golden bell slide show
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Slide Show for Golden Bell Award Tabletop--San Diego, December 6, 2008TRANSCRIPT
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SchoolwideWritingProgram
2008 Golden Bell Award
Segerstrom High School
Santa Ana Unified School District
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Add a montage of students and campus (demographics)
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Reflection&
modification
Analysis of Student
Work
Assessment
Student Practice
Training&
retraining
Strategic Plan – Recursive process guided by the four standards-based CAHSEE writing types: expository,
persuasive, narrative, and response
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Reflection&
modification
Analysis of Student
Work
Assessment
Student Practice
Training&
retraining
Strategic Plan – Recursive process guided by the four standards-based CAHSEE writing types: expository,
persuasive, narrative, and response
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Elements of aNarrative Essay
• Uses the first or third person point of view
• Uses concrete, sensory details (“Show not tell”)
• May include dialogue• May use informal language
if appropriate• Creates a controlling
impression
Example of
training
PowerPoint
slide
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Interrelation of writing domains
Descriptive Narrative
Reflective
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Reflection&
modification
Analysis of Student
Work
Assessment
Student Practice
Training & retraining
Strategic Plan – Recursive process guided by the four standards-based CAHSEE writing types: expository,
persuasive, narrative, and response
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Adding pictures of student writing on walls of classrooms
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Reflection&
modification
Analysis of Student
Work
Assessment
Student Practice
Training & retraining
Strategic Plan – Recursive process guided by the four standards-based CAHSEE writing types: expository,
persuasive, narrative, and response
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Students write 4 times a
year to a schoolwide
prompt
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Reflection&
modification
Analysis of Student
Work
Assessment
Student Practice
Training & retraining
Strategic Plan – Recursive process guided by the four standards-based CAHSEE writing types: expository,
persuasive, narrative, and response
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Room prepared
before staff congregates to grade
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Staff are normed before grading begins
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English teachers act
as table leaders during
norming
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All staff– teachers,
counselors, and
administrators grade
together
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Evaluation of student work
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Elective teachers (art,
foreign language)
grade
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Librarian, Special Education
Resource teacher and Math
teacher work together
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Math teachers discuss student
work and application to
their classroom
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Even Physical Education
teachers come to the table
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As questions arise,
collaboration is important
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Collaboration (here—
English and Science) is
key
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It takes about 1 ½ hours to evaluation about 2500 essays with
about 90 graders
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Reflection&
modificationAnalysis of
Student Work
Assessment
Student Practice
Training & retraining
Strategic Plan – Recursive process guided by the four standards-based CAHSEE writing types: expository,
persuasive, narrative, and response
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2008-2009 Timeline
Domain Time of Focus/Instruction
Narrative Reflective September-October
Persuasive November-December
Response to Reading
January-February
Expository March-May
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Dates of Assessment
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Results Matter:
First-time CAHSEE-ELA pass rates
7384
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94
68
83
48
94
7985
54
97
2006 2007 2008
California Orange County Santa Ana Unified Segerstrom