Welcome

1. Welcome Michele Dorrance, 2nd grade teacher Lynne Marzen, 2nd grade teacher Greg O’Connell, Principal Karen Wildhagen, Instructional Coach Wright Elementary School, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

2. Imagine having a 20 minute school-wide intervention block dedicated to daily targeted instruction…… how do you think this would impact student achievement?

3. Three Main Ideas • Collaboration in grade level teams with support staff(What do we want each student to know and be able to do?) • Analyzing student formative and summative assessments(How do we know? What evidence do we have of learning?) • Flexible and fluid grouping for differentiated instruction(How do we respond if they struggle or don’t learn? How do we respond if they know it?)

4. District Overview • District Plan on a Page • District School Improvement Plan (SIP) • Building SIP

5. Demographics • Demographics CRCSD/Wright Elementary • Enrollment 16,503(Ak-12) 865 preschool/ 259 (K-5) 40 preschool • Free/Reduced 50.2%/ 57% • Ethnic Diversity 24.6%/ 15% • Individualized Education Plan (IEP) students7.5%/ 6%

6. Student Learning Expectations (SLE’s) • Creation • Implementation • Alignment

7. Seeing things in a variety of ways

8. What is an intervention block?

9. Data • 2010-11 Math Student Learning Expectations (SLE) Graphs

11. Scaffolding Student Learning Expectations (SLE) • SLE scaffolding graphic Money I Can Name__________________________ 1-struggling to meet the expectation 2-Making progress toward meeting the expectation 3-Meets the expectation consistently and independently

12. Money Intervention

13. Video clip - students • The students tell all…What happens when they do not get it? • Who helps them to identify where they are and where they need to go? • Mizell and Isaac

14. Intervention Groups • Intervention block

15. Subtraction Facts Data

16. Post-test and beyond... • How is this information used?

17. Parent Connection • SLE homework connection (differentiated homework) • Helper sheets • Parent sharing

18. Student/Teacher Data Clip Lexi and Jade

19. Additional Differentiation • Treasures – leveled reading • Test taking strategies • Goal setting • Small group in addition to whole group instruction • Push-In (Title 1/Level 1 Special Education) as much as possible

20. Carousel Walk • Time to look at some of our data, charts, forms and ask questions • How does this relate to your school and students?

21. Three Main Ideas • Collaboration in grade level teams with support staff(What do we want each student to know and be able to do?) • Analyzing student formative and summative assessments(How do we know? What evidence do we have of learning?) • Flexible and fluid grouping for differentiated instruction(How do we respond if they struggle or don’t learn? How do we respond if they know it?)

22. Questions • What questions do you have for us?

23. Resources • Cassandra Erkens/Process for Common Assessments • Anam Cara Consulting, Inc. http://www.anamcaraconsulting.com/index.php • Solution Tree Professional Development • http://www.solution-tree.com/Public/ProfDev.aspx • Analyzing Student Work Protocol • New Teacher Center • University of California-Santa Cruz • www.newteachercenter.org

24. A Special thanks to: • Grant Wood Area Education Agency • Kim Owen, Regional Administrator • Emily Thomson, Professional Development • New Teacher Center www.newteachercenter.org • University of California-Santa Cruz • Justin Schaffer for the video assistance • Becky Martin for her continuous improvement assistance • Staff & Students at Wright School for all the photos

25. Contacts • Cedar Rapids School District site • http://www.cr.k12.ia.us/http://quality.cr.k12.ia.us/ • Michele Dorrance • mdorrance@cr.k12.ia.us • Lynne Marzen • lmarzen@cr.k12.ia.us • Greg O’Connell • goconnell@cr.k12.ia.us • Karen Wildhagen • kwildhagen@cr.k12.ia.us