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The Jefferson Area Plan
Providing exceptional educational opportunities for all students
Tonight’s Purpose
• Share information on the proposed Jefferson Area Plan’s framework with the Board of Education.
• Gather your insight/feedback and ideas to help inform a finalized plan for improving student growth.
• Provide our direction for future work.
Our Current Reality
• Teachers are teaching, parents are supporting, students are coming to school, yet. . .
– Student achievement is not meeting expectations
on a consistent basis.
– We have experienced four consecutive years of failing to meet state expectations.
Our Current Reality
• 90+% Free & Reduced lunch for all Molholm, Lumberg, & Edgewater elementary schools
• 80+% Free & Reduced lunch for Jefferson Area schools
• Majority of families are Hispanic
• Significant percentage of students are English Language Learners (ELLs)
School Performance Framework
School 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
Jefferson HS Priority Improvement
Priority Improvement
Priority Improvement Improvement
Wheat Ridge 5-8 Priority Improvement
Priority Improvement
Priority Improvement Turnaround
Edgewater ES Performance Performance Performance Performance
Lumberg ES Performance Improvement Improvement Improvement
Molholm ES Improvement Improvement Improvement Improvement
Stevens PK-4 Improvement Priority Improvement Turnaround Improvement
Current Reality
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Edgewater Lumberg Molholm Stevens District Avg
Percentage Proficient or Advanced Students: 3rd Grade Reading TCAP
2011-122012-132013-14
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Edgewater Lumberg Molholm Stevens District Avg.
Percentage Proficient or Advanced Students: 4th Grade Writing TCAP
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Jefferson HS WR 5-8 Edgewater Lumberg Molholm
Percentage Proficient or Advanced Students 6th, 8th, 10th on TCAP
MathReadingWriting
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Jefferson HS WR 5-8 Edgewater Lumberg Molholm
Percentage Proficient or Advanced Students: 6th, 8th, 10th on TCAP
MathReadingWriting
Number of Students Prof or Adv (6/8/10)
Jefferson 133
WR 5-8 170
Edgewater 46
Lumberg 51
Molholm 48 Content
3 37 19 19 14 Math
51 60 22 22 25 Reading
29 47 16 14 9 Writing
Current Reality Graduation Rate ACT Composite Score AP # Exams/% Passing Marks
(Earning a mark of 3, 4, or 5)
66.7% 16.1 143/13%
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Jefferson HS WR 5-8 Edgewater Lumberg Molhom
Median Growth for Reading, Writing, Math (Out of 300)
Behaviors (Discipline & Attendance)
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Jefferson HS WR 5-8 Edgewater Lumberg Molholm
Avg Daily Attendance (%) # of Out of School Suspensions Incident Rates (%)
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Jefferson HS WR 5-8 Edgewater Lumberg Molholm
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What do we believe? ALL STUDENTS can learn at a high level.
We have a moral imperative to significantly change the outcomes for our Jefferson Area
students.
Jefferson Area Plan Development
Develop a Framework • Principals with
District Support
Gather Input & Additional Ideas • Staff, Students, School
Accountability Committees, Community Members
Finalize & Implement • School Advisory
Committee, District Staff, School Leadership
Key Questions
• Identify what is working – Make systemic
• Identify what is not working – Discontinue
• Identify high potential strategies & structures – Understand and implement
What will change our current reality?
People Structures Programming
Key Element: People
• Effective educators committed to professional growth, professional learning, and additional time for collaboration and learning. – “Teachers are among the most powerful
influences in [student] learning. – Teachers need to be directive, influential, caring,
and actively and passionately engaged in the process of teaching and learning.”
-John Hattie, Visible Learning for Teachers, p.22
Key Element: People • Provide additional supports for the classroom
to supplement the efforts of the professional educator as well as to provide the necessary resources for an effective multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). Securing bilingual resources will be a priority.
Examples under consideration Interventionists
Instructional Coaching Educational Assistants
Peer Evaluators Area Lead Professional Education Developer
Key Element: People • Leverage and coordinate community resources to
ensure students arrive at school ready to learn.
