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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 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 5 th -12 th 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 African- All (90%) ELL SPED White Hisp. Asian Econ. Dis. BOY Am. N/A- No data Kinder N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A taken on text level 1 st 76% 56% 42% 78% 86% 66% 83% 55% 2 nd 75% 55% 37% 77% 75% 65% 78% 58% 3 rd 77% 60% 32% 78% 71% 73% 90% 64% DRA2 African- EOY All (90%) ELL SPED White Hisp. Asian Econ. Dis. Am. Kinder 88% 73% 55% 85% 81% 78% 91% 69% 1 st 83% 65% 45% 80% 84% 69% 84% 60% 2 nd 86% 64% 33% 82% 76% 72% 87% 65% 3 rd 85% 60% 30% 83% 71% 73% 85% 64%

2 nd Grade – Students making connections to reading. 4 th 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 of 97%

Course 2012-2013 2015-2016 Analyzing in Students scoring 3 or higher on AP exams Social World History 47% 60% Studies US History 36% 53% Economics 36% 52%

Northw est ISD Stephanie Espinosa, Ed.D. Sunni Johnson, PhD. Brittnie Bragg Darsi Bickley