2011-12 Annual Report - Partners in School Innovation

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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
Alum Rock Union Elementary School DistrictCésar Chavez Elementary SchoolClyde Arbuckle Elementary SchoolA.J. Dorsa Elementary SchoolClyde L. Fischer Middle SchoolMildred Goss Elementary SchoolO.S. Hubbard Elementary SchoolLee Mathson Middle SchoolSan Antonio Elementary SchoolIn the ARUESD of East San Jose, our partnershipfocused on:• Facilitating cycle review sessions after eachbenchmark in order to assess progress against andadjust actions to achieve student achievement goals• Improving the effectiveness of balanced literacyinstruction and identifying expectations aroundcurricula strengths and weaknesses so thatstudent achievement goals could be plannedfor appropriately• Developing and implementing a cross-schoolprofessional learning network that provided venuesfor various groups of leaders and teachers to sharebest practices and learn from each other usingPartners’ ROCI process• Co-leading with our district partners a Middle-School Inquiry Group for the principals and deansof all middle schools to identify common issues andproblem solveTHEORY OF IMPACTRESULTS:1. We helped ARUESD outperform the rest of the stateand increase the percentage of students scoringProficient and Advanced by 4.7 percentage pointscompared to 2.9 percentage points in thestate overall.2. San Antonio Elementary demonstrated exceptionalresults by decreasing the percentage of students inthe lowest performance bands and increasing thepercentage of students in the highest performancebands boyh by about 8 percentage points, comparedto the state rates of -1.9 percentage points and 2.9percentage points, respectively.3. With Partners’ support at the district level this pastyear, we saw dramatic improvement, averaging anAcademic Performance Index (API) growth of 14points, nearly twice the 8 point average API growthfor schools in Santa Clara County. This increase inAPI scores catapulted six district schools into the800 and higher API score category, increasing thenumber of schools in that category to 11 (there wereonly 3 such schools in 2008).4. In three years, the district has made a 57-pointjump in API scores.Deliver a Consistent,High-Quality, Research-Based Approach14 Partners In School InnovationPerformance Metrics :Program Implementation Checklist
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