Humboldt High School

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Humboldt High School

• Leading the Way Establishing Leadership and
  Organization

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Where we were

• Core Completers 41
• ACT Core Completers 37
• Dropouts 12
• Attendance 95.6
• Dual Credit Enrollment 472
• PSEO enrollment 38
• with one discipline referral 52.8
• Participation 83

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Where we were

• 71.5 proficient on ITED reading
• 79.4 proficient on ITED math
• 83.4 proficient on ITED science

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Where we are now . . .
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Where we are now . . .
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Beginning the Journey

• First High School Summit (04-05)
• Staff meeting
• Rigor, relevance, and relationships
• HHS climate
• Establishment of HS Leadership team
• Collecting data

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Changes made for the fall 05-06

• Trimesters to semesters
• 7 period day to an 8 period day
• AP courses offered for the first time
• Reading strategies course introduced
• Changed STAG from every day to once a week
• Special Ed associates in classrooms
• Teacher prep periods aligned by department

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Staff Development ½ days

• QAR
• Science, Art, and Social Studies inquiry
• Math, CTE, and Special Ed. problem-solving
• PE wellness
• Foreign Language authentic speaking and writing
  activities
• Music standards and benchmark alignment
• Language Arts reading strategies

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Beginning Staff Development

• What are we doing?
• What concerns do we have?
• What do we need to do?
• Suggestions for how to get there..
• How do we change the culture of HHS?

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The Journey Continues 05-06

• AEA meetings (AEA 8)
• Collaborative leadership
• High Expectations
• Rigorous and Relevant Curriculum
• Student Assessment and Program Evaluation
• School Environment School Focus System
• Professional Development Gearing Up for Change
• Reading and Discussing Literature
• Breaking Ranks IIStrategies for Leading HS
  Reform
• Good to Great

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The Journey continues 05-06

• Model School Application
• Pocahontas Library Meeting
• Daggett video
• Survey development
• students (registration)
• parents (3rd quarter P/T conferences)
• staff (May before check-out)
• HS Reform committees

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High School Reform Committees

• Advisor/Advisee
• Communications
• Environment
• Expectations
• Transition

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Setting up the committees

• Gave teachers a choice
• Divided articles into binders by committee
• Created meeting minute format
• Created a committee plan form
• Set up place to post meeting minutes
• Set operational procedures
• Established 1st meeting agenda

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Meeting Minute Format

• Committee Meeting date and time
• Members present
• Members absent
• Meeting minutes
• Assignment for next meeting
• Topics for next meeting
• Date of next meeting

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Committee Plan Form

• Committee ____________
• Problem/question (must be stated in terms of
  student achievement)
• Data showing there is a problem/need (Be
  specific)
• Research summary with bibliography (may be
  attached)
• Plan
• Resources needed (with approximate cost if
  applicable)
• Expected Outcome
• Expected plan completion date
• What data and methods will you use to determine
  the success of your plan, and how will you
  communicate your findings?

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HS Reform Committees

• Operational Procedures
• Primary
• Run meeting
• Send agendas
• Be contact person
• Secondary
• Take minutes
• Post minutes

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HS Reform Committees

• 1st Meeting Topics
• Determine time and frequency of meetings (minimum
  biweekly)
• Review minutes form
• Review plan form
• Review committee expectations
• Timelines (submission dates for plans)

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Advisor/Advisee

• Naming the program (PRIDE)
• Scheduling
• Format
• 1 yr, 2 yr, 4 yr groups
• Number of PRIDES
• Activities
• Defining advisor role
• Teacher training needs

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Communication

• Planning for Silent Sustained Reading
• Securing reading materials
• Generating school-wide rubrics

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Environment
Learning, Aesthetic, Safety

• Cell phone policy
• Dress code letter

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Expectations
Students, Faculty/staff

• Course selection process
• Career pathways
• Graduation requirements
• Building-wide grading scale/practices
• Course guide updates
• Assessment and 4 quadrant instruction consistency

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Transition

• 9th grade (in)
• 10th and 11th grade (through)
• 12th grade (out)

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Weighing in

• Buy-in
• Focus
• words submitted for purpose statement
• Baseline datawhat do we need?
• Parent, teacher, student, and exit surveys
• State tests (MAP, ITED)
• Internal data
• Evaluating effectiveness

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Model Schools Conference
Florida
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Changes made for the fall 06-07

• 9th and 10th resource periods
• Resource Center
• Silent Sustained Reading 4 days a week
• Co-teaching
• Daily info and quotes in HS announcements
• Professional Library
• Second Chance Reading
• Project Lead the Way Grant
• One hour early out staff development

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Staff Development 1 hr early outs

• 3 Wednesdays per month literacy
• Learning teams by grade level Subjects Matter
• 4th Wednesday HS Reform Committees
• Integrating technology breakout sessions

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Beginning Staff Development

• Questions for 1st day staff development
• Why are you working in education?
• What is the purpose of Humboldt H.S.?
• 5 Why Groups
• Rigor
• Relevance
• Technology
• Literacy
• Special Ed

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A Mission Statement is Born

• Humboldt High School will provide an engaging,
  safe and supportive environment, in which all
  students are challenged and inspired to learn the
  knowledge and skills necessary to contribute to
  society as responsible and successful citizens

