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Annual Title I Meeting

Thompson Ranch School

Friday, August 2, 2019 Principal: Dr. Rachel Saunders Assistant Principal: Ms. Danielle Parnell

Mission Statement

We prepare our students for opportunities of tomorrow by providing them with 21st Century skills of critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, communication, and creativity to ensure a successful future.

Vision Statement

Committed to creating caring relationships, responsible individuals, and collaborative, life-long 21st Century learners.

Purpose Statement

We will…. Educate students to their highest learning potential by providing a quality, differentiated, yet equitable learning environment. Foster student success in the 21st Century and real-world situations by promoting collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking skills. Build student self-esteem by celebrating their strengths and achievements.

What Does the Data Tell Us?

Academic Programs with Technology Support

Tier 1 Reading and Math Tier 2 Reading and Math with Interventionist Support RTI - Responding and Intervening to Support Student Learning Chromebooks Smartboards Projectors Doc Cams E-Beams I Pads

Academic Goals

District’s Goal: Each Dysart student, through personalized learning, will develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions as defined by the Dysart’s Profile of a Graduate that ensures 21st Century success. Thompson Ranch’s Goal: By implementing a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) approach to learning, students will engage in personalized learning opportunities that will increase the academic rigor by focusing on the critical attributes of the Profile of a Graduate (critical thinker, communicator, tech-skilled, creative, innovative, collaborative, initiative, global citizen, and academic skilled).

Academic Goals

❖ Increase the percentage of third - eighth grade students meeting state standards in literacy and math by 5% each year as measured by AzMERIT. ❖ Increase the percentage of kindergarten through third grade students reading at benchmark by 5% from August to May as measured on DIBELS.

Action Steps to Support Academic Goals

• Reading/Math Interventionists
• Technology Integration
• Read 180/System 44
• Achieve 3000
• Freckle/Redbird/MathSpace
• Title I Preschool
• ELD 2 Hour Block
• Project Graduation

(Grades 7-8)

• Walk to Read
• March to Math
• 95% Group
• SRA
• Wilson Reading Program
• Phonics for Reading
• Gifted Cluster
• STEAM Units with Project Based

Learning Focus

Safety Goal: By continually evaluating and revising processes, we will ensure the overall safety of all stakeholders on campus.

• 1. Decrease referrals by 5% from 2018/2019 (560) to

2019/2020 (decrease by 28)

• 2. Provide two PD sessions to staff and one to families and

community on student behavior and/or student safety.

• 3. Maintain 95% student attendance for the 2019/20 school

year.

School-Wide Expectations ➢ Be in control of body and voice. ➢ Keep learning environment free of distractions. ➢ Be respectful and responsible to self and

• thers.

➢ Be an active listener by engaging in learning. Life-Long Guidelines ➢ Do Your Personal Best ➢ Be Respectful ➢ Be Responsible ➢ Be a Good Citizen ➢ Be Trustworthy

Five Steps of Discipline Process

1.Verbal/non-verbal warning 2.Reflection in classroom 3.Reflection in another classroom 4.Family contact & lunch detention 5.Referral

School-wide Leadership Team

• Leadership meetings are held twice a month to discuss school-

wide initiatives and progress toward the Continuous Improvement Plan including: ○ Reviews, refines, and adjusts school improvement plan. ○ Identifies areas of concern ○ Research-based programs ○ Create and implement action plans ○ Communicates CIP to Stakeholders ■ Make adjustments and modifications as needed

Culture and Leadership

Culture and Leadership

Grade level PLC teams

• Administration and support staff will attend weekly PLC grade level meetings to

provide additional level of support.

• Grade level PLC teams are allocated 30 minutes per week (120 minutes per

month) and two 2 hour sessions (240 minutes per month) for a total of 360 minutes per month for the following topics. ○ Assessments, student achievement, curriculum guides, tiered support for reading and math, RTI, behavior, etc.

• Grade level PLCs focus on 4 guiding questions.

○ What do we want students to learn? ○ How do we assess learning? ○ What do we do if student needs additional support? ○ What do we do if student has mastered content and needs enrichment?

