Accountability and Assessment

Vanity Data. . .where do we rate?

How are we currently assessing?
How are we using our data?

What kinds of strategies are we using to hold our learners accountable in their learning?

Vertical Meetings - analyzing STAAR questions and breaking them apart

Writing
Math
Balanced Literacy

Assessment Data Planning Days

3rd, 4th and 5th

Kinder, 1st and 2nd - half days

Analyzing past data STAAR

How do we compare?

What are our areas of weakness. . .strength?

Hattie Training
Feedback for learners
How do our learners know they are growing and learning?

Examples:  Hattie survey, list of questions, brainstorm with table groups (take pics of circle maps, etc.)  meet with accountability partner
Learner Outcomes and Rubrics

Analyzing practice benchmarks, ensuring we are aligning RTI, ESL, etc and not letting anyone fall through the cracks. . .tutoring, etc.  who are we tutoring, who is needing more support,

Interventions

Using I-station and Reflex as interventions, what does small group instruction look like (Solid Tier I instruction)

Professional Learning in Faculty, Vertical and PLC Meetings

Anchor Charts and Modeling

Journal Reflections in LA/SS and Math/Science

TCE Engaging Educators Edmodo

Responsive Teaching

How are we encouraging, motivating and ensuring we give feedback to learners?

 Poker Chips Discussion and Video

 Click here for video link

Values and Beliefs of our TCE staff, learners and parents. . .

 

 How are we ensuring we are collecting data that highlights strengths and weaknesses of our learners throughout the year (responding to our diverse variety of needs)?

Freedom Writers

Click Here for Video Link

Click Here for Video Link

Click Here for the Video Link

Click here for Video Link

Coaching Learners

 Click Here to Watch Video

Promoting Kindess through Responsive Teaching

 Click Here to Watch Video

STEM and Lesson Design

 1st and 2nd Year Educators - Growing Young Educators Program

Review of book study and allowing them to have copies of the book.

Allowing Brett to take the lead as well as utilizing as aspiring educator, Jennifer Martin to help facilitate learning. 

 

1st and 2nd Year Teachers going into grade level classrooms to observe:  Look for's lesson design, modeling, classroom management. . .what do you see in common with your classroom, what are some areas in which you feel you need to grow.  What are your take aways from the visits?


STEM Lesson Design Days

*look for different components from the Lesson Design (essential questions, enduring understandings, learning rubric)  

*evidence of learning - - learner/educator environment.  

*Is it a flexible learning environment?

*What can you incorporate in your classroom?  

*Ideas for your classroom?

Bring:

**copy of educator evaluation

(Looking for......learning environment, lesson design and assessment)

**take notes as you go from class to class

**Spend at least 10 minutes in each class you visit

Title I Budgeting Supporting At-Risk Learners and STEM Initiative

Matching Funds Supporting STEM and Lesson Design w/Blended and Flipped Learning

Technology Showcase Night

TCE Parent and Community Tours

Innovation Station

Math/Science Lab

Engineering Extravaganza

Professional learning to start the year - Summer and August 2014

We began our year regrouping and thinking about where specifically we needed to focus as a campus.  It was critical for us to look at longitudinal data and see our needs.  Part of our learning would consist of analyzing where we were with problem-based learning and our STEM initiative.  

Planning and designing team worked during the summer.  Here is a link to Google Docs where we began developing some of our planning. 

Fort Worth Museum Summer  

Working with Cathy Barthelmy and touring the museum, coming to campus and looking at where we had been with our TCE UbD lesson design and where we were planning to go!  Ideas and brainstorming

Assessment and Accountability 

Analyzing STAAR data, parent/learner survey and putting out the picture of what our data was saying about us as a campus
Pulling up actual data and comparing our campus with others across the district.  
Where are our holes?  What do we need to do?

• Came up with writing across the board K-5. . .
• Accountability in Math- stations and whole group
• Accountability in Science - non fiction reading, graphs, using those scientific tools (measuring, collecting data)
• Accountability in Reading - text coding, analyzing texts, inferences and educators/learners asking critical thinking/higher level questions

Educator Evaluation Tools

 Click here for video

Starting it out for the year!

Brett and I took our self assessment and then began work on choosing domains and creating action plans aligning with our campus and professional needs. . .

We created a visual imagery showcasing how all of our systems within TCE must work together to achieve goals for all of our learners. 

DOMAIN 3: Instructional Leadership: 
The administrator provides a clear vision facilitates and monitors the implementation of instructional design anchored in the constructivist experience. The administrator ensures that the instructional design enhances learning standards that challenge, provide authentic experiences, engage, and prepare all learners to be successful in our rapidly changing world.

Individual - 2014-2015: 
To examine and ensure that through our STEM initiative we are providing authentic, engaging and constructivist experiences as well as various opportunities for our learners to make connections to the real world.  ​

•  Responsive Teaching
• STEM 
•  Analyzing Lesson design
• Planning Days - STEM, lesson design
• Blended and Flipped Learning (Technology Integration)
• Educator Evaluation System and how it impacts our campus and learning
• Balanced Literacy
• Math Small Group/Whole Group
• Writing Modeling K-5

DOMAIN 4: Accountability and Assessment: 
The administrator ensures that there are appropriate and varied types of assessments used to inform all stakeholders about learner progress to provide customized learning experiences. Using multiple tools rubrics and processes, assessment is engaging, continuous and comprehensive.

Team - 2014-2015: 
As an administrative team, we will develop and implement strategic plans providing evidence of learner achievement and growth through STEM, while ensuring our educators have access to a variety of tools in which to differentiate instructional practices and incorporate critical and essential feedback for learners, parents and the community.

• RTI System/Process
• ESL, 504, Special Education Interventions 
• Writing Accountability K-5 
• Reading Accountability in Balanced Literacy
• Math/Science Accountability with hands-on and technology
• Longitudinal Data Collection and Analyzing 
• Data Planning Days K-5
• Vertical Teams 
•  Accountability Partners