Five Crucial Elements of Raising Student Achievement

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Five Crucial Elements of Raising Student
Achievement
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Agenda

• Objective
• Demographics
• Crucial Elements to Increased Student Achievement
• What We Know
• Energy, Exposure and Return
• Not To Be Ignored
• Questions to Consider
• Q/A

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Objective

• To share proven strategies that contribute
  significantly to increased student achievement.

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Quality is never an accident it is always the
result of high intention, sincere effort,
intelligent direction and skillful execution it
represents the wise choice of many
alternatives.
Willa
Foster
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Crucial Elements

• High Expectations Accountability
• School Driven by Student Needs
• Engaging Parents as Partners
• Adopting All-School Reading Mentality
  Implementing Reading Programs
• Recruiting Highly Effective Teachers

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Twin Cities Academy

• Inner City School
• Public School
• School of Choice
• Poverty Index
• Special Education
• ELL

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Twin Cities Academy's Academic Performance
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It is not the strongest of the species that
survive, nor the most intelligent but the one
most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin
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2006 Stanford 10 Reading At/Above 50th NR
Percentile
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2006 Stanford 10 Math At/Above 50th Nat PR
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Passing MN Basic Skills Tests- Graduation
Requirement
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2006 MN Comprehensive Assessment - of Students
Proficient
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What We Know!

• Small Learning Communities
• Parent Engagement
• High Expectations for All Students
• Alignment of Needs Programs
• Relationship Building
• Math Reading Shared Responsibility
• Differentiation
• Administration -Instructional Leader
• Consistency Management
• Flexibility

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Energy / Exposure / Return
Retention Individualized Support Intensive
Academic Monitoring Team Meetings Child
Study Reading Math Assessment Consistency
Management Competent Talented Staff Parent
Engagement School Covenant Mission / Vision
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Support for the Crucial Elements
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Expectations

• It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to
  accept anything but the best, you very often get
  it.

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Sci-Math Program

• Science Math Teacher Collaboration
• Extended Math Time Daily (90 min.)
• Identified Students
• Forfeit Elective Classes
• Skills Based
• Reading Strategy Success Applied
• 10 Increased Achievement 1st Yr.
  Implemented

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Parent Engagement

• Covenant
• Progress Reports Every 4 Weeks
• On Line Progress Reporting (24/7)
• Parent Education Academic Sessions
• Team Meetings
• Enrichment Program
• Agenda Signing
• Advanced Homework Sheets
• Volunteer Hours

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Reading

• All School Responsibility/Cross Curricular
  Exposure
• Non-Fiction Emphasis / High Interest Reading
  Materials
• D.E.A.R. Weekly
• Semester Reading Classes (Love of Literature)
  Grades 6 7
• 35 Required Readings (6-8)
• Basic Skills Reading Class
• DRP Assessment Annually
• Identified Students
  
• Enrichment Program
• 90 Min. of Reading Daily

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Highly Effective Teachers/Teaching

• Creative Talented
• Advanced Degree Program
• Understand What They Need to Do
• Collaboration/Team Approach
• Consistency Management
• Building of Relationships
• Accessible
• Frequent Communicators
• Annual Performance Goals

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All School

• Mission / Philosophy Compatibility
• Contribution to the Whole
• Consistency with
• Room Postings
• Grading
• Late Work
• Team Meetings
• Child Study
• Progress Reporting
• Reflection
• Annual Goal Setting
• Annual Staff Retreat

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Questions To Consider?

• Are there high expectations of ALL students?
• Do the needs of students drive your programs,
  curriculum and instruction?
• Do teachers have an understanding of what is
  required and what they need to do?
• Are all stakeholders in line with the schools
  mission and making contributions?

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Questions Continued

• Are teachers mastering differentiation?
• Is administration actively engaged?
• Are parents spectators or participants in their
  childs educational journey?
• Is time spent on evaluating what is working and
  what is not?
• Are textbooks and resources updated, supplemented
  and replaced in a timely manner?

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What Can Not Be Ignored

• High Expectations for all Stakeholders
• Diligence and Purposefulness
• Student Needs should drive Decision Making
• Power of Relationships
• Consistency Management
• Staff understanding contribution to whole
• Accountability for all (parents, staff, and
  students)
• Parent Engagement
• Supportive Administration
  
• Energy / Exposure / Return
• Reflection Adjustment

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When students who have been unsuccessful and
have succeeded are asked how they made the
journey, the answer nine times out of ten has to
do with a relationship- a teacher, counselor, or
coach who made a suggestion or took an interest
in them as individuals.
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Crucial Elements

• High Expectations Accountability
• Student Needs Addressed
• Active Parent Involvement
• All School Reading
• Highly Effective Teachers Instruction