Wawecus Road School - Worcester Public Schools

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III. Action Steps – School SMARTe Goal Academic-ELA School SMART Goal: Best Practice or Strategy: Wawecus’ long term goal is to halve the proficiency gap by 2017 and demonstrate typical or higher annual student growth (i.e. median SGP of 51 or higher). Our goal for 2014 is to achieve a CPI of 83.0 in ELA, 82.0 in Math, 85.4 in Science and a median of SGP of 61 or higher. On the Wawecus’ ELA open response 100% of our students’ will increase their open response score by at least one level. The percentage of students who received a score of 3 or 4 will increase from 22% to 85% by June 2014. Wawecus’ 5 Best Practices: Post, discuss and revisit content and language objectives throughout the lesson. Demonstrate deep content knowledge throughout the presentation of the lesson Instruct using a range of techniques Pose questions that require students to engage in a process of application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation Use timely formative assessments to check for understanding to inform instruction and celebrate growth ACTION STEPS TIMELINE PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE Professional development and implementation of Strategies that Work and Comprehension Connections specifically Questioning Inferencing/Visualization Determining Importance Teachers will share out every Monday meeting on different techniques. Teachers will receive training and implement the WPS ELA Curriculum Maps. Assessments will monitor students’ progress and fidelity to the implementation. October 2013-2014 October 2013-2014 Classroom Teacher Instructional Coach SPED Teacher Tutor ELL Tutor ILT Principal Classroom Teacher Instructional Coach SPED Teacher Tutor ELL Tutor MEASURES USED (Degree of Implementation) Open response data Lesson plans Assessments Observations Student work Teacher’s sharing out WPS ELA Curriculum Map Assessments Teacher development formal and informal assessments Teacher’s sharing out Student work RESOURCES (Including Financial) Books: Strategies that Work and Comprehension Connections WPS ELA Curriculum Maps Attending district training for Curriculum Maps 10
Teachers will have students do daily skills on Open response questions correct their work give and receive feedback have dialogue with the teacher about the process Continue the school wide roll out of Fundations/Just Words Daily observations will monitor implementation of best practices: children thinking critically, teachers giving quick and effective feedback, a variety of techniques from Teach Like a Champion. Watch videos from Teach Like a Champion to review techniques. Professional development in scoring student work and developing school wide expectations for scoring the work teachers instructing students on scoring student work develop rubrics to enhance students writing October 2013-June 2014 October 2013-2014 October 2013-June 2014 October 2013-June 2014 Classroom Teacher Instructional Coach SPED Teacher Tutor ELL Tutor ILT Principal Classroom Teacher Instructional Coach SPED Tutor Principal Instructional Coach Principal Classroom Teacher Instructional Coach SPED Teacher Tutor ELL Tutor ILT Principal Open response scores monitored by ILT Lesson Plans monitored by Principal Observations Fundations Assessments Just Words Assessments BAS Observations Open response scores Student writing portfolios Lesson Plans monitored by Principal & Coach Data collection through Observations by Principal & Coach PD plan monitored by ILT ILT meeting minutes recording PD feedback Student Work MCAS Open Response Rubric MCAS Open Response & long composition prompts MCAS Open Response exemplars ELMO Students’ work Fundations Materials Just Words Materials The WPS Framework for High Quality Teaching and Learning Pillars Standards and Indicators of Effective Teacher Practice Rubric Teach Like a Champion Teach Like a Champion video PD plan and schedule CPT Various websites Student Work 11
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