Transcript CSI: Lincoln

CSI: Lincoln
Continuous School Improvement
What is CSI?
Continuous School Improvement (CSI) is a
collaborative process of looking at student
performance and selecting areas for focus
which can be used to improve student
learning.
During the 2008-2009 School Year
Lincoln hosted a QAR –Quality Assurance
Review Visit for three days in April. The team
was made up of Stateside AdvancEDNCA/CASI Team Chairs, Administrators, and
Teachers.
During the 2008-2009 School Year
The Team examined the school thoroughly,
including a review of documents, student
performance data, and interviews with students,
faculty members and parents. The visit was to
ensure that the school adheres to the standards
established by AdvancedEd, thus gaining official
accreditation. Lincoln Elementary received full
accreditation.
During the 2008-2009 School Year
The Quality Assurance Review team issued a report
which serves as a resource to the school as it
furthers its continuous improvement efforts. We
celebrated and strengthened the successes and
accomplishments noted in the team’s
commendations. We are building on these
accomplishments, enhancing their impact across
the school.
During the 2008-2009 School Year
The team’s recommendations identified areas
of needed action designed to enhance school
effectiveness and improve student learning. The
school is held accountable for making progress on
each of the team’s recommendations. Next year,
Lincoln will submit a report detailing the progress
made on the recommendations.
And what were those
recommendations you ask…
QAR Recommendation #1:
Increase the communication and
collaboration to include all stakeholders to
improve their understanding of the school
improvement process and goals for student
achievement.
Our Stakeholders
Military
Students
Staff
Parents
QAR Recommendation #2:
Refine systems for gathering, assembling, and
analyzing data to ensure pertinent student
performance data is in a format that is directly
tied to the performance standards and school
improvement goals.
During School Year 2009-2010
To increase the communication and collaboration to include all stakeholders to
improve their understanding of the school improvement process and goals for
student achievement …
Attention was focused
on improving
the understanding
of staff members
this year.
Minutes were sent to
every staff
member after each
CSI meeting.
The CSI Chair speaks
with each grade level
to get opinions and offer
clarification on issues
impacting specific grade
levels.
Grade levels were asked
to submit strategies they
would use to increase
oral and written
communication skills in
conjunction with our
new ELA standards
During School Year 2009-2010
To increase the communication and collaboration to include all stakeholders to improve
their understanding of the school improvement process and goals for student
achievement…
Parents and students were key
participants in the creation of our
new vision statement.
Parents were asked to
write the qualities that they felt
their children need to be successful later in life.
Students and staff voted. Students were
responsible for surveying parents in
November and December.
During School Year 2009-2010
To increase the communication and collaboration to include all
stakeholders to improve their understanding of the school
improvement process and goals for student achievement…
– Parent to Parent Workshops were held frequently, often
targeting school improvement goals.
– Announcements of programs supporting our goals
offered off-campus were sent to parents.
– Mrs. Meacham, our former principal, included notes in
the Lion’s Roar newsletter about the CSI process.
QAR Recommendation #2:
Refine systems for gathering, assembling, and
analyzing data to ensure pertinent student
performance data is in a format that is directly
tied to the performance standards and school
improvement goals.
QAR Recommendation #2 has to do with our
School Improvement Goals.
Goal One
All Lincoln Elementary Students will show at
least proficient oral and written
communication skills as measured by our
school-wide writing assessment by SY 20132014.
Of course Lincoln students write all the time
in a variety of ways…
To get the students excited about writing
and to review the different ways that they
use writing, Lincoln held our first annual
Everybody Writes Week.
Everybody Writes Week
Everybody Writes Week
May 3-7
• The Lincoln community used their writing skills as we tried
to solve the mystery of our missing mascot, Leo, the Lincoln
Lion.
• It turns out Leo went to Broadway to audition for the Lion
King. He left us a letter that was shredded (and then put
back together). There were other clues, like lion fur, muddy
paw prints, a plane itinerary, and map of NYC that helped
the kids solve the mystery.
• The kids made Missing Lion posters, wrote letters and
postcards, poems, comic strips and stories about Leo.
• Next year Everybody Writes Week will occur in the first
semester.
Goal Two
All Lincoln Elementary Students will show at least
proficient math problem solving skills as measured
by our school-wide problem solving assessment by
SY 2013-2014.
QAR Recommendation #2
Refine systems for gathering, assembling, and analyzing data
to ensure pertinent student performance data is in a format
that is directly tied to the performance standards and school
improvement goals.
• Each student now has a spreadsheet with pertinent data that will track
achievement through his/her years at Lincoln. This data supports our
oral/written communication goal, our math problem solving goal as
well as reading data (to be used to support a reading goal if needed in
the future.)
• Each teacher has a class spreadsheet tracking average achievement of
their students.
We needed ensure that the data collected was directly tied to
our performance standards and school improvement goals.
EVERY grade level is responsible for recording data in
support of at least one of our goals.
