JuarezLincoln Elementary School

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Juarez-Lincoln Elementary School
On the Right Track Conference October 6, 2008
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The Juarez-Lincoln Path . . .

• To understand the role of educational research
• To create shared leadership
• To cultivate a collaborative culture

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The Juarez-Lincoln Path . . .

• To change instructional practices
• To conduct ongoing professional development
• To use technology as an instructional tool
• To increase parent participation

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Using Research to Get to the Compelling. . . WHY?

• Examine student achievement data
• Analyze attendance and demographic patterns and
  trends
• Consider behavior standards, values, and beliefs
• Identify relevant research

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The Path to Shared Leadership
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Instructional Leadership Team

• Monitors School Wide Focus
• Recommends Professional Reading
• Provides Professional Development

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Bilingual Instructional Leadership Team

• Analyzes the instructional gap between English
  Language Learners and all students
• Collaborates to design effective ELD programs
• Provides professional development

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Science Math Instructional Leadership Team

• Analyzes the achievement data to identify key
  patterns and trends on which to focus
• Provides professional development in strategies
  to strengthen the math and science program.
• Facilitates family math and science nights

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Technology Leadership Team

• Responsible for building and maintaining the
  technology infrastructure
• Analyzes innovative technology programs to
  enhance student learning
• Provides professional development for staff and
  parents

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The Path to a Collaborative Culture
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Collaboration
Teachers meet in grade level and vertical teams

• To create curriculum maps for the core
  curriculum.
• To plan ELD and Universal Access instruction.
• To analyze student achievement by looking at
  student work.
• To use assessment data for planning and modifying
  instruction.

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Path to Changing Instructional Practices
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Changing Instructional Practices

• Teachers share promising practices
• Participate in classroom walkthroughs
• Conduct Peer observations
• Self reflection and video taping and

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Kinder Academy

• Full Day Instructional Schedule
• Provide beginning academic skills instruction
• Intensive Instruction in Language Arts Math
• Daily rotations of Science, Social Studies, and
  Fine Arts

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Professional Development

• Reading First Reading/Language Arts Training
• Ball Foundation systemic change process
• G.L.A.D. (Guided Language Acquisition Design)
• Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR)
• SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol)

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New Practices

• Clearly Identified Instructional Focus
• Ongoing Professional Development
• Pacing Plans and Instructional Time
• Curriculum-Embedded Assessments
• Collaborative Dialogue
• Leadership Support

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Reading FirstTeacher Training

• Five levels of training
• 120 hours per year
• English Learner training
• Reading First Collaborative Teacher Cafés
• Professional Development Modules

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Reading Coach Support

• Directed Professional Development
• Targeted Demonstration Lessons
• Classroom Observations
• Collaborative Teaching
• Guided Instructional Planning

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Administrator Training

• Professional development for principals
• Monthly Reading First Advisory meetings

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Assessments

• SCOE 6-8 week theme/skill formative assessments
• On-line reporting system (OARS)
• Houghton Mifflin Publisher Assessments
• Texas Primary Reading Inventory (TPRI)
• ELD Publisher assessments
• SuccessMaker Cumulative Gains
• reports

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Use of OARS Data

• Flexible options for data entry
• Select demographic fields
• Create reports, graphs, charts
• Create individual student reports
• Export assessment data

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The Path to Technology as an Instructional Tool
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Technology as Instructional Tool

• K-6 students have daily access to technology
• Laptop computers for all teachers
• All classrooms equipped with projection units and
  document cameras

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Technology as Instructional Tool

• Computerized assessments
• PowerPoint presentations used daily
• Students create various projects using technology

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The Path to Increased Parent Participation
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Learning is a Family Affair!

• Monthly family activities focused on math,
  science, literacy, and technology
• Parents, students and staff learning as a team

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Challenges

• Maintaining momentum and the sense of urgency to
  create academic rigor.
• Helping teachers to identify and remove the time
  wasters during the instructional day.
• Planning beyond the whole group towards
  individual learner needs.

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Next Steps

• Realign the math instructional program K-6
• Increase the focus on building academic language
• Individualize the language acquisition program
• Focus on increasing consistency school-wide in
  the teaching of the writing process.

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Success for all students is non-negotiable!

• The kind of commitment I find among the best
  performers across virtually every field is a
  single-minded passion for what they do, an
  unwavering desire for excellence in the way they
  think and the way they work. Genuine confidence
  is what launches you out of bed in the morning,
  and through your day with a spring in your step.
• Jim Collins, author
• Source Good to Great Why Some Companies Make
  the Leap... and Others Don't, Page 87