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New focused goals

• Advisor/Advisee developing relationships
  between staff and students
• Communication literacy skills for every
  student
• Environment drop out prevention
• Expectations -structures?
  teaching methods?
• Transition working with the middle school to
  meet the needs of all students

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Leadership Team at Work

• Attendance/Discipline Policy Proposals
• 1st reading
• Submitted questions, points to ponder
• Distributing Nationwide Model School Information
• Project Lead the Way funding
• AEA Meetings
• 8th Grade Four-Year Plan
• Data Organization
• High School Reform Site Visit w/Peter Holly

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Leadership Team at Work

• Learning Criteria Forms
• (Core, Stretch, Student Engagement, Personal
  Skills Development)
• Survey data revisions and 2 year data analysis
• 8th grade survey
• Essential Questions and Unit Evaluation
  Discussion

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Advisor/Advisee

• Friday PRIDE Activities
• Choices Program with Freshmen
• Advisor activities and scheduling

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Communications

• Silent-sustained reading 4 days a week
• Media Center Collection expansion
• Lower Lexile books
• Books of high interest to boys
• Non-fiction books
• Turnitin.com
• Rubrics (PowerPoint,Speeches,Posters)
• Writing Across the Curriculum

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Environment

• Cell phone policy
• Letters to parents regarding dress code
• Detentions
• Pyramid of interventions
• Draft of attendance policy
• Alternative school conference (2 teachers)

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Expectations

• Course offering evaluation
• Career strands discussion
• On-line course guide model

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Transition

• Survey to develop list of needs for incoming
  freshmen and students new to the district
• 4 year plans with incoming freshmen
• Freshmen orientation week activities
• (tour, lunchroom policies, school spirit,
  cheer)
• Freshmen orientation meeting with parents
• Club fest
• Planners (GO! with curriculum)
• Separate study hall
• Choices

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Changes made for the fall 07-08

• Future Day
• Project Lead the Way Year one
• Integrated Math I section added to MS
• Integrated 1A and 1B to replace Passport Math
• Biology ILO for Special Ed students only
• Reading Strategies all year for incoming less
  than proficient students
• PE all year every other day (SH opposite)
• Expanded co-teaching
• Five Smartboards
• Friday staff meetings
• Staff development structure

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Student Planning

• Future Day in February
• Various sessions for students in grades 9-12
• Effects of drugs/alcohol, Internet safety,
  personal safety, money management, pitfalls of
  college freshmen, harassment, career goals/life
  planning, employability, team building
• 8th graders
• Course offerings, activities, advice from Seniors
• 1x1 4-year planning meetings with incoming
  freshmen and their parents in the spring

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Staff Development 1 hr early outs

• AIW (Authentic Intellectual Work)
• Language Arts, Math, and Social Studies
• CORR
• (Collaborating Online for Rigor/Relevance)

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Beginning Staff Development

• District Level
• Breakout sessions
• Building Level
• Guaranteed and viable curriculum
• Model core curriculum

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Continued focused goals

• Advisor/Advisee developing relationships
  between staff and students
• Communication literacy skills for every
  student
• Expectations -structures?
  teaching methods?
• Transition working with the middle school to
  meet the needs of all students

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Hitting the Wall
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Changes made for the fall 08-09

• Project Lead the Way Year two
• Integrated 2A and 2B to replace Applied Math
• PE Back to every day for one semester
• Biotechnology II Added Dual Credit course
• Biology ILO expanded enrollment to all
  struggling students
• I READ course
• Teachers given a list of all students and at risk
  indicators
• Restructured Reform committees and their
  memberships
• Added eight Smartboards

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Staff Development 1 hr early outs

• AIW (Authentic Intellectual Work)
• All 9-12 curricular areas
• Included PK-8 Art, Music, PE, CTE

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Leadership Team at Work

• Re-evaluated the purpose
• Pride points
• Data collection
• Future Day planning
• Choices
• Iowa Core Curriculum
• Continue to monitor and discuss the progress of
  the Reform committees
• Staff Development - AIW

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New focused goals

• Advisor/Advisee continue fostering
  student/staff relationships and to improve the
  staff roles as advisors
• Transition continue to plan for incoming 8th
  grade and how to help the current freshmen be
  more successful
• At Risk how can we better address the needs of
  our at risk students
• IA Core Curriculum who, what, when, how and why

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Advisor/Advisee

• Friday PRIDE Activities now are being planned
  by all staff members
• Choices Program with grades 8-12
• Advisor activities and scheduling

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Transition

• Coordinated with 8th grade team
• Began discussions about transitioning out of high
  school
• Future Day planning

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At Risk

• Reviewed literature on at-risk students
• Entered data from first quarter on identified
  at-risk factors
• Plan to implement something to help at-risk
  students
• Evaluate after second semester

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Iowa Core Curriculum

• Learn about the ICC
• 21st Century Skills how much is already
  integrated into curriculum
• What do we need to tell each of the stakeholder
  groups? When?

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Student Planning

• Future Day in January
• Career half day grades 8-12
• Scheduling in the round on second half day
• Continue with 1x1 4-year planning meetings with
  incoming freshmen and their parents in the spring

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Humboldt High School Tools

• A leadership team
• Ways to organize data
• Resources
• Committees
• A communication system
• Time

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Continuing the Journey

• Continue to analyze and evaluate data
• to guide us on our way
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