Adlai E. Stevenson School 29“Everyone. Every day.

ANY Way!”Presentation to the Rochester City School Board

November 18, 2014

Who we are:• 398 PK-6 (plus 7th& 8th Grade GEM)• 37 PK students• 28.6% SWD = 112 students K-8

• 53 are students with multiple disabilities (GEM), • Three classes of students with Autism, one class of students with Intellectual Disability, two 12:1+1 classes

• 3% ELL = 13 students• 7 are also students with disabilities, 4 of which are GEM

• 89.2% economically disadvantage• Majority of students from 14611, 14619, and 14608 (53% of students)• Home for LTS students and short-term suspension students grades 4-6• Staff of 100+Mission: At School 29 we are committed to academic excellence by meeting students’ individual needs. Our students will become global contributors, as we foster their critical thinking skills through brain based teaching and higher order thinking.

Beginning with the End in Mind: Finish Line Report

Attendance Iris & IseilaCurrent (as of 11/13/14): 91.4%

What we monitor: daily attendance, grade level attendance, classroom attendance, “watch list” students, adult attendance

How we celebrate: daily shout-outs to classes “in the green”, monthly pizza parties for top three classes, awards at assemblies for students with 95% attendance or better and students with most improved attendance, monthly pizza celebrations and gift card drawings for staff with perfect attendance

How we intervene: Home visits, work with parent liaison, truancy blitz, transportation assistance, personal connections with students using Americorps workers, weekly principal meetings with social workers, parent liaison, and attendance clerk

• Current enrollment = 361 (minus the 37 PK students)• Of those 361 students, 53 students are

GEM.• GEM students often have long illnesses

or surgeries during the school year. Looking at our At Risk, Chronic, and Severe students (a total of 163), 36 of these students are GEM students.• Two dashboards would allow us to

hold our entire school to high and attainable goals.

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We s t r i v e f o r 9 5 !

Beginning with the End in Mind: Finish Line Report

ISS/OSS/LTS

Then:• 7th & 8th Graders• ISS room staffed by TA• PBIS implemented in some

rooms• Trouble-shooting approach• Silo feeling in the building

Now:K-6 buildingNo ISS room staffPBIS push across entire buildingSchool-wide ownership of

behaviorPartnership with B & G

We s t r i v e f o r 9 5 !

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Using PBIS, proactive practices, parental support, Boys & Girls Club partnership, and Social Workers to problem solve and find support for students in need, and supporting teachers in need

Current (as of 11/13/14):

What we monitor: SCORE tickets and SCORE store activity, faces, conversations, body-language, referrals

How we celebrate: awards at assemblies for citizenship and improved conduct, recognize teachers using PBIS system

How we intervene: Home visits, work with parent liaison, behavior plans, social worker support, personal connections with students using Americorps workers, support for teachers in need

Beginning with the End in Mind: Finish Line Report

Expanded Learning

TimeClimate

Rigorous CurriculumAttendance

Student Achievement

Additional 1 ½ hours each day for ALL students Big Seven Areas/ Seven Essential Elements

1. Focused School-Wide Priorities2. High Quality Instruction3. Targeted Intervention and Acceleration4. Frequent Data Cycle5. Teacher Collaboration and PD6. Engaging Enrichment7. Enhanced School Culture

Strong Partnership with Boys & Girls Club Over 30 enrichment offerings giving students

opportunities for positive engagement including Cooking & Nutrition, Dance, Drama, Community Service, STEM

3 Americorps workers adding to our opportunities for support

Inclusive of our students with disabilities Increased volunteers at School 29 (Nazareth, U of R,

Brockport, Lawyers for Learning) Entire revamp of master schedule and school focus

giving us time for teacher collaboration and focus on data

Strive for 95% New hours have had an impact on

attendance: transportation home, later start time is helping

4-6th graders start day with enrichment, helping to get them to school on time

Stressing that every minute matters and working with transportation and attendance office to find families to get them supports needed

Improved attendance leads to improved academics

Monthly celebration assemblies: attendance, behavior, data improvement, staff, parents

School-wide themes to promote climate with both student and adult components

Enrichment classes offer small group connections with peers and adults

Inclusion of students with disabilities into enrichment

School-wide events (book read, neighborhood clean up, caroling, monthly PTO)

Parent events at dismissal has led to highest attendance rates

Daily meetings with grade level teams with a focus on data and/or planning

Meetings facilitated by Principal and Data Coach

Data used to set student goals, reviewed regularly with students and celebrated at least monthly, monitor interventions, differentiate instruction AIMSWeb NWEA Compass RADD Rubric Mid and End of Unit Assessments Behavior Attendance Brigance NYS Assessments

99 students receiving Tier 3 intervention services daily

All other students receive Tier 2 intervention or enrichment daily

100% implementation of Common Core with consistent feedback, monitoring, and common planning time to add rigor to teacher’s practice

Teachers observing teachers each month Drawing on Directors to continue to

amplify our craft

Facilitated common planning time combined with walk-throughs allows Principal to be instructional leader

School-wide focus on constructed response questions

School-wide reading of “Rules” by Cynthia Lord

Targeted PD based on grade level needs

Development- Staff

Teach Like a Pirate Book Study

Teaching & Learning Coaches

17 Things Book Study

6 hour Data Training

Quality Questioning

Number Talks

Development of School-wide Rubrics

Development: Self

EdDFinished Doctoral classes at SJFC in Education Leadership, finishing dissertation

Behavior Task

Force

Working with Dr. Otuwa and team on

District’s process

90/90/90 Work

RtI Cohort 2

Leading RtI process at 29, working with Katie Yarlett and colleagues to develop procedures

Data Collegial

Circle

Part of ASAR collegial circle focused on data-driven instruction

Teach Like a Pirate

TIME Collaborative

Using resources to consistently improve and monitor practice

What Great Principals

Do Differently

Site Visits

Central Square, Saratoga Springs, 23, 46

NWEA Data

Training

Self-book study to reflect on best practice

Attendance Initiative

Attend monthly meetings to

gather ideas on improving

attendance

Special Education

Suspension Review

Part of team reviewing

suspensions of students with

disabilities

My Goals• Student attendance will increase from 89% to 95% by the end of

2014-2015.• 100% of teachers will have two or more data walls measuring student

growth that are updated at least monthly.• 80% of students grades K-6 will meet their NWEA growth projection

target in math and ELA by the Spring 2015 administration.• Students at benchmark in AIMSWeb for reading will increase from

13% in the Fall 2014 to 40% by June 2015.• 80% of students grades K-6 will produce a minimum of three level 3 or

4 writing pieces as measured by the RADD rubric by June 2015.• State growth score will increase from 12 to 14 in 2014-2015 as

measured by the NYS Testing administered in Spring 2015.

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"Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of

connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be." -Rita Pierson

Thank you!

• Lawyers for Learning• Boys & Girls Club• PTO• Community Roundtable• Beverly Burrell-Moore• Willa Powell and the Board of Education• Dr. Bolgen Vargas