Syracuse City Schools Urban Forum District Share

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Syracuse City Schools Urban ForumDistrict Share

• Middle Level Learners

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MIDDLE LEVEL GOALS

• Develop all students intellectually and
  academically.
• Meet the personal and social needs of each
  student.
• Prepare students to be successful in the high
  school program and beyond.

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K - 8 MIDDLE LEVEL PROGRAMS

• Looping
• Teaming
• Common Planning Time
• International Center for Educational Leadership
  Successful Practices Network (SPN)
• Accelerated Courses
• Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
• English as a Second Language (ESL)
• Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for
  Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) Syracuse
  University, Onondaga Community College and
  LeMoyne College

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K - 8 MIDDLE LEVEL PROGRAMS

• Community of Caring Character Education
• Inclusive Education
• Peer Mediation
• Positive Behavior Intervention Supports (PBIS)
• Reading Intervention Programs READ 180, Fast
  ForWord and Scholastic Reading Inventories (SRI)
• Response to Intervention/School Based
  Intervention Teams (SBIT)
• S.U. Literacy Corps

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STUDENT ACTIVITIES

• After School Programs
• Band Chorus
• Clubs Intramurals
• Liberty Partnerships Program Syracuse
  University, Onondaga Community College, and
  LeMoyne College
• Modified Athletics
• Southeastern Consortium for Minorities in
  Engineering (SECME)
• National Society for Black Engineers (NSBE)

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STUDENT ACTIVITIES

• Student Council
• Supplemental Education Services (SES)
• Summer School Programs
• Syracuse CHOICE Program
• 21st Century After School Tutorial Program
• Upward Bound LeMoyne College
• Yearbook Club

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What are we most proud of in Middle Level
Education?

• Advancement Via Individual Determination
• AVID

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AVID

• What AVID is..
• AVID is an in-school academic support program for
  grades 4-12 that prepares students for college
  eligibility and success.
• AVID places academically average students in
  advanced classes.
• AVID levels the playing field for minority,
  rural, low-income and other students without a
  college-going tradition in their families.

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AVID

• What AVID is..
• AVID is for all students, but it targets those in
  the academic middle.
• AVID is implemented school wide and District wide

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AVID

• What AVID isnt..
• AVID isnt a remedial program.
• AVID isnt a free ride.
• AVID isnt a niche program.
• AVID isnt a college outreach program.
• Want more information?
• Come to our Roundtable Discussion on AVID
• or
• www.syracusecityschools.com
• or
• www.avidonline.org

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How do we measure effectiveness?

• Acuity Formative Assessment System
• -Predictive and Diagnostic
• Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI)
• -Lexile Scores
• School Improvement Plans
• School Quality Reviews (SQR)
• Internal Site Review Teams
• NYS Assessment Results Analysis
• Grades

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How do we measure effectiveness?

• Discipline Referrals
• Student and Teacher Interviews
• My Voice Student Surveys
• Organizational Health Inventory results
• (OHI staff surveys)
• AVID Teacher Surveys
• AVID Data Collection

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Contact Information

• Gwen McKinnon
• Director of Middle Level Education
• 725 Harrison Street
• Syracuse, New York 13210
• [phone]
• gmckinnon_at_scsd.us