Warrior Run School DistrictEducational GoalsCollaboration as Professional Learning Communities in grade level teams, subject area teams, and curriculum departments across grade levels will provide ALL students with similar, high quality instruction.Research Based Instructional Strategies and Grading Practices will be implemented with consistency on a daily basis in the classroom.Assessment data will direct daily classroom instruction as well as the interventions for scaffolding and/or acceleration in order to assist ALL students to achieve at levels on or above grade level.

Warrior Run School DistrictEducational GoalsDaily instruction will be differentiated (content, process, products) to meet the various needs and learning styles of all students.Creativity, problem solving, technological applications, and authentic assessments will be incorporated into planned instruction to develop Twenty-First Century Skills in our students.The district will strive to meet all proficiency rates established by the No Child Left Behind Law through straight achievement or by growth measures.

Warrior Run School DistrictEducational Goal # 1Collaboration as Professional Learning Communities in grade level teams, subject area teams, and curriculum departments across grade levels will provide ALL students with similar, high quality instruction.

Summer CollaborationDepartment Head TrainingMOUCurriculum WorkPSWBFull Day K PlanningNew Teacher Orientation

Warrior Run School DistrictEducational Goal #6 The district will strive to meet all proficiency rates established by the No Child Left Behind Law through straight achievement or by growth measures.

Meeting Annual Yearly ProgressPerformance Targets

3 Year Look at our Data: MATH 56 target 67 target

GRADE200920102011396.691.892.8488.788.985.6587.481.382.8677.88387.0782.877.685.287584.778.11149.261.666.1Annual Average79.681.282.5

3 Year Look at our Data: READING 63 target 72 target

GRADE200920102011387.572.379.2470.873.259.8569.458.857.8656.363.369.4767.671.585.2890.186.583.61171.271.374.8Annual Average717173

3 Year Look at our Data: WRITING

GRADE200920102011552.36676.2880.989.390.61188.68085.6Annual Average73.978.484.1

3 Year Look at our Data: SCIENCE

GRADE20092010201149489.28786572.376115546.437.1Annual Average71.369.366.7

IU Rankings: 3rd & 4th Grade Reading

IU Rankings: 5th and 6th Grade Reading

IU Rankings: 7th and 8th Grade Reading

IU Rankings: 11th Grade Reading

IU Rankings: 3rd & 4th Grade Math

IU Rankings: 5th & 6th Grade Math

IU Rankings: 7th & 8th Grade Math

IU Rankings: 11th Grade Math

Cohort Comparison: This years 11th Grade Class

Cohort Comparison: This years 8th Grade Class

PSSA Results by Building

Warrior Run School DistrictEducational Goal #2Research Based Instructional Strategies and Grading Practices will be implemented with consistency on a daily basis in the classroom.

Instructional Strategies 2011-12Lesson Essential QuestionsSummarizingDistributedAt the end of a lessonVocabulary

Lesson Essential QuestionAt the end of the lesson they should be able to answer this (to summarize!).By asking what you need to teach in order for it to be answered, you get your Assessment Prompts for Distributed Summarizing. Comes from the standards.Posted at some point.Student friendly.

Lesson Essential QuestionEssential Questions Stems/ ExamplesHow would you recognize a __________ if you saw one?How do readers _______________________to better understand what they read?How do writers _________________________________?How do I solve _________________________________?What is the relationship between __________ and __________?What were the major causes and effects of ________________________?Why would we study __________________________________________?How are ______________________ useful in _________________________?What influence did __________________________ have on _______________________? How does _________________________ impact _________________________?

Summarizing:A LEARNING strategy more than a TEACHING strategyTeachers provide regular opportunities to summarizeStudents answer the lesson essential questionChecking for understanding (KWL, Tickets, 3-2-1, collaborative pairs)JournalingShow Me - Distributed Guided PracticeReflectionsThroughout the lesson and at the end

Summarizing:1. DURING THE LESSON ~ Distributed Summarizing: Assessment PromptsUsing Assessment Prompts During Teaching

What?Why?When?How?Questions and tasks designed to gather evidence of learning throughout the lesson.Helps teachers adjust instruction.Helps students self-assess.Think of the teaching component as a series of distributed learning experiences each followed by an assessment prompt:

TeachAssessment PromptTeachAssessment PromptTeachAssessment PromptDesign questions and tasks that will elicit evidence of learning.Use to check for understanding at strategic points in the lesson.

