API: How can CT’s help grow our API?

Teaching and Learning Model

Looking Forward… this year

Identify Struggling StudentsUse Formative Assessment DataEnsure that PF AD stay PR ADTarget FBB and BB for strategic growthGoal set with “bubble” BASIC

Using the Teaching and Learning Model

What do Curricular Teams have to do with all this

Departments are at different places on the spectrum of CT.

But does it really work? Does it really help us reach students? Does it really increase achievement?

Review of CT Process

CSTP: 4.5Modifying instructional plans to adjust for student needs

Review of CT Process:Classroom Specific Analyze Content

Standards Create Measurable

Learning Objectives Post and

Communicate Measurable Learning Objectives to Students

Initial Instruction (With Emphasis On) Student Engagement Student Centered

Formative Assessment What was learned? Why or why not?

Re-Teach Areas of Weakness

Formative Assessment What was learned? Why or why not?

Lesson Closure Re-state Learning

Objective Connect Learning

Objective to Past and Future Learning

Celebrate Learning

Review of CT Process:Curricular Teams

Identify and Assemble Curricular Team

Analyze Student CST Data

Analyze Content Standards

Review and Adjust Pacing Guide

Develop/Adjust Common Assessments

Create Common Assessment and Data Analysis Schedule

Team Based Adherence to Common Assessment and Data Analysis Schedule

Team Members Analyze Common Assessment Data (Early Out Wednesdays)

Identify Areas of Strength and Weakness

Re-Teach Areas of Weakness

Re-Assess Areas of Weakness

Celebrate Learning

CT Process: Three Main Objectives

SJMS Critical Questions

What do we want students to learn?

How are we going to teach them?

How will we know if they have learned it?

What are we going to do if they don’t?

Understanding what sustained growth looks like.

Sustained GrowthSporadic Gains/Drops

CT Share-out by Leads : ELA

7th grade CTWhat we accomplished:  Began work on common pacing

guide Evaluated what would be the best

common assessment to use per unit.

Attended Valley Regional Writing Day, to create common writing instruction.

What we began:  A shift from quarterly assessments

to common unit assessments.Where we are going: Common writing strategies Common writing prompts & rubrics Common unit assessments Begin to use assessment data to

adapt and drive future instruction.

8th grade CTWhat we accomplished:  Educating all students with

excellent academic instruction and high quality instruction 

What we began:  Continuing to create more

consistency and continuing to build team capacity

Where we are going: Focus on our curriculum, pacing

guides, assessments, Focus on classroom instruction Use data to focus on students who

are not making gains to close the achievement gap.

Create consistency and collaboration throughout our department.

Department Progress: 7th ELA

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Department Progress: 8th ELA

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CT Share-out by Leads : Math

7th grade CT

What we accomplished:  Finalized pacing guide for Pre-

Algebra classes. Common assessments for Pre-

Algebra classes.What we began:  Developed a method for placing

incoming seventh graders into math classes based on the district’s placement matrix.

Where we are going: Create more homogeneous class

populations to make sure students are receiving the instruction that fits them the best.

8th grade CTWhat we accomplished:  Over two dozen common assessments for

Algebra classes. Revised pacing guide for Algebra classes. Common assessments for Algebra

Readiness classes. Finalized pacing guide for Algebra

Readiness classes.What we began:  A collaborative effort to correctly place

students in the correct 8th grade math class using recommendations and data.

Put many of the assessments on Edusoft and compared data.

Where we are going: Determine which students are most likely to

succeed in Algebra with Clinic/Support classes based off of data and recommendations from three sections this year.

Department Progress: 7th Math

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Department Progress: 8th Math

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CT Share-out by Leads : Science

7th grade CT Have created:• Common pacing guide for the year• Common assessments for all of

the chapters/units• Common warm-ups using the

questions from the assessments (power point)

• common Science Notebook set up • common lessons/labs Working on:• improving/refining assessment

and warm-ups • adding more and/or new hands on

life science activities and labs

8th grade CT

Have created:• Common pacing guide for the

year• common assessments for all

of the chapters/units• common Science Notebook

set up • common lessons/labs Working on:• improving/refining

assessment

Department Progress: Science

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CT Share-out by Leads : History

7th grade CT

What we accomplished:  Developed common assessments for

the 2010-11 school year based on the same criteria described for Grade 8. 

What we began:  Over the summer, some of us met to create

a common lesson binder, revise our pacing guides, set up testing windows and dates for data evaluation at department meetings.

Where we are going: We will continue to refine our lesson

binders and common assessments and analyzing the assessment data, and implementing our process for re-teaching and re-evaluation, as well as continually revising practices based on our common evaluation of what is and isn’t working. (see 8th grade for more detail)

8th grade CT

What we accomplished:  We refined our existing common guiding questions for each

unit as well as our common unit assessments and pacing guide (developed based on the CST Blueprint, Released CST Test Questions, and California Standards. 

Focused not only to the content  but also on introducing academic language and analysis skills. 

Worked together to develop common day-by-day lesson binders for the first half of the year  that all can access for strategies to teach standards. 

What we began:  common day-by-day lesson binders for the second half of the

year Finishing touches on our testing and reflection calendar Everybody will have the test data ready for discussion and

action at department meetings.Where we are going: Complete Lesson binders for the year.  We are also hammering out our process for re-teaching and re-

evaluating students based on the data our initial assessments provide.

Continue to collaboratively reflect and improve upon lessons and assessments. 

Looking more closely on what the data suggests about the achievement gap

Exploring methods of engaging students who are detached from the learning process. 

Department Progress: History

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Social Studies CT

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Raising API: Follow the Teaching and Learning Model•Weekly formative assessments•Common pacing and instruction in my CT•Using Common assessment data to re-

teach•Set goals with my students•Sharing data with student as to how they

are progressing towards standards•Mapping my pacing and instruction to the

CDE Blueprints