Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners

1. Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners Painted Stone Elementary Shelbyville, KY

2. I can embrace ideas that will meet the needs of diverse learners. I can apply one strategy at my school when I return.

3. Painted Stone Elementary • The school was opened in 2002 and is currently home to 602 students. • It is located within the city limits; drawing from the “country club” area, rural and inner city settings. • 60% Free and Reduced; which qualifies Painted Stone as a school-wide Title 1 Program

4. Staff • Classroom Teachers • Special Education Team • Reading Recovery • Special Areas Team • Bilingual Instructional Assistants Andrew Carnegie“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

5. Hispanic Population Growth

6. State Assessment

7. Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners • What do schools and classrooms look like when they are organized around the commitment to the achievement of high standards by all students? • What are the ways we can recognize, respect and respond to differences in learners? • How can we scaffold learning and extend it so that all learners are appropriately supported and challenged? • How do we use data to inform our instructional decisions? Referenced by Paula Rutherford

8. High Expectations: BIG Goals All Students will be ON or ABOVE grade level by May 20, 2013. • Deconstructed Standards • Mastery Learning • Common Assessments • Breakdown K-12 • Student Goal Setting • Celebrations for Growth • College Aspirations • Career Aspirations College and Career Ready We are the Class of 2024!

9. High Expectations: BIG Goals

10. High Expectations: Quality Work • What is quality work? • Accepting only a students’ best • Modeling from Teachers • Leaving no student behind “Children should not turn their work into a basket; that is telling them that we do not care.” -Carmen Coleman -Leslie Robertson

11. High Expectations: Dress Code • School-Wide Dress Code • Parent buy-in • Teacher supported • Various levels of Socio-Economic Status • Focused on learning

12. High Expectations: Guidelines for Success • School-Wide Behavior Management System • Common Area Procedures • CHAMPS • Safe Schools Partner • Parent Communication

13. High Expectations: Celebrations • Meeting BIG Goals • Attendance • Added Value • State Assessment Pep Rally • State Assessment Recognitions • Accelerated Reader

14. Respond to Differences: Home Visits • Positive Relationships • Understanding Home Life • Flexibility • Cultural Respect

15. Respond to Differences: School Activities • Choir • Student Leadership Team • Yearbook Club • Running Club • Odyssey of the Mind • Academic Team • STLP • Art Grant • Homework Help

16. Respond to Differences: Culturally • Latino Night • Arriba Niño's • Literacy Night • Art to Remember • Cookies with Santa Latino Night

17. Respond to Differences: Language English/Spanish How do we overcome this? • Translating Newsletters, Information, Notes • DVD that shows English/Spanish strategies for Reading • Parent/Teacher Conferences

18. Respond to Differences: Know Your Students • Meet them where they are • Parent Communication Logs • Perception as a learner • Extra Lesson (Waldorf)

19. Differentiate Learning: Brainboosters Intervention • Identifying specific standards or skills that students have not mastered. • Intentionally planning to provide instruction in various modes. • Assessing often to determine mastery of skills. • 30 minutes Daily with small group instruction Enrichment • Identifying specific standards or skills that student have already mastered. • Intentionally planning extensions for standards to deepen thinking and understanding. • Assessing often to determine higher order thinking. • 30 minutes Daily

20. Differentiate Learning: Inclusion "Education is the key to developing an attitude of inclusion. The practice of inclusion provides the model of acceptance, belonging, participation, worth and dignity."Janis Jaffe-White and Reva Schafer, Toronto Family Network Embedded into Our Schedule Special Education Co-teaching ELL Staff Co-teaching Small group instruction

21. Differentiate Learning: Reading Recovery • Reading Recovery is proving to be as effective with ELLs as with our Native Language Speakers in first grade. • Comprehensive Intervention Model (CIM) is also proving to be an effective small group intervention.

22. Differentiate Learning: Real Life Experiences • Modeling • Scaffolding • Vocabulary • Picture Models • Fieldtrips • Guest Speakers • Nature Walks • Songs

23. Differentiate Learning: Non-Fiction Non-Fiction • 50% of Instruction • Informational Skills • Focus on tracking our thinking; building on our schema • Making real-life connections • Building Stamina • College and Career Preparation

24. Instructional Decisions: Data Teams • Weekly Data; make adjustments • Proficiency is based on 90%

25. Instructional Decisions Re-Teach Front-Loading • Ensure that students can Master skills • Tweak what we are doing • Vocabulary • Pictures • Background Knowledge • Learning Styles

26. Instructional Decisions: Assessments District Assessments • Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) • Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) • Common Assessments • ACCESS Test Analyze and determine specific steps for students • Des Cartes • Independent Reading levels • Language Education Plan Goals • Determine Tiers of Intervention through RTI

27. ACCESS Data

28. “Children who have grown up in a literate environment and have knowledge about books and print may seem easier to teach, but children who did not get such opportunities will learn these things very quickly if their brains are adept at taking on new experiences.” -Marie Clay

29. Painted Stone Elementary Pursuing Standards of Excellence • High Expectations • Respond to Differences • Differentiate Learning • Instructional Decisions

30. Painted Stone Elementary Michelle Shipley, Principal Michelle.Shipley@shelby.kyschools.us Heather Fallen, Teacher Heather.Fallen@shelby.kyschools.us Beth Cook, Teacher Beth.Cook@shelby.kyschools.us