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DC Promise Neighborhoods Initiative: Needs Assessment and Segmentation AnalysisFigure 1: DIBELS K Assessments for Ward 7 Elementary Schools for SY2010–11 (Middle of the Year)Smothers ESRiver Terrace ES5% 0%10% 0%95%90%Randle Highlands ES11%0%89%Plummer ES10%15%75%Kimball ES2%28%70%Houston ES17%23%60%Harris C.W. ES5%23%72%Drew ES5%29%66%Burrville ES2%45%53%IntensiveBeers ES2%20%78%StrategicAiton ES9%15%76%BenchmarkThomas ES23%40%37%Kenilworth ES9%27%64%Ward 7 school average7%24%69%We believe that one of the reasons for the high need at Neval Thomas Elementary is because NevalThomas Elementary has a larger special education population. Figure 2 compares the share of studentswith individual education plans (IEPs) at both DCPNI elementary schools with the citywide DCPS average.(Data are from the audited reports from OSSE and are not available at the grade level.) The share ofKenilworth Elementary students with IEPs is below the citywide average, while the share of studentswith IEPs at Neval Thomas Elementary has been above the citywide average in recent years. Using thelatest data from SY2010–11, 14.0 percent of students at Neval Thomas Elementary (33 students) hadIEPs compared to only 11.8 percent of students at Kenilworth Elementary (21 students). The citywideDCPS average was 13.0 percent in SY2010–11.24
Share of students with IEPsDC Promise Neighborhoods Initiative: Needs Assessment and Segmentation AnalysisFigure 2: Share of Students with Individual Education Plans (IEPs)18.0%16.0%14.0%12.0%10.0%Kenilworth8.0%Neval Thomas6.0%DCPS total4.0%2.0%0.0%The second assessment that DCPS began implementing this year is the GOLD assessment. The GOLDassessment measures a variety of socio-emotional, physical, cognitive, literacy, and math standards.While the GOLD assessment is recognized as a robust assessment tool, this year’s implementation wasrecognized by DCPS’s early childhood office as being imperfect because teachers provided their ownself- assessments without sufficient training. Plus, these assessments factor into the teachers’professional evaluation tool, IMPACT. Going forward, DCPS intends to more closely work with theteachers to ensure that (1) there is always documentation support for every rating, (2) the data that arebeing entered is of high quality, (3) there is continued support by the Early Childhood InstructionalSpecialist staff with GOLD implementation, and (4) teachers/schools/administrators are being heldaccountable for the data that is being entered.Judging from a report provided by the DCPS office of Early Childhood along the full continuum ofassessments, Kenilworth and Neval Thomas Elementaries have a greater share of who meet theexpected standards, exceeding the DCPS average. Figure 3 shows an example of a few of the areas thatGOLD assesses. Because of the challenges with the GOLD assessment this year, we provide the data forillustrative purposes only. We will wait until the assessment has been accurately implemented next yearto include it in our needs assessment.25
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