“Beginning With The End In Mind” PK Highlights 2008-2009 Shea Stanfield-McGarrah

“Beginning With The End In Mind”

PK Highlights2008-2009

Shea Stanfield-McGarrah

• Community-Based School Readiness Integrated Partnership Model for Texas!

• House Bill 130—Full Day High-Quality PK*Considered by many political insiders as the most popular bill in the Texas Legislative session*Sets precedent for importance of early childhood education

• Development of PK Electronic Report, with “Continuous Improvement” features

• PK Report Card Data• I-Station Data

PK Electronic Report Card• Rationale- To assist the district in measuring the positive

impact of our PK program through data analysis• Designed with the teacher in mind

*Aides in time management*Collects data that can be used to address needs and

celebrate successes*Cumulative format to see individual student/classroom

growth*Graphable data to use for Continuous Improvement

and “tracking” of students*Designed components to help teachers shape instruction,

Mastery vs. Non-mastery skills

District Report Card Growth• Social Skills/Work Habits- Often- 87%• Motor Skills- Often- 76%• Fine Arts- Often- 85%• Language Skills- Developed- 82%• Math, Science, Technology Skills- Developed- 84%• Colors, Shapes, Numbers- Mastery- 91%• Letter Recognition, Upper and Lower case (52)- 85%• Letter Sounds, Upper and Lower case (52)- 86%• Total Report Card Growth/Kindergarten Ready: 85%

New PK Guidelines

Texas• State Wants:• Letter Recognition--

77% of all 52 letters• Letter Sounds—

38% of all sounds mastered

HEB• District Performance:• Letter Recognition--

85% Mastery• Letter Sounds--

86% Mastery

What is I-station and how did we do?

What is istation?istation is an internet-based comprehensive reading intervention program that ensures that students reach their full reading potential.Developed using scientifically-based research designed to systematically teach:

• Phonological & Phonemic Awareness

• Phonics • Fluency• Vocabulary• Comprehension

How does istation ensure that students reach their full potential?

• Aligned to the federal No Child Left Behind Act and the National Reading Panel (2000).

• Built as a revolutionary internet-based supplemental reading and intervention program.

• Provides teachers and administrators with immediate progress reports on each student in all reading skills.

• Directly links educators to teacher-directed lessons and supplemental materials for small group and individual intervention.

• Monthly Universal Screening at the expected grade level (K-3, 4 and up at 3 grade level used for intervention only)

Curriculum

Assessment (ISIP)

• Differentiated instruction

provided at the actual skill

level versus grade level

Reports

• ISIP and curriculum

reports that help teachers and

administrators make data

informed instructional

decisions

Small Group Instruction• Downloadable

direct instruction lessons, scope & sequence, Lexile leveled books, and much more.

Four Componentsistation’s Indicators of Progress

HEB PKComparative Data 2008 – 2009

Compares HEB to three other Recognized Texas Districts PK

LETTER RECOGNITION FLUENCY

LETTER SOUND FLUENCY

BEGINNING SOUND FLUENCY

HEB

ADA 20,000 25 19 13DISTRICT 1

ADA 34,000 24 14 9DISTRICT 2 ADA

57,000 25 14 9DISTRICT 3 ADA

123,000 27 17 10

HEB PKComparative Data 2008 – 2009

(Avg. scores for Pre-Kindergarten Assessment)

LETTER RECOGNITION FLUENCY

LETTER SOUND FLUENCY

BEGINNING SOUND FLUENCY

HEB 25 19 13

Texas 20 12 7

United States 20 12 8

Expected goals for beginning

Kindergarten on-level 8 8 6

These are average scores for the istation program assessment, ISIP.

HEB Pre-Kindergartenistation Data 2008 -2009

• 648 students are currently using istation• 194 students remain in Foundations• 84 (43%) of these students are near the end of

Foundations

• Instruction in Foundations:• Alphabetic Principle – letters & letter sounds• Phonological Awareness – words, syllables &

phonemes• Rhyming and Onset & Rime• Book & Print Awareness• Oral Language, Vocabulary Development• Story Comprehension

• 454 Students have moved into the Reading Curriculum• 6 students in Cycle 0• 121 students in Cycle 1• 178 students in Cycle 2• 87 students in Cycle 3 SV• 47 students in Cycle 4 SV• 8 students in Cycle 5• 1 student in Cycle 8istation provides for differentiated instruction.Students can progress at their individual rateof learning.

Pre-KindergartenAssessment Data

• 648 PK students have completed 4 istation assessments by end of the school year.

• Letter Recognition Fluency• All 15 schools scored above goal.• Average scores ended the year with students

recognizing 25 letters correctly per minute.

• Letter Sound Fluency

• 14 of the 15 campuses scored above the goal. One school scored 1 letter below goal (Goal was 8).

• Average scores ended the year with students correctly identifying 19 letters per minute.

• Beginning Sound Fluency

• 14 of the 15 schools scored above the goal. One school scored 2 letters below the goal (Goal was 6).

• Average scores ended the year with students correctly identifying 13 beginning sounds per minute.

Program Usage

• 94% of the students met the intended usage goal of no less than 45 minutes per week.

Why is PK succeeding?• Staff development is tailored for early childhood and is

occurring every 6 weeks• Strong curriculum in place (pulled best pieces from several

resources)• Hiring people with knowledge of child development• Using para professionals as second facilitator of learning…

active in small group rotations• All para’s required to attend staff development on district days• Partnerships with Special Education • Shift in “philosophy” for building leaders…seeing PK as a

critical foundation for later academic success!• And…Leadership and support is starting at the top of HEB!