cole John Stubbs Memorial 10 POINTS OF INQUIRY 20072008

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École John Stubbs Memorial10 POINTS OF
INQUIRY2007-2008
Being on the Dance Floor
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Performance Based School Our Stamp

Assessing for Learning
Leadership
Proving improvement
Inquiring communities
Sustaining growth
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Many Hands........... And Feet......
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New Beginnings.........
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Stacked up High
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Our New Home
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Inquiry 1 GoalsBeing On the Dance Floor

• Improving schools have a strong instructional
  focus. This focus is made visible in clear goals
  for improving achievement.

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Inquiry 1 Goals

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• To improve student performance in Reading
  Comprehension in grades K-6 (Grade 7 LFI)

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Inquiry 1 Goals

• Reading Comprehension
• Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA)
• 88 of students in grade 4 will be at Meeting
  or/and Fully Meeting Expectations in 2007-08
  based on the 2006-07 FSA results (86).
• Student Satisfaction Survey - 90 or better (86)
• Parent Satisfaction Survey 84 or better (70)

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Inquiry 1 Goals

• District Assessment Reading Test (DART)
• Comprehension - to increase the achievement of
  students who are Minimally Meeting Expectations
  by at least 5
• Fluency - to decrease the percentage of students
  who are Not Yet Meeting Expectations by at least
  2

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Inquiry 1 Goals

• Reading Comprehension
• Increase by 10 participation in the Home Reading
  Program, with emphasis being placed on
  Intermediate grades.

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Inquiry 1 Goals

• School Goal 2 Transition/Social Responsibility
• To continue to develop a learning environment
  that focuses on transition to an
  Elementary/Middle School structure
• Community building
• Welcoming environment
• Positive learning environment
• Teamwork

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Inquiry 1 Goals Data Source

• School Goals Reading Comprehension 
• School, District, Ministry Profile
• District Accountability Contract
• School Plan
• Classroom Marks
• Classroom based assessment using Performance
  Standards

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Inquiry 1 Goals Data Source

• Reading Comprehension (continued)
• FSA Grades 4 and 7
• District Assessment- DART
• Reading 44, Observation Surveys
• GB (French)
• Literacy Support data

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Inquiry 1 GoalsData Source

• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• Middle School Task Force Report
• Social Responsibility Performance Standards
• Documented discipline of students by grade,
  gender, location and type of incident
• Effective Behavioural Support School-Wide
  Systems
• School data Report cards

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GoalsData Source

• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility (continued)
• Provincial Satisfaction Survey
• Parent Feedback Newsletters, Parent Night, PAC,
  SPC

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Inquiry 1Goals

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• School Goal 2 Transition
• Focus on the same goal given the strategies and
  structures put in place.
• Challenge
• How do we challenge and stretch the students who
  are just on the cusp as well as those exceeding
  expectations?

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Inquiry 1GoalsImproving schools have a strong
instructional focus. This focus is made visible
in clear goals for improving achievement.

• Not yet meeting expectations
• Approaching expectations
• Meeting expectations

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Inquiry 2 RationaleBeing On the Dance Floor

• Improving schools have a thorough research and
  community-based set of reasons for the selection
  of their student achievement goals.

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Inquiry 2 Rationale

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• Closely linked with School District goal
• On-going evidence based conversations with Staff,
  PAC, SPC (using data mentioned in previous
  slides)

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Inquiry 2 RationaleWhere Are We?

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• Continued conversations with
• - PAC
• - SPC
• - Staff
• - Parent community

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STARS

• S - Safety/ sécurité
• T - Teamwork /esprit déquipe
• A - Academics/académique
• R - Respect /respect
• S - Success / succès

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WITS

• W - walk away
• I - ignore
• T - talk it out
• S - seek help

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Inquiry 2 Rationale

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• - improvement of the of students FM/EE
• - the gender gap being reduced
• - the data from the Social Responsibility
  Performance Standards

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Inquiry 2 Rationale Where Are We?

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• Strategies and structures which would facilitate
  experiencing transitions to Middle School.
• Establish the new K to Grade 9 school culture.

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Inquiry 2 RationaleImproving schools have a
thorough research and community-based set of
reasons for the selection of their student
achievement goals.

• Not yet meeting expectations
• Approaching expectations
• Meeting expectations

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Inquiry 3 DataBeing On the Dance Floor

• Improving schools have identified at least
  three sources of evidence including classroom,
  school and district/provincial levels. The
  analysis of this evidence has informed the
  selection of the school goals.

