Tides of Transformation: Riding the Waves with Coordination and CollaborationNational Title I Conference, San Diego – February 3, 2014Presented by: The Lake Hills Elementary School Improvement Team

The Lake Hills Elementary School Mission: At Lake Hills, we share responsibility for ALL students to be successful in college,

career, and life.

For additional information regarding this presentation contact:

LeAnn Tuupo– Supervisor Title I and LAPEmail: tuupol@bsd405.orgPhone: (425)456-41751

Agenda

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• Overview of How the Work Began

• Improvement Initiatives• Culture of Universal Achievement• Professional Development• School Schedule• Reaching All Students

• Current Reality and Next Steps

• Questions

At Lake Hills, we share responsibility for ALL students to be successful in college, career, and life.

Overview of How the Work Began

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09-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14 Change

Total # Students 523 482 484 505 493 - 30

% Mobility 24% 21% 18% 17% TBD - 7%

% F/R Lunch 63% 69% 70% 68% 67% + 4%

% ELL 38% 37% 43% 36% 40% + 2%

% SpEd 8% 9% 10% 10% 7% - 1%

% African American

6% 7% 7% 7% 4% - 2%

% Asian 23% 20% 21% 22% 22% - 1%

% Hispanic 32% 40% 41% 41% 42% + 10%

% Multi-Ethnic 8% 3% 4% 3% 6% - 2%

% White 30% 28% 25% 26% 24% - 6%

Overview of How the Work Began

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• School Principal

• Teacher Representation:

• Instructional Technology Curriculum

Leader (ITCL)

• ELL

• Specialist

• Special Education

• Grade Level Teams

• Title I Facilitator

• Family Connections Center Staff

• Wrap Around Liaison

• District Leadership

• Director of School Support Elementary

• Supervisor Title I and LAP

• Director of Research and

Accountability

• Family Outreach Coordinator

• Consulting representatives from

Curriculum, ELL, and Special Education

SIT Structure

Overview of How the Work Began

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2010-2011Did not Meet AYP• Step 3 of

Improvement

2011-2012SIT Planning Year• Data Digging• Sub-Committee

work• BERC Data

2012-2013First Year of Implementation• Dual Language• Collaboration

Blocks• Enrichment/ Intervention

2013-2014Data Monitoring• Are we on

track?

1. Provide Strong Leadership Dean of Students position to free principal for instructional leadership

2. Ensure Effective Instruction Adopt Danielson as an overarching instructional framework Two 90 min blocks of collaborative planning time each week (subject

to BEA waiver) Instructional facilitators to work with teachers Professional development based on needs identified by teachers

3. Increase Learning Time Included enrichment/intervention blocks & longer blocks of

instructional time De-fragmented delivery of special services for students6

Grounding our Work in Effective Turn Around Principles

4. Improve Instructional Program Redesign delivery of small-group instruction for struggling students Implement a Spanish dual language program

5. Use Data to Improve Instruction BERC Group review with STAR Protocol Intervention and Enrichment Family Survey Organizational Health

6. Establish a Safe Learning Environment PBIS Playworks

7. Engage Families and Communities Enhance our Family Connections Center Model, including bi-lingual

staff Create a School Action Team for Partnerships to guide family

engagement programs/efforts

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Improvement Initiatives: Culture of Universal Achievement

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After careful monitoring, we now continue to monitor 12 initiatives of the original 18. Our SIT team checks the progress of these initiatives every month.

Family Connections Center:Our Mission

Bellevue School District

Initiatives

The mission of the Family

Connections Centers is to support

all families in the Bellevue School

District by providing access to

district and

community services and resources

so that they may build a strong

foundation for students to succeed

in college, career and life.

Helping…Connecting…Succeeding…

• To provide resources, information and referral for the following services

• To connect families to the school and community

• To work with families so they can help their children be successful in school and life by staying engaged in their education

Family Involvement LiaisonLink families to academic programs and provide a link for communication between families and the school

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Human Services Specialist

Link families to services for basic needs and community resources

Wrap Around Coordinator

Link families to community support and focus on school readiness and family involvement

Family Outreach and Resources• Welcoming Wednesdays• PTA partnership• Community Organization partnerships• Medical and Dental Van• Before and After School Programs• Interpreted Conferences• No-Tardy Parties • Feeding Programs for any child 2-18 years old • Daily Dinner at 3:30• Summer Breakfast and Lunch

Improvement Initiatives: Professional Development: Purpose

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• Build and foster a culture of collaborative learning through responsive and reflective, differentiated professional development opportunities by facilitators co-constructing PD interview questions/groups, topics derived from staff input, outside evaluator, and needs noticed from Learning Partner Walk-Throughs and coaching conversations

• Co-construct an over-arching focus aligned with SIP and CCSS, involving all school stakeholders in order to establish a common understanding of our promising practice (Accountable Talk)

• Instructional Design/Decision-Making with layered differentiated PD: Content, Pedagogy, Venue, Timeframes, and Sustained Professional Learning Ownership

Improvement Initiatives: Professional Development: Doing The Work

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• Offered Differentiated PD – Choose 1, 2, or 3 options• Layered Professional Learning: “Not Your Grandma’s

PD!”• Ongoing, imbedded PD with Facilitators, District

resource persons, and teacher leaders as an outgrowth

• Recognizing/Validating “full plate” and time to try things onOffer a menu of differentiated PD opportunities, embracing choice in content, pedagogy, learning style, resources, timeframe, and venue

Improvement Initiatives: Professional Development: Outcomes/Next Steps

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Improvement Initiatives: Professional Development: Outcomes/Next Steps

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• Broadening/Bridging lens this year – Instructional Design/Decision-Making with:• Professional/Personal Learning Plan• Layered, Differentiated PD:• Content• Pedagogy• PD Venues/Learning Structures/Learning

Styles• Sustained professional learning

ownership/Teacher Leaders/Facilitators• Timeframes

Improvement Initiatives: School Schedule

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• Focus on the student day• 90 minutes of collaboration time for teachers• Logistics of the collaboration time• Waiver from Teacher’s Union• Full time specialists• Back to back specialist blocks to maximize • teacher collaboration time

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Improvement Initiatives: Reaching All Students• Full Day Kindergarten• De-fragmented delivery of special services for

students• Intervention and Enrichment Blocks

Improvement Initiatives: Reaching All Students

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Dual Language:• Identified Spanish Speaking subgroup at persistently low performing• Investigated research based program options• Implemented Two-Way Dual Language Program

• 90/10 in Kindergarten and First Grade• 70/30 in Second Grade• 50/50 in Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade

Spanish for Spanish Speakers:• For students beyond kindergarten, needed an intervention for Spanish

speakers• Build on Spanish as an assetProvided to students in 4th and 5th grade for whom Spanish is their first language

Current Reality

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Current Reality

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BERC Data(External Data Review)

Current Reality and Next Steps

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• Focus on defragmenting the student day• Work towards better serving our special education and ELL

population by changing our service model• Focus on Collaboration Time• Work to develop skills for all staff to further the Collaborative

Planning Process• Focus on Dual Language Program• Work to build the perception of the program from having a

Dual Language program in our school to being a Dual Language School

• Focus on Instruction and Curriculum• Work to make instructional and curriculum decisions to meet

the needs of ALL students, including our ELL population

Questions

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