1. 2014-2015 Parent Curriculum Night
Kellogg School
Parent Curriculum Night

2. Vision & Mission Our Vision Our Mission
At Kellogg School, we are preparing all children to be successful leaders and learners with a solid foundation of skills and knowledge. We want to create an equitable, inclusive, collaborative and safe learning environment that is built on strong family and community partnerships, where all children will thrive. We believe that a diversified education is critical in laying a solid foundation for international mindedness and life-long learning.
Our Mission
All will develop skills needed to become resourceful, productive learners through a strong commitment and partnership between schools and parents. Our students’ academic performance will be enhanced through our rigorous instructional program and educational opportunities, which will result in increasing the number of students meeting and exceeding Illinois Common Core Standards.

3. Instructional Leadership Team
Mrs. Majka, Primary Representative
Mrs. O’Neal, Intermediate Representative
Mrs. Pajkos, Upper Grade Representative
Mrs. Reilly, Special Education Representative
Mrs. Rooney, Counselor- Social Emotional Learning
Mrs. Houtsma, IB Coordinator
Mrs. Pienta, Assistant Principal
Ms. Scanlan, Principal

4. Tonight’s Agenda Chicago Public Schools District Priorities
Kellogg CIWP Goals
Updates for
Family Engagement
Data
NWEA - Parent Teacher Data Conferences
Stride Academy & ThinkCERCA
Common Core English/Language Arts & Math Curriculum Focus
IB Updates
PBIS Update

5. CPS District Priorities

6. Kellogg CIWP Goals
1. CCSS Literacy: Through the use of the Optimal Learning Model and following their literacy block, teachers will increase rigorous English Language Arts instruction following the Common Core State Standards.
2. CCSS Math: Differentiation of instruction and professional development to increase mathematical rigor following the CCSS.
3. CCSS Science: Upon implementation of the New Generation Science Standards (NGSS) continue to increase the use of inquiry modules for instruction at each grade level.
4. CCSS IB: Increase staff and student knowledge and implementation of the IB Programme Next Chapter in order to maintain approved status.
5. CCSS Arts: We will expand Arts instruction to all grade levels and build a strong investment in the arts both during and after school.

7. Updates for the 2014-2015 School Year
Full time Physical Education Teacher: Student receive 2 hours of PE/Health a week
Common Threads- 3rd-5th Grade Nutrition Program
Art class expanded to 2 hours per week; loss of formal library instruction class
CPS Art Certification-Excelling
Urban Gateways Performing Arts Residency for Grades 6-8
Creative Schools Grant Submission
New Faculty & Staff
Mr. Michael Panozzo- PE Teacher
Ms. Maura Raleigh- 6th Homeroom and 5th, 6th & 8th English/Language Arts Teacher
Mrs. Niksic- Primary Special Education Teacher
Mrs. Benjamin – Special Education Paraprofessional

8. Updates for the 2014-2015 School Year continued…
5th Grade beginning departmental experience & exposure to IB concepts; In preparation for inclusion in the IB MYP program and our re-authorization process.
Healthy School Certification-Pending & On the Road to Wellness with CPS
ThinkCERCA- Grades 6th-8th
Code.
Peoples Gas Grant awarded for Science Fair Club- Mrs. Wesley
Classrooms (main building)
Electricity upgrade & Installation of air conditioning units
Asbestos abatement and tile floor removal & New classroom tile floors installed
Computer Wireless Upgrade & Computer Lab Remodel (in progress)

9. Kellogg Family Engagement
Parent Presentation
Back to School Ice Cream Social
8th Grade Parent Meeting
Registration
&
IB Curriculum Night
PTA Meet & Greet
MYP Parent Resource Workshop
IB Parent LeadershipCommittee
High School Fair
IB Multi Cultural Gallery Walk
Kindergarten Halloween Social
Open House
9.4.14
Be Kind Parent & Student Workshop
And Many Many More to Come…
PTA Bike-a-thon
Ongoing PTA Events
Science Fair
Kindergarten Parent/Student Workshop

10. National School Growth Percentile
Kellogg NWEA MAP Scores
Subject
Grade
2013 Attainment
2014 Attainment
National School Attainment Percentile
Reading
Grades 3-8 Combined 86 88
Math 64 82
Subject
Grade
National School Growth Percentile
Reading
All Grades Combined 78
Math

11. Attendance Attendance & My School, My Voice Survey 2013 2014
Goal for 2015
95.9%
96.2%
97%

12. Parent & Teacher Data Conferences
October 20th-23rd

13. Stride Academy
Alignment
● Stride uploads NWEA data to target curriculum based on students individual strengths and weaknesses. It has an adaptive engine to increase / decrease difficulty based on student progress.
Format
● Questions are formatted to appear as the questions would on the NWEA assessment as well as the PARCC assessment.
Supportive
● Stride provides skill remediation and enrichment through skills practice questions, instructional video lessons and printable, offline study guides.
Automated Reporting
● Teachers are automatically ed student data results to allow for continuous monitoring of student progress

14. New this year for Kellogg 6th, 7th and 8th grade students…

15. How Does it Work? Teachers assign leveled lessons
Students read an informational text and complete assessments for comprehension
Students then go back and highlight and annotate the text they read
Students then make claims, build arguments, collaborate, and write responses
Students then receive feedback from teachers and other students

18. Kellogg’s Powerful Practice for ELA 2014 ANNOTATION Annotation is a tool to engage with text. It is a strategy that is best used with challenging text that may be difficult to read and understand.

