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Crossland Ninth Grade Center Established 2006-2007

Crossland Ninth Grade Center Established 2006-2007. Tarleton State University March 23, 2010. Objective. The educator will understand how we attempt to meet the needs of the at-risk student by reaching their hearts and minds so that we can help them learn.

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Crossland Ninth Grade Center Established 2006-2007

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  1. Crossland Ninth Grade CenterEstablished 2006-2007 Tarleton State University March 23, 2010

  2. Objective • The educator will understand how we attempt to meet the needs of the at-risk student by reaching their hearts and minds so that we can help them learn. • Please note areas about which you would like more information. We will answer questions at the end of the presentation. • The PowerPoint can be accessed at http://www.granburyisd.org/crossland

  3. Question Why did you enter the teacher preparation program….Why do you want to become a teacher?

  4. Mission Statement Crossland Ninth Grade Center in partnership with students, families, and community is committed to providing a uniquely focused freshman environment. Our goal is to produce responsible and prepared lifelong learners who will make a seamless and successful transition to Granbury High School.

  5. How do we form partnerships with students? • Through establishment of a caring climate • Through fostering ownership on the part of the students • Through modeling what we want to see • Through meaningful instruction and processes

  6. Caring Climate • Handshakes at the door each morning • Music in the mornings and during passing periods Students can request specific music • Student Centered Poetry Café Book Talk Bistro Fellowship of Christian Anybodies • Smiles, names, asking how they are doing….

  7. Caring Climate… Summer Academy Goals Selection of Students – make them feel that they were chosen Activities

  8. Fostering Ownership… • Creating Buy In • Treating the students as true partners • Value them by asking for their input

  9. Fostering Ownership… • Social Contract (Capturing Kids Hearts) • Questions How do you want me to treat you? How do you want to treat each other? How do you think I want you to treat me? How are we going to handle conflicts? • Good things…

  10. Fostering Ownership… Student Leadership • Selection Process • Activities Ropes Course Talent Show Rachel’s Kindness TAKS Data Presentations Comparison to state Goal Setting Presentations to peers Math Day

  11. Meaningful Instruction and Processes… • Inclusion – co-teach classrooms • Differentiated instruction • Grouping strategies • Objective driven lessons • Conversations about improvement and growth at every opportunity • Released TAKS data • Data folders • Common lessons

  12. CARA Process

  13. So what about Discipline…. Turn to a partner and tell them what comes to mind when you think of the word discipline.

  14. Discipline Webster 1828 (v) “To instruct, to inform the mind; to prepare by instructing in correct principals and habits; as, to discipline youth for a profession, or for future usefulness; to advance and prepare by instruction.”

  15. So where does discipline fit in the four categories we’ve discussed? • Through establishment of a caring climate • Through fostering ownership on the part of the students • Through modeling what we want to see • Through meaningful instruction and processes

  16. Discipline • Coach through behavior choices with CKH questions • Talk about personal responsibility and the power of choice • Daily Announcement… “Make it a great day or not, the choice is absolutely yours.”

  17. Class Unity Quotes… • Class of 2010 “212° One degree of effort makes all the difference” -- Park and Anderson • Class of 2011 “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness is a result of conscious choice and discipline.” -- Collins

  18. Class Unity Quotes… • Class of 2012 “There are no secrets to success. It is about preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” -- Powell • Class of 2013 “Dare to be your best. Once you stop drifting with the crowd and face life courageously, life takes on a new significance….aim at something worthy of the best that is in you. Dare to be Uncommon. -- William Danforth / Tony Dungy (Kids created t-shirts)

  19. Maintaining relationships… • Postcards • Videos

  20. Results… • Class of 2010 (Year 1) --Academically Acceptable --Gold Performance: Comparable Improvement -- Reading • Class of 2011 (Year 2) --Recognized Campus --Gold Performance: Comparable Improvement – Reading --Missed Gold Performance: Math Commended Rate by 1 percentage point

  21. Results Continued… • Class of 2012 (Year 3) --Recognized Campus --Gold Performance: Comparable Improvement – Reading --National Center for Educational Achievement 2009 Higher Performing School • Class of 2013 (Year 4)

  22. Questions… • What caught your attention? • What would you like to know more about? • What did you see that you might apply in your classroom?

  23. What is right for kids? • It’s all about appropriate relationships • It’s about mission and vision • It’s about being innovative and creative • It’s about looking at data • It’s about recognizing incremental improvement • It’s about seeing possibilities – not limitations • It’s about learning from failure • It’s about teachers being learners also • It’s about giving students their voice and including them – they are the missing link

  24. Why did you enroll in the teacher preparation program? Why do you want to be a teacher?

  25. “Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action. What you hope for should be what you are prepared to work for and so bring about as far as that power lies within us.” -- John Polkinghorne

  26. “Dare to be your best. Once you stop drifting with the crowd and face life courageously, life takes on a new significance….aim at something worthy of the best that is in you. Dare to be Uncommon.  -- William Danforth / Tony Dungy

  27. I dare you, new teacher, to teach children, not subjects. • I dare you, new teacher, to see children for who they will become, not for who they are today. • I dare you, new teacher, to be innovative, creative, to think outside the box. • I dare you, new teacher, to be a leader in your classes, not cowed by age or lack of experience. • I dare you, new teacher, to challenge yourself, to learn from your students and each other, to ask other’s opinion, to listen and learn. • I dare you to be uncommon – uncommon in your work ethic, uncommon in your passion, uncommon in your attitude, uncommon in your love for kids. • I dare you to aim at something that is worthy of the best that is in you.

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