Title: BROAD BROOK SCHOOL 20072008 Team Presentations
1BROAD BROOK SCHOOL2007-2008 Team Presentations
- Pre Kindergarten
- Kindergarten
- Grade 1
2District Strategic Improvement Goal
- East Windsor students must have the
opportunity to obtain academic achievement to the
highest level of their potential to insure that
each individual becomes a productive and
responsible member of society.
3Building Strategic Improvement Goals
- Broad Brook School students will increase
performance in Language Arts by moving 10 of
students from Levels 1, 2 and 3 to goal or above,
as measured by CMT in the areas of reading and
writing over the next two .years
- Broad Brook School students will increase
performance in Mathematics by moving 10 of
students from Levels 1, 2 and 3 to goal or above,
as measured by CMT over the next two years.
4PreK Team Members
- Eleanor Matroni
- Linda Lanz
- Rebecca Kwasnik
5SMART Goal
- By May 2008, 70 of all Pre K students will be
able to use multiple word sentences or phrases to
describe ideas, feelings and actions.
6 Choosing the SMART Goal
- Language is an essential skill for young children
who will need to be able to express themselves
orally before they can express themselves through
writing and understanding reading. - 13 of students have a first language other than
English and an additional 13 have identified
speech and language needs.
7Students Will Need to Know and Be Able To
- Use strategies to generate ideas for speaking,
writing, and visual activities.(3.2b) - Dictate and tell stories beginning to use
organizational patterns appropriate to the mode
of writing. (3.1c)
8What students will be doing-Performance Tasks
- Language screening
- Answering wh questions to describe details,
events, or character traits and explain cause
and effect - Sequencing 3-5 pictures and describing what is
happening in each picture
9What the teachers will be doing- Instructional
Strategies
- Model before, during and after reading strategies
- Reread stories to foster remembering, organizing
information and sequencing. - Write class news with students, encouraging them
to extend and elaborate events.
10Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth
- Pre K Language Screening
- Anecdotal Records of Small and Whole Group
Activities. - Checklists
- Teacher Developed Formative Assessments
11Kindergarten Team Members
- Amy Lupoli
- Julie Berry
- Laurie Felber
- Stacy Willey
12SMART Goal
- By May 2008 75 of Kindergarten students will
advance two stages in the writing process as
indicated by the continuum of writing stages.
13Reason for Choosing SMART Goal
- Second year focus on writing
- Writing prompt scores had stagnated
- Close connect between reading and writing
- Research shows that students learn to write
before they read
14Students will know and be able to
- Write and tell stories using organizational
patterns appropriate to modes of writing. (3.1c) - Use strategies to generate and develop ideas for
speaking, writing and visual activities. (3.1b)
15What students are doing-Performance Tasks
- Adding more to a story by writing two sentences.
- Using strategies to add elaboration to sentences.
- Stretching out words and segmenting to produce
more words in sentences. - Daily Writing samples
- Quarterly writing prompt
16What the teachers are doing-Instructional
Strategies
- Oral Language activities
- Phonemic awareness activities, including Fountas
and Pinnell resources - Writers Workshop
- Conferencing
- Modeling Writing
- Daily interactive sentence writing
17Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth
- Daily writing samples
- Quarterly Writing Prompts
18Grade 1 Team Members
- Jane Labbe
- Debra Bechard
- Lynn Greer
- Marsha Francis
- Michelle Wylie
- Joelle Burgess
19SMART Goal
- By June 2008, 80 of the students will accurately
decode and encode one syllable words using
knowledge of sound/symbol relationship and the
alphabetic principle.
20Reason for Choosing SMART Goal
- Fall DRA results showed that 35 of grade 1
students scored at or above benchmark in the
areas of decoding, fluency and comprehension. -
21Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth
- Winter and Spring DRA
- Quarterly Writing Prompts
- Monthly spelling assessment with dictation
22Students will know and be able to
- Apply knowledge of letter-sound correspondence,
structural and contextual clues to read and
understand words. (1.3 a) - Demonstrate use of capitalization, punctuation
and spelling skills. - (4.3 b)
23What Students Are Doing-Performance Tasks
- Phonics lessons and activities
- Guided reading
- Spelling practice and activities
- Writers Workshop
24What Teachers are Doing-Instructional Strategies
- Develop phonics lessons and activities from
Fountas and Pinnell Phonics resources. - Practice with student vowel books.
- Create minilessons for Writers Workshop
25Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth
- Common formative assessments
- Monthly spelling assessment
- Sentence Dictation
- Running Records
- Developmental Reading Assessment