPANY Partnering for Success on the iLEAP, LEAP, GLE Review, and EOC Presenter: Dr. Frank J. Pintozzi, Executive VP American Book Company December 2, 2010

2. Dr. Frank J. Pintozzi • Credentials • Experience • My Principles for Learning

3. American Book Company • Mission • Company Motto • Operating Principles

4. Why ABC’s Books Work So Well in Louisiana’s Classrooms • Three full-length tests that mirror Louisiana’s assessments for elementary, middle, and high school • Diagnostic, formative practice, and summative practice tests • Questions aligned to cover 100% of the tested GLEs • Questions mirror the exams in content, weighting, and formatting

5. Why ABC’s Books Work So Well in Louisiana’s Classrooms • Item analysis in the Diagnostic Test Evaluation Chart and in the Chart of Standards for all three simulated tests. • Precise diagnostic approach useful for differentiated, small group, and whole class instruction as needed.

6. Why ABC’s Books Work So Well in Louisiana’s Classrooms • Our chapters support specific Louisiana Standards. • Each chapter lists the standards covered.

7. Why ABC’s Books Work So Well in Louisiana’s Classrooms • Chapters • present content in concise, easy-to-understand concepts. • provide students with visual support for explanations through diagrams, illustrations, and graphic aids. • include bolded key terms in context for easy, efficient reading comprehension. • contain frequent benchmark exercises, quizzes, and activities to measure student progress.

8. Book Layout Increases Student Performance • Students can write in the books. • Gives ownership of learning to student • Easy-to-understand content facilitates parent-child involvement. • The format, questions, and content coverage across all three tests and within the chapters give students great test familiarity before they take the actual exam.

9. Steps for Success: Using ABC’s Books in Your Classroom • Step 1: Administer the Diagnostic Test. • Step 2: Score the Diagnostic Test. • Short answer questions must be hand graded.

10. Steps for Success: Using ABC’s Books in Your Classroom • Step 3: Do an item analysis on the test results using the evaluation chart. • Base your program of study on the number of questions missed, which align with the chapters within the book. • If a student misses more than one question per chapter, the student should review this chapter.

11. Steps for Success: Using ABC’s Books in Your Classroom • Step 4: Develop a schedule of lesson plans based on the diagnostic test results. • Include chapter assignments, quizzes, activities, and reviews for students to complete for your grading. • Base your schedule of lessons on the number of days before the actual test.

12. Steps for Success: Using ABC’s Books in Your Classroom • Step 5: Pace the lessons. • Chunk the lessons into segments that will hold the students’ attention for the maximum time possible during the class sessions. • Remember, the key to better test scores is consistentandcontinuous use of our books over an extended period of time. • Warning: Extended use of ABC’s resources will result in improved GLE knowledge and greater testing confidence.

13. Steps for Success: Using ABC’s Books in Your Classroom • Step 6: Give a mid-point progress test. • Administer Post Test 1 (AKA Practice Test 1) at the mid-point of your program of study. After scoring the test, use the Chart of Standards to run an item analysis . • Identify the standards and chapters that students still need to review. Review commonly missed questions in class.

14. Steps for Success: Using ABC’s Books in Your Classroom • Step 7: Cover remaining chapters, exercises, quizzes, and reviews as needed. • Continue teaching the concepts and skills in the chapters to prepare for the Summative Assessment (Practice Test 2).

15. Steps for Success: Using ABC’s Books in Your Classroom • Step 8: Administer the Summative Assessment. • Administer Post Test 2 (AKA Practice Test 2) a week prior to when students take the actual test. • Score the test, do an item analysis, and review any standards and concepts students still need to learn. • Review the test questions students missed often to reinforce success on the actual test.

16. Steps for Success: Using ABC’s Books in Your Classroom • Step 9: Students take the real iLEAP, LEAP, or EOC test. • Suggest general test-taking tips prior to the actual exam. Some of these are located at the front of each book. • Give students words of encouragement both before and after the exam. • Students are now ready for SUCCESS!

17. Validation Studies • Morehouse Parish • After using ABC materials as their test-preparation programs for science in grades 3, 5, 7, and the GEE, Morehouse experienced the following improvements:

18. Validation StudiesActual Score Improvement: Morehouse Parish in Science with ABC: *

19. Validation Studies • Webster Parish • J.A. Phillips Middle School (Title 1) used our 6th Grade SS last year for their test preparation. • 42 advanced scorers represented 20% of the student body. • Mr. Busby, secondary supervisor for Webster Parish schools, was impressed with the improvement. Typically, a school gets an average of 1012% being advanced scorers on the iLEAP 6th SS exam. • Using ABC materials for 4th and 8th Grade LEAP ELA and Math for summer school remediation.

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21. Validation Studies • Jackson Parish • Jonesboro-Hodge High School used our GEE mathematics books as their test-remediation source and experienced the following score improvements:

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23. Validation Studies • St. Tammany Parish School District • Salmen High School (Title 1) used our GEE ELA book as its primary course of study for remediation and experienced the following score improvements:

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25. Educator Testimonials Seron Tyro, Lafargue Elementary, writes: “I discovered a copy of Passing the iLEAP Math Test in Grade 7 in one of the math classrooms... It was awesome! You have outlined the GLEs, which is what I am basing my entire summer school program on. In my 11 years of teaching, I have used numerous workbooks, but I have never come across one that excited me this much!”

26. Educator Testimonials Marguerite Guilbeaux, St. Martinville Junior High School, said: “I have recently ordered and received copies of Passing the LEAP Grade 8 in Social Studies. These books are wonderful, and as soon as our next CNI funds come in, we will order more for all of the students.”

27. Supplementals for ABC’s books • For more information, consult our Louisiana catalog or our website at www.americanbookcompany.com/LA

28. Additional Resources • E-books. PDFs delivered online. All files are exactly like the book and project easily onto SMART Board and Promethean board. Files are viewable only. • All of our sample e-books are viewable as full versions at http://www.americanbookcompany.com/LA/LAdigitpc.html

29. Additional Resources • Dolch Sight Words Flash Cards – cover all Dolch word lists Pre-K-3. See our samples at http://www.americanbookcompany.com/FC/dolchflashcards.html • Musical Mathematics – full skip counting curriculum for K-5 mathematics has music CDs in a variety of engaging styles and workbooks. View the sample workbooks and CD cuts at http://www.americanbookcompany.com/Content/musicalmath.html

30. Additional Resources • Online testing for LA EOC Algebra 1 and English II. Three unique tests simulate the actual testing environment. All scores are collected and can be analyzed in our classroom management system. • http://www.americanbookcompany.com/online/abc.html Username: abc Password: abc123

31. Additional Resources • Flashcards.Math and Science Flash cards covering key concepts in Middle and High School. • 3-D Mathematics Flashcard Games for the SMART Board and Promethean board. Materials correlated to Common Core Standards for math in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. See a demo of the beta version at http://www.americanbookcompany.com/abclabs/game/index.html

32. Additional Resources • ACT Books. ACT test preparation books covering English, Math, Reading, and Science. This four-book series covers all ACT test preparation. See our ACT offerings at http://www.americanbookcompany.com/ACT/ACTenglish.html

33. Quotes to Ponder • “As long as teachers give tests, there will always be prayer in schools.” • “A teacher lights the lamp that leads students into a future bright with hope and promise.”

34. Questions and Comments • We look forward to continuing our partnership with Caddo Parish. Let us know if you have any questions. Our representative, Debbie Price, is available at debpwm@att.net. • Cell 318-366-8737 • Office 318-396-0391