2011-12 Annual Report - Partners in School Innovation

Our PartnersSan Francisco Unified School DistrictBryant Elementary SchoolBuena Vista/Horace Mann K-8 SchoolGeorge W. Carver Elementary SchoolCésar Chavez Elementary SchoolEverett Middle SchoolBret Harte Elementary SchoolJohn Muir Elementary SchoolPaul Revere K-8 SchoolIn the SFUSD, our partnership focused on:• Utilizing a preliminary District TransformationRubric to reflect on current and desired statesof the district’s leadership capacity• Facilitating the implementation plan for rollingout the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)and for creating a district-level continuousimprovement plan• Analyzing student achievement data, identify trendsand implications for improving practice and settingstudent goals for the new school year• Convening monthly network meetings forSuperintendent Zone leaders, principals and theirleadership teams, specifically the assistantprincipals and the instructional reform facilitators, toassess progress and adjust practices accordinglyOakland Unified School DistrictRISE Community SchoolNew Highland AcademyAlthough our intensive work with our OUSD partnerschools ended in 2011, the S.H. Cowell Foundationmade it possible for Partners to provide servicesdesigned to ease the transition from transformationto sustainability:• At RISE Community School, we worked with schoolleaders to create a Theory of Action, monitorinstructional quality and professional learningsystems. We also supported the Teacher on SpecialAssignment to plan and deliver instructionalcoaching and begin to create a peer-coaching system• New Highland Academy was able to fund anintervention coach and provide release timeto teachers so they could continue theircollaboration efforts• Partners was also able to study the sustainabilityof our program in New Highland Academy• Through our work in OUSD, our partner schools sawan increase in the ability of teachers and leadersto implement systems for professional learningincluding teacher collaboration, instructionalcoaching and professional developmentRESULTS:1. Our schools within SFUSD increased the percentageof students who scored Proficient or Advanced onthe CST-ELA with a growth rate of 5.6 percentagepoints; nearly doubling the state growth rate of2.9 percentage points.2. Partners’ schools within SFUSD also movedstudents out of the two lowest performance bands onthe CST-ELA, Far Below Basic and Below Basic,by more than double the state rate.3. In the Bayview Zone, the percentage of students atRevere Elementary who scored Proficient andAdvanced grew by over 20 percentage points, from30.9 percent to 51.3 percent, or 7 times therate of the state.2011–12 Annual Report 13