On Time Graduation

Weaving a Safety Net for Each Student

Everett Public Schools3/30/07

Goals NCLB

85% of On-Time Graduates by 2014 Community/Parents

100% of their children right now Work Force

Prepare students for entry into high skilled and high wage jobs

College Students ready to engage in college level

course work without remediation

High School Graduation An Educational Mandate An Economic Necessity A Civil Right A Moral Imperative

On Time Graduation Task Force 2004 Members

Counselors Teachers Administrators

Focus – Improving Graduation Rate Intervention Communication Data

On Time Graduation Task Force 2004 Recommendations

Examine Policies and Procedures to eliminate barriers to graduation

Hire Success Coordinators to guide students through the process

Promote students by credit Increase opportunities for students to make-up

credit (summer and online) WASL Credit Recovery

Develop process to validate and track student data

Increase communications to parents about student progress

Four Challenges to Graduation 22.0 Credits

3.5 English 3.0 Math 2.0 Science 2.5 Social Studies 1.0 Art 1.0 CTE 2.0 PE/Health 0.5 Senior Seminar 6.5 Electives

WASL Reading Writing Mathematics Science (2010)

Argumentative Paper

Culminating Exhibition

Credits

Shared Data ModelDistrictSchool

Classroom

Credits District - Initiatives

Policy Revision Course Of Study Sequence Directed Athletics Washington State History at Middle School

IMS Parent/Student access Program Options – Available for credit retrieval

Summer School Online SHS Contract Learning

School - Initiatives Develop High School Graduation Plan at Grade 8 Transition Meetings Personal Contact with failing Students

Teacher - Initiatives Grading – Mid – Semester 1 ‘F’ Student tracking

District Policy Revision

Course Of Study Sequence Directed Athletics Washington State History at Middle

School

Recommendations Credits

English 3.5 Mathematics 3.0 Science 2.0 Social Studies 2.5*

World History 1.0 US History 1.0 Government .5

CTE 1.0* Info Tech .5 CTE .5

Credits Art 1.0 PE/Health 2.0* Senior Seminar .5 Electives 6.5

Recommendations (Continued)

Additional Changes Students must take English, Mathematics

and Science until they meet standard on the WASL

Students will have the opportunity to meet WA State History requirement in Middle School

Students will be able to earn up to 1.0 credit of PE by participating in Directed Athletics, Marching Band or ROTC

Recommendations (Continued) Students who meet standard on the

WASL will be allowed to retrieve a 0.5 credit of a previously failed course in the subject area of the test. Students can retrieve a 0.5 credit of English by meeting standard on the Reading WASL, a 0.5 credit in English be meeting standard on the Writing WASL, a 0.5 credit in Mathematics by meeting standard on the Mathematics WASL and a 0.5 credit in Science by meeting standard on the Science WASL.

Recommendations (continued)

Courses lower than Algebra will not count for mathematics credit. The usual course sequence for mathematics, will be Algebra, Geometry and Algebra II with Trig.

Courses lower than Coordinated Science will not count for science credit. The usual course sequence for science, will be Coordinated Science and Biology.

Recommendations (Continued)

Alignment of Current District Practices College/University in the High School Running Start Student TA’s Community Service

District IMS Student/Parent Access Program Options – Available for

credit retrieval Summer School Online SHS Contract Learning

School Develop High School Graduation

Plan at Grade 8 Transition Meetings Personal Contact with failing

Students Success Coordinator/Counselors/Drug

Alcohol Interventionists Grading Practices

Classroom Academic

1F information provided to teachers Attendance

Tracking relationship between failure and attendance

Behavior Tracking relationship between behavior and

attendance Grading

Do grading practices reflect academic achievement, or attendance or behavior?

