# Presentation: 685011

## Jefferson ElementaryFarmington, Mo

- Mitzi Webster - PD Building Chair, 1st grade
- Joan Voelker - 4th grade

- Comprehensive Professional Development to Increase Student Achievement

## School Facts

- School Type - Elementary 1-4
- Size - 340 students** **(** **51% F/R -176 student population)   (22% IEP - 76 student population)
- Geographic Location - Small city in a rural area
- Staff Characteristics:      Principal 4 years
- 		        15 Classroom  teachers
- 		        7 Resource specialists
- 		        4 Paraprofessionals
-                            10 Support Staff
- Assessments:	  Terra Nova (CTBS) 1st and 2nd
- 		   MAP 3rd/4th
- 		   Benchmarks
-                       Formative/Summative Curriculum Aligned Assessments
- 		   Rigby/SRI
- Mission of Jefferson Elementary School:

- • Every administrator, classroom teacher, and specialist will assume responsibility for the literacy achievement of every student in the building. Each staff member is dedicated to this goal.

## Then and Now

_**School before the Change**_
- • Shared vision not present
- • Teacher isolation
- • Teacher centered

_**School after the Change**_
- • Clear vision
- • Collaboration
- • Inquiring based/student centered

## School before the Change
• Traditional instruction/ 
	teacher centered 
End of unit testing
Select teachers to conferences, lectures and new programs                                      

- • Traditional instruction/
- 	teacher centered
- End of unit testing
- Select teachers to conferences, lectures and new programs

- (Continued)

_**School after the Change**_
- • Inquiry based student centered
- • Assessments on-going
- Professional development designed by local teachers based on identified needs

## School before the Change

_**School before the Change**_
-  • Passive parent support
- • Textbook driven and/or favorite curriculum
- • Communication with stakeholders unclear

_**School after the Change**_
- • Active parent support
- • All curriculum aligned with Missouri GLE’s & MAP
- • Communication became #1 priority for all

## The Role of Trust in Schools

- Trustworthiness-
- • Benevolence
- • Openness
- • Honesty
- • Reliability
- • Competence

## Collaboration
• Common Planning Time
• Weekly Grade Level Meetings

Results
• Flexible Groups 
• Class Within a Class
• Differentiated Instruction
• Student Achievement Monitored

- • Common Planning Time
- • Weekly Grade Level Meetings
- Results
- • Flexible Groups
- • Class Within a Class
- • Differentiated Instruction
- • Student Achievement Monitored

## INTERVENTION

- Differentiated Instruction   	Attendance Checks            	Awards	                                Parent Activities
- Library Skills	    	Instruction Differentiation    	Reading Counts                                      Study Skills
- Peer Mediation                 	Summer School		Character Education    	Parent Communication
- Parent Volunteers          	Jumpstart (1st only)      	Flexible Grouping       	Organization Skills
- Teacher Collaboration                            Guidance Lessons                                   SRI     	  	Assessments

- Title (RR, EL & IND)	Bi-Weekly Progress Reports	Tutoring
- Parent Conferences		A+ Tutors		Mentor
- School Based Social Worker	Jumpstart (2-4)      		Counselors
- Behavior Modifications	Learning Style Profile

**AT-RISK TEAM- Team Action Plan**
**  ****(may  include but not limited to)**
- Teacher     	Administrator   	Counselor 	 Mentor
- Director of At Risk Programs	Process Coordinator
- Special Education Teacher    	Title I Teacher
- Social Worker  		 Paraprofessional

- Special Education Referral
- Mandatory Tutoring
- Mandatory Summer School

**LEVEL 1**

**LEVEL 2**

**LEVEL 3**

**LEVEL 4**

**LEVEL 5**

**RETENTION**

**IEP**
**AIP**
**504**

**INTERVENTION**
**PYRAMID**
**Jefferson Elementary School**
- First through Fourth Grade
- Updated 10/03/07

## Book Study Domino Effect

- • Stronger Relationships
- • Mutual Respect
- • Trust
- • Risk-Taking
- • ‘Best Practices’
- • Higher Standards

## Benchmark and State MAP Scoring

- • Scoring of Benchmark Tests
- • In-State Scoring of State-Level Tests

## Resources

- • Surveys
- • Partnership with Southeast Missouri State University
- • Instructional Curriculum Coordinators

## What Changed:
	• Attitudes and beliefs						
	• Classroom instruction 
Why?
	• “Owned” by teachers						
	• Widespread							
	• Rigor

- 	• Attitudes and beliefs
- 	• Classroom instruction
**Why?**
- 	• “Owned” by teachers
- 	• Widespread
- 	• Rigor

## Summary Points
• Visionary Leadership						
• Relationships							
• Professional Development by the professionals
Challenges
• Keeping staff morale positive					
• Keeping staff learning, growing and setting goals

- • Visionary Leadership
- • Relationships
- • Professional Development by the professionals
- Challenges
- • Keeping staff morale positive
- • Keeping staff learning, growing and setting goals