Horry County Blended Learning First Year 1 WPMS Results 2013-14
Horry County Blended Learning First Year
Dec 18, 2014
Student achievement results from the first year of implementing blended learning in Horry County School's Whittemore Park Middle School. On average in 2013-14, students in the school grew 1.5 years in reading and 1.3 years in math in just one year on the NWEA MAP assessment. In fall 2013, Whittemore Park began implementing a blended learning approach to support personalized learning and improve outcomes for its middle schoolers.
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Horry County Blended Learning First Year
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WPMS Results 2013-14
PERSONALIZED LEARNING
Spotlight: Whittemore Park, Horry County , SC
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WPMS shifted their bell schedule to focus on a personalized remediation morning skills lab and further broke out teacher roles to ensure al deeper level
of learning in small groups with students.
DISTRICT FAST FACTS
• Serves PK-12 • 41,000 students • 65% FRL
WPMS
• Serves 6-8 • 584 students • 81% FRL • 6th grade blended full
year; 7/8th blended half year
• NGLC Winner
STRATEGY
• Blended classrooms to support personalized learning
• Multi-year adoption with MS roll-out first, build up into HS opt-in, and then down to ES
Whittemore Park Results
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DISTRICT FAST FACTS
• Serves K-12 • 40,000 students • 65% FRL
WPMS
• Serves 6-8 • 584 students • 81% FRL • 6th grade blended full
year; 7/8th blended half year
• NGLC Winner
STRATEGY
• Blended classrooms to support personalized learning
• Multi-year adoption with MS roll-out first, build up into HS opt-in, and then down to ES
Amazing Growth!
• WPMS had the highest % of students meet MAP growth targets in reading in the district and had the second highest % of students meet MAP growth targets in math
• 6th graders on average tested at a 3rd grade reading level and ended the year at 5th grade level, making an impressive two grade level jump in their Lexile levels in a single year
• On average, the school grew students 1.5 years in reading and 1.3 years in math as compared to NWEA growth norms
Model Design
Core: ELA, Math • Classroom Rota+on • 100 min. / day • 5 days / week
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Core: Science, SS • Classroom Rota+on • 100 min. / day on a A/B
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© 2013 Education Elements
Remedia6on: ELA, Math • Morning Skills Lab • 30 min. / day • MWF for math; TTh for
ELA
Direct Station Creative Digital Station Independent Station
Skills Gap Remediation Lab Teacher
Review: Blended Learning Goals © 2013 Education Elements
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Blended Learning Year 1 Goals 6th grade students achieve the bold goal of 1.5+ years of growth in ELA and Math as measured by the MAP assessment, closing literacy and numeracy skills gaps. 6th graders exceeded their NWEA growth reading expectations by 60% (growing 1.6 years in a single year). Students in blended math classrooms on average met the NWEA expected growth (1.0 years in a single year). On average, the school grew students 1.5 years in reading and 1.3 years in math.
Reading: MAP Growth Targets
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• WPMS was well above the district average in meeting fall to spring growth targets and even had the top percentage 6th and 8th grade reading.
• 25% more students met growth targets at WPMS than the district average.
Math: MAP Growth Targets
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• WPMS was second in the district in meeting fall to spring growth targets and even had the top percentage 7th grade math, above 70%!
• 15% more students met growth targets at WPMS than the district average.
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