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Inquiry 3 DataSources

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• Ministry Profile
• Classroom marks
• FSA Results
• Reading Performance Standards
• School Wide Writes

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Inquiry 3 Data

• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• Social Responsibility Performance Standard
• Behaviour incidents
• Anecdotal comments
• District Student Support Services
• Teacher feedback
• School based team reports

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Inquiry 3 Data

• We continue to collect data.
• Areas that continue to require further analysis
• the correlation between classroom assessments
  (Performance Standards), DART results and FSA
  results
• analysis of gender differences
• analysis of First Nations student achievement.

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Inquiry 3 Data Improving schools have a
thorough research and community based set of
reasons for the selection of their student
achievement goals.

• Not yet meeting expectations
• Approaching expectations
• Meeting expectations

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Inquiry 4 STRATEGIES Being On the Dance
Floor

• Strategies are activities, approaches, or
  processes that outline how goals will be
  achieved. The strategies selected to achieve the
  goals are an intelligent blend of research, best
  practice and innovative thinking.

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Inquiry 4 STRATEGIES

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• In-service at school, district and provincial
  levels
• Guided Reading
• Reading Power
• Brownlie Series
• Inquiry Project
• How do we build a community of learners while
  providing the necessary hooks for the reluctant
  ones?

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Inquiry 4 STRATEGIES

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• Professional conversations
• Co teaching
• Literacy Committee
• Two School Wide-Writes one in the Fall and one
  in the Spring

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Inquiry 4 STRATEGIES

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• Red Cedar Book Club
• Buddy reading
• English and French Book Fairs
• Guest author Nikki Tate
• Class performances at school assemblies

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Inquiry 4 STRATEGIES

• School Goal 2 Transition/Social Responsibility
• School-Based Team
• Mentor program
• Key community partnership and services
• Conversations with District and Ministry
  personnel
• STARS and WITS
• New resources

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Inquiry 4 STRATEGIES

• School Goal 2 Transition/ Social Responsibility
• Motivational speakers
• Justice Theatre
• Book of Winners
• Peer Helpers

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Inquiry 4 STRATEGIES

• School Goal 2 Transition/Social Responsibility
• Code of Citizenship
• Student Council and Leadership class
• Pennies for Patients
• Food Hamper Drive
• Friendship Essays
• School in Kenya
• 30 Hour Famine

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Inquiry 4 STRATEGIES

• School Goal 2 Transition /Social Responsibility
• Transition to Middle School
• Information sessions to incoming Grade 6s at
  feeder schools
• Information sessions for parents
• School tours

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Inquiry 4 StrategiesStrategies are activities,
approaches, or processes that outline how goals
will be achieved. The strategies selected to
achieve the goals are an intelligent blend of
research, best practice and innovative thinking.

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• School Goal 2 Transition/Social Responsibility
• We have implemented at least 90 of our planned
  strategies.
• We have implemented at least 90 of strategies

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Inquiry 4 StrategiesAre our strategies a blend
of research, best practice and innovative
thinking?

• Not yet meeting expectations
• Approaching expectations
• Meeting expectations

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Inquiry 5 Structures Being On the Dance Floor

• Improving schools have shifted structures
  resources, time, organization to get the
  desired results. This includes effectively
  differentiating resources in the areas of highest
  need for improvement.

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Inquiry 5 Structures

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• Class Reviews
• School Wide Writes - Fall and Spring.
• Coordination of services
• Inquiry Project How do we build a community of
  learners while providing the necessary hooks
  for the reluctant ones?
• Survey to parents

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Inquiry 5 Structures

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension (cont..)
• Continued in-service on literacy
• Reading and writing strategies
• Team teaching, co-teaching
• Professional conversations
• Sharing of resources and ideas
• Literacy project
• Staff learning time

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Inquiry 5 Structures

• Book of Winners - gift certificates
• Mentorship

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Inquiry 5 Structures

• School Goal 2Transition/Social Responsibility
• The Principals Book of Winners
• STARS tickets
• STARS Passport continued this year.
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Inquiry 5 Structures

• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• Passport to Leadership
• Teaching Elements of Moral Courage
• Motivational guest speakers
• Goal setting (students)

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Inquiry 5 Structures

• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• School Planning Day Pro-D
• All staff participated
• Discussion on how to implement these strategies
  in the classroom
• Common core values

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Inquiry 5 Structures

• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• Additional bonuses
• Staff spent time together as a group
• Staff engaged in professional development
  activity
• This is a starting point for working with our
  incoming staff to build a blended and cohesive
  staff

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Inquiry 5 Structures

• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• At least 90 of our planned structures have been
  put in place.

