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Strategy

Melissa Koenig, Director of Elementary Instruction

Heather Kortlandt, Director of Secondary Instruction

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The Short Answer:

Analyzing data and identifying gaps.

A Longer Answer:

Pieces to the Puzzle/Key Steps Needed:

Vertical Alignment
Data Culture
PLC across the district
Studying what has worked and how to use our
current resources better to make that happen
Delta Math
WriteSteps
Involving students in the process, celebrations

Strategy

Some History of Small Successes

PLC - RtI - Data
High School- Algebra I
Problem: over half of our

Pre Math Lab Data% Earning a C or better

2007/2008

1st

Tri

Algebra Ia

41%

46%

Algebra Ib

52%

51%

41%

60%

72%

Algebra Ic

2nd

Tri

3rd

Tri

Post Math Lab Data% Earning a C or better

2009/2010

1st Tri

2nd Tri 3rd Tri

Algebra Ia

92%

88%

Algebra Ib
Algebra Ic

71%

75%

84%

85%

84%

Born Math Lab

freshman were repeating some of

Algebra I; 96% of those who
passed one section with a D,
failed the next section.

Solution: Intervene frequently

and change what passing
means

Teach, quiz, math lab, requiz

Strategy

Some History of Small Successes

PLC-RtI-data
3rd grade writing
4thGrade Writing
2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

OPS

34

44

49

Alamo

49

43

62

Dix

36

50

36

WSE

27

40

52

Count
y

41

47

50

State

47

45

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Avg-37%
gain
Why?

PLCs!

Strategy
Melissa Koenig, Director of
Elementary Instruction, Otsego
Public Schools

Some History of Small Successes

Looking at Data
Middle School Math & Science

Grade MathSystematic MEAP

Review for first
time!
7th

8th Grade
ScienceSystematic MEAP
Review for first
time!
Strategy

Melissa Koenig, Director of

Elementary Instruction, Otsego
Public Schools

Some Other Discoveries

Began vertical team discussions about past
MEAP data and where large gaps lied

Example: Fractions!
Example: Writing -Didnt give cold
prompts
Began to ask

Example: Didnt get that far in the

book
Example: Most of the focus is on
teaching the Writing Process Strategy

What can we do moving forward?

Explore high leverage standards for Math
Commit to implementation of Delta Math
Commit to not being a slave to the book, and be
in the know about what to focus instruction on
Give common cold writing prompts and begin
to PLC about the data
Strategy

MEAP- 2013
Sept. 2013
Sept. 2013
Sept. 2012

PLCs
Jan. 2012

Celebrations
and
Motivation

Fill the
Gaps
Golden
Package

Vertical
Writing/Math Teams
Delta Math
WriteSteps

Strategy

High
Achievement

Our Model
Post test
Formative
Assessment

Focused
Instruction

Pretest

Others attack tests as woefully

incomplete measures of learning,
blind to all varieties of creative
thinking. The emerging study of
pretesting flips that logic on its head.
Teaching to the test becomes
learning to understand the pretest,
whichever one the teacher chooses
Strategy
to devise.

How Did We Help Teachers Work

Through the Process??
1. Provide data old MEAP scores (<75%)
2. Provide the assessments (pre/post)

Local (Science, Social Studies, Writing)

St. Clair ISD (Math)

3. Provide a plan for the first 6 weeks

4. Crunched all pretest data and gave direction

5. Motivation of Students
Strategy

Example Handout

Pretest

Focused
Instruction

Formative
Assessment

Post test
Strategy

Strategy

Student Engagement
Met with staff to brainstorm
ideas:

Personal letters to student with last

years scores on it
MEAP treat bags with a message
Community Support
Parent Support

Pep rally by the NHS students

Pod Cast from Superintendent

Strategy

Average effect size of feedback is 0.79 which

puts it in the top ten influences on achievement,
John Hattie- Visible Learning

The Results

Strategy

Math Scores
3rd Grade Math

4th Grade Math

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5th Grade Math

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6th Grade Math

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2010

2011

OPS

7th Grade Math

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8th Grade Math

Strategy

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Reading Scores
3rd Grade Reading

4th Grade Reading

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2009

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2011

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5th Grade Reading

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8th Grade Reading

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2010

2009

State

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2008

7th Grade Reading

6th Grade Reading

2008

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OPS

2011
State

2012

2013

Writing Scores
7th Grade Writing

4th Grade Writing

85
80
75
70
65
60
55
50
45
40
35
30
2008

2009

2010
OPS

2011
State

2012

2013

85
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75
70
65
60
55
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2008

2009

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2013

Social Studies Scores

6th Grade Social Studies

9th Grade Social Studies

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2013

Science Scores
5th Grade Science

8th Grade Science

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Strategy
Melissa Koenig, Director of
Elementary Instruction, Otsego
Public Schools