Intervention Focus – From Numbers to Names District

U-C-D School

1F to 6F’s Department/Classroom

Number of classes with failure rate over 25%

Course Grade Distribution

Jackson High School

From Numbers to NamesThe Power of Relationships

Single F Reports Teachers upload progress reports to server The progress reports are available for

parents to review Teachers are asked to update progress

reports every two weeks at a minimum District has provided an application that

summarizes progress report data The application can be used to sort for a

variety of things I use it to determine the students that are only

failing one class

Single F Report Example

Single F Report Teacher/course percent Peer percent Student Name and times on report Report is generated every two

weeks Historical data is collected by

teacher/course

Next Phases Include survey material

Collect reasons for students failing Add a report for two F’s

Decrease in single F’s leads us to move to next stage

Processing Reports with Teachers Administrator discussions about format

of report and the use of the data Decision to give peer comparison data

Want teachers to be able to identify how they compare to peers

Planning period meetings to present rationale for and the format of the report

Next Step Teachers now have a report- what

do they do with it Identified Pyramid of Interventions

during the 2005-2006 school Our Pyramid of Interventions

formalized opportunities we had available to us to support students

Jackson High School Pyramid of Interventions

Academic Intervention 2007-2006 funding prevented the

use of the Academic In-School Suspension program and In-School Tutorial

Still in place was WAC Time, SSR Support, After School Tutorials(I-728 and PAS)

Planning period tutorials

Impact Upon Failing Grades Fall Quarter 2006

1170 failing grades were given First Semester Grades 2007

776 failing grades were given From November 1, 2006 to January

30, 2007 there was a decrease of 394 failing grades

This was a 33.7% decrease in failing grades

Impact on Failing Grades-Red/Yellow/Green Report (RYG) RYG report is a graduation trajectory report of

credits earned Freshmen (first semester)

Red- .5 and below Yellow- 1-2.5 Green- 3.0 and above

Sophomores (first semester) Red- 6.5 and below Yellow- 7-8.5 Green- 9.0 and above

Juniors (first semester) Red- 12.5 and below Yellow- 13 -14.5 Red- 15.0 and above

Impact on Failing Grades-Red/Yellow/Green Report (RYG) Seniors (first semester)

Red- 18.5 and below Yellow- 19 – 20.5 Green- 22.5 and above

Graduation Trajectory for the Class of 2009

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Graduation Trajectory for the Class of 2008

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Graduation Trajectory for the Class of 2007

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Data Needed for Interventions Formative

IMS System ‘F’ Lists to Teachers Challenging course enrollment Demographic Information Course Codes for comparing over

time

Data Needed for Interventions Summative

Red-Yellow-Green By School/District Student names

Course Grade Distribution Course/Teacher

Number/Percent of class with 25% or more failing

F and FINC Distribution Course and Teacher 1 to 6 Quarterly Summary

WASL Mastery and Course History

Recommended Procedure U-C-D data

Is your Data clean? Have you tracked down U’s?

Have clear record for course codes Allows for tracking and course histories

Identify Barriers to Graduation Use data to help teachers shift

perception about failing students Need to shift school district culture from

student failure to student success

Recommended Procedure (continued)

Establish Data Summary Points and which data will be consistently collected

Principal must ‘own’ and report to superintendent on progress toward improvement

R-Y-G baseline and summary at grading periods Review policies about grading, attendance and

graduation requirements to check for self inflicted wounds

Work with students to see every class as important, that credit matters and that graduation is possible

Develop Options for Credit Recovery

Recommended Procedure (continued)

Look for High Failure Rate classes Are they Barriers

What changes can be made to remove barriers while maintaining rigor

Graduation Requirements Other ways for students to earn credit

or make space PE WASL Credit Recovery

On Time Graduation Role of Accurate Data

U-D-C-T IMS-2

Real time data for student intervention Pentamation

Red-Yellow-Green Grade distribution Individual Class Failure Rates

U/D/C – Data Summary

  CHS   EHS   JHS   SHS   Other   Total  

  04-05 05-06 04-05 05-06 04-05 05-06 04-05 05-06 04-05 05-06 04-05 05-06

C1s 2 5 8 3 1 2 7 6 0 0 18 16

Ds 15 5 26 38 16 22 72 27 5 1 134 93

Us 148 138 22 42 65 44 251 100 24 46 510 370

Total: 165 148 56 83 82 68 330 133 29 47 662 479

Decrease 17       14   197       183  

Increase     27           18      

Next Steps: Culminating Exhibition

Annual Review of program Transition to IMS2 Continue Quarterly Meetings with

Principals and Superintendent Summer School Option for entering 12th

grade students Last summer 44 incoming seniors

completed

Next Steps Argumentative Paper

Transition to IMS2 Integration of Argumentative Paper

with CCBA for Social Studies Continue Quarterly Meetings Continue tracking and extended

learning opportunities for completion

Next Steps WASL

Classes Learning Support Classes Segmented Math WASL Prep classes Extended Day Activities Continued Curriculum Alignment

