Amelia Earhart Single School Plan 2006/07

Amelia Earhart Elementary School was a K-5 school with an enrollment of 546 in 2006/07. To review Amelia Earhart's state Academic Performance Index scores since 2000 click here.

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Single School Plan Components

What Did You Learn from 2005/06 Cycle of Inquiry?

1. Looking at your data what general trends do you see? What does the data tell us about how the focus group did? How much progress did they make? How does this compare to growth of other subgroups? Is the student achievement gap closing?

Looking at our inquiry cycle data, it is evident that all children are making progress with focused instruction, clear feed back and targeted re-teaching. The Progress of the focal group varied by grade level, yet holistically the achievement gap is narrowing in all areas except math.

2. What evidence/data do you have regarding the level of implementation of the teacher/instructional practice and/or schoolwide practice that you planned in your last Cycle of Inquiry? Include information about what was not implemented as well as what was implemented.

At Earhart School there is consistent implementation of the COI. Grade level discussions focus on the work and support the implementation and collection of data.

3. What evidence do you have that your focus on these students has positively impacted their learning?

Student work samples, classroom assessments and the STAR assessment show that students are learning and improving their level of proficiency.

4. Is there anything else you learned in examining your data that will inform your revised problem statement?

We need to carefully monitor all subgroups to keep a clear focus on our achievement gap given our site demographics.

Grade level data review and reflection was captured here.

Fall 2006

1. What are your problem statements?

Problem Statements

Student Achievement Problems

• ELL students, RS and low SES students are target group that are not proficient in ELA.
• There is an achievement gap between Asian and non-Asian students in math. (These are the two major subgroups at the school.)
• On the fourth grade writing assessment, 53% of the students scored below proficient, with 48% scoring a 4 on the rubric
• The implementation of the HMR reading adoption at grades K-5 requires new instructional strategies and the expectation that all students receive intervention within the classroom.

Teacher Practice Problems

• There is a need for targeted and systematic vocabulary instruction implemented daily in the classroom will support target students in increasing level of proficiency in ELA.
• Teachers need to examine the strategies that are used by Asian students and their families for high achievement in math, integrate the strategies into their classroom delivery measuring frequency.
• Teachers have implemented specific writing strategies by grade level and for five years. The student achievement has increased during four of the five years based on the STAR writing sample. Using the Step Up to Writing program, strategies need to be further refined at each grade level and implemented across each grade level with consistency.
• The implementation of the HMR reading series requires that teachers systematically teach all elements of the program to provide the strong foundation in phonemic awareness, phonics and comprehension skills. Organization of the UA is a challenge.
2. What are your inquiry questions?
• If teachers systematically use grade level specific vocabulary instructional strategies focused on tier two words, then will the target group student have more students reaching proficiency in ELA?
• If teachers use grade level specific cycles of inquiry in math, driven by data analysis, then will the achievement gap between the Asian students and other subgroups narrow?
• If teachers teach grade level specific strategies from Step Up to Writing and other sources based on specific writing genre and the Standards, and collect continuous data based on classroom work samples, then will student writing be more commensurate with reading skills?
• If teachers implement the HMR reading series with fidelity to the program, providing intensive and strategic student support and intervention at grade one and two, will 95% of the students meet grade level standards?
3. What are your measurable goals?

Student Achievement Goals

• Each COI includes a specific measure of student achievement which is graphed and charted to measure student growth.

Teacher Practice Goals

• Teacher collaboration and reflection on student work samples is indicative of systematic teacher practice. A critical piece of examining student work is the examination of specific teacher practice and the frequency of that practice that elicited the student work sample.
4. What are your major strategies?
• At K-5 focus on practical modeling of vocabulary using Isabel Beck’s work based strategies. Develop “academic” language through checks for understanding and systematic vocabulary instruction and development.
• At K-1: focus on number concept development and number facts.
• At 2-3: Focus on number facts and math vocabulary..
• At 4: focus on multiplication facts
• At 5: Focus on complex and multi-step problem solving.
• At K: focus on writing and forming letters
• At 1: focus on nar-rative writing to an age-appropriate prompt
• At 2: focus on construction of the paragraph. At 3: focus on narratives, summaries and appropriate detailing
• At 4-5: focus on Response to Literature, personal narrative and summary

Earhart 2005/06 Single School Plan

Earhart 2004/25 Single School Plan

Earhart 2003/04 Single School Plan

3 Year District API Base Data

Definitions

School Mobility Percent - Represents the percentage of students attending the school for the first time.

Parent Education Average - The average of all responses where "1" represents "Not a high school graduate", "2" represents "High School Graduate", "3" represents "Some College", "4" represents "College Graduate" and "5" represents "Graduate School".

School Classification Index - A mathematically computed index using other non academic API components to create indicator of similar demographics and school environment to be used for similar school rankings.

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