Student
Parent Supports &
Engagement
After School Programs
Mental Health
Community Services
Community Insight
• Support for providing more resources and supporting teachers
• Desire for more information of specific
additional resources and community resources mentioned in the plan
Staff Insight
• Desire to have a significant voice on the details of the final plan
• Concern with the waiver process and a need to better understand the innovation status process
• Ensure that additional work time includes compensation
• Essential to create incentives in order to retain and recruit effective educators for the Jefferson Area
Key Element: Structures • Create a multiple pathway neighborhood school
for grades 7-12 with a pre-college/career academy focus: Examples of multiple pathways: college prep, JROTC, career focused pathways, STEM, visual-performing arts, certificate of workforce readiness, diploma with a Seal of Bi-literacy, etc.
Advantages of a 7-12 High School
• Reduction of school-to-school transitions improves academic achievement and drop-out rates
• Evidence suggests that more grade levels per building leads to better attendance rates, self-esteem, and attitudes towards school (fewer suspensions and behavior problems)
• Allows for more collaboration among teachers
• Consolidate & maximize resources to serve students
Jefferson Area Gifted & Talented (GT) Education
Current GT Options • K-8 Options
– Center Program • Grades 1st through 4th
– Stevens ES • Grades 5th through 8th
– Wheat Ridge 5-8
• Grades 9th through 12th • Advance Courses
– Jefferson HS • Center Program
– WRHS • IB Program
– LHS • North Area Option School
– AHS
Future GT Options • K-8 Options
– Center Program • Grades 1st through 6th
– Stevens ES • Grades 7th through 8th
– Everitt MS – Grades 7th through 8th
• Advanced Courses – Jefferson HS
• Grades 9th through 12th • Advance Courses @ Jefferson
HS • Center Program @ WRHS • IB Program @ LHS • North Area Option School @
AHS
Key Element: Structures
• Establish Stevens Elementary K-6 School.
Stevens PK/K-6 Elementary School
• Re-establish Stevens Elementary School – Original Proposal
• Move Stevens to WR 5-8 Campus • PK-6 Stevens Elementary School • Relocate Sobesky Program to the Stevens ES Campus
– Wheat Ridge Proposal by Community Members • K-6 Stevens Elementary School • Move Everitt MS to WR 5-8 Campus • Move Manning Option to Everitt • Split Maple Grove ES into a Primary and Intermediate Program
– Primary on Current Campus and Intermediate on Manning Campus
Key Element: Structures • Strengthen Professional
Learning Communities (PLC).
Professional Learning Communities
PLCs are beneficial for student learning because they: • Allow time for teachers to learn together, developing
important professional skills and content knowledge.
• Provide opportunities for teachers to consider student data and analyze which instructional strategies are working and which are not.
• Foster teachers sharing effective practices and ideas.
Community Insight • Support for a six year program with fewer
transitions, more offerings, and alignment of resources
• Request for research to support the plan
• Some concern with safety and security of students in a 7-12 high school
• Desire to ensure we do not have an empty building in the Wheat Ridge community
Staff Insight
• Desire to understand the specific PLC model to be implemented area-wide
• How to schedule the work-day/work-week to include time for PLC and teacher collaboration
• Support for the purpose of moving to the 7-12
• Desire to brand the program to increase pride and enrollment (retention and recruitment)
Key Element: Programming • Academic language development (K-12).
• Expand current dual language support.
• Utilize problem-based learning (7-12).
Community Insight
• Support for extending the dual language beyond 6th grade
• Many parents are excited by problem based learning and community would like to know how this can be supported
Staff Insight
• Overall there was high degree of support for PBL. • Overall there was a high degree of support for
Dual Language. • Concerns and ideas can be used to further
develop the plan. • It appears clear that with more clarity and
definition there will be even more support of this plan.
• There were no comments that this is not the way to go or that it would not work.
Questions?
Every decision we make needs to keep students at the center.
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