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Otis School Plan 2003/04

Otis Elementary School was a K-5 school with an enrollment of 291 in 2003/04. To review Otis' state Academic Performance Index scores since 2000 click here. Here is the latest STAR data available from the state of California for Otis.

Disclaimer: Single School Plan were hand typed and transcribed from source documents. Please pardon the typos as the webmaster is a poor typist. While an effort was made to spell acronyms, here is a reference guide for those acronyms.

Single School Plan Components

Fall 2003

  1. What are the major strategies in your plan?
    • Full implementation of the Houghton Mifflin reading program.
    • Use of non-fiction text for teaching comprehension skills.
    • Classroom implementation of differentiated instruction - ELL and GATE.

  2. What are your inquiry questions?
  3. Student Achievement Questions

      K-2

    • Is there a relationship between the students who respond to the Houghton Mifflin reading comprehension prompts in class, and their performance on formal assessments (HMR)? (Do students who answer more frequently get higher scores?)
    • 3-5

    • Does ELL student performance improve on math "word" and logic problems with ELD specific "preview" of lesson?

    Teacher Practice Questions

      K-2

    • What strategies in Houghton Mifflin Writers' WOrkshop support student success? What additional supports need to be explored?
    • 3-5

    • Does organizing instruction around "target" pages increase consistency of teachers' instructional pacing? What strategies do teachers use to address skills gaps of target students?

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Last modified: May 13, 2004

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