Bexar PREP: Day 4

1. Bexar PREP: Day 4

2. Instructional System OneCampus Vertical Alignment Module 1 Step 1: Research and Vision

3. Agenda • The Three Essential Instructional Systems Reminder • System One: Module One: Vertical Alignment • Step One: Research and Vision • System Three: RPM

4. School Culture The 3 Essential Instructional Systems

5. 3). RPM 1). Vertical Alignment 2). Instructional Planning • A Weekly 5 Step Process • Includes: • Deconstructing the Standards • Creating Assessments • Writing Essential Questions • Determining Learning Activities or Strategies • Drives the Other 2 Systems • A 4 Step Process • Provides the “Why?”, the Vision, the “Where are we?” & the Campus Strategies • Done in Vertical Families • The Implementation System • Includes 3 Components • Continuous Improvement Cycle using Data & Student Work (Monthly Mtg.) • Instructional Sweeps • Collaborative Observation Vertical The 3 Instructional Systems Create Full Organizational Support for Teaching and Learning Horizontal Horizontal

6. The Vertical Alignment Process

7. The “Why” • The Vision • The “Where are We” • The Strategies • Research • And • Vision

9. Insert Overview of Campus Writing Data

10. Consistently low Student Expectations

11. Insert Campus Writing Goals- From CIP

12. Exploring the TEKS

13. Use pages 33-35 of the ELAR TEKS Vertical Alignment booklet to answer the following questions: • At which grade level does the writing process start? • How does the creation of a first draft change over the grade levels? • How do the revision & editing standards change over the grade levels? • What are the steps to the writing process as outlined in the TEKS? • At what grade level does the student begin selecting the writing genre? • At what grade level does the student get to select both the genre and the topic? Exploring the Process TEKS

14. Planning Steps to the Writing Process

15. Use pages 35-42 of the ELAR TEKS Alignment booklet to answer the following questions: • What do the TEKS in this section cover? • What is something new you learned about the TEKS in another grade level? • Which TEKS in this section are the biggest challenge? Exploring the Genre TEKS

16. 1 Expository Essay • 1 Personal Narrative • 28 Multiple Choice Questions • 9 Revising • 19 Editing What are the components of the 4th Grade Writing Test?

17. How would the vertical alignment of practice help all of the students in your school improve their writing? Whole Group Discussion

18. What are the recommended components of a well-rounded writing program?

19. Process Writing [Writer’s Workshop]- Required by the TEKS • Assessment Writing- Practicing the 26 lines and the time allowed with STAAR; Applying knowledge from the writing process • Content Area Writing- Expository Writing/Assessment Practice to a prompt in Math, Science and Social Studies- also builds stamina Recommended Writing Components

20. Take notes as we watch the video clips. What is the teacher doing? What is the student doing? What does the environment look like?

21. Creating a Writing Vision

24. Our students will produce quality written work by engaging in the Writing Process. • We believe that all students can and should write every day. • Goal 1: All students will demonstrate understanding of the writing process by producing 2 published papers per grading period demonstrating developed editing and grammatical skills that improve writing conventions complete with samples of the steps taken. • Goal 2: All students will have a writing portfolio that will follow them from year to year. • Goal 3: All students will meet or exceed the standards on the 4th grade STAAR writing test. Hartman Vision for Writing

25. Paschall Elementary writing vision- as a Professional Learning Community, we will guide student ideas and academic growth through quality, meaningful writing across the curricula, thereby, enhancing their abilities to becoming life long writers • new writing vision next Writing Vision

26. Paschall Elementary students will engage in quality, meaningful writing across the curricula involving content area writing applying their knowledge from the writing process, enhancing their abilities to becoming life long writers. *All students will engage in periodic brief compositions with a central idea, supporting sentences, and concluding statements *All students will engage in consistent revising and editing. *All students will have a writing portfolio that will follow them from year to year. *All students will meet or exceed the standards on the 4th grade STAAR writing test.

27. The Vertical Alignment Process

28. Instructional System ThreeCampus RPM MonitoringImplementation

29. The Continuous Improvement Model: PLC (Monthly) • The Instructional Sweep (20 Minutes of Monthly RPM) • Peer Observation and Research (Alternating) • Mini-Teaches The 4 RPM ComponentsImplementation

30. Component One: PLC

31. What does this look like in a monthly RPM meeting?

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33. Our 1 Month SMART Goal To significantly increase the amount of writing in all students’ reading, math, and science journals by having students write a learning goal at the beginning of each lesson and by having students summarize their mastery of the goal at the end.

34. Continuous Improvement Model

36. Nominal Data Reports • Student Work • Instructional Sweeps • Collaborative Observations and Research Learning Communities are Hungry for Data! How can instructional data be collected?

37. Component Two: Instructional Sweep

42. TEKS Alignment

43. Looking With a New Eye

45. Component Three: Collaborative Observation

46. Component Four: Mini Teaches

47. Learning about Your Teachers

48. Genre Posters

49. A Teacher Tool Kit

50. Schema The Inference