Data for Student Success August 2009 Mission Point “It is about focusing on building a culture of quality data through professional development and web based dynamic inquiries for school improvement.”

Introduction to the Grant Federal Title II Part D of the NCLB Act of 2001 Enhancing Education through Technology Grant awarded through CEPI

Data4SS Web site

Norms Participate fully Actively listen Seek application Press for clarification Honor time agreements and confidentiality Silence cell phones Keep side bars to a minimum and on topic

Writing Module Professional Development Resources to support Inquiry tool to support

A Statement from the Michigan Reading Association, Co- Signed by the Michigan Council of Teachers of English, the Michigan Department of Education, the Michigan State University Literacy Achievement Research Center, and the National Writing Project of Michigan

The Michigan Reading Association strongly discourages districts, schools, and teachers from reducing attention to writing in light of the changes in MEAP administration.

MEAP Proficiency Inquiry – All Students

MEAP Proficiency – Grade Level

MEAP Proficiency – Tabular Results

Comparative Item Analysis

Comparative Item Analysis – Detail Graph

Comparative Item Analysis – Tabular Results

3 rd Grade State Item Analysis

6 th Grade State Item Analysis

8 th Grade State Item Analysis

MME State Summary

Activity Objectives This activity is designed to deepen the understanding of the writing process This activity begins the discovery process of finding topics This activity explores the role of the teacher in the demonstration of writing

Quick Writes Foundational to a writing program –NOT the program Allows for exploration of the writing process Allows the writer to uncover topics and ideas Develops fluency as a writer NOT an “assessment” writing prompt

Quick Write What stories do your hands tell? Trace around your hand and fill it in with memories that are connected to your hands. Don Graves & Penny Kittle – My Quick Writes for Inside Writing

Writer’s role – Read the quick write –Writer reads aloud Listener’s role – Listen for the stories the writer has to tell –What is the writer trying to say?

Quick Write Chores Make a list – use phrases, words, of the chores you had to do… Don Graves & Penny Kittle – My Quick Writes for Inside Writing

Circle those chores you liked to avoid Share with another partner at your table –Writer’s role – Read aloud –Listener’s role – What is the writer trying to say?

Quick Write Look over your two previous quick writes… –What surprised you? Circle what surprised you. Choose one. –Put pen to paper and write.

Take a line from one of your quick writes and begin a new piece from the line. Take a look at your quick writes and change the form…if you wrote a narrative try a poem or essay. Take a look at your quick write and write from a different point of view.

Using Quick Writes What makes quick writes a tool or strategy for the writing process? How does this scaffold the writer?

Linking to Process Writing Process –What did you do as a writer? Conditions for Learning –What conditions were set for you as a writer?

Classroom Application Purpose Grade levels Instruction

Lunch/Break

Quick Writes for Instruction What is a writing demonstration? What are the ways this form of instruction can be used?

Quick Writes for Instruction Video clip of a high school writing demonstration using a quick write What is the teacher’s role in this demonstration?

Examining Student Writing Based on the demonstration what should the writers know and be able to do? Take a minute and talk at your table make a list of concepts/skills

Examining Student Writing Read the students quick writes. What can these writers do? What are the writers’ strengths?

Examining Student Writing Read the poems What do these writers know and what are they are able to do as a writer of poetry?

Writer’s Craft – Looking Deeper Using the poem “Bike Ride” What are the strategies the writer uses?

Classroom Application Why examine the writing to this level? What information does this provide for the teacher? So what?

You can’t “guarantee” what you don’t monitor. –Mike Schmoker

Data Driven Instruction The Teaching and Learning Cycle ©1999 by Richard C. Owen Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Do not duplicate without publisher’s permission.

Examining Student Work Examining student work is about teachers looking at individual student demonstration of learning – evaluating, determining instructional needs, planning for instruction, teaching to the objective determined as the next step in student learning –Student oral responses –Student writing –Student test results – answers to questions, multiple choice, short answers –Student performance

Examining Student Work Examining student work –Neutral, observable data –Challenges assumptions –Helps build common understanding of knowledge and skills students need –Leads to discussions of work quality What are we considering proficient? –Supports a culture of improvement

What Do Our Students Know And What Are They Able To Do? What do our students know as writers? What is the next instructional need to develop the writer? –Based on student work, what is their next step in learning to develop as a writer? Focus must be on the developing the writer not the writing.

