1. 1 **** Willowville Elementary Road Trip to Excellence 2006-2007

2. 2 Willowville Status Excellent Effective Continuous Improvement Academic Watch Academic Emergency Rating =State Indicators Met Indicators to be Met 04-05 05-06 3 rd Reading 4 th Reading 5 th Reading 3 rd Math 4 th Math 5 th Math 4 th Writing School Attendance

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4. 4 What That T-Shirt Really Means… Your Teacher Has… Assessed your Phonics Skills, Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension while Monitoring your Progress toward Benchmark Dissected and evaluated your Mock OAT data to differentiate your instruction Secured the resources to meet your needs as a learner Created interventions to keep you from falling through the cracks

5. 5 This Journey Began Without A Driver’s Manual! POLICY or Practice, Teacher, Resource Level IBS PBS RTI OISM

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7. 7 How do WE become that ONE person?

8. 8 Created a Collaborative Culture….. We Changed our Attitude and our Behaviors 1.High Expectations for ALL students. 2.Higher level thinking. 3.Shared Responsibility between student, teacher and parents about learning. 4.Analyzing our instruction and the lessons that we teach to improve our instruction. 5.Facilitating Cooperative Learning / Independent Learning 6.Creating a framework for student learning. (objectives are visible and spoken, modeling is present, application and questioning occurs, assessment of student performance, data collection, interventions as needed and follow up occurs) 7.Our Passion is Present as we model life-long learning. (staff meetings, study groups, CIP, OISM, team meetings) “Most children learn early in school that mistakes are signs of weakness instead of data to use.” Saphire & Gower

9. 9 How we Created a Collaborative Culture….. We Changed our Attitude and our Behaviors Changed our School Wide schedule to Create Daily Common Planning Time Cancelled all Staff Meetings- Established Grade Level Meetings (Team Meeting Tuesday) I set the agenda- Focus = Student Concerns, Evaluating Student Data, Discuss Decision Rules to see if we need to move to Tier 1, 2 or 3. Create Inclusive Practices / Co-teaching / Teacher Student Responsibility Tier 2 Interventions- Meet as a Grade Level- What are we missing? How Many kids need the intervention? When can we start it? How will we pay for it? (REWARDS, 6 Minute Solution) Tier 3- Parent Meetings, Data Collection, Monitoring Intervention, Change Instruction Establish a Level of Accountability by ALL Parties Every Year YOU CAN’T LET UP!

10. 10 Intervention Tune Up- Rebuilding the System Resources- People and Money Setting Clear Expectations with your staff- Having difficult conversations Finding the Right People and putting them in the right positions Professional Development (Inside)- My Goal was to Empower Teachers to Take a Lead Role i.e.. Study Group, Mock Testing Analysis (Outside) TESA, Lab Classrooms, Read Well, SOCI, DIBELS Summit Advocate for materials- Grants, Central Office- Will you pay half?, PTO-Raz-kids, Study Island, ELO, Fast Math, Study Group, Books and Breakfast, Professional Development for Teachers (Costa Rica), Russia, PBS-Colorado All Monies are spent on Continuous Improvement!

11. 11 We all developed a POSITIVE ATTITUDE of…

12. 12 The Quest Continues!

13. 13 “Our expectations for students turn into self-fulfilling prophesies. Maybe every school needs a person in charge of exceeding expectations.” Saphire and Gower How High Are Your Expectation? How will your children meet those expectations? “If you Believe it, You can Achieve it!” Nazzarine, Murphy & Schmidt