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Creekside Middle School

Patterson Joint Unified School District Stanislaus Initial

• Close the achievement gap

• Increase EL success

• Develop fluency in academic language

• Enable students to apply what they

could express orally in their

understanding of key concepts in

written form

• Focus on meaningful reading and

writing

• Increased academic discourse among

students

Needs

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To refine teacher’s skills by:

• Planning collaboratively

• Looking at video analysis of effective

instruction and strategies

• Developing high quality lesson plans

• Building teacher capacity through observations and feedback

• Accepting constructive criticism

• Looking at and analyzing student work

• Reflecting on teacher practice and student learning

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Outcomes

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Unified School District

Stanislaus Initial

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Participant Identification

• 1st year of implementation

concentrated on 6th grade

teachers

• 2nd year added 7th and 8th grade

English Language Arts

• 3rd year added a team from other

content areas

• 26 teachers are participating in

2011-12

Creekside Middle School

Patterson Joint Unified School District

Stanislaus Initial

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Focus and

Approach

Focus:

• 1st year – focus area was on Planning

• 2nd year – focus area was on Best Teaching

Practices

• 3rd year – choice was given: some teams chose

planning others differentiation

Approach:

• 1st year – common subject common grade level

* Teams were assigned

* No release time

• 2nd year – same grade level teams, different

subjects that shared students, release time

given

• 3rd year – assigned partners, different grade

level same subject, release time given

Creekside Middle School

Patterson Joint Unified School District

Stanislaus Initial

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• Professional development and

support have been provided by a

coach and site administrators

during the 1st and 2nd year of

implementation

• Action steps recommended by

peers based on observations and

student work analysis

• Weekly collaboration

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Action Steps

Creekside Middle School

Patterson Joint Unified School District

Stanislaus Initial

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• Increased academic discourse among

students

• Increased focus on the four language

domains (L/S/R/W)

• Showed growth in scores-benchmarks,

weekly tests

• Raised students’ confidence and motivation

to speak and become actively engaged

• Created opportunity for every student to

share and take ownership of their learning

• Created more standards-based

independent practice that is aligned to the

instruction

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Results

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Patterson Joint Unified School District

Stanislaus Initial

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Lessons

Learned/

Next Steps

Lessons Learned:

• Narrow focus on lesson delivery

(heart of teaching the concept/skill/

content)

• Adopted textbooks, curriculum and

independent practice are rarely

aligned to standards

• Personal – it is not easy, growth

hurts

• The process is about what the

students’ are learning, not a dog

and pony show

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Patterson Joint Unified School District

Stanislaus Initial

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Next Steps:

•  Internalize research-based

practices on a daily basis

• Make it the “Creekside Culture”

involve every teacher, every day,

every class period, every student

• Help students transfer what

they’ve learned and apply it in

other content areas

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Patterson Joint Unified School District

Stanislaus Initial

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Lessons

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Next Steps

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School / District: Creekside Middle School / Patterson Joint Unified School District County: Stanislaus _______ Implementation: Initial _____

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