Transcript Pioneer School District System Overhaul

PIONEER SCHOOL
DISTRICT
Our Road
to Success
PIONEER SCHOOL DISTRICT
Student Demographics
 Enrollment 734 students
pre-K through 8 th
 2.1% American Indian/Alaskan
Native
 0.8% African American
 9.6% Hispanic/Latino
 80.4% White
 63.4% Free or Reduced
 25.3% Special Education
Challenges
 63.4% Free or Reduced
 ESEA Focus School label: August of
2011
 Non-High District
 High percentage of students in
Special Education
 HR Issues
PIONEER SCHOOL DISTRICT
MSP Reading Assessments
MSP Math Assessments
STUDENT GROWTH, A DEEPER LOOK
State Student Growth Percentiles-MSP 2013
Special Education Math
 Pioneer 43%, state average 41%
Special Education Reading
 Pioneer 41%, state average 42%
Special Education Enrollment
May 2013 25.3%, February 2014 17.99%
Free and Reduced Population-MSP 2013
9 of 16 MSP subgroup scores above state average
BUILDING CAPACIT Y FOR LEADERSHIP
Purpose – Invest all staff in the process of student growth and encourage
ownership of building model
 Building Leadership Team
 Action Planning Teams
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Focus on Learning
English Language Arts
Math
Positive Behavior Interventions and Support
Teacher Principal Evaluation Project
District Support – Intentional district focus: district professional
development, support building budgets, and Professional Learning
Communities
 District provides buildings with restrictive funds for these five areas of work
FOCUS ON LEARNING
WITH COMMON CORE TRANSITION
Response to Intervention/Data Driven Instruction
 Primary Level – walk to read, walk to math, master schedule that provides three tier
instructional opportunities and does not supplant
 Intermediate Level – Intervention Specialist funded with Title I, LAP and Special Education
dollars, science and writing specialists, walk to math
 Middle School Level – Co-Teaching in ELA, Core Plus in math, tier 3 interventions, core
instruction for special education students
 Data driven decision making
Additional Learning Opportunities
 Community, ECEAP, and Developmental Preschool
 21 st Century afterschool learning centers
 1:1 technology with middle school students
ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS AND MATH
WITH COMMON CORE TRANSITION
 Curriculum Alignment
 Pathway to the Common Core
 Gap Analysis
 MBA/RBA
 Moving to Common Core Standards in Testing
 Formative Assessments/Exit Slips
 Intervention Strategies
 Differentiation Strategies
 Assessments prior to MSP
 Prior to Smarter Balanced
PBIS
WITH COMMON CORE TRANSITION
 District Level Training
 System of Support
 Teaching School-wide Expectations
 Tier 2 Support such as Check in/Check out
 Tier 3 Support including Behavior Plans
 Behavior Data Analysis
 Instructional Rigor
 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
 Student Engagement
TEACHER PRINCIPAL EVALUATION PROJECT
WITH COMMON CORE TRANSITION
 A team of six teachers, including the association president, principal,
and superintendent engaged in a 2 year training cycle, including:
Danielson Framework official training, and TPEP Educational Service
District cohort
 Very collaborative process, including: All staff participation in selection of the model,
systematic updates led by teachers, full day of training for all staff, determining clear
expectations of responsible party for artifacts/evidence
 Implementation this year, third year of project:
 Teachers from the leadership team above are participating
 provisional teachers
 All others on a PGO, but required to use one of the eight criterion
 Clear target, higher order questioning, student assessments, and assessments drive
instructional practice