Break

Writing Analysis How do we gather the data we need for instruction? What are the minimum expectations for writers at grade levels? What should the writers in the classroom know and be able to do?

Activity Objectives This activity develops understandings of quality writing at grade levels This activity helps deepen teachers’ understandings of the minimum content expectations at their grade level. This activity begins to develop the continuum of quality writing across grade levels.

Writing Expectations What does a student need to know and be able to do develop as a writer and produce quality writing in kindergarten? –Use the rubric and GLCE document and generate a list at your table.

Kindergarten Writing Compare the writing sample to the list generated. What does this student know? What is this student able to do as a writer?

Writing Expectations What does a student need to know and be able to do develop as a writer and produce quality writing in 6 th grade? –Use the rubric and GLCE document and generate a list at your table.

6 th Grade Writing Compare the first writing sample to the list generated. What does this student know? What is this student able to do as a writer?

6 th Grade Writing Compare the second writing sample to the list generated. What does this student know? What is this student able to do as a writer?

MME Writing What does a student need to know and be able to do to develop as writer and produce quality writing in 11 th grade? –Use the persuasive rubric and HSCE document and generate a list at your table.

11 th Grade Writing Compare the writing sample to the list generated. What does this student know? What is this student able to do as a writer?

11 th Grade Writing Compare the second writing sample to the list generated. What does this student know? What is this student able to do as a writer?

Common Writing Threads Lay all the writing samples side-by-side. What are the common threads that runs through all the samples? What can the writers do?

What needs to occur in the classroom so that this quality of writing occurs? Are we teaching writing or assigning writing?

What do we need to understand as teachers of writing?

Classroom Application Purpose Grade levels Instruction

Break

Evaluation of Student Writing Student responses are the data needed to inform classroom instruction –Confirms what students can do as writers –Provides the next learning objective to develop the writer

Instruction Schmoker cites in Results Now –Instruction itself has the largest influence on achievement. –The two things that matter most: What is being taught and how well.

Writing Expectations Using your GLCE and HSCE document, what are the expectations for writers? –GLCE – Writing Genre – beginning at 3 nd grade – W.GN –GLCE – Reading Genre – beginning at 2 nd grade – R.NT –HSCE – Writing – CE 1.14, CE 1.3.1, Standard 1.5 –HSCE – Reading – CE 3.1.1, CE 3.1.2, CE 3.1.3

Reading Writing Connection This activity builds understandings of the reading/writing connection This activity builds understandings of techniques authors use to support the writer as a reader This activity provides a demonstration of using guided reading to support the writer

“Most fiction moves forward on the energy that comes from a scene in which one person does something to another person and that person responds.” Donald M. Murray

“Character drives plot…” “The characters contain the crucial human link, the element of human destiny, for the reader to identify with.” Ralph Fletcher, What A Writer Needs

Writer’s Craft Character development –Dialogue –Action –Reaction of other characters –Description

Using Mentor Texts What instruction will need to occur for students in character development to support them as writers? What resource can be used?

A Weekend With Wendell Kevin Henkes

Fold your paper into 3 columns Head the columns - –WendellSophieHow writer shows character Record author’s words and technique used

Taking a look at the cover, what do you know about Wendell? What do you know about Sophie?

Read the first two pages, what do you know about Wendell? What do you know about Sophie? What technique did the writer use?

Read the next four pages. What do you now know about Wendell? Sophie? What techniques did the writer use? How has the author made the conflict believable?

Read the next two pages. Why would the author use the parents here? What do you notice about Sophie? What would be the author’s purpose?

Read the next eight pages. How does the author show not tell? Why does the author use a reoccurring detail?

Read the next six pages. What do you now know about Sophie? What change has occurred? Why would the author create this change?

Read to the end of the story. What have you learned about Wendell? Sophie? How did