School Report Night

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• School Report Night
• Narragansett Elementary School
• November 7, 2001

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Narragansett Elementary School

• Janice DeFrances, Principal
• Marie Kojian, Interim Vice- Principal
• Susan Naysnerski, Aspiring Principal

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School Report Night Agenda

• Brief History
• How weve been judged
• Test Results
• School Improvement Team
• Composition
• Plan
• Initiatives 2000-2001
• Initiatives 2001-2002
• Instruction/Curriculum

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A Brief History...

• 1996 - School reform plan adopted calling for
  high standards, meaningful assessment and
  accountability

• 1997 - Article 31 demanded improvement in
  student achievement

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A Brief History

• All Kids included in state assessments (2001)

• RIs core belief
• All students are entitled to strive toward high
  standards and will participate in all testing

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How Are We Judged?
Performance Standards Curriculum Alignment
with standards State Test results Achievement
of SIT Strategies
Also Classroom Assessments Portfolio
Work Teacher Observation
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What are Standards?

• The New Standards performance standards indicate
  the level of performance students should
  demonstrate how good is good enough

• These standards have been benchmarked to the
  expectations of those countries with the highest
  student performance in the world

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What do standards look like in the classroom?

• Students know what is expected of them

• Emphasis on multiple solutions

• Performance-based assessment projects, oral
  presentations, essays, experiments, portfolios,
  etc.

• Real-life tasks and connections to personal
  experience

• Rubrics used often to evaluate student work

• Group work, interaction with peers

• Students required to communicate and defend
  their solutions and thinking

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New Standards Reference Exams - Grade 4
NES Assessments Grade 3 Writing Assessment

• New Standards - a performance assessment system
  tied to the standards
• Mathematics and English language arts
• RI students take New Standards assessments in
  grades 4, 8, and 10

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Grade 3RI Writing Assessment

• Assesses ability to communicate effectively
  through writing in standard English in a way that
  models process writing
• RI students take RI Writing Assessment in grades
  3, 7, and 11

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Our Results
Language Arts Basic Understanding Analysis/Inter
pretation
Writing
Effectiveness Conventions
Mathematics Skills Concepts Problem-Solving
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New Standards Results Reading

• of students meeting standards (Gr. 4)

Basic Und. Analysis/Int
All students will demonstrate continuous
improvement
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New Standards Results Writing

• of students meeting standard (Gr. 4)

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New Standards Results Mathematics Skills

• of students meeting standard (Gr. 4)

Rolling Averages Skills Concept Problem Solving
98-2000 74 41 30

99-2001 74 46 30

Change 0 5 0

3-yr Target 80 50 50
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RI Health Education Assessment

• Based on the RI Health Education standards found
  in the RI Health Education Framework
• Requires students to demonstrate understanding of
  health concepts and application of health skills
• RI students take RI Health Education Assessment
  in grades 5 and 9

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Our School Improvement Plan
Goals for increased student achievement

• Administrators
• Teachers
• Parents
• Community members

SELECTION
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Process Used to Create SIP

• Review
• Identify and prioritize
• Develop a School Improvement Plan
• Organize Action Teams
• Implement the Action Plan
• Evaluate progress

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School Improvement Plan consists of

• Objectives to be achieved by June 2003
• 8 strategies that adults will utilize to insure
  that students achieve the objectives
• Action steps for the achievement of each strategy

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Objectives

• By June 2003, the percentage of 4th graders
  meeting or exceeding the standards in mathematics
  will increase to the following amounts
• Math problem-solving from 38 to 50
• Math concepts from 39 to 50
• Math skills from 74 to 80

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• By June 2003, all students will show improvement
  in writing skills using grade level performance
  assessment.

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• Through June 2003, all students will continue to
  demonstrate improvement toward proficiency in
  reading at grade 4 as demonstrated by the New
  Standards Performance Assessment.

• By June 2003, all students will participate in a
  service project each year, which will demonstrate
  caring, compassion, and respect.

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Strategy 1

• 1. Create a partnership with families and the
  community and provide opportunities for parents
  to enhance their skills in supporting the
  achievement of their children in the areas of
  health, physical education, art, music,
  technology, social, emotional and academic growth
  and continue and connect the learning begun at
  school.

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Strategy 2

• 2. Explore ways to provide enrichment
  opportunities to all students

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Strategy 3

• 3. Revise and update our curriculum to integrate
  technology and to align with the standards and
  provide continuity with and across grade levels
  and establish benchmarks and rubrics in all areas.

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Strategy 4

• 4. Provide teachers with the opportunity to
  develop and share alternative instructional
  strategies, including the use of technology, to
  meet the needs of and to challenge all learners.

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Strategy 5

• 5. Maximize opportunities for learning by taking
  steps to implement the following programs
• Reduction in class size K-4 beginning with
  Kindergarten
• Restructuring of physical space
• All-day Kindergarten

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Strategy 6

• 6. Promote awareness of respect for each other
  and all aspects of diversity in our learning
  community

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Strategy 7

• 7. Create smaller, more personalized learning
  communities within our school in order to enhance
  communication, learning, and safety.

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Strategy 8

• 8. Create opportunities for teachers to
  collaboratively examine student work in
  relationship to the standards and curriculum.

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Initiatives for 2000-2001
Action Plan 2 - Enrichment Action Plan 3 -
Curriculum (LA) Action Plan 4 - Alterrnative
Instructional Strategies Action Plan 5 - Early
Childhood Action Plan 7 - Crisis Plan (Smaller
Learning Commuinities) Action Plan 8 - Student
Work
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Initiatives for 2001-2002
Action Plan 2 4 - Enrichment and Alternative
Instrucitonal Strategies COMBINED Action Plan 3
- LA Curriculum Continuing Math will
begin Action Plan 7 - Smaller Learning
Communities Action Plan 8 - Student Work
Continuing Action Plan 1 - Create a Partnership
w/Families Action Plan 6 - Respect
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How parents can helpkey research findings

• Make education the 1 priority in your home
• Set high standards for work quality and behavior
• Be sure that your child is punctual and attends
  school regularly

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How parents can helpkey research findings

• Read together
• Use TV wisely

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How parents can helpkey research findings

• Establish a daily family routine
• Schedule daily homework times
• Monitor, but dont do homework
• Monitor out-of-school activities

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How parents can helpkey research findings

• Talk with your children
• Get to know friends, discuss activities
• Listen acknowledge their concerns and worries

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How parents can helpkey research findings

• Communicate positive behaviors, values, and
  character traits
• Expect achievement and offer praise

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How parents can helpkey research findings

• Require challenging coursework for middle and
  high school students
• Encourage students to enroll in a challenging
  sequence of courses in preparation for college
  and career
• Keep in touch with the school
• Dont wait for the school to tell you how your
  child is doing visit the school, talk to
  teachers
• Check that children are assigned meaningful
  homework in appropriate amounts and are
  challenged to do their best

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How parents can helpkey research findings

• Studies of individual families show that what
  the family does is more important to student
  success than family income or education. This is
  true whether the family is rich or poor, whether
  the parents finished high school or not, or
  whether the child is in preschool or in the upper
  grades.

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Join NES as partners in raising the bar and
increasing student achievement!