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HSTW & Whitehall-Yearling High School Scaffolding LDC and MDC for Special Populations Sara Levitt, Sarah Narsavage, Nicole Nelson and Danielle Smith Southern Regional Education Board Workshop PURPOSE HSTW & To show how LDC modules can be designed to accommodate special populations To share how we modify MDC lessons for at-risk students Southern Regional Education Board To share examples of modified materials About us . . . HSTW & Sara Levitt English as a Second Language Teacher HSTW Site Coordinator Sarah Narsavage Mathematics Teacher HSTW Site Coordinator Nicole Nelson English Teacher Danielle Smith Mathematics Teacher Southern Regional Education Board DEMOGRAPHICS HSTW & We are an “urban suburb” 2010 Median income $27,116.00 • Free/Reduced lunch – 80% district students – 70.56% of HS students • Economically Disadvantaged Students: 58.6% • District Mobility: 21.4% We are quite diverse Southern Regional Education Board • Population Breakdown: – Caucasian 39.9% – African-American 34.1% – Hispanic 17% – Other 8.8% • ESL students make up 17.2% • Students with disabilities make up 13.6.% Report Card Information – OGT 12-13 HSTW 10th GRADE 11TH GRADE & READING 83.3% 87.6% MATH 72.7% 84.6% WRITING 85.3% 89.9% SCIENCE 64.0% Southern Regional Education Board 75.1% SOCIAL STUDIES 77.3% 82.8% About you… HSTW & Classroom Teachers Building Administrators District Administrators Coaches/Regional Staff Experience with LDC/MDC Southern Regional Education Board What are LDC and MDC? HSTW & Southern Regional Education Board LDC (Literacy Design Collaborative) is a framework for building literacy skills specified in the Common Core State Standards MDC (Mathematics Design Collaborative) is a collection of classroom tools aligned to the common core that emphasize formative instructional practice. Essential Elements of LDC HSTW & Southern Regional Education Board LDC modules use writing tasks that align to the Common Core All tasks require students to read and/or research prior to writing. Students must reference and use support from specific texts. Argumentative, narrative, and informational tasks are available and can be used in all content areas Rubrics are provided for each writing type and include writing mechanics, content, and stylistic components Deployment of LDC 2012-13 HSTW & Initial training in large group Two day – expedited • CCSS intro • LDC crash course Hurdles Delivery Technology Resources Southern Regional Education Board Follow-up with Content specific consultants Deployment of LDC 2013-14 HSTW & Southern Regional Education Board Train the Trainer – 8 days Delve into CCSS (anchor standards) Skill clusters • Reading (in the discipline) • Writing Critical review of modules & jurying Rubrics, scoring Administrative plan Work time LDC – focus group Review – refocus Support for staff Resources for staff LDC Task HSTW & Southern Regional Education Board Task 13: After reading the Escape from Pompeii, the accounts about volcanoes and about Pompeii, write a letter that describes what it was like escaping Pompeii. Include details and information you learned during your research. Support what you write with evidence from your research. Preparing for the Task HSTW & Video Clip Eruption/Natural Disasters Sample project Calendar – task due dates What do I do? Concept Map or Timeline Southern Regional Education Board Reading Process HSTW & Pair up (reading strategies) Read student summaries Supplemental Notes Teacher and/or student Explicit Vocabulary Instruction Level it out Southern Regional Education Board Student letters, first hand account, excerpt, different lexile levels Modeling & Practice – Reading Process HSTW & Southern Regional Education Board Cornell Notes – Mini Lesson Viewed “Mr. Hixson Does Cornell Notes” on YouTube. Students received a Cornell Notes template Students practiced Cornell Note-taking using an article entitled: “Monkey That Purrs Like a Cat Is Among New Species Discovered in Amazon Rainforest” Students successfully used Cornell Notes for the article & were then able to use them for the readings for the module we were doing on Paganism & Christianity Modifying LDC Reading Selections HSTW & Choose reading selections that are on various levels to allow students to grasp the same concepts independently. Newsela (www.newsela.com) This is a site that allows you to change the Lexile level of an article. Southern Regional Education Board You can sign up for a free trial & free for students Nonfiction literacy & current events – Common Core aligned High-interest Articles War & Peace, Science, Kids, Money, Law, Health, Arts Multiple, new articles daily in 5 reading levels Students take quizzes & view progress Archive of 500 articles, organized by category & reading standard Daily “articles of the day” emails Newsela PRO (Fee – offers tracking, online communication etc. Newsela Example… HSTW & Southern Regional Education