VocabularySelect difficult vocabulary from instructional contextPreview this vocabulary with direct instructionMake words accessible to students in a visual, graphic, and organized wayProvide multiple exposures and opportunities to use vocabulary

Vocabulary

MonitoringChoose 2 classes to implement in

MS and HS: 2 preps

EL: LA (Storytown Focus Skill) and Science

MonitoringWalk-throughs Collect data using look fors and ask aboutsUse data to have meaningful conversations about instruction and achievementSupport Instruction / Support Teachers8 five minute walk-throughs per yearBuilding principal(s), director of curriculum, director of special education, superintendentUnobtrusive (business as usual)Lesson plan says what 5 minutes cannotElectronic copy of data collectionNon-evaluativeMay require follow-up conversation for ask abouts

Essential QuestionsLook Fors & Ask AboutsLOOK FORsEssential question is postedEssential question guides instruction

ASK ABOUTsHow do you use the essential question in a lesson?How did you have students answer the essential question in your most recent lesson?

VocabularyLook Fors & Ask AboutsLOOK FORsVocabulary is content drivenThe visual representation of vocabulary is well organized, easy to use, and graphicUses research-based strategies and direct instruction to preview vocabulary at the beginning of lessons and unitsVocabulary is built through writing, reading, discussion, etc. throughout the lesson

ASK ABOUTsHow are students aware of current vocabulary?What vocabulary strategies do you usually use?How is your current vocabulary organized for learning?How do students use vocabulary for reading and writing?

Summarizing Look Fors & Ask AboutsLOOK FORsSummarizing reflects evidence of student learningAll students have the opportunity to participate in summarizingSummarizing is guided by the essential question

ASK ABOUTsWhat summarizing strategy did you use in your lesson?How do you provide an opportunity for all students to summarize?What evidence do you have of student learning?

Lesson PlanPlan for the content NOT for the day!

Lesson Essential QuestionVocabulary and StrategyAPsFinal Summarizing---------------------------------May be an add-on, may be your lesson plan format.

Warrior Run Acquisition Lesson Plan FormAn acquisition lesson is not designed to be a daily lesson plan. A lesson is designed to teach the acquisition of a topic, concept, or skill. Therefore, typically there may be 1-3 lessons per week, but rarely 4-5 lessons per week.

GRADE: SUBJECT: UNIT: STANDARD(S): MATERIALS: ESTIMATED # OF DAYS:

Lesson Essential Question:When answered at the end of the lesson, is it what I want students to be able to know, understand or be able to do?EQ: Answer to EQ: What do students need to learn to answer the EQ?AP Concept 1: AP Concept 2: Activating Strategy:Vocabulary and Strategy: Vocabulary is bestTeaching Strategy with Distributed Summarizing:Graphic Organizer: AP1: Strategy: AP2: Strategy: Summarizing:How will students summarize what they are learning at the end of the lesson?

WORDS: STRATEGY:

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Room Breakout for DepartmentsK-4 & 5, 6 Grade LA: Sue Welteroth, Steph Zettlemoyer, and Michael Freeborn Stay in the cafeteriaScience 5-12: Linda Shupp and Michelle EbnerMS 110English 7-12: Bernadette BoerckelMS 103History 5-12: Patti Kramer and Cathy GrowMS 104Math 5-12: Daniel Carpenter and Chris LongMS 108Fine Arts (Music, Art, and PE): Greg AlicoHS Band RoomVocational Technology (FCS and Tech Ed) and Info Lit. & Tech (Library, Computer, Business): Katie Makatche and Jane-Marie Terefencko MS LibrarySpecial Eduation 5-12: Choose a content above that you will be monitored in.