ACA Intermediate Summary
Results
Progress Monitoring & Evaluation
- Improve 4th grade STAAR Writing scores from the 2013-2014 school year.
- Improve grades 3-5 student performance on all STAAR tested content areas by increasing the advanced scores.
- Maintain teacher attrition rate of less than 8% for the 2014-2015 school year.
Results
- More students obtained Advanced ratings on their 4th grade STAAR writing test.
- 2014 = 89% Passing & 9% Advanced
- 2015 = 83% Passing & 14% Advanced
- Students continued to show growth in Reading & Writing and maintained Advanced ratings in Science.
- 3rd grade Advanced Reading - 33% / 2014 & 33% / 2015
- 4th grade Advanced Reading - 24% / 2014 to 40% / 2015
- 4th grade Advanced Writing - 9% / 2014 to 14% / 2015
- 5th grade Advanced Reading - 32% / 2014 to 39% / 2015
- 5th grade Advanced Science - 22% / 2014 & 22% / 2015
- The teacher attrition rate stayed well above 8% for the 2014-2015 school year.
- 2013-2014 = 16%
- 2014-2015 = 16%
Progress Monitoring & Evaluation
- Improve 4th grade STAAR Writing scores from the 2013-2014 school year. o Quarterly staff development to provide writing teachers with the resources needed to engage young writers.
- Be A Writer curriculum, Lead4ward TEKS review, DBQ (Data Based Questions), Words their Way, Shirley English, & Differentiated Instruction o Common Planning 1X a month to collaborate, plan, and review TEKS mastery.
- Vertical planning 1X a 9wks with administration, instructional specialist, and ELA colleagues.
- Vertical planning 1X a 9wks with administration, instructional specialist, and ELA colleagues.
- Improve grades 3-5 student performance on all STAAR tested content areas by increasing the advanced scores.
- Quarterly review of DMAC TEKS assessments, progress reports, and MAP data.
- Quarterly review of DMAC TEKS assessments, progress reports, and MAP data.
- Administer more frequent TEKS checks to monitor progress and check for student mastery, growth, and areas of concern.
- Providing quarterly staff development off campus to obtain current research based teaching strategies, learning styles, and brain based learning.
- Providing quarterly staff development off campus to obtain current research based teaching strategies, learning styles, and brain based learning.
- Critical Thinking, Eric Jensen Brain Based Learning, Think Through Math, StemScopes, Mentoring Minds, Lead4ward TEKS alignment/pacing, and Differentiated Instruction strategies.
- Partnering with Region XI to provide staff development opportunities on campus.
- Partnering with Region XI to provide staff development opportunities on campus.
- Professional Learning Communities, Learning Targets, & Lead4Ward. o Common Planning 1X a month to collaborate, plan, and review TEKS mastery. o Vertical planning 1X a 9wks with administration, instructional specialist, and core content teachers (R, M, ELA, SS, & Sci). Providing weekly technology use for individualized learning, research, and providing more rigor & relevance in the core content areas.
- Maintain teacher attrition rate of less than 8% for the 2014-2015 school year.
- Employ highly qualified staff that reflects campus student demographics
- Provide staff development to equip & Increase teacher ability to use current resources for enrichment & intervention (differentiation)
- Provide staff development to equip & Increase teacher understanding of campus level data programs/technology resources that will enable them to analyze data and use assessments to drive instruction.
- Provide content specific professional development on campus & off site.
- Provide technology/Google training for all classroom teachers.
- Assist non-ESL certified staff with test prep & supports to obtain ESL certification.
- Employ highly qualified staff that reflects campus student demographics