Middle School Highlights Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal Teaching • “Think like a teacher.” • Sense of community - Gr. 8: Planned and presented - Gr. 6: Pre-teaching
Middle School Highlights Interdisciplinary Experiences
Middle School Highlights Career Night
Middle School Highlights Second STW Re-designation
2018-19 SIT Goal By June of 2019, all students in grades 7 and 8 will demonstrate proficiency in collaborative problem solving and communication skills through the development and completion of a student-driven Project Based Learning experience. Projects must adhere to the Buck Institute’s 8 Essential Elements of a Gold Standard Project.
1.Significant Content 2.21 st Century Skills 3.Driving Question 4.Need to Know 5.Voice & Choice 6.In-Depth Inquiry 7.Revision & Reflection 8.Public Audience
Quality Research Engage Audience Multiple Perspectives
What we learned… • Genuine Inquiry and Engagement • Choice and Differentiation • Topics & Skills were Future Focused • Emphasized Reflection and Feedback • A Learning Process for All - Ongoing feedback from teachers - Adjustments made along the way • Stretched our Comfort Zone - Not content specialists - Learn with students
2018-19 SIT Goal By June 2019 (Window 3 of iReady Reading assessments), 53% of students will demonstrate one full year's worth of scaled score growth and 74% of students will score on grade level. (This represents a 3% growth over the 2017-18 iReady Results.)
School-wide
Grade Specific
2019 NYS ELA Assessment Results
What do we want students to learn? How will we know they have learned it? What will we do if they didn’t learn it? What will we do if they did learn it?
V High School E R T Middle School I C A - Variety of Data L - PLC Process A L - Habits of Mind I G Manor Elementary N M E Lima Primary N T
What we are tight about in the PLC process… 1. Work in collaborative teams and take collective responsibility for student learning rather than work in isolation. 2. Implement a guaranteed and viable curriculum, unit by unit. 3. Monitor student learning through an ongoing assessment process that includes frequent, team-developed common formative assessments. 4. Use the results of common assessments to: • Improve individual practice. • Build the team’s capacity to achieve it’s goals. • Intervene or extend on behalf of students. 5. Provide systematic interventions and enrichment.
Multi-Tiered System of Supports - IST Process Tier 3 - Few - AIS Supports - PLC Process Tier 2- Some Most Essential Learning that all students must learn - iReady Results Tier 1- All - Daily Instruction
By June 2020 (Window 3 of iReady Reading assessments), 57% of students will demonstrate one full year’s worth of scaled score growth and 74% of students will score on grade level. (This represents a 3% growth over the 2018-19 iReady results.) Focal areas for action steps: - Exploring other measures to consider when determining literacy skills growth (The ways PLCs measure essential student learning) - Work collaboratively to make use of formative assessment data to design and implement strategies that improve student growth through differentiated instruction.
By June 2022, all students will demonstrate proficiency in (2-3 chosen habits of mind). Focal areas for action steps: - Familiarize staff with the Habits of Mind - Teacher and/or parent survey to determine habits of mind that need the most developed in students - Generate a rubric for use with Habits of Mind / PBL Service Learning - PBL is one method of teaching, practicing, & assessing these skills. (Connect HF-L Strategic Plan skills with Habits of Mind skills) - What else do teachers do in their instruction that could make use of this rubric?
- Sustain program (minor adjustments) - Shift funds to support trips - Staff Development: PLCs Co-Teaching Habits of Mind Technology Updates - Curriculum Writing
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