Sunday, August 5, 2012

Action Planning Template
Goal:  Through the development and use of standards-based common assessments we will increase the passing percentage on the 5th Grade Mathematics STARR assessment by 10% from the previous school year.
Action Steps(s):
Person(s) Responsible:
Timeline: Start/End
Needed Resources
Evaluation
Interview 5th grade team members regarding benefits of common assessments.

Tawny Wagner
August 20, 2012 – August 31, 2012
Interview Questions
Analyze Responses, Reflection
Meet with team to discuss components of formative and summative assessments including creating norms for the PLC

Tawny Wagner
August 20, 2012 – August 31, 2012
Literature:
·                      Common Assessments Quick Guide (Washoe County School District 2009)
·                      Wake Up Call (Martin 2006)
Reflection through weblogs and journaling. Feedback from peers.
Discuss with team Essential Objectives to assess on common assessment and create formative common mini assessment for the weekly lessons.

(Continue this process weekly)

Tawny Wagner, Christopher Kenroy, Stacy Klamm and Cristina McGowen
September 3, 2012 – May 2013





(Will continue weekly throughout school year)
5th Grade Math Curriculum by Unite

Literature:
·                      Common Assessments Quick Guide (Washoe County School District 2009)
·                      KUDs and Texas’ Response to Curriculum Focal Points (TEKS)
Scores on Common Assessments, Benchmark scores, unit assessment scores, Feedback from peers, observations, Reflection on weblogs
Immediately after giving common assessment, meet with team to disaggregate results and analyze.  Determine differentiation strategies and remediation for small group intervention and enrichment opportunities.
Tawny Wagner, Christopher Kenroy, Stacy Klamm and Cristina McGowen
September 7, 2012 – May 2013





(Will continue weekly throughout school year)
Completed weekly common assessment.

KUDS, TEKS

Student Response to Intervention, Observation of Student work and student engagement, Re-evaluation on re-taught TEKS, Reflection through weblogs and journaling. Results on unit assessments.
Meet with Administration and team to go over benchmark results and discuss progress of common assessments.

5th Grade Team, Administration, and Math Specialists
After every District Math Benchmark throughout school year.
CDB Item Analysis, TEKS, and KUDs
Use data to determine if adjustments are necessary
Provide a one page bulleted summary to administration on our use of common assessments
Tawny Wagner
December 2012
Common Assessment Results, Remediation Results, Unit Assessments, Benchmark Assessments
Team Feedback
n/a
Mid-Year survey of 5th grade team on use of standards based common assessments in 5th grade mathematics
Tawny Wagner
December 2012
Survey Monkey
Analyze feedback from Team and Make adjustments accordingly
Final survey on 5th grade team on benefits of common assessments and data review of STARR results
Tawny Wagner
Administration,
Math Specialists
May 2013
Survey Monkey,
Preliminary STARR Results
Analyze feedback and STARR results and make recommendations for following year.
Provide a one page bulleted summary to administration on our use of common assessments
Tawny Wagner
May  2013
Common Assessment Results, Remediation Results, Unit Assessments, Benchmark Assessments
Team Feedback
n/a

4 comments:

  1. I enjoyed reading your plan to raise your test scores and implementing a common assessment. I hope your team is able to see the benefits of common assessments and I would love to help in any way possible.

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  2. Two things I'd like to add that will hopefully help. I'd edit STARR to STAAR. I noticed you've typed it wrong both in your template above and in one of your posts. Honest mistake, but you'll want to have it fixed :)

    As for your official plan, it looks very well organized. The only thing I see missing that you might want to add in is a literature review of common based assessments. I think you'll get a lot of data. You might add this in at the beginning, even before interviewing the 5th grade team members for their opinions on common based assessments, that way you have something to add to their responses. You'll find a ton of information out there and pros/cons, all kinds of good stuff that you could add to your final research paper. I think if you add that in, you are good-to-go! I'm very interested in the results for your campus. The Jr. High that I will be teaching went to common based assessments last year after being rated Academically Unacceptable the previous year and this year their scores were the highest in the district.

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  3. Will collaborative teaching be implemented for the struggling students? I know you stated remediation for small group in the class but would it be better to have collaborative teaching therefore the teachers could compare data on what each struggling student may need to pass the test. If not collaborative teaching, what about after- school tutoring? You have an ambitious task ahead and I wish you the best.

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  4. Unfortunately, I am not the collab teacher this year. We are implementing a mandatory 30 min intervention time that will be very structured this year. Two days will be devoted to Math and two day for Reading. We will use the results of the common assessment to narrow down TEKS and group our students for this morning intervention.

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