Board 600L John Bennardo really likes the $2 bill. He has always saved the bills. By last summer he had 11 of them in a desk drawer. Bennardo starting thinking. He wondered why the two was unusual. The $2 bill does not get a lot of respect. But now, it is going to get some attention. Bennardo is making a movie about it. He plans to tell the story of the two and its “magic.” “I think everyone’s curious about it,” he said. People always react when you spend one, he said. Newsela Example… HSTW & Southern Regional Education Board 1130L It’s the underdog of U.S. currency, the bill more likely to be found tucked inside a dresser drawer or wallet than a cash register. The $2 bill makes up just 3 percent of all paper money circulating in the states. Now, it’s about to get its time in the limelight, thanks to a Delray Beach, Fla., man who has always loved it. John Bennardo is crisscrossing the country to film a documentary that’ll tell the story of the two and its “magic.” “I think everyone’s curious about it,” he said. “When you spend one, there’s always a reaction.” Transition to Writing HSTW What I learned What I can show & Exploration Web quests Lists Timeline – change to paragraphs Southern Regional Education Board Take big questions Compile the best answers Writing Process HSTW & It’s about the writing now! Start with their notes, ideas Stems Use these words Focus on one section ONLY Southern Regional Education Board Break it down • Give them a topic sentence • Examples Modifying Writing in LDC HSTW & Provide exemplars Focus more on content than mechanics…look for growth Familiarize students with LDC rubric Provide a score based on entire LDC rubric Provide a grade based on only a few elements of focus for special needs/ELL students Comparing the two (score vs. grade) shows students where the goal is and how far they are from attaining it. Southern Regional Education Board Essential Elements of MDC HSTW & Southern Regional Education Board Classroom Challenge Lessons and Tasks Lessons include pre/post assessments and learning activities with extensive teacher notes Emphasis on Formative Assessment Feedback questions used to coach students without “GPS-ing” Deployment of MDC: 2012-13 HSTW & Initial training in large group day training with Marty Sugerik Grade 6-12 math teachers and intervention specialists Introduction to Formative Assessment Lessons Strategies to engage students 2 Follow-up days Team Teaching with teacher/consultant Addressed questions about implementation Southern Regional Education Board 4 Deployment of MDC: 2013-14 HSTW & Train the Trainer: CCSS Networking Conference 2013 (1 teacher) 4 days with consultant (Sept, Nov, Feb, May) Southern Regional Education Board Trained new teachers Aligned units and MDC to Common Core Creating our own Formative Assessment Lessons Assessments for SLOs Train the Trainer: CCSS Networking Conference 2014 (2 teachers) Modifying MDC HSTW & Intentional grouping Lower kids together with support person Simplify materials Reducing # of matches in a card sort Doing examples together Module script is more open-ended, but at risk students need to believe they can do it Timing module after instruction Need to establish prior knowledge Prime them for pre-assessment so they are willing to try Get better info for pre-assessment Southern Regional Education Board Plan ahead – do the whole activity yourself first so you can predict possible pitfalls. Example 1: Evaluating Student work HSTW & Southern Regional Education Board Students are given a task (problem) to solve on their own They revise their work with a peer or whole group Students are then given sample work of “other” students to make corrections and “score” Student_Work_Sample_1.pdf Example 2: Modifying a card sort HSTW & Whole Group: Construction example Analyzing Congruence Proofs Slides Card Sort Do one together Show what the finished product is supposed to look like Suggest the next card they might try Set a reasonable expectation of the # of matches they need to accomplish Set a time limit Student_Work_Sample_2.pdf Southern Regional Education Board Next Steps (MDC) HSTW & Southern Regional Education Board Write new units of instruction that align to Common Core Select Challenge Lessons and/or Tasks that fit with each unit Write our own lessons/tasks for courses beyond Geometry Continue to collect data to monitor student growth For more information: HSTW & Literacy Design Collaborative www.literacydesigncollaborative.org My Group Genius www.mygroupgenius.org/literacy Mathematics Assessment Project http://map.mathshell.org/materials/index.php Southern Regional Education Board Contact us: HSTW & Nicole Nelson (English) [email protected] Sarah Narsavage (Math) [email protected] Danielle Smith (Math) [email protected] Southern Regional Education Board Sara Levitt (ESL/EFL) [email protected] HSTW & Southern Regional Education Board That’s it…that’s all she wrote… Questions? Reflections?