The New High School @ Audenried…

…Where High Performance is Expected and Achieved

What is a 90/90/90 School?

• 90% of school students are eligible for free or reduced lunches.

• 90% of students are ethnic minorities.• 90% of students achieved high

academic standards according to high stakes testing standards.

A school where….

What Do YOU Think?

If you walked into a 90/90/90 school what would you expect to see?

What are teachers doing?What are students doing?What is leadership doing?

(List ALL answers that come to mind)

What makes a 90/90/90 school successful?

A strong focus on student achievement with an intense focus on student data. Data is visible in many places and an emphasis is placed on improvement

Clear curriculum choices Frequent assessment of student progress

& multiple opportunities for improvement An emphasis on non-fiction writing in ALL

subject areas Collaborative scoring of student work,

with explicit guidelines on what is considered proficient

What the research says…

• High correlation between student achievement and classroom strategies.

• There is no “silver bullet” or program fix.• The key to success is collaboration.• Teacher quality & effective leadership are the key to

student success.• Student demographics are not a dominant factor in

student success.

1.Time is devoted to teacher collaboration that focuses on student student work & proficiency.

2.Teachers provide significantly more frequent feedback than a typical report card.

3.Schools made dramatic changes in their schedules to meet the needs of students.

9 Teacher & Leadership Goals For High Student Achievement

4. Teachers engage in action research & mid-course corrections.

5. Principals made decisive moves in teacher assignments.

6. Schools included an intensive focus on student data from multiple sources, and teachers compared students to themselves rather other groups of students.

7. Consistent use of common assessments (as opposed to tests).

8. Schools employ the resources of EVERY adult in the school (NTA’s, Security, lunchroom etc.) and provide PD around student achievement & discipline.

9. Cross-disciplinary curriculum is stressed and teaching subjects in isolation is usually down played.

Now that we know the basic elements of high achieving schools, how do we create it here?

The next steps are up to all of us.

As We Build The Audenried Plan for Student Success Remember…

We are the experts. They put faith in us to help them to be successful.