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Title: Whittier STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT and ISAT Preparation Programs


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Whittier STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT and ISAT Preparation
Programs
  • A snapshot of the tools used to improve
    academics, social skills, and self-esteem

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The Majority of Students at Whittier Meet or
Exceed because
  • All classrooms differentiate instruction
  • All classrooms incorporate enrichment programming
  • Gifted and Talented Resource Programs GTD
  • Whittier is Enriched WISE
  • Green Initiative and Green Leaf Gardens
  • Wildcat Council

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Ongoing Search for Best Practice
  • Research educational literature at local level
    and beyond
  • School visits within district and beyond district
    to observe successful programs, learn from
    schools with similar needs
  • Staff development through conferences, Institute
    Days, and on site training

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Resources for Additional Programs
  • Targeted Title I dollars contribute to staff,
    materials and training
  • PTO support for snacks, tutoring, scholarships
  • Township Grants fund proposals-Homework Helper,
    ACES (Creating Confident Children for grades 3-5)
  • District funds to develop ACES program for K-2
    students (Launching Literacy)
  • District funds to add full-time Student Support
    Specialist

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What is AYP?
  • A measure of Adequate Yearly Progress for each
    group of students within the framework of NCLB
  • AYP determined For all students tested as well
    as for subgroups defined by ethnicity, income,
    and special education. Subgroups must be
    composed of 45 or more students at each building
    in the grades tested to count for AYP (
    Confidence Interval due to group )
  • Percentage of students that must make AYP is
    increasing regularly beginning in 2003 and
    reaching 100 during 2014

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ISAT data from 2007
  • Whittier met AYP, 55 of students
    meeting/exceeding standards

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2009
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2009 ISAT Data
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2008-2009 ISAT Data
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2008-2009 ISAT Data
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Types of Programs
  • After School and Lunch Time Programs
  • Programs During School Hours
  • Online Assessment and Tutoring
  • Programs for Parents

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After School and Lunch Time Programs
  • ACES is an after school program for grades 3, 4,
    and 5, using GPS Reading
  • ACES for K, 1, and 2 students modeled after a
    successful programs in Ann Arbor, MI, an MSAN
    district
  • WISE
  • Homework Helper
  • Individual and Small Group Tutoring

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Classroom Programs
  • Title I Reading Programs, using SPIRE and Read
    Naturally
  • Double Dose Classes-students attend reading with
    homeroom teacher and Title I/LAS
  • Keep On Reading moved from Double Dose to
    classroom
  • The Daily Five to offer individual
    differentiation in several 3-5 classrooms

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Staff Development
  • 95 Group-training of all teachers of Reading to
    share expertise typically known by LAS and Title
    I staff with all teachers in areas of phonemic
    awareness, phonetics and fluency
  • West 40 training on ISAT Reading and Writing
    techniques
  • 6 plus 1 Writing Traits
  • RtI training through Institute Days, building
    level

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Building Wide Initiatives
  • Culture of Kindness-developing common language
    and purpose
  • STAND Bullying Prevention-Students Taking Actions
    in New Directions
  • PBIS-Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
    through common expectations, consequences and
    celebrations
  • Test Taking Motivational incentives to reduce
    test anxiety

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Online Assessment and Tutoring
  • Study Island for use at home, and during school
  • Pearson PASeries Assessment predicts success on
    ISAT, identifies areas of need for further
    instruction

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Programs for Families
  • The ISAT Walk - a presentation for families in
    January
  • SIT Family Nights at least monthly throughout
    the school year
  • Title I Family Nights at least twice each year

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Parents as Partners
  • School Improvement Team-SIT
  • PTO
  • Green Committee
  • Working with children at home Read, do homework,
    practice with Study Island
  • Volunteer in the library or help with Study
    Island
  • Volunteer in classrooms read with students, help
    students stay organized, help create teaching
    materials, train to become fluency coaches

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For more information go to
  • http//www.op97.org/whittier/enrichment

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Supplemental Pages
  • Program Details

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WISE 2007-present
  • Wise is an after school enrichment program
  • Designed to improve students' background
    knowledge
  • Classes are fee based, though each session
    scholarships are offered

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Homework Helper
  • After school Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and
    Friday
  • Additional help with homework
  • Provides safe after school alternative
  • OP Township and the Whittier PTO help fund the
    program 
  • Paid Staff and community volunteers
  • Students finish their homework, then they read or
    volunteers read to them

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Individual and Small Group Tutoring
  • Teachers provide additional tutoring before
    school, at lunch, or after school
  • On a volunteer basis
  • Wide variety of programs and resources

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ACES 2006-present
  • All Children Experiencing Success
  • Practice with skills and skills review
  • Practice test taking strategies
  • Third through fifth grades
  • Small group setting
  • Two to three times weekly
  • Reading, writing, and math
  • Friendly and fun, includes a snack
  • Helps students to develop confidence
  • Used ISAT Coach materials

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Aces After School Program for 2009
  • Launching Literacy for Kindergarten-Second Grade
  • Placement is based on classroom and DIBELS
    assessments
  • Creating Confident Children in the Classroom for
    our  3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students 
  • Placement is based on Lexile scores
  • Using GPS Reading materials

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Mentoring
  • Pairs teachers from throughout the building with
    students
  • For students that are in need of academic and
    social guidance
  • Mentors meet with students during lunch or after
    school

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Title I Reading Programs
  • Designed to improve the academic performance of
    at risk students
  • Teachers meet with small groups of students
  • Title I teachers provide support for teachers in
    the classroom
  • This year using S.P.I.R.E and Read Naturally, two
    research-supported programs for phonemic and
    phonetic skills, and for reading fluency

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SPIRE
  • Specialized Program Individualizing Reading
    Excellence
  • Multisensory approach
  • Direct, systematic and sequential
  • Pre-k through 8th grade

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Read Naturally
  • Focused on improving reading fluency
  • Teacher modeling, repeated reading and progress
    monitoring
  • Components of Read Naturally Word Warm-ups and
    GATE

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Double Dose Classes 2008-2009
  • Used to support to students who struggled in
    areas of reading and math
  • Students were pulled by Title I teachers for a
    second dose of reading and math instruction
  • Keep on Reading and Measuring Up Success

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The Daily Five
  • Highly structured system for organizing and
    delivering reading instruction
  • Five choices that foster enthusiasm for reading
  • Read to themselves
  • Read to a friend
  • Work on writing
  • Word study
  • Listen to reading

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Staff Development for ISAT Improvement
  • Teachers participated in staff development
    programs
  • Inservices presented by participants passed
    knowledge to teachers at Whittier
  • Seminars on writing for extended response reading
    questions and on the writing portion of the ISAT
    test

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RtI
  • Response to Intervention is used to identify
    students with specialized academic and behavioral
    needs
  • Quickly implement interventions
  • Works through close observation and frequent
    assessment of students
  • Training during 2009-10 for all teachers of
    reading to implement targeted instruction based
    on student needs

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Three Tiers of RtI
  • High quality classroom instruction, group
    intervention, and screening, meeting the needs of
    80 of the students
  • Targeted interventions appropriate for students
    with higher needs, 15
  • Intensive interventions and comprehensive
    evaluation for top 5

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STAND, PBIS, and the Culture of Kindness
  • Implemented in an effort to foster a caring,
    supportive, and safe school environment
  • STAND - Bullying prevention initiative (Students
    Taking Action in New Directions)
  • PBIS - tiered assessment and tracking of behavior
    for administering interventions
  • Culture of Kindness - developing a common
    language and statement of purpose in school
    population

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Student Motivation
  • Parade of test recipients
  • Posters in support of test takers
  • Students used a rubric to measure their
    motivations and performance
  • Ice cream social as culminating activity

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Study Island
  • On-line ISAT and skills practice program
  • Second grade through fifth grade are enrolled
  • Use Study Island at home, too

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Peason P.A. Series
  • Online testing program helps teachers to gather
    data
  • Three to five times a year in each area, Reading
    and Math
  • Additional diagnostic program is also available

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The ISAT Walk - a presentation for families
  • A part of an SIT Family nights in 2008-present
  • Parents learned about testing procedures and the
    kind of data that is collected
  • Parents and children answered example questions
    from the ISAT tests that had been printed on
    posters

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Title I Family Nights
  • First half informational gathering
  • Second half a reading event for families with
    storytelling and family reading

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SIT Family Nights
  • Parents, teachers, and students gather for dinner
    and conversation
  • Presentations and discussions on a variety of
    topics
  • Guest speakers are sometimes invited
  • Some nights are themed
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