Johnson Elementary School A Professional Development School

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Johnson Elementary SchoolA Professional
Development School

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• The Year in Review
• 2008 - 2009

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Report Overview

• Johnson School Goals
• What is a Professional Learning
• Community?
• Johnson School Exclusives

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County Goals

• Two County Goals are established at
• each school.
• Goals are created using data collected by
  teachers.
• Need action research student improvement

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Grade 1 Number Sense

• Number sense is a valuable concept, a building
  block on which 1st graders can begin to form a
  universal knowledge base.
• Students will be asked to identify numbers
  before, after and between specific numbers on a
  hundreds chart. Students will be asked to
  identify 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, 10 less, than
  specified numbers on a hundreds chart.
• Pre and post assessments given and compared.

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Grade 3 Literacy

• Running with Running Records
• All students are expected to make gains as a
  result of our Guided Reading Program. Through
  increase training in Running Records, our 3rd
  grade teachers will be able to utilize their data
  interpretation skills to more accurately inform
  their small group instruction.
• Data will be collected at the beginning of the
  year and at the beginning of each marking period.
  
• We anticipate that by the end of 3rd grade, 90
  of students will be reading at a Level P, or have
  made a gain of at least 3 reading levels or
  higher.

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Not all goals are academic.

• Students are also expected to demonstrate
  positive behaviors in
• Non-academic areas.

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Character Education Program

• Congratulations,
• Johnson School!
• Honorable Mention
• New Jersey Schools of
• Character
• 2008 2009
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Citizenship

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What is a Professional Learning Community?

• In a Professional Learning Community, we ask the
  questions
• What do we want children to learn?
• How will we know that theyve learned it?
• What will we do if they have learned it?
• What will we do it they come to class already
  having mastered the material?

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How do we know if students have learned?

• Formative Assessments
• Running Records
• Math Unit Assessments
• Teacher-made quizzes
• Math Communicators
• Holistic Scored Writing
• Samples
• Learnia

• Summative Assessments
• Teacher made tests
• Projects and Reports
• District Assessments
• DLA Math
• NJ ASK

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What do we do if they do not understand?

• At Johnson School, we are committed to Response
  to Intervention, or RTI. This is a Tiered
  Intervention Model.

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Tiered Interventions

• Other Student Supports
• Junior Achievement
• Kindergarten Enrichment
• Tutoring Program
• ESST services
• Buddy Classes
• Lunch Bunch
• In-class Support in grades 2 5
• Resource Pull-out in grades 2 5
• 2 self-contained classrooms
• Full Time Guidance Counselor
• Learning Lab Periods for Intervention and
  Enrichment
• ELL program
• Book Mates Program

• Tier I
• In-class interventions, differentiation by
  classroom teacher.
• Title I tutoring program
• Learning Lab interventions
• Tier II
• Group pull-out by ESST.
• Grade level focal points provided by grade level
  teachers
•  Tier III
• Individual pull-out by ESST
• Individual focal points provided by classroom
  teacher
• Tier IV
• Resource Room trial
• Individual focal points provided by classroom
  teacher
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Featured at Johnson School

• Dedicated and supportive PTA
• Active Student Council, Environmental Club
• Fastt Math Program, Accelerated Reader

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Your Vote Counts!

• Cherry Hill
• School District
• Balancing Quality and Cost Consciousness

• When? Tuesday, April 21, 2009 from 200 900
  PM
• Where? Your designated polling location