Staffing Facilitators at Middle and High School Success Coordinators

Data Student Tracking WASL Course History Alignment

Next Steps Credits

Data Tracking - Students ‘F’ Distribution

Teachers/Success Coordinators/Drug Alcohol Interventionists

Red-Yellow-Green Student meetings and Grad Intervention Plans

Data Tracking – Staff ‘F’ Course Distribution Grade Distribution Professional Development – Grading Practices

Next Steps Technology

Continue U/D/T Dropout Tracking Process for continued monitoring

Develop an electronic transcript evaluation tool

Teacher, Counselor, Student and Parent Access Develop an electronic 4 Year Graduation

Plan Teacher, Counselor, Student and Parent Access

Next Steps Providing Challenging Options

Increase access and enrollment GEAR UP

Summer Program AVID

Summer School – Accelerated Coordinated Science

Increasing College in the High School Offerings in 07/08 – Social Studies

Next Steps Attendance – Middle School

Gateway/Eisenhower Target students 70% - 85% attendance

Goal to re-engage in school Provide school based incentives Tracking students and control group to

monitor success of program

Next Steps Attendance (continued)

Gateway/North Counselors meet with students with 3 or

more absences in 3 week period Student contract Attendance support group

Next Steps Evaluate Effectiveness of

Attendance Interventions Expand if appropriate

Develop Appropriate Attendance Interventions for Elementary School

ProgressGraduation

Rates  2003 2004 2005 2006

         

CHS 74% 64% 64% 67%

EHS 64% 59% 69% 82%

JHS 71% 71% 78% 80%

SHS* 0% 3% 10% 8%

State 66% 66% 74% 67%

*Alternative School Graduation rate based on inflated enrollment mobility.

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Weaving the Safety Net Culminating Exhibition

Building CE Administrator Quarterly meetings District CE Handbook and Scoring Guide IMS as an instructional tool Accelerated CE Summer School Tutorial options

Spring Break WASL testing time Summer School

Argumentative Paper Track Paper Completion Opportunities to remediate Online Instruction Tool IMS as a Tracking Tool Align Skills Tutorial

Summer School Spring Break WASL testing

WASL Pre-takes – 9th Grade 10th Grade Summer and yearly retake options Record Results on Transcript Graduation Requirements

Enrollment in class until standard met PAS Plans

Student and Parent meetings Summer School

WASL Prep WASL Skills

Course History and WASL Mastery Lists

JHS Fall 2007 Red/Yellow/Green  Grade 9 (Class of 2010)   Grade 10 (Class of 2009)   Grade 11 (Class of 2008)   Grade 12 (Class of 2007)

  Red Yellow Green Total   Red Yellow Green Total   Red Yellow Green Total   Red Yellow Green Total

Fall Semester 2007 <0.5 1.0-2.5 >3.0 22   <6.57.0-8.5 >9.0 22   <12.5 13.0-14.5 >15.0 22   <20.0 20.5-22.0 >22.5 23.5

Number of Students 7 83 423 513   74 80 307 461   76 90 251 417   78 82 257 417

American Indian 1 3 3 7   1 1 1 3   2 0 1 3   0 2 1 3

Asian 0 5 85 90   9 6 66 81   12 11 55 78   11 10 64 85

Black 0 3 11 14   5 5 9 19   4 4 3 11   2 4 2 8

Hispanic 0 5 20 25   5 6 8 19   2 5 7 14   8 5 2 25

Multi 0 1 7 8   2 1 4 7   2 2 3 7   2 2 1 5

Pacific Islander 0 2 2 4   0 0 0 8   1 0 0 1   2 0 0 2

White 6 64 295 365   52 61 219 332   53 68 182 303   53 59 177 289

                                       

