Windy Ridge K8 School

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Windy Ridge K-8 School

• Where We Are Always Soaring
• To New Heights

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• OCPS Mission Statement
• Each Student will acquire the skills, attitudes
  and knowledge necessary to reach full potential.
• To Lead our Students to success with the support
  and involvement of families and the community.

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OCPS DISTRICT GOALS

• Intense Focus on Student Achievement
• High Performing and Dedicated Team
• Safe Learning Environment
• Efficient Operations
• Sustained Community Engagement

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Guidelines for Success
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

• L.E.A.R.N. K.A.R.E.
• Six Pillars of Character
• Spotlight on Staff

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LEARN KARE

• Listen attentively
• Eagerly participate
• Act with safety in mind
• Respectful choices
• Nice manners
• Keep A Respectful Environment
• Learn Kare Success

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School Report Card 2005-2006
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RIGOROUS CURRICULUM

• High Expectations K-8, ESE
• Goal Setting (High Flyers), Grade Level Criteria
• Advanced classes in math, language arts, science,
  Spanish
• Partnership with high school math, foreign
  language
• Arts Curriculum affiliation with county
  Performing Arts magnet

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Staff Development

• NSDC Standards
• Continuous Improvement Model
• Professional Learning Communities
• Change Process Who Moved My Cheese? (Johnson)
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
• High Performing and Dedicated Team

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Year Long Staff Development Themes

• Multi-Age Classrooms, Cooperative Learning,
  Portfolios
• Effective Schools
• Professional Learning Communities
• Who Moved My Cheese
• CaseNex (technology integration)
• IPDP, Action Research, CWT
• Classroom Instruction That Works

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Effective School Correlates

• Safe and orderly environment
• Climate of high expectation for success
• Clear and focused mission
• Instructional Leadership
• Frequent monitoring of student progress
• Opportunity to learn and student time on task
• Good home-school relations
• Larry Lezotte
• Back

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Professional Learning Communities

• Shared mission vision and values
• Collective inquiry
• Collaborative teams
• Action orientation and experimentation
• Continuous improvement
• Results orientation
• DuFour
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Lessons from MSC 2006

• Specialists in math and science
• Creating more pressure for change than resistance
  to change
• Need more rigor for reading and more relevance
  for math
• What are the practices for those who are hardest
  to serve?
• Impact of technological advances
• Global outlook

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The Handwriting on the Wall

• Having Cheese makes you happy.
• What would you do if you werent afraid?
• When you stop being afraid, you feel good!
• The sooner you let go of old cheese, the sooner
  you find new cheese!
• Imagining your new cheese helps you find it!
• Smell the cheese often so you know when it is
  getting old.
• Move to the new cheese and enjoy it!

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Professional DevelopmentContinuous Improvement

• New Teacher Induction
• Experts In Residence
• Data Driven Team Meetings
• Curriculum Planning Days
• Content Area Committees

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Stephen Coveys 7 Habits

• Be proactive (data driven, goal oriented)
• Begin With the End in Mind (expectations)
• Put First Things First (prioritize)
• Think Win-Win (teamwork, collaboration)
• Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
  (communication)
• Synergize (problem-solving focus)
• Sharpen the Saw (oxygen mask)

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Staff Development

• Investigation of the Effectiveness of Reading
  Instruction on Elementary Students with
  Significant Cognitive Disabilities.
• Assistive Technology Communication Devices
• Differentiated Instruction, Small Group, Centers,
  Integration
• Rigor/Relevance, Action Research

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Services for ESEPreK-5

• Educable Mentally Handicapped (7)
• Trainable Mentally Handicapped (34)
• Profoundly Mentally Handicapped (7)
• Language Impaired (16)
• Emotionally Handicapped (6)

• Severely Emotionally Disturbed (2)
• Specific Learning Disabilities (38)
• Autistic (2)
• Gifted (64)
• Orthopedically Impaired (17)
• Speech Impaired (14)

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Services for ESE6-8

• Language Impaired (1)
• Visually Impaired (1)
• Gifted (61)
• Specific Learning Disability (24)
• Other Health Impaired (2)

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ESE Synergy

• Motivation, Encouragement
• Individualized, Small group
• Emphasis on communication
• Assistive technology, sign language, picture
  schedules, Life Skills Lab
• Collaboration, Parent Involvement
• Success stories

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ESE Continuous Improvement

• School Culture Embrace entire process of
  inclusion
• Inclusion Model LD, other exceptionalities
• Reverse Inclusion
• Collaboration planning delivery
• Staff training
• Paraprofessional training
• Materials and equipment

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ESE Support Personnel

• Administration
• Staffing Coordinator
• Behavior Specialist
• District Social Worker
• District School Psychologist
• Therapists, OT, PT, Speech

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Sustained Community Engagement

• Website, newsletters, emails, Connect Ed.
• Coffee with Concepcion
• Curriculum Chats by level or area
• PTA General Meetings
• Family Events/Outreach Events
• P.I.E. Volunteer Program
• School Advisory Council School Improvement Plan
• Healthy School Team

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• Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
• John Maxwell
• There are no problems we cannot solve together,
  and very few that we can solve by ourselves
• Lyndon Johnson
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
  committed citizens can change the world indeed,
  its the only thing that ever has.
• Margaret Mead

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Factors Affecting Success

• K-8 Model
• Parent Involvement
• Socio-economic
• High Expectations
• Strong, dedicated team
• Problem-solving, continuous improvement climate