Seabrook Solutions & NCLB Challenges

1. Seabrook Solutions &NCLB Challenges AYP Progress and Challenges December 15, 2003 Marvel Smith Principal, Seabrook Elementary School Prince George’s County Public School Lanham, Maryland

2. Seabrook Community • Suburban • Lanham, Maryland • Suburb of Washington, • D.C. • Low and middle • socio-economic • Single family homes • Parent Involvement • Improvement in PTA

3. Seabrook Population • 317 students • Pre-K to 6th Grades • 17 Classrooms • 79%African American students • 11%Hispanic students • 4% Asianstudents • 5% White students • 4% Special Education Enrollment • Free And Reduce Lunch Program Enrollment 2002-2003 57% 2003-2004 48%

4. Partnerships St. Barnabus Episcopal Church Mentoring Program Volunteers Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Prince George’s County Continental Society Sierra Club Seabrook Community Recreation Council Lanham Rotary Club DuVal High School Student Tutors

5. Maryland School Assessment2002- 2003

6. Comparison of Maryland AYP Goals and Seabrook Results

7. Strategies Utilized • Small Class Size K - 3rd 15 or less students, 4th - 6th 20 or less • On-going staff development • School wide decisions • Support personnel: school, system, and state • Supplementary resources & materials • Grant money: Title 1, School Improvement • Comer School Improvement Program • Data Utilization and Corrective Teaching • Practice sessions and materials • Persistent and consistent monitoring

8. School-Wide Decisions • School Uniforms • Posters in every room • Software for grading, weekly progress reports • Agenda books: teacher/parent signatures • Departmentalization of 4th to 6th grades • Technology Integration

9. School-Wide Instructional Decisions • Assessment practice activities and reports • Soar to Success reading program intervention • Small group instruction within class and pull-out groups with specialists • Extra math/reading practice in science/social studies • After School Program

10. Grade Level Planning • Bi-weekly • Administrators monitor and/or specialists attend • PE, music, media, counselor, specialists provide coverage • Agenda, signatures, minutes record • Examine student work • Brainstorm and strategize for corrective teaching, training and materials needed

11. Staff Development During Grade Level Planning • School specialists: Reading, Mentor, SIR/MT • Local System Region Resource Teachers • Dept. School Improvement & Accountability • Specialists • System Specialists: ex. Math Dept. Resource; • Comer Office Facilitator; • Title 1 – Integrated Learning Teacher • Maryland State Department of Education • Specialists and Auditors

12. Collaborative Staff Development • Utilizing Specialists • during bi-weekly grade level planning • at every faculty meeting • at every PTA meeting and at parent workshops • Mentor Teacher “Workshops with Washburn” • After school writing committee: created • ECR’s & new math organizer integrating Four-square Writing Method

13. Preparation for Quarterly Data Utilization • Benchmark spreadsheets created and given to staff on math and SRI results • Disaggregated data pulled out • Attendance by class, grade, distributed • Teachers completed data utilization forms • Specialists, administrators, DSIA, MSDE • attendance scheduled

14. DATA Utilization Forms • Language arts, math, attendance • Strengths • Weaknesses - ASK questions! • Next Steps • Materials & staff development needed

15. Diagnostic / Prescriptive Teaching • Quarterly assessments taken and data placed within spreadsheets for math and reading • Quarterly Data Utilization Meetings • Bi-weekly grade level planning for analysis of student work • Student reading level lexile color-coded • Averages and percent satisfactory for class, grade • Difference in lexile points between quarters for student, class, grade • Item analysis - averages by class, grade • Color-coding to show strengths and weaknesses Satisfactory Unsatisfactory

16. Data Utilization Discussion • What happened, when, how, why ??? • Student portfolio work: low, middle, high • Brainstorm for corrective teaching • What is needed – materials, staff development? • Individual student needs? Referrals? • Attendance: who, why, what to do next?

17. Administrative Monitoring – Check on Standardized Approach • Walk through – objective, schedule, boards with student work and rubrics, curriculum framework taught • Weekly lesson plan and progress report submission • Monthly computer and communication log submission • Daily teacher signed agenda pages, test notice and grades (3-6) • or weekly homework schedule (K-2) • Quarterly Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum checklists

18. Reflections on Achieving AYP and NCLB Sanity or Insanity ? $ Are we leaving “no child” behind or are we leaving “public education” behind? • IDEA, IEP’s, and Accommodations Conflict? • Unfair to non-English speaking students? • $ Funds and Resources vanish after exiting • School Improvement “Watch List”! • Public money for public education !

19. WEB Resources from Seabrook www.mentorteacher.com • Spreadsheets – examples, empty samples • MSA Preparation List of ideas/materials • PowerPoints to share with staff on Using Benchmark Spreadsheets, Data Utilization, Classroom Differentiation (“Read Only” format on Web, email from site to request them sent to you as attachments) • More ideas, posters, staff development presentations

20. Marvel Smith, Principal msmith@pgcps.orgSeabrook Elementary School“Home of the Dolphins”Prince George’s County Public Schools Lanham, Maryland PowerPoint Presentation Melody Lawrence School Improvement Resource/Mentor Teacherwww.mentorteacher.commelodyl@pgcps.org