Annual Report

School Year 2013-2014Principal: Russ FacioneAnnual Report Meeting: Tuesday, September 24th 2013 7PM

Bingham Farms Mission Statement:

The mission of Bingham Farms Elementary School is to promote rigorous academic standards, encourage positive risk taking and

foster life long learning in our rapidly changing world. We all commit to closing all achievement gaps and providing

engaging instruction that fosters

creativity. We all commit to creating respectful, safe, and caring

environments that celebrate

diversity, encourage growth and addresses all learning styles.

Parent Participation in Conferences:98% Overall 98% Girls 97% Boys

GAN- Walk through our SMART Goal…

Goals in Writing, Reading and Math– Implementation of Writer Workshop.

We continued to work on our RTI (Response to Intervention) model of targeting our lowest performing Quartile of students and providing Title I funded additional instruction:– Morning Math BBC & ELA BBC (5 student class)– Reading and Math Support during school day.

With the addition of Instructional Specialists, we evolved our PLC (Professional Learning communities) by: – having ongoing discussion about kids and their

performance and – reflected on our teaching and monitored interventions.

School Improvement:

PLC- Professional Learning Communities– We work during common planning time.– We analyze student progress– See whether students either missed the target made it or already know

it.– Then we adjust and intervene accordingly

RtI- Response to Instruction/Intervention– Tier I Instruction- This happens in the classroom, it’s about 75% of

your students experiences. It is differentiated & engaging.– Tier II Intervention- Due to students not making benchmark progress,

we then may step into an intervention—examples include BBC Morning classes, Literacy groups. Title I support.

– Tier III Intervention – Due to continued lack of progress, we may move on to a more intense intervention, like AARI or Reading Recovery. Also a Special Education Evaluation may be recommended as next steps.

School Improvement: Making PLC’s and RtI a part of our culture

Math Program Changes

District Pilot Math Expressions. See attached letter about Math

Expressions. TOMORROW is a Math Session for

Parents @ BEAC

Grading Update

SBG Standards Based Grading.

How does it look different?– See attached

letter about that as well.

Assessment- Our AER The AER is available for you to review below. For

more information, visit www.mischooldata.org and search “Oakland Schools” and “School District of the City of Birmingham.” You may also review a copy from the Main Office.

The state has identified some schools with the status of Reward, Focus or Priority. A Reward school is one that is outperforming other schools in achievement, growth, or is performing better than other schools with a similar student population. A Focus school is one that has a large achievement gap in 30% of its student achievement scores. A Priority school is one whose achievement and growth is in the lowest 5% of all schools in the state. We received none of these designations this year.

Assessment- Our AER

This school year at Bingham Farms, we will continue to aggressively address any achievement gaps we may have amongst our sub-groups. We pay particular attention to our ethnic diversity and how our African American students (who make up 35% of our student population) perform on our standardized assessments compared to their Caucasian classmates. We will address this through a close analysis of each individual student’s success, and to determine what additional assistance that student may need.

Assessment- Our AER

We have several outlets for assistance: * Title I funded BBC morning program in both English Language Arts and Math in 1-5 * K-5 classroom assistance, to pull-out small group support. This is in addition to high quality instruction that is both engaging and individualize to each student.

Assessment- Our AER

Finally, in addition to our ethnic achievement gap we pay close attention to any potential gender achievement gaps between our boys and girls.

We continue to see amongst boys and their writing performance.

And we continue to implement new writing strategies to better motivate our boys to write more proficiently.

Testing Results

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

Bingham Farms ‘13Bingham Farms ‘12

188.3185.2

202.8195.2

208.3206.5

221.8220.1

226.4227.2

National Norms 179.0 191.3 203.1 212.5 221.0

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

Spring 2013 80.5 84.0 85.1 67.7 79.3Spring 2012 91.3 83.0 81.0 75.4 60.7

MEAP Assessment (% Proficient)3rd Grade Math 64%, Reading 87%4th Grade Math 70%, Reading 88%5th Grade Math 75% Reading 88%

a little something about listening.http://youtu.be/-4EDhdAHrOg