Grade Level
Pre-K
Kindergarten
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
Language Screen
Beginning Writer
Screen
DRA
Terra Nova
School –Wide
Writing
School-Wide
Problem Solving
Local Assessments
During SY 2009-2010 K-5 students took a
writing test in January and late April to
create baseline data for our continuous
school improvement goal. The were also
evaluated in math problem solving.
During SY 2010-2011 K-5 students’ writing
will be evaluated in August, December and
March.
Their math problem solving skills will
be evaluated in August, December, and
March.
We adopted a new way of reporting the results of
our local assessments.
Starting in Spring, 2010 student results will be reported as:
Advanced
Proficient
Nearing Proficiency
Limited Proficiency
• This should make it easier for parents to understand their child’s
performance.
• The rubrics we use to evaluate student work will soon be available on
our school website.
2009-2010 Local Assessment Results
K-5 Math Problem Solving
Local Assessment
80
70
At Standard
60
percentage
50
Below Standard
40
30
20
10
0
Baseline
Post Test
K-5 Math Problem Solving Local Assessment
60
Baseline %
50
Post-Test %
percentage
40
30
20
10
0
Advanced
Proficient
Nearing
Proficiency
Limited
Proficiency
Limited
Proficiency
2-5 Written Applications Local Assessment
60
Baseline %
Post-Test %
50
percentage
40
30
20
10
0
Advanced
Proficient
Nearing Proficiency
Limited Proficiency
2-5 Writing Conventions Local Assessment
60
Baseline %
Post-Test %
50
percentage
40
30
20
10
0
Advanced
Proficient
Nearing Proficiency
Limited Proficiency
Refine systems for gathering, assembling, and analyzing data to ensure pertinent student
performance data is in a format that is directly tied to the performance standards and
school improvement goals.
End of year testing was scheduled for the last week of
April so that teachers would have time to analyze results
horizontally and share data vertically this school year.
The results were used to make recommendations for
instructional strategies for SY 2010-2011.
In May, 2010 the Post QAR Visit Team, indicated that while
we took some steps in right direction in meeting the QAR
Recommendations, we needed to reevaluate
“involvement” vs. “input”.
Since the visit, the CSI Team has met and agreed on a new way of
doing business for itself and the rest of the Lincoln stakeholders.
Four committees will be formed in SY 2010-2011. The
committees will be chaired by CSI Team members. The committees
will be comprised of staff members, parents, and students (as
appropriate).
SY 2010-2011
CSI Team
Stakeholders Involvement
Oral/Written
Communication
Goal
Math Problem Solving
Goal
Collaboratively develop and
implement a detailed action
plan for parent involvement
Make strategies of action
plan obvious in classroom
routines and fully understood
by all stakeholders
Make strategies of action
plan obvious in classroom
routines and fully understood
by all stakeholders
Profile
Revise and maintain
a current school profile
Parents, we NEED you!
Please consider serving on a
CSI Committee.
School Improvement Goal One: Oral and Written
Communication Committee
This committee will be responsible for:
•monitoring the strategies that ensure best practices are evident
throughout the school
•maintaining the double blind scoring procedures set up during SY 20092010 as well as writing and following school wide writing assessment
scripts
•collecting data generated from the school wide writing assessment,
analyzing it, and sharing with the staff so results can be used to inform
instruction
•monitoring the effectiveness of instructional strategies
•creating an environmental scan for teachers to self-assess as well as
peer-assess the writing environment in their room(s)
Stakeholders Involvement Committee
This committee will be responsible for:
•keeping our stakeholders informed of
CSI/school news
•investigating and promoting ways to get our
parent stakeholders directly involved
•maintaining the Parent Resource Room (By
stocking the room with materials supporting our
CSI goals, parents will be better able to support
our efforts at home.)
•scheduling and alerting parents to workshops
•spearheading a Perfect Attendance Initiative
that acknowledges monthly perfect attendance
as well as semester perfect attendance
School Improvement Goal Two: Math Problem Solving
Committee
This committee will be responsible for:
• monitoring the strategies that ensure best practices are evident throughout the
school
• monitoring the implementation of the double blind scoring procedures
currently used for the writing assessment
• investigating the adoption of a school-wide or K-1, 2-3, 4-5 grade level rubric
• monitoring the writing and following of school wide problem solving
assessment scripts
• collecting data generated from the school wide problem solving assessment,
analyzing it, and sharing with the staff so results can be used to inform
instruction
• reevaluating instructional strategies for effectiveness
• creating an environmental scan for teachers to self-assess as well as peer-assess
the problem solving environment in their room(s)
Profile Committee
This committee will be responsible for:
•Revising current school profile
•Updating school profile throughout the year with current data
as it becomes available
Committees meet the first Tuesday of every month
from 2:30- 3:30 in the committee chair’s classroom.
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Oral/Written Language - Mrs. Tina Daigle
Math Problem Solving - Mrs. Melissa Huber
Stakeholder Involvement- Mrs. Eunice Sumbler
Profile- Mr. Richard Epps
Our AdvanceEd Timeline
2010-2011
Accreditation
Progress
Report (APR)
2011-2012
No ReportNo Visitors
2012-2013
Pre-QAR Visit
2013-2014
SAR and QAR
Visit