Achievement for All Students: Aligning Priorities To Improve Student Achievement

Raising the Bar is Taking Us Far!

Bloomfield Public Schools Raising the Bar is Taking Us Far!

1. Purpose: Familiarize YOU with Bloomfield and the Public Schools

2. Process: Discuss and investigate

3. Pay-off: All students achieve goals as a result of standards-based instruction provided by highly-skilled teachers committed to clear expectations, academic rigor, and meaningful engagement with the curriculum (Himmele & Himmele, 2011; Ainsworth, 2010)

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Three P’s…(or Structure for Learning)

Bloomfield Public Schools Raising the Bar is Taking Us Far!

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to Bloomfield!

Bloomfield Public Schools Raising the Bar is Taking Us Far!

CAPT Reading Proficiency Results from 2007-2011 - By High School with State Comparison

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Problem: Achievement Levels (and Purpose for Learning)

Evidence of Closing the Gap… GRADE 6 at CAIS

READING 2008 2009 2010 2011

Grade 3 61.5 53.8 65.2 66.1

Grade 4 71.6 64.6 60.6 65.2

Grade 5 65.4 67.6 56.3 52.9

Grade 6 69.6 70.5 86.5 88.5

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Bloomfield Public Schools Raising the Bar is Taking Us Far!

Holistic Accountability

High Academic Achievement

Positive SchoolClimate

Parent and Community Engagement

Four Priorities

Bloomfield Public Schools Raising the Bar is Taking Us Far!

Grade 3 to 6 Matched Cohort 1

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Mathematics % AdvancedMathematics % GoalMathematics % ProficientMathematics % BasicMathematics % Below Basic

%AAP %AAG

Gr 3, 2011 86.3 57.5Gr 4, 2012 89.1 67.2Gr 5, 2013 95.9 72.6Gr 6, 2014 97.3 80.9

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Reading % AdvancedReading % GoalReading % ProficientReading % BasicReading % Below Basic

%AAP %AAG

Gr 3, 2011 66.2 38Gr 4, 2012 77.5 52.1Gr 5, 2013 84.5 63.4Gr 6, 2014 88.7 77.4

Bloomfield Public Schools Raising the Bar is Taking Us Far!

Priority 1: Utilize Data and Authentic Student Work to Inform Instruction

Priority 2: Focus on Effective Teaching Strategies, Align Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Practices with Common Core Standards (CurriculumCONNECTOR, PerformancePLUS, CFAs, Performance Tasks, Smarter Balanced)

Priority 3: Observe the Code of Conduct for Educators Priority 4: Connect with Parents and our Community

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NEW TEACHERS ARE PART OF THE SOLUTION!!! If you think you can or if you think you can’t, either way you are right! –Henry Ford

Bloomfield Public Schools Raising the Bar is Taking Us Far!

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School, Grade, Class, Student

Goals with measurable

Targets

District and School

Accountability Plans

Data Teams and SRBI

Effective Parent and Community Engagement

Aligned Evaluation and Professional Development

TEAM Mentors

and TEAM Coordinating

Committee (TCC)

School Climate Survey and Goals

How You Receive Support….

Clear Expectations

and Alignment at All Levels

Bloomfield Public Schools Raising the Bar is Taking Us Far!

Focus: We are Crew not Passengers…

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High-Quality Instruction Increase Rigor with

Depth of Knowledge (DOK)

Engage Students in Pairs Practice with complex

text Use the language of

your discipline with colleagues, with students

High-Quality Curriculum Know, use, and speak

the CCSS! Knowledge-building

through content-rich informational text

Reading, writing, social studies, math and science grounded in citing evidence from text

Bloomfield Public Schools Raising the Bar is Taking Us Far!

Evidenced-based Effective Teaching Strategies (Ainsworth, 2011; Hattie, 2009;)

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Reading and Writing Clear Standards-based

Goal/Objective Reciprocal Teaching/Gradual

Release Model Guided Practice with Corrective

Feedback Metacognition, e.g. visualization Strategic Close Reading Teacher as Activator

Math and Science Clear Standards-based Goal/Objective Comprehension Strategies, i.e.

metacognition, inferencing Hands-on Application Guided Practice with Corrective

Feedback Challenging, Interactive Problem-

Solving Teacher as Activator Standards for Mathematical

Practice/Scientific Practice

Bloomfield Public Schools Raising the Bar is Taking Us Far!

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1. Purpose: Familiarize YOU with Bloomfield and the Public Schools…..WHAT DO YOU RECALL?

2. Process: Discuss and investigate…HOW DID YOU LEARN BEST?

3. Pay-off: All students achieve goals as a result of standards-based instruction provided by highly-skilled teachersCommitted to clear expectations, academic rigor, and meaningful engagement with the curriculum…HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?

Three P’s…