English Language Arts & Social Studies Effectiveness Report - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
English Language Arts & Social Studies Effectiveness Report - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
English Language Arts & Social Studies Effectiveness Report Northwest Independent School District ELA Focus Fostering the love of literacy in students Early Literacy Writing Across the Content Journals Student
ELA Focus
- Fostering the love of literacy in students
- Early Literacy
- Writing Across the Content
- Journals
– Student reflection and teacher feedback – Students thinking and writing about their learning
- Rubrics and Exemplars to build student and
teacher understanding of the standards
Social Studies Focus
- Journals
- Student Processing of Content
- Historical Thinking Skills
- Teacher Feedback
- Increasing content reading opportunities
- Rubrics
- Exemplars
ELA & Social Studies Strategies
- Building new Kindergarten curriculum
- Creating Writing Guidelines for all content areas
- Summer reading opportunities for all 5th-12th grade
students
- Write about reading days
- Kick-Start
- Professional Learning
- Writing Calibrations with journals and essays
ELA Professional Learning
- 9 hours of required early literacy professional
learning for K-2 new to Northwest teachers – Guided Reading (3) (all elementary teachers) – Interactive Writing (1) – Shared Reading (1) – Running Records (1) – Word Work (1) – Writing Workshop (2)
- New Teacher Academy (during the year)
- ELA Academy (during the year)
- ENGAGE
- Learning Cycles - Leadership
Social Studies Professional Learning
Elementary
- 2 hour DBQ training required for all new to district or
new to grades 2-5
- DBQ Extras training offered over the summer
Secondary
- Workshop Model Training
- Journaling Strategies
- Goal Setting and Reflection Strategies
- DBQ Training
- Close Reading Strategies
- Digital Textbook Resources
- Historical Thinking Skills
- Rubric Training
- New Teacher Academy
Kindergarten
Student writing and feedback
Early Literacy
DRA2 BOY All (90%) ELL SPED White African- Am. Hisp. Asian
- Econ. Dis.
Kinder N/A- No data taken on text level N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 1st 76% 56% 42% 78% 86% 66% 83% 55% 2nd 75% 55% 37% 77% 75% 65% 78% 58% 3rd 77% 60% 32% 78% 71% 73% 90% 64% DRA2 EOY All (90%) ELL SPED White African- Am. Hisp. Asian
- Econ. Dis.
Kinder 88% 73% 55% 85% 81% 78% 91% 69% 1st 83% 65% 45% 80% 84% 69% 84% 60% 2nd 86% 64% 33% 82% 76% 72% 87% 65% 3rd 85% 60% 30% 83% 71% 73% 85% 64%
2nd Grade – Students making connections to reading. 4th Grade – Student planning out their response to literature
Middle School
Responses & Socratic Seminars
Socratic Seminar Questions
1. Why does Atticus choose to not reveal to his children that Judge Taylor appointed him to Tom’s case? 2. If Scout and Jim’s mother was still alive, how would other characters in the book be different? 3. Would Heck Tate have filed charges against Tom faster if he was white?
Cause & Effect
Passing Percent
- f 97%
Analyzing in Social Studies
Course 2012-2013 2015-2016 Students scoring 3 or higher on AP exams World History 47% 60% US History 36% 53% Economics 36% 52%
Northw est ISD
Stephanie Espinosa, Ed.D. Sunni Johnson, PhD. Brittnie Bragg Darsi Bickley