Literacy Report - June 26
Executive Summary The purpose of the Literacy Report is to provide the Board of Trustees of Clearview School Division No. 71 with an awareness of Literacy in Clearview Schools and to assist the Board and Administration in making decisions.
Board Priorities PRIORITY ONE: CREATE A “FIRST-CHOICE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PRIORITY TWO: ENSURE SUCCESS FOR ALL STUDENTS THROUGH APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS
What does this look like in Clearview School Division Literacy programs? “
Please Join Me ………. On the 2018 - 2019 Clearview Literacy Journey.
Clearview Literacy Statement Clearview Public Schools recognizes that Literacy is at the foundation of successful learning and living . It’s an active, life-long process. It begins almost from birth, when our parents first start reading to us and develops over our whole lives. Literacy is more than basic reading and writing skills. Literacy education at Clearview Public Schools is about helping students find ways to make sense of the world by acquiring, understanding and communicating information in a variety of ways.
CLEARVIEW Literacy Reading Writing Modelled Reading Modelled Writing Shared Reading Shared Writing Guided Reading Guided Writing Independent Reading Independent Writing Working With Words
K-12 LITERACY PLAN The Clearview K-12 Literacy Plan and Framework consists of 7 Essential Conditions and Recommendations. These are: 1. Shared Vision 2. Literacy Leadership 3. Research and Evidence 4. Resources 5. Quality Programming 6. Time 7. Community Engagement
Literacy Year Review 1. Introductory Reading Practices - Model Comprehensive. 2. Literacy Strategies. 3. Beginning of year STAR Assessment. 4. Create Reading Groups based on STAR data. 5. Work with Scholastic Place Literacy Resources for reading, writing and Working with Words. 6. Retest using STAR at various times throughout the year. 7. Complete Fountas and Pinnell Benchmarks for more clarification and understanding for student learning when required. 8. Continue to work with Literacy Place Resources, moving up reading levels as students successfully master their presently assigned leveled skills. 9. Complete year end STAR Assessment to measure reading growth for the year.
STAR READING ASSESSMENT STAR Reading tracks development in five domains: ● Word Knowledge and Skills ● Comprehension Strategies and Construct Meaning ● Analyzing Literary Text ● Understanding Author’s Craft ● Analyzing Argument and Evaluating Text
What Does Our STAR DATA Tell Us?
TABLE: Clearview - Grade Summary Difference Between June 2017 and June 2019 Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 1.5 Grade 4 1.5 Grade 5 1.9 Grade 6 1.8 Grade 7 1.4 Grade 8 1.5 Grade 9 1.9 Grade 10 0.4 Grade 11 1.9 Grade 12 1.3 Clearview Average Difference between 2017 1.5 and 2019 This table demonstrates that we have made outstanding improvements from 2017-2018 at bringing students closer to Grade level. This is the difference between June 2017 and June 2018 Grade Summary. Blue represents an improvement from 2017 to 2019.
Table: Clearview - Measuring Growth using the Student Growth Percentile (SGP) in 2018-2019 School Year A student growth percentile (SGP) describes a student's growth compared to other students with similar prior test scores (their academic peers). Although the calculations for SGPs are complex, percentiles are a familiar method of measuring students in comparison to their peers. Grade 1 55 High Growth 66-99 51-67 Grade 2 58 Typical Growth 33-65 46-77 Grade 3 51 Low Growth 1-34 39-80 Grade 4 52 33-70 Grade 5 54 36-92 Grade 6 60 40-77 Grade 7 51 48-66 Grade 8 49 33-66 Grade 9 47 34-58 Grade 10 56 Grade 11 52 Grade 12 41 Clearview Average 52 typical Growth
SCHOLASTIC RESOURCES Clearview Teachers continued their learning journey with the Scholastic Resources. In the upcoming slides we will be looking at the Professional Learning and Coaching Series that was offered to Clearview Teachers this school year.
Professional Learning By offering Professional Learning opportunities to our literacy staff we not only build the capacity of the staff members who engage in such activities but we continue to strive for excellence when we plan for and engage our students in meaningful daily activities. Several learning opportunities were offered to Clearview staff this school year through the Clearview Professional Learning and Coaching Series.
