# Presentation: 506730

##  Casey Ties the Ribbon 

- www.williamsvillek12.org

- Williamsville Central Schools (NY State)

-    Casey Middle School

* **Casey Ties the Ribbon** *

* **Learning Goals Focus on Literacy** *

- Mr. Fran McGreevy, Principal
- Ms. Mary Lickfeld, Mentor Coordinator

## Williamsville Central Schools

-    Casey Middle School

-   Western New York, Buffalo
-   823 _Casey Middle_ Students
-   Grades 5 – 8
-   123 Faculty and Staff
-   Literacy Team Focus: Reading and Writing
-   Assessments in ELA and Math
-   Staff Development
-   10,646 Students in District: 13 Buildings

## How did we get here?

-     www.williamsvillek12.org

- Casey Middle School, Williamsville, NY

| NYS | ELA | MATH |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2003 | 71 | 83 |
| 2004 | 77 | 93 |
| 2005 | 81 | 95 |
| 2006 | 84 | 92 |
| 2007 | 85 | 93 |

- Grade 8 - % Proficient

## How did we get here?

-     www.williamsvillek12.org

- Casey Middle School, Williamsville, NY

| NYS | ELA | MATH |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2003 | 71 | 83 |
| 2004 | 77 | 93 |
| 2005 | 81 | 95 |
| 2006 | 84 | 92 |
| 2007 | 85 | 93 |

- Grade 8 - % Proficient

- Sustained Silent Reading
- School Culture
- Reading / Writing Across Curriculum
- Learning Goals
- Student Goals

- Literacy Team
- Collaboration
- Staff Development
- Summative Data Analysis
- Formative Assessments

## SSR

- Williamsville Central Schools

-   Casey Middle School

*SSR*
*and*

*Writing Across the Curriculum*

##  SSR  - Sustained Silent Reading

- Casey Middle School, Williamsville, NY

-  SSR  - Sustained Silent Reading

- _Casey SSR Program_
-    SSR three mornings per week
-   20 minutes each
-   All students read in homeroom during SSR
-   All teachers read during SSR
-   Administrators read in a homeroom
-   Reading day schedule is followed

##   Silent Reading

-   Silent Reading

-    Factors for Success

- Access
- Appeal
- Conducive Environment
- Encouragement – Teacher Modeling
- Staff Training
- Non-accountability
- Follow-up activities
- Distributed Time to Read

##    SSR  - Sustained Silent Reading

- Casey Middle School, Williamsville, NY

- SSR  - Sustained Silent Reading

-  Increasing circulation in library
-  All students carry a reading book to class
-  Reading sets the tone for the day
-  Sharing authors and themes
-  Promoting the love of reading
-  Modeling with adults and peers
-  Reading is the norm throughout the school

## Writing

- www.williamsvillek12.org

- Casey Middle School, Williamsville, NY

- _Past – Present and __Future_
-   Emphasizing writing in ALL classes
-   Creating exemplar paragraphs 5/6 and 7/8
-   Models displayed throughout building
-   Ongoing staff development
-   Common formative assessment
-   Sharing feedback strategies
-   Writing *to Learn* and Writing *to Perform*!
*  **Student *goal setting based on learning goals

## HEALTH

- POETRY

## Williamsville Central Schools

- www.williamsvillek12.org

*Casey Middle School*

- _Learning Goals_ for the Casey Literacy Series:
- To create an environment that **supports **writing; what we attend to will 	get done!
- To understand the **purpose** of writing at Casey Middle.
- To discuss **expectations **for writing skills, rubrics and **feedback** 	strategies.
- To identify **gaps** and offer **differentiated **writing experiences for 	students to extend thinking throughout the middle school years.

## Writing Across the Curriculum

- www.williamsvillek12.org

- Casey Middle School, Williamsville, NY

| Key Learning Points | Room for Growth |
| --- | --- |
|   Culture to support reading
    produces readers! |   Design common
   expectations for writing |
|   What we attend to as a
   community... gets done! |   Collaborate on formative
    assessments |
|   Writing to learn and writing 
   to perform must state goals |   Increase the sharing of 
    student goals and work |
|   Energy and motivation
   sustain the process!       |   Celebrate as a community!   |