Socio Economic Status 4 19 37 60   11 7 22 40   15 11 16 42   16 7 14 37

From Numbers to Names Taking District Summary data and

making it operational Staff Presentation by District to frame

issue School Site Council Role Individual and group teacher

meetings

From Numbers to Names Data Focus

F Distribution Number and names of classes with

high failure rates Red-Yellow-Green Trajectory

Number of Graduates

From Numbers to Names Data Results

Number of Students with F’s in one or more classes

Total number of F’s given Function of Credits earned

Change in Red-Yellow-Green Trajectory

Red-Yellow-Green 2006Fall Semester 2006 Red Zone % Red Yellow Zone % Yellow Green Zone % Green Total  

Grade 9 (Class of 2010)                

Number of Credits <0.5   1.0-2.5   >3.0   22  

Number of Students 20 4% 108 23% 348 73% 476  

                 

Grade 10 (Class of 2009)                

Number of Credits <6.5   7.0-8.5   >9.0   22  

Number of Students 98 22% 86 19% 266 59% 450  

                 

Grade 11 (Class of 2008)                

Number of Credits <14.0   14.5-16.5   >17.0   23.5  

Number of Students 132 26% 102 20% 266 53% 500  

                 

Grade 12 (Class of 2007)                

Number of Credits <22.0   22.5-24.5   >25.0   25.5  

Number of Students 63 18% 92 26% 201 56% 356  

                 

Total Students 313 18% 388 22% 1081 61% 1782  

                 

Red-Yellow-Green 2007Fall Semester 2007 Red Zone % Red Yellow Zone % Yellow Green Zone % Green Total  

Grade 9 (Class of 2010)                

Number of Credits <0.5   1.0-2.5   >3.0   22  

Number of Students 7 1% 83 16% 423 82% 513  

                 

Grade 10 (Class of 2009)                

Number of Credits <6.5   7.0-8.5   >9.0   22  

Number of Students 74 16% 80 17% 307 67% 461  

                 

Grade 11 (Class of 2008)                

Number of Credits <12.5   13.0-14.5   >15.0   22  

Number of Students 76 18% 90 22% 251 60% 417  

                 

Grade 12 (Class of 2007)                

Number of Credits <20.0   20.5-22.0   >22.5   23.5  

Number of Students 78 19% 82 20% 257 62% 417  

                 

Total Number of Students 235 13% 335 19% 1238 68% 1808  

                 

Red-Yellow-Green Comparison2006/2007 Comparison % Red % Red % Yellow % Yellow % Green % Green

Grade 9 (Class of 2010) 2006 2007 2006 2007 2006 2007

Number of Credits <0.5 <0.5 1.0-2.5 1.0-2.5 >3.0 >3.0

Number of Students 4% 1% 23% 16% 73% 82%

             

Grade 10 (Class of 2009)            

Number of Credits <6.5 <6.5 7.0-8.5 7.0-8.5 >9.0 >9.0

Number of Students 22% 16% 19% 17% 59% 67%

             

Grade 11 (Class of 2008)            

Number of Credits <12.5 <14.0 13.0-14.5 14.5-16.5 >15.0 >17.0

Number of Students 26% 19% 20% 22% 53% 60%

             

Grade 12 (Class of 2007)            

Number of Credits <20.0 <22.0 20.5-22.0 22.5-24.5 >22.5 >25.0

Number of Students 18% 19% 26% 20% 56% 62%

             

Total Number of Students 18% 13% 22% 19% 61% 68%

             

High Failure Rate Classes Classes

Greater than 75 Students Greater than 25% failure rate

Spring 05/06 – 18 Fall Quarter 06/07 – 9 Fall Semester 06/07 - 0

F Distribution Fall 06 and Fall 07

Number of F'sTotal Number

of studentsTotal Number

of F's Total Number

of StudentsTotal Number

of F'sDifference in Students

Difference in Total Number

of F's

  2006 2006 2007 2007    

1 200 200 213 213 13 13

2 100 200 89 178 -11 -22

3 56 168 59 177 -3 9

4 44 176 35 140 -11 -36

5 35 175 23 115 -10 -60

6 23 138 20 120 1 -18

Total 458 1057 439 943 -15 -114