1. When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Dr. Robert Anthony

2. Classroom Instruction
New standards
Little Background Knowledge
Bad home lives
Classroom Instruction
Funding
Parent Support
What’s inside the box, what’s outside the box. We only control what’s inside the box. TVAAS speaks to one thing only: Classroom instruction.
No one to help with homework
New test
High Stakes Accountability Measures

3. 8th Grade
7th Grade
6th Grade
5th Grade
4th Grade

7. System Value-Added Report
Your school progress compared to 0 growth standard
Your school progress compared to state growth
Current Year
3-year avg.
Progress = current year – prior year
Reading the Value Added Report.
Tracks cohort from 3rd-6th grade
Achievement Mean – NCE avg.

8. Focus Matrix
One of the elements we received from Battelle is the Focus matrix. Sometimes we have schools or courses that are high achieving, but low progress. Other times we have low achieving, but high progress. What we want is BOTH. The schools or courses where we see high achievement AND high growth are where our strengths lie. Courses with low achievement and low growth are where we have the best opportunity for improvement. This matrix allow us to visually see where each course falls.
Below by </= 1 STE

9. System Value-Added Report

10. Focus Matrix
7th Grade Math
Below by </= 1 STE

11. Current cohort 3 previous years cohort
Progress in each quintile
Another type of data we receive is the Diagnostic reports. These reports help us see which groups of students our current instructional practices are working for and with whom we might need to make adjustments.
Students are divided into quintiles based on their prior achievement on tests. The state takes ALL previous testing information in a given student including this year’s information and determines which “prior achievement subgroup” the child belongs in. The blue bar represents how the students in that subgroup performed compared to the 0 growth standard.
The yellow line represents an average of the three previous year’s cohort group’s achievement. Given that we have a new test and new standards, AT THIS POINT, the yellow bar is not really that helpful What we want to look for are trends in the blue bars.
Number of students in each quintile
Percent of students in each quintile

12. Shed Patterns

13. Tent Patterns

14. Other Patterns

15. Optimal Shed Pattern

17. Things to consider from “inside the box”
Mark the areas you feel are your strengths with a plus sign. Mark areas you could strengthen with a minus sign. Use this fishbone to answer the Power of Ownership Self-Refection sheet.