A Turnround Story Strategic Staffing at Charlotte's Dev on Shire Elementary

8/3/2019 A Turnround Story Strategic Staffing at Charlotte's Dev on Shire Elementary

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Welcome to Devonshire Elementary

A three year journey from restructuring with the State of NorthCarolina to a 90-90-90 school out of State of North Carolina

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Welcome to Devonshire Elementary

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Devonshire Elementary

575 Students, Grades K-5

50% African American

44% Hispanic

96% Poverty

44% LEP


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Our goal is to become the first 90-90-90 school in CMSin both Literacy and Math

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Over the past two years we have gained 21.3 points in reading,

39.1 points in math, and 56.1 points in science

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Student Achievement at Devonshire


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We have an Eclectic Model of school turnaround

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Structure (rules & procedures, schedule, accountability)

Developing trust with staff and building relationships with kids

Focusing on instruction

- Collaborative team planning every day, led by either the literacy or

math facilitator

- Two facilitators who work intensively with teachers to raise the qualityof instruction

- Using data to re-group students and plan instruction

- Push-in model, allowing flexible grouping of students across classes

- Instructional Rounds Model

- Cutting-edge instruction for students in poverty

-Summer PD for teachers

Its about:


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We have an Eclectic Model of school turnaround

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PD throughout the school year for teachers

Single gender classrooms

-One boy and one girl classroom grades 1-5

Curriculum Mapping

Student Accountability for maintaining an assessment notebook

Lesson Plan templates that require teachers to talk about the

What and How of instruction Intervention/Enrichment Block daily

On-going pulse checks

Literacy Big Block Framework

Daily pledge to be respectful, responsible and do quality work

Its about:


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Our people make the school what it is

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The Core Team:

- Two facilitators (one literacy, onemath)

- Five SSI teachers (two in 3rd grade,

two in 4th grade, one in 5th grade)

- Admin team: assistant principal,

- Social & emotional support staff:social worker, counselor

Displacements: None.We workedwith the staff we had.


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We have shifted the school culture and created highexpectations for staff and students

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Sense of urgency around

improvement

Philosophy of continuousimprovement, adapting ideas

from research and bestpractice to our school needs

Modeling what we expect tosee and what good teaching is

We have a structure for

everything, with step-by-stepprocesses, guidance and

oversight

Innovative thinking

Our approach includes:


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ASchool with Innovative Thinking

Instruction/Curriculum Strategies

Common Core Standards

Quality Instruction

Effective Teaching

Teacher Accountability

Student Accountability

Literacy

Math

Social StudiesWriting

Science

System and State Guidelines

State Goals

Annual Yearly Progress8


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Some of our additional features include:

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Single-gender classrooms in grades 1-5

Miracle School after-school program

Class sizes reduced from 26 to 18, accompanied by a flexiblegrouping strategy across classrooms that allows for learning

groups of various sizes depending on need


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Devonshire ElementaryAPlace to Believe and Achieve

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A Turnround Story Strategic Staffing at Charlotte's Dev on Shire Elementary