Family Engagement

Goal: Thompson Ranch will seek to strengthen relationships with families and community members by supporting our PTSA and by building partnerships within the community to promote academic, social, and emotional success for our students.

Specific Activities to Support Goal

• 1. Meet the Teacher Night
• 2. STEAM Nights
• 3. Parent Teacher Conferences
• 4. Annual Title I Night
• 5. Quarterly Awards Assemblies
• 6. Site Council Meetings (last Friday of

every month)

• 7. PTSA Events
• Book Fair
• Pawfest
• Jaguar Jamboree
• Valentine’s Day Dance
• McTeacher Night
• Cinco De Mayo - Ballet Folklorico Dancers
• Spring Fling Dance
• 8th Grade Dance/Celebration
• 8. Celebration breakfasts for academic success

Feedback and Reflection = Continuous Improvement

“It was clearly a significantly HUGE initiative put forth by all of our teachers to direct their educational aims to help students visualize and make connections among a variety of disciplines.” “Cross-curricular implementation allowed for better engagement with the

• students. A greater depth of knowledge was able to be gained as well, as

students could break down concepts in a more structured way in multiple classrooms.” “We successfully implemented STEAM this year and felt more confident having students engage in STEAM activities throughout the year.”

Parent Survey

• Hands on projects using real world

application

• Helps students retain information and

accommodate different learning styles

• Fun way to learn
• Teamwork
• Challenging
• Allows students to explore areas of

interest

• Useful for today’s technology

STEAM: What do you like best? STEAM: What can we do to improve?

• More projects for home
• STEAM added to after school

programs

• More arts, offer dance, and

drama

• Speciality clubs for different

areas

• More parent involvement in

STEAM

Student Survey

• Learning new things
• Activities
• Math and Science
• Building stuff
• Fun Experiments
• Team work
• Being creative
• Engineering

What do you like most about STEAM? What would you like to change about STEAM?

• More science, arts, and math
• More projects
• More time to work on STEAM
• More time to build
• More challenging things to do

Staff Survey

• Hands on learning
• School wide STEAM presentations
• STEAM brings community together and

provides high parent involvement

• Solving real world problems
• Deepening learning
• Showcasing learning through creativity
• Students working together to ask,

imagine, plan, create, improve, and communicate

What do you like most about STEAM? What would you like to change about STEAM?

• More professional

development

• Opportunity to see STEAM in
• ther classrooms (peer
• bservations)
• More supplies and time to

plan

• STEAM Showcase Days for

Community

• Guest speakers/assemblies

Steps to sustain STEAM School

• Build community

partnerships

• Incorporate Language

Functions to STEAM integration

• Provide meaningful

professional development to staff

• Allocate resources for

STEAM

• Ensure time is given to

implement STEAM lessons

• Outreach to community by

providing various events

• Communicate with

stakeholders

• Reflect on STEAM

Practices

• Grow in STEAM

Steps to Support Teachers

• Additional professional development that focuses
• n STEAM integration
• Find outside partners to help us with this focus.
• Support the teachers by providing time to integrate

new Science and Social Studies Standards with a STEAM focus.

Leveraging Increase Success

• Continue to apply for grants to help fund STEAM on our

campus.

• Advertise our STEAM Program
• Utilize social media to help our community see the amazing

things in STEAM that is happening on our campus.

Capital Needs

• Classroom upgrades (flexible seating, additional

technology such as interactive t.v.’s/chromebooks)

• Increasing Makerspace/robotics labs (3D Printers, robotic

kits/playing field)

• Outdoor classroom (seating/shade)
• Increasing the Arts in STEAM (i.e. band/orchestra

instruments/lockers, dance/art equipment)

Thompson Ranch Elementary School is an innovative and progressive school. We prepare our students for the opportunities of tomorrow by having them engage in authentic, open-ended STEM investigations that connect with real life and promotes problem solving, critical thinking, and

• collaboration. We are committed to building

family and community involvement to strengthen and enhance STEM education.