Professional Learning with Scholastic Resources 1. Literacy Place K-3 2. Moving Up with Literacy Place Grades 4-6 3. Stepping Up with Literacy Place Grades 7-9 All programs are based on a comprehensive approach to reading and writing, using the gradual release model, and recognizes the need to be flexible and resourceful in meeting the diverse needs of students. They are designed to help you differentiate instruction and meet the diverse literacy needs of students in your classroom.
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CLiteracy Coaching Literacy Coaching \and Implementation Plan Clearview Literacy Coaching Plan Clearview Literacy Coaching Overview and Implementation Plan Overview and Implementation Plan Clearview Literacy Coaching Implementation Structure Overview and Implementation Plan Off-site professional learning will be provided for grade level groups. Each professional learning date will focus on providing teachers with takeaways to practice in their classroom, with a reflection component for their learning. These professional learning opportunities will be followed by in-school coaching visits. This is an iterative process of professional learning, implementing a takeaway, coaching on the takeaway, followed by the next session of professional learning. Each participant in the professional learning series will teach a lesson focused on a learning from the series while the coach observes followed by a debrief with the coach. At minimum, the observation will be 30 minutes with a 30 minute debrief. This may vary slightly depending on the number of teachers engaging in the professional learning series from a particular school.
Clearview Literacy Coaching Overview and Implementation Plan Clearview Literacy Plan
Administrator Feedback on the Series
Literacy Feedback from Teachers Question 1 2 3 4 5 Overall, I was satisfied with the quality of the Professional Learning 3 24 13 Series The Literacy Learning Series I attended helped me do my job better. 4 22 14 The Literacy Learning Series worked with the district supplied 4 17 19 Scholastic materials and built my skills and understanding of these resources. The Literacy Learning Series provided me with strategies designed to 5 17 18 accommodate the varied literacy skills of my students. 1=Strongly Disagree 5= Strongly Agree
Literacy Feedback Question Yes No Overall, I feel I have a better understanding of a balanced 40 2 comprehensive literacy program and the components of such programs because of the Literacy Learning Series I had an opportunity to connect with my grade level counterparts 40 2 with Clearview School Division Overall, I feel that I have improved my professional practice in 40 2 literacy because of the Literacy Learning Series.
Teacher Feedback
Potential Professional Learning In moving forward with next year’s planning, what types of professional learning would you like to see? Guided Reading 12 Writing 15 Word Work 6 Scheduling a Comprehensive Literacy Program 22 within Your Classroom Timetable Fountas and Pinnell Benchmarking Kit 0 Phonological Awareness/ Phonics 15 Interactive Read Aloud/ Shared Reading 0 Spelling and Vocabulary 6 Comprehension Skills and Strategies 7
How Would Teachers Like their Professional Learning Delivered? Full Day Divisional Professional Learning 8 Half Day Mini Workshops in School Buildings 22 Outside of Division Professional Learning funded by schools 3 Let My School Take Care of my PD Needs 8 Other: Anything is good for me - It is PD 1
Moving Forward to 2019-2020 Continue to look at Moving Forward to Promote leadership DATA to improve strengthen, implement and collegiality student learning and enhance teacher through grade level incorporating CRM practice and leadership sharing sessions and into our Literacy through reinforcement documents to create conversations and of strategies introduced Professional Learning planning in 2018-2019 Communities
Literacy Moving Forward Continue the Literacy Momentum Plans for 2019- 2020 ● Kick off year with Grade level focus groups creating Shared Grade Level Documents ● August 27 PD Day - Afternoon session on Scheduling Literacy in the Classroom. ● Continue School Visits - Out in schools 3 days a week. ● New staff to the division will be offered Professional Learning based on the 2018-2019 model ● Half day workshops on the following to be delivered at requesting schools on monthly in-school Professional Learning days - Word Work - Writing - Benchmarking - Guided Reading - Shared Reading - Independent Reading - Read Alouds - Scheduling - Other areas that schools may request ○
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