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9/19/08 Indian Education Summit
Increasing Native American Student Achievement-A
Success Story
Friday September 19, 2008
Indian Education Summit
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Presenters
Dr. Tim Mitchell
Superintendent
Chamberlain School District 7-1
Allan Bertram
Grade 7-12 Asst. Principal
Chamberlain School District 7-1
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Contact Information
tim.mitchell@k12.sd.us
http://tm026.k12.sd.us
http://chamberlain.k12.sd.us
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McREL's Taxonomy
Declarative-What do they need to learn?
Procedural-How will they apply it? Experiential-Do they know why it’s important?
Contextual-When will they use it?
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McREL's Taxonomy
Declarative knowledge- participants will leave with new knowledge about effective instructional strategies associated with increased Native American student achievement.
Procedural knowledge- participants will be introduced to processes that help develop effective instructional strategies associated with increased Native American student achievement.
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McREL's Taxonomy
Experiential knowledge- participants will understand why it is important to emphasize the use of researched-based instructional strategies associated with increased Native American student achievement.
Contextual knowledge- participants will be asked to implement researched-based instructional strategies associated with increased Native American student achievement during the 2008-09 school year.
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Where were we at?
Spring 200327% of Native American students tested
were Advanced/Proficient in Math45% of Native American students tested
were Advanced/Proficient in ReadingNative American subgroup did not make
AYPElementary & Middle School on NCLB
ALERT
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Where are we now?
Spring 2008
67% of Native American students tested were Advanced/Proficient in Math
80% of Native American students tested were Advanced/Proficient in Reading
Native American subgroup makes AYP
CSD 7-1 has 1st Clean NCLB Report Card
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What Have We Done?
Focus on Three Areas:
– Student Achievement
– Safe and Secure Environment
– Cultural Diversity Initiatives
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Building Capacity
“Schools improve when purpose and effort unite. One key is leadership that
recognizes its most vital function: to keep everyone’s eyes on the prize of improved
student learning”
Mike Schmoker
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Mission Statement
It is the mission of the Chamberlain School District 7-1 to provide its students with well rounded opportunities
designed to offer a quality education and to ensure that every child has experiences that promote growth and meet their individual needs. Through mutual respect
within the total school community, our children will grow and learn in a safe and secure environment where
faculty, staff, parents, and students together are enthusiastic about the teaching/learning process. The
overall program is designed to stimulate intellectual curiosity, require students to demonstrate that they have
learned how to learn and enable them to become productive and effective citizens in the real world.
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Vision
We believe that the most promising strategy for achieving the mission of the CSD 7-1 is to develop our capacity to function as a professional learning community. We envision a school district in which staff:– Unite to achieve a common purpose and clear goals;– Work together in collaborative teams;– Seek and implement promising researched-based
strategies for improving student achievement on a continuing basis;
– Monitor each student’s progress; and– Demonstrate a personal commitment to the academic
success and general well-being of all students
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What it takes to keep good people
According to a survey by the American Management Association, here are the four most cited incentives:– Sending employees to conferences and
seminars– Tuition Reimbursement– Skills Training– Pay for Performance
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Pay for Performance
• Training Stipends
• Stipends for extra duties
• Educational Excellence Grant Program
• TCAP Program
• Alternative Teacher Pay Strategy Committee
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Building Capacity
• If a job is satisfying, then the result will be commitment to the organization
• The average person learns under proper conditions not only to accept but to seek responsibility
• Imagination, creativity, and ingenuity can be used to solve work problems by a large number of employees
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Building Capacity
• Use of methods based upon research
• To train and develop each worker
• Cooperation to ensure methods are implemented
• To divide the work evenly
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Building Capacity
To create conditions for you to succeed by helping you find meaning, increased skill development and personal satisfaction in making contributions that simultaneously fulfill your own goals and the goals of the
organization
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Learning is the Work
“Educational change depends on what teachers do and think—it is as simple and complex as that”
Fullan
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Learning is the Work
The best way to improve a school or district is by
developing the people within it
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Learning is the Work
South Dakota public school districts that are the most innovative and those that
have the ability to sustain school reform and organizational change have
greater professional development capacity.
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Learning is the Work
Instructional Leadership**Personal Professional Growth Plans**
Preservice/Inservice/Days Built into Calendar Summer Retreats & WorkshopsAfter School WorkshopsTuition Reimbursement ProgramMasters Degree Program National Board Certified TeachersNational Convention AttendanceEarly Release/Late StartFaculty Meetings
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Learning is the Work
Most organizations already have all the knowledge they need to improve, they simply do not implement what they already
know
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Learning is the Work
“Why does knowledge of what needs to be done so frequently
fail to result in action or behavior that is consistent with that
knowledge?”Pfeffer & Sutton
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Learning is the Work
The answer to the knowing and doing problem is deceptively simple: embed more of the process of acquiring new knowledge in the actual doing of the
task and less in the formal training. If you do it then you know it.
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Learning is the Work
The Key:
Address core goals and tasks with relentless consistency, while at the same time learning continuously how to get better and better at what we do.
