“Beginning With The End In Mind” PK Highlights 2008-2009 Shea Stanfield-McGarrah

1. “Beginning With The End In Mind”PK Highlights2008-2009Shea Stanfield-McGarrah

2. Community-Based School Readiness Integrated Partnership Model for Texas! • House Bill 130—Full Day High-Quality PK *Considered by many political insiders as the most popular bill in the Texas Legislative session *Sets precedent for importance of early childhood education • Development of PK Electronic Report, with “Continuous Improvement” features • PK Report Card Data • I-Station Data

3. PK Electronic Report Card • Rationale- To assist the district in measuring the positive impact of our PK program through data analysis • Designed with the teacher in mind *Aides in time management *Collects data that can be used to address needs and celebrate successes *Cumulative format to see individual student/classroom growth *Graphable data to use for Continuous Improvement and “tracking” of students *Designed components to help teachers shape instruction, Mastery vs. Non-mastery skills

4. District Report Card Growth • Social Skills/Work Habits- Often- 87% • Motor Skills- Often- 76% • Fine Arts- Often- 85% • Language Skills- Developed- 82% • Math, Science, Technology Skills- Developed- 84% • Colors, Shapes, Numbers- Mastery- 91% • Letter Recognition, Upper and Lower case (52)- 85% • Letter Sounds, Upper and Lower case (52)- 86% • Total Report Card Growth/Kindergarten Ready: 85%

5. New PK Guidelines Texas HEB District Performance: Letter Recognition-- 85% Mastery Letter Sounds-- 86% Mastery • State Wants: • Letter Recognition--77% of all 52 letters • Letter Sounds— 38% of all sounds mastered

6. What is I-station and how did we do?

7. What is istation? istation is an internet-based comprehensive reading intervention program that ensures that students reach their full reading potential. • Developed using scientifically-based research designed to systematically teach: • Phonological & Phonemic Awareness • Phonics • Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension

8. How does istation ensure that students reach their full potential? • Aligned to the federal No Child Left Behind Act and the National Reading Panel (2000). • Built as a revolutionary internet-based supplemental reading and intervention program. • Provides teachers and administrators with immediate progress reports on each student in all reading skills. • Directly links educators to teacher-directed lessons and supplemental materials for small group and individual intervention.

9. Four Components Assessment (ISIP) Curriculum istation’s Indicators of Progress • Monthly Universal Screening at the expected grade level (K-3, 4 and up at 3 grade level used for intervention only) • Differentiated instruction provided at the actual skill level versus grade level Reports Small Group Instruction • ISIP and curriculum reports that help teachers and administrators make data informed instructional decisions • Downloadable direct instruction lessons, scope & sequence, Lexile leveled books, and much more.

10. HEB PK Comparative Data 2008 – 2009 Compares HEB to three other Recognized Texas Districts PK

11. HEB PK Comparative Data 2008 – 2009 (Avg. scores for Pre-Kindergarten Assessment) These are average scores for the istation program assessment, ISIP.

12. HEB Pre-Kindergarten istation Data 2008 -2009 • 648 students are currently using istation • 194 students remain in Foundations • 84 (43%) of these students are near the end of Foundations • Instruction in Foundations: • Alphabetic Principle – letters & letter sounds • Phonological Awareness – words, syllables & phonemes • Rhyming and Onset & Rime • Book & Print Awareness • Oral Language, Vocabulary Development • Story Comprehension

13. 454 Students have moved into the Reading Curriculum • 6 students in Cycle 0 • 121 students in Cycle 1 • 178 students in Cycle 2 • 87 students in Cycle 3 SV • 47 students in Cycle 4 SV • 8 students in Cycle 5 • 1 student in Cycle 8 • istation provides for differentiated instruction. • Students can progress at their individual rate • of learning.

14. Pre-Kindergarten Assessment Data • 648 PK students have completed 4 istation assessments by end of the school year. • Letter Recognition Fluency • All 15 schools scored above goal. • Average scores ended the year with students recognizing 25 letters correctly per minute.

15. Letter Sound Fluency • 14 of the 15 campuses scored above the goal. One school scored 1 letter below goal (Goal was 8). • Average scores ended the year with students correctly identifying 19 letters per minute.

16. Beginning Sound Fluency • 14 of the 15 schools scored above the goal. One school scored 2 letters below the goal (Goal was 6). • Average scores ended the year with students correctly identifying 13 beginning sounds per minute.

17. Program Usage • 94% of the students met the intended usage goal of no less than 45 minutes per week.

18. Why is PK succeeding? • Staff development is tailored for early childhood and is occurring every 6 weeks • Strong curriculum in place (pulled best pieces from several resources) • Hiring people with knowledge of child development • Using para professionals as second facilitator of learning…active in small group rotations • All para’s required to attend staff development on district days • Partnerships with Special Education • Shift in “philosophy” for building leaders…seeing PK as a critical foundation for later academic success! • And…Leadership and support is starting at the top of HEB!