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
20072008200920102011
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