Frances Willard Our SMART Journey Hello! Lance Clark: Principal - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Frances Willard Our SMART Journey

Hello! Lance Clark: Principal Nicole Melody: Assistant Principal Annie Pavlik: Instructional Coach Frances Willard Elementary School lance.clark@rimsd41.org nicole.melody@rimsd41.org andrea.pavlik@rimsd41.org

“ Every member of a collaborative school community can act as a leader , dramatically impacting the quality of relationships, the school culture, and student learning.. ...from Nancy Love's book Data Coaches Guide to Improving Learning for All Students

Rock Island, Illinois Demographics: Rock Island-Milan School 357 students District Frances Willard 93% Low-Income Elementary 9 Elementary Schools, 2 20% EL students Middle Schools, 1 High School 11 Languages K-6 Building Staff: Principal, Assistant Principal, Instructional Coach, Counselor, 15 classroom teachers, Music, PE, SPED, 1 EL, 8 para-professionals

Frances Willard: A Brief History The SIG grant: ● Teacher turn-over ● Granted in 2013-2014 ● Tenure/non-tenure ratio ● $1,000,000/year for 3 years ● Leadership Turnover ● Academic Achievement in ELA and Math ● Culture and Climate

SMART Academy- 2014/2015

SMART Academy- 2015/2016

Year 2: Big Changes-Big Plans Building Leadership Team: New Building Leadership Team Created Principal: Meredith Johnson BLT will attend SMART VP: Nicole Melody Use NWEA/MAP Universal Screener PLC Leaders: Leah, Brooke, Becky Instructional Coach: Annie School Counselor: Val

Zone Analysis Looking at student data in performance bands

Zone Analysis: Zone analysis is a strategy ○ that works for all data types, and is easily Zone Analysis accessible to teachers, administrators, parents, and Conversion and students. Charts Color coded ○ Conversion Chart: Specifics on how we ○ define each zone (What makes a score red, yellow, green, or blue?)

MAP Growth PARCC Standards Based Grading Blue %ile > 80 Exceeded 4 (exceeds) expectations Green %ile 41-80 Met expectations 3 (meets) Yellow %ile 21-40 Approached 2 (developing) Expectations, partially met expectations Red %ile < 21 Did not yet meet 1 (beginning expectations expectations)

Nothing Good Grows in the Dark

Leadership Is Bravery ● Moving forward, despite dramatic resistance ● Taking on more leadership responsibility ● Data retreats ● Weekends ● SMART slumber parties ● Contracted extra coaching with Carol

Year Target/Goal Our School 2020 85% Targets: 2019 75% 2018 65% 2017 55%

SMART Academy- 2016/2017 Drive to 55!

Class Targets

Scheduling for Success Master schedule for collaboration ● Notes for this Meetings rotations on Thursdays ● section PD’s ● PLCs - what we focused on this year ● Morning Meetings ● More: Align expectations - sight words New curriculum ELA/Math

Culture and Climate

SMART 2017/2018 Shoot for 60% Grade Level Goal Trees, Setting Targets, Selecting Strategies, PLCs

50 60 50 60

Strategies How do I focus on the GAN?

Math Review Measurement and Data Geometry

Sight Words (K-2) Foundational Skills

Zone Analysis ALL areas

Data Wall Nothing good grows in the dark...

School Improvement The Results!

% of Students scoring average or higher: Conversion Table 0-34: Red 35-49: Yellow 50-64: Green 65 +: Blue

Special Thanks to: Our work was started and continues through a partnership with SMART Learning Systems: http://smartlearningsystems.com/

Thank You! Any questions? andrea.pavlik@rimsd41.org nicole.melody@rimsd41.org

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