closing the achievement gap : using mileposts for intervention strategies

Closing the Achievement Gap:

Using Mileposts for Intervention Strategies

Presentation Focus: Administrators and Teachers

❖ Who are you? User Experience

❖ Personal Experience: Results✓ Set the Tone✓ Look at the Data: Make it pop

❖ Achievement Data: Big Picture to Small Picture✓ Fall Goals✓ Spring To Spring Growth✓ Comparison: Teacher to Teacher✓ Individual Students

❖ Training and Recall✓ Setting up Learning Goals✓ Advanced Filtering and List Manager✓ Monitoring Plans and Interventions

Recognition

Excellence in LEP Instruction

Reinforcing Positive Behavior

Catch kids doing Good Things

Learners of the Month

Four positives to every negative

Kids Solving Problems Another Way

ISAT Testing

Getting ready for next year

Looking at Data 2004-2011:

LEP: 2003-04: 7% 2010-2011: 22%

Intervention Decisions Based on Data and Discussion

Math P & A % Data shows:

2004 White Hispanic SWD LEP Econ

76.5% 83% 40% 42% 38% 44%

What trends did we identify and Foresee?

❖“Basic Math” classes had flat growth levels

❖Highest achieving students had minimal growth

❖Huge Achievement Gap in Sub Categories❖Demographics were going to change

radically in the next five to seven years with 3-5x growth in Hispanic and ESL

What changes did we make because of the data trends we found?

Trend Data Change

Basic Math was set up to teach kids at their level

Flat Growth Double Dip Kids – Math lab to Foundational Math

Advanced Kids were getting Straight A’s, but showed minimal growth or decline

Bouncing off the ceiling Advanced math classes in a leveled program

Huge Achievement Gap 40 Point Difference in sub groups

Needed a true reading program: Read 180

Testing was not part of our Culture

Huge Gap, no accountability Mileposts – teacher Goals, Spring to Spring growth results, and PLC’s

Kids not prepared Low Scores and decline Incentives, recognition, and training – Show them the data too and their ranking!

Look at our DataGroup % Tested Reading Math Language Science

State 99.4% 92.2% 88.1% 74.2% 53.4%

District 99.9% 94.2% 90.6% 89.0% 80.7%

WRMS 100% 96.6% 91.4% 89.6% 81.7%

White 100% 93.9/97.8/99.1

90.2/94.5/94.7

Hispanic 100% 84.8/86.1/90.2

79.3/82.3/83.6

LEP 100% 67.8/78.5/83.5

63.6/75.4/75.3

Econ. Disadv 100% 88.2/88.3/91.9

83.0/84.4/85.2

SWD 100% 62.3/78.6/89.1

53.5/66.9/70.5

Do We Have a Data Flat Line?

Reflecting On Data:

Misconceptions and Faulty Perceptions

VS.

Disaggregating, Trending and Drilling Down

Big Picture

Small Picture

Disaggregating the Data to the Smallest Picture: Individual Students

Bad Teacher?

Amazing Teacher?

Perfect Score6th Grade

Missed two questions: 7th Grade

ISAT Math Percentages of Proficient and Advanced 2004-2011

ISAT ReadingPercentage of Proficient and Advanced 2004-2011

FallTeacher Goal Sheets

Medium Picture: Classroom by Classroom

Data Straight from Mileposts – You just use Fill-in Color

Critical need for support and/or remediation – Below Proficient or Low Proficient

Medium Picture: Classroom by Classroom

Spring to Spring Growth

Changing Levels of Proficiency

Gaining on AYP in the P&A %

DecisionsBased on what the Data Illuminates

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Big Picture: Whole School Teacher by Teacher

Looking at Cohort Data

Math ISAT Data 2009-2012

Why the decline in 7th grade?

Biggest PictureDistrict and State

Cohort Data

ISAT Reading Data 2009-2012Seeing Steady and continuous growth

Biggest PictureDistrict and State

Take Away TipsScreen Casts to Help You After the Session

Building Goal Sheets

Advanced Filtering and List Manager

Monitoring Plans and Interventions