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Learning is the Work
The secret lies in our integration of the precision needed for consistent
performance (using what we already know) with the new learning required
for continuous improvement
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Learning is the Work
Accenture Tiger Woods ad:
“relentless consistency 50%; willingness to change, 50%”
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Data Retreat
Four categories of data are needed:
student achievement
demographic
program
perceptions
Annual Data Retreat-August
Faculty Mini-Data Retreat-September
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Confront the Brutal Facts
Working in teams we should:Focus substantially-though not exclusively
on assessed standards. Review simple, readily available achievement data to set a limited number of measurable goals in the lowest scoring subjects or courses and target specific standards where achievement is low within that course or subject
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Goal Setting
Gathering and analyzing data enables you to identify areas of improvement and
determine gaps between current reality and goals.
Focus is critical to success, and so is alignment. Aligning school improvement
goals is an important prerequisite for making professional development work.
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Data & Goals-Now What?
Once student learning goals are defined, you must determine what instructional strategies teachers might use to help
students achieve them.
What does the research indicate about how students best learn this content or
accomplish this goal?
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Implement New Strategies
What do staff need to know and be able to do in order to implement this instructional
strategy?
What are teachers’ current competencies?
What theory, knowledge and skills do staff need?
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Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Teaching Model Grades K-6
Grades K-6 incorporate a collaborative teaching model that utilizes a Reading/Math Specialist for each grade level. All staff grade K-6 have been instructed in SD READS and are now
participating in SD COUNTS. The Reading/Math Specialists co-teach with the regular classroom teacher in Reading and
Math.
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Instructional Strategies
Project PAWS
Project PAWS (Programs & Pupils After/Before School Winners in School Success) conducts extended learning opportunities that include
before school, after school and summer school programming. The hours of the before school
program will be 7:30 AM-8:30 AM. The hours of the after school program are 3:30 PM-6:00 PM. Summer school program runs six weeks in June
and July.
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Instructional Strategies
Project PAWSGoal One: To provide extended learning
opportunities to enable students to meet the South Dakota K-6 Reading standards.
Goal Two: To provide extended learning opportunities to enable students to meet the South Dakota K-6 Mathematics standards.
Goal Three: To promote an appreciation of the culture around them, to promote a healthy lifestyle through recreation and to develop an appreciation for the arts.
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Instructional Strategies
Fast ForWord The Fast ForWord program develops brain processing
efficiency through intensive, adaptive exercises. Fast ForWord products offer tested, real-world results for educators and specialists around the globe. The program develops and strengthens memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing—the cognitive skills essential for learning and reading success. The strengthening of these skills results in a wide range of improved critical language and reading skills such as phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, decoding, working memory, syntax, grammar, and other skills necessary to learn how to read or to become a better reader.
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Instructional Strategies
Achieve 3000TeenBiz™ provides a Web-based, individualized reading
and writing instruction solution for grades 5-12 that reaches every student at his or her Lexile level. Powered
by software that distributes assignments to the entire class, but tailors them according to each student's reading level, TeenBiz enables teachers to easily
customize content and monitor student progress over time. Perhaps most important of all, TeenBiz is proven to accelerate reading comprehension, writing proficiency, vocabulary development and high-stakes test scores.
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Instructional Strategies
Catapult-ESA 3
Catapult Learning is one of the nation’s leading providers of educational services to students in public schools. Catapult Learning partners with public schools and
school districts to provide research-based educational and support services designed to improve the
performance of at-risk students. Catapult Learning’s experience in producing academic results, as well as its long-standing commitment to closing the achievement
gap, creates a unique position for the company to partner with schools and school districts to help
thousands of students succeed.
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Instructional StrategiesCurriculum Mapping-Tech Paths
An on-going process for planning, implementing, and reflecting on student learning.
It is a calendar-based process for collecting authentic curriculum data from classrooms. Curriculum Mapping creates a database which
records the “operational” curriculum within each classroom throughout the school system. It provides the basis for authentic
examination of that database.Proven use increases student achievement
Provides students a seamless journey in their total K-12 experienceGenerates a vital database of the operationalized curriculum allowing
for data driven decision making
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Curriculum Mapping on the Edge
“Curriculum mapping makes teachers’ work transparent. This transparency can make mapping seem threatening. It also becomes a key tool for sustaining PLCs. Mapping becomes an electronic town square where educators can collaborate and exchange ideas”
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
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Instructional Strategies
The most promising strategy for sustained substantive school
improvement is building the capacity of school personnel to function as a
professional learning community. The path to change in the classroom lies
within and through professional learning communities.
Rick DuFour PresentationASCD Pre-conference, 2004
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Collaborative Culture
“Successful schools are places where teams of teachers meet regularly to focus on student work through assessment and
change their instructional strategies accordingly to get better results”
Fullan
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Three Critical Questions
Exactly what is it we want all student to learn?
How will we know when each student has acquired the essential knowledge and
skills?
What happens in our school when a student does not learn?
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Learning is the Work
“Good is the enemy of great, and that is one of the key reasons
why we have so little that becomes great”
Jim Collins
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Questions
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