19. Annotation is a strategy where student’s mark on the actual text using a set of symbols. We have developed a set of “Kellogg” annotation symbols that we are beginning to use on a school-wide basis.

20. Kellogg’s Annotation Symbols This strategy to improve critical reading skills looks very different depending upon the grade/age of the student.

21. In the upper grades, we often use this in conjunction with close reading. When a student reads text the first time, they are reading to find out why. Reading the same text again using the annotation tool provides an opportunity to have the student identify text examples which they do not know, or they made a connection with, or have additional questions about, or identify the main idea.

22. Each teacher at Kellogg School has a selected two novels for each student to use for annotation purposes during this school year. Ask your child about how they are using this powerful practice!

27. Mathematics Standards
Common Core
Mathematics Standards
The Common Core concentrates on a clear set of math skills and concepts. Students learn concepts in a more organized way both during the school year and across grades. The standards encourage students to solve real-world problems.

28. Daily Rigor Math Talks MARS tasks
The math teachers at Kellogg, from the primary grades to the upper grades, plan learning experiences to ensure each student is being taught a rigorous curriculum.
Two of the most commonly utilized mathematic activities that we will share this evening are
Math Talks
MARS tasks
Daily Rigor

29. Math Talks are designed to be completed as a 10-minute daily ritual with the entire class. Their purpose is developing conceptual understanding of and efficiency with numbers, operations, and mathematics, as well as building positive habits of dialogue and discourse in the classroom community. Math Talks develop flexibility and fluency with numbers and promote multiple approaches to solving problems.
Math Talks

30. You are stuck in traffic and you only travel 5 miles in 20 minutes
You are stuck in traffic and you only travel 5 miles in 20 minutes. How many miles can you travel in half an hour at this rate?
19 x 21 = ?
Dominique bought an iPod for 40% off the original price and paid $54. How much money did she save?
Which is larger? √ 70 or 9
Math Talk Examples
Input
Output 10
-15 5 -5 1 3
What is the function for this table?

31. Mathematics Assessment Resource Service tasks are Common Core aligned performance- based assessments that make students’ knowledge and reasoning visible.
They are intended to be used formatively and play an integral role in uncovering student misconceptions, as well as inform instruction. These assessments are performance-based and offer opportunities for teachers to assess a deeper conceptual understanding of the mathematics content being taught throughout the school year.
MARS Tasks

32. Janice is making necklaces with colored beads
Janice is making necklaces with colored beads. She makes them into square patterns like this:
Complete the table below.
MARS Tasks Examples
# of Squares
Long Beads
Round Beads 1 4 2 7 3 8

33. Explain how you figured out how many long beads are needed to make 4 and 8 squares.
Explain how you figured out how many round beads are needed to make 4 and 8 squares.
Janice uses 37 long beads to make some squares.
a. How many squares does she make? Show your work.
b. How many round beads will she need to make these squares?
Write a rule or an algebraic formula for finding the total number of round and long beads, B, Janice needs to make n squares.
(continued)

34. MARS Task Example Bracelets Kindergarten
Abby is making bracelets. She finished making 3 bracelets. She needs to make 8 bracelets to give one to each friend.
TASK A
How many more bracelets does Abby need to make? ____ bracelets
Show how you solved this problem. Use pictures, numbers, and words.
MARS Task Example
Kindergarten

35. MARS Task Example Grade 3 KITCHEN TILES
Austin’s mom is getting a new kitchen. The worker is making the counter with square tiles. The worker has just started working.
TASK A
How many tiles will it take in all to make this counter? EXPLAIN how you figured it out.
MARS Task Example
Grade 3

36. MARS Task Example Grade 3
TASK B
If the worker decides to make another counter that is 5 tiles wide and 6 tiles long how many tiles will they need to make that counter?
Draw a picture of this counter showing all the tiles.
Write a number sentence to show how many tiles are in the new counter.
EXPLAIN how you figured it out.
MARS Task Example
Grade 3

37. What is the common trend?
Across all grade levels the shift toward mastery of the common core standards requires students to demonstrate their mathematical thinking by not only showing their work; but having the ability to communicate in writing what they did to solve and why.

38. International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme
Kellogg School has been an authorized IB Middle Years Programme school since Since that time the program has evolved and changed. The IB MYP has just finished an extensive review of all the components and implementation of all the new requirements began September 1, 2014 for all schools.
Key Considerations:
All teachers are required to be trained under the new requirements. Five teachers have already been trained, five more are registered for Fall/Winter training and the remaining teachers will be trained by the end of 2015.

39. Promoting the use of the IB Learner Profile traits school-wide.
Morning announcements share ideas of ways students can develop and expand these traits of good citizens.
Preparing for the October 2015 evaluation visit to maintain authorized status.
Parent leadership team
8th grade students Community projects
Introducing the 5th grade students to some of the MYP activities to improve transition to the programme in the 6th grade.

40. Behaving the Kellogg Way Responsible, Respectful, Safe and Kind
PBIS
Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) is a systemic approach to proactive, school-wide behavior. PBIS applies evidence-based programs, practices and strategies for all students to increase academic performance, improve safety, decrease problem behavior, and establish a positive school culture. 
Behaving the Kellogg Way
Responsible, Respectful, Safe and Kind

41. Kellogg Cash

42. Pack Tokens

43. Thank you for joining us this evening!