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Inquiry 5 Structures
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Inquiry 5 Structures

• Not yet meeting expectations
• Approaching expectations
• Meeting expectations
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Inquiry 6 Results

• Improving schools get improved student learning
  results at the classroom, school and district
  levels.

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Inquiry 6 Results

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• Grade 4 FSA Meeting / Exceeding Expectations
• JS Dist. JS Males
  Dist. Males JS Females Dist
  Females
• 2006-07 (Eng) 66 73
  74 60
• 2006-07 (FI) 78 80
  72 82
• 2006-07 (FN) MSK
• 2005- 06 (Eng) 88 78
  73 74 96
  82
• 2005 -06 (FN) 100 57
• 2005 -06 (FI ) 91 85
• 2004-05 (Eng.) 70 77
  65 75 75
  80
• 2004 -05 (FN) 67 77
• 2004 -05 (FI) 82 82
  

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Inquiry 6 Results

• Ministry Parent Satisfaction Survey
• Are You Satisfied With Your Childs Reading
  Skills At School?

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Inquiry 6 ResultsGrade 4

• Ministry Student Satisfaction Survey
• Are you getting better at Reading?

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Inquiry 6 Results Grade 4
DART Comprehension
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Inquiry 6 Results Grade 4
DART - Fluency
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Inquiry 6 Results
Home Reading Program
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Inquiry 6 Results

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• Literacy Committee Staff SPC
• Targets to be set
• Grade 4 and 7 English FSA
• Strategies to engage staff in examining data,
  discuss, interpret and set targets
• Sharing of strategies and understanding of
  assessment for teaching

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Inquiry 6 Results

• School Goal 2 Transition/Social Responsibility
• Lunch hour house games, supervised play games
  outside, library used for quiet games and reading
• Our STARS and WITS Programs
• Recognition of student success has been through
  school newsletters, assemblies, displays
• Verbal acknowledgement, PA announcements, Book of
  Winners

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Inquiry 6 Results

• School Goal 2Transition/ Social responsibility
• Focus area
• Girls and emotional bullying
• Information about the different types of
  programs e.g. Safe Teen
• Accessing resources through Safe Schools website.
  
• The Esteem Team Justice Theatre

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Inquiry 6 ResultsAre we meeting our desired
results?

• Not yet meeting expectations
• Approaching expectations
• Meeting expectations

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Inquiry 7 CommunicationBeing On the Dance
Floor

• Improving schools are involved in continuous
  dialogue about student achievement and make
  public their improvement goals and the progress
  being made in specific areas of focus.

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Inquiry 7 Communication

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• School Goal 2 Transition/Social Responsibility
• Tools
• School newsletters, school displays, Goldstream
  Gazette
• Parent feedback from School Newsletter and Book
  of Winners
• Class Newsletters

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Inquiry 7 Communication

• Class Parent Reps
• Military Family Resource Centre
• Outlook Newspaper
• PAC
• SPC
• Canadian Parents for French Meetings
• Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre
• Belmont Pre-School

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Inquiry 7 Communication

• Meet the Teacher Night Corn Fest in September
• Parent Teacher Conferences (approx. 92
  attendance in the Fall of 2007)
• Rite Of Passage concert starring the Naden
  Concert Band to say goodbye to our old building
  was well attended.

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Inquiry 7 Communication

• Family Numeracy Night
• Ready- Set-Learn sessions
• English and French Immersion Book Fairs.
• Electronic board
• Website

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Inquiry 7 CommunicationImproving schools are
involved in continuous dialogue about student
achievement and make public their improvement
goals and the progress being made in specific
areas of focus

• Not yet meeting expectations
• Approaching expectations
• Meeting expectations

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Inquiry 8 Teamwork and Networking Being On the
Dance Floor

• Improving schools have an interactive strategy
  for connecting school and district goals. School
  uniqueness and district direction are both valued.

