ISSP Grant Livingston Central High School

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ISSP GrantLivingston Central
High School

• Elisha Harp- Special Education
• Belinda Wright - Mathematics

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Grant Plan Proposal

• Create a professional collection in the library
  for teachers and staff.
• Model teaching strategies for faculty in monthly
  faculty meetings.

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Professional Collection

• Items we have collected for our professional
  library include
• Notebook of teaching and learning strategies
  (Learning Styles Inventory, Compare/contrast,
  graphic organizers, etc.).
• Professional book collection (Professional
  Learning Communities, Decoding Generational
  Differences, Champs, S.M.A.R.T, I Read It But I
  Dont Get It, RTI, The ABCs of CBM, etc.)

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Teaching Learning Strategies

• Choral Response cards
• Graphic Organizers
• Entrance/Exit Slips
• Code Vocabulary
• Differentiating Instruction

• Compare/Contrast
• Frayer Model
• Boggle Game
• I Have/Who Has Game
• Cooperative Learning Groups

• The following is the list of strategies we
  modeled in our faculty meetings.

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Strategy Implementation Feedback Forms

• Each teacher once a week was to fill out a
  strategy implementation feedback form.
• They were to name the strategy used.
• They also had to circle whether they thought it
  was highly effective,
  effective or not effective.
• They could also leave any comments.

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Strategy Implementation Feedback Forms

• The following were some comments left on the
  feedback forms.
• Grades improved, students participated
• Response Cards- always improves test grades
• Graphic organizers- highly effective
• Graphic organizers- students liked the neatness
  of their notes

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Universal Screeners

• GMADE and GRADE (just purchased are starting to
  use)
• Explore, Plan (given to 9th and 10th grade), ACT

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Purchasing through the grant

• Destination Math
• Algebra to go

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Destination Math

• This is a digital age and some students feel more
  comfortable in front of a computer.
• Destination Math will transform math into a
  highly engaging learning environment.

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Algebra to go

• Covers key and often complex math topics in a way
  thats easily understandable.
• It will provide a go to algebra support for
  students in the classroom.
• Its detailed explanations, easy to follow charts
  and graphs, and clear, numerous examples to help
  students understand and retain algebraic concepts.

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Some big underlying advantages of participation
in the grant.

• We purchased a universal screener that is used
  throughout the district.
• Monthly collaboration between all schools in the
  district.
• Researched based strategies being used.
• A creation of tiered interventions.