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 Chromebooks Tier 2 Reading and Smartboards Math with Projectors Interventionist Doc Cams Support E-Beams RTI - Responding and I Pads Intervening to Support Student Learning
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 21 st 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 Walk to Read ● ● Technology Integration March to Math ● ● Read 180/System 44 95% Group ● ● Achieve 3000 SRA ● ● Freckle/Redbird/MathSpace Wilson Reading Program ● ● Title I Preschool Phonics for Reading ● ● ELD 2 Hour Block Gifted Cluster ● ● Project Graduation STEAM Units with Project Based (Grades 7-8) 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 201 8 /201 9 ( 560 ) to 201 9 /20 20 (decrease by 2 8 ) 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 201 9 / 20 school year.
School-Wide Expectations ➢ Be in control of body and Life-Long Guidelines voice. ➢ Keep learning ➢ Do Your Personal Best environment free of ➢ Be Respectful distractions. ➢ Be Responsible ➢ Be respectful and ➢ Be a Good Citizen responsible to self and ➢ Be Trustworthy others. ➢ Be an active listener by engaging in learning.
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
Culture and Leadership 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 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. 7. PTSA Events Specific Activities to Support Goal -Book Fair -Pawfest 1. Meet the Teacher Night -Jaguar Jamboree 2. STEAM Nights -Valentine’s Day Dance 3. Parent Teacher Conferences -McTeacher Night 4. Annual Title I Night -Cinco De Mayo - Ballet Folklorico Dancers 5. Quarterly Awards Assemblies -Spring Fling Dance 6. Site Council Meetings (last Friday of -8th Grade Dance/Celebration every month) 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 STEAM: What do you like best? STEAM: What can we do to improve? Hands on projects using real world ● More projects for home ● application ● STEAM added to after school Helps students retain information and programs ● accommodate different learning styles ● More arts, offer dance, and Fun way to learn drama ● Teamwork ● Speciality clubs for different ● Challenging areas ● Allows students to explore areas of ● ● More parent involvement in interest STEAM Useful for today’s technology ●
Student Survey What would you like to What do you like change about STEAM? most about STEAM? Learning new things ● Activities ● ● More science, arts, and math Math and Science ● ● More projects Building stuff ● ● More time to work on STEAM Fun Experiments ● ● More time to build Team work ● ● More challenging things to do Being creative ● Engineering ●
Staff Survey What do you like most about What would you like to STEAM? change about STEAM? Hands on learning ● ● More professional School wide STEAM presentations ● development STEAM brings community together and ● ● Opportunity to see STEAM in provides high parent involvement other classrooms (peer Solving real world problems ● observations) Deepening learning ● ● More supplies and time to Showcasing learning through creativity ● plan Students working together to ask, ● ● STEAM Showcase Days for imagine, plan, create, improve, and Community communicate ● Guest speakers/assemblies
Steps to sustain STEAM School ● Build community ● Ensure time is given to partnerships implement STEAM lessons ● Incorporate Language ● Outreach to community by Functions to STEAM providing various events integration ● Communicate with ● Provide meaningful stakeholders professional ● Reflect on STEAM development to staff Practices ● Allocate resources for ● Grow in STEAM STEAM
Steps to Support Teachers ● Additional professional development that focuses on 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.
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