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Inquiry 8 Teamwork And Networking

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• Meet the Teacher Night with approximately 75 of
  our parents attending and hearing comments such
  as knowing that my son is in caring hands
• Parent Teacher Conferences ( Fall- 92
  attendance )

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Inquiry 8 Teamwork And Networking

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• School Goal 2 Social Responsibility
• School reps on the Districts Literacy Team and
  staff regularly attend District in-service
  sessions. 
• Home Reading Program
• Local and national visiting authors and guest
  readers for Literacy Week

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Inquiry 8 Teamwork and Networking

• We have partnerships with
• Military Police DARE Program
• RCMP and Military Police WITS Program
• Belmont Pre-School Ready- Set- Learn, Books for
  Breakfast
• Military Family Resource Centre Roots of
  Empathy, Homework Zone
• Juan de Fuca Library library program to grade 1
  students and our school highest of participants
  at the library of all schools in the District

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Inquiry 8 Teamwork And Networking

• Schools library is open for pre-school parents
  on Tuesday afternoons
• Literacy and Social Responsibility Committee
  teams meet at least six times
• Local High School students and community members
  supporting our Family Literacy Nights
• Unity in Diversity this program has enabled our
  students to work with students from other schools
  in the District

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Inquiry 8 Teamwork And Networking

• More Partners
• School-based Mentorship Program
• Public Health
• Our PAC ,through their education component,
  organized and held a workshop on Nutrition
• Victoria Music Conservatory Success by Six
• Westshore Crystal Meth Society

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Inquiry 8 Teamwork And Networking

• PACE Workshops 75 students
• Pacific Secondary School 12 students
• Three Professional Learning Opportunity time for
  teachers
• Oral language for children
• Anxiety and Children
• Reading Strategies Through Media

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Inquiry 8 Teamwork and Networking

• Family Literacy Nights
• Ready- Set- Learn
• Books for Breakfast
• The April 17th Staff development - Drama
  Strategies and Building Common Core Values
• School-Based Team
• deployment of Teaching Assistants
• The Class Review

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Inquiry 8 Teamwork and Networking Victoria Art
Gallery
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Inquiry 8 Teamwork and Networking

• Not yet meeting expectations
• Approaching expectations
• Meeting expectations
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Inquiry 9 Parental Involvement in Childrens
Learning

• POWER OF THREE

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Inquiry 9 Parental Involvement in Childrens
Learning

• School Goals 12
• PAC and SPC
• Family Literacy Night
• Numeracy Literacy Night
• Corn Fest Meet the Staff Night/PAC Night
• Orientation and Kindergarten intake meetings with
  preschool
• Ready Set Learn

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Inquiry 9 Parental Involvement in Childrens
Learning

• School Goals 12
• Staff, student, parent transition and
  transformation of the school from the current
  school/culture to the new K to Grade 9 school
• Grade sevens French Immersion in our building
• First Nations Parent Community
• - Aboriginal Teaching Assistant e.g. running
  lunch hour programs

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Inquiry 9 Parental Involvement in Childrens
Learning

• School Goals 12
• Parent Evening workshops
• Teachers have made an intentional effort to
  address First Nations students by accessing
  research, resources, and teaching strategies
• Student agendas
• Data collection and interpretation to parents
• We need to find out what information parents want

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Inquiry 9 Parental Involvement

• Not yet meeting expectations
• Approaching expectations
• Meeting expectations
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Inquiry 10 Positive Learning EnvironmentBeing
On the Dance Floor

• Improving schools sustain a positive and
  vibrant school culture. There is widespread
  commitment to a culture of success, safety and
  respect.

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Inquiry 10 Positive Learning Environment

• School Goal 1 Reading Comprehension
• Grade 4 FSA Meeting / Exceeding Expectations
• S.T.A.R.S
• Same language students, staff, parents
• Student recognition
• School and Classroom newsletter, Book of Winners,
  PA Announcements, Assemblies, verbal
  acknowledgement 
• Professional Learning times
• Literacy and Social Responsibility Teams
• feedback from staff has played an important role
  in assisting with the implementation of our
  schools goals

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Inquiry 10 Positive EnvironmentImproving
schools sustain a positive and vibrant school
culture. There is widespread commitment to a
culture of success, safety and respect.

• Not yet meeting expectations
• Approaching expectations
• Meeting expectations

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Over Arching Inquiry Its About ...............

• Ensuring that 95 of our early learners can read
  and write and solve math problems at grade level
• Ensuring that leadership is about learning
• Ensuring that we reduce vulnerability while
  creating excellence
• Ensuring that we communicate our strengths and
  our areas of improvement
• Ensuring that we involve every family member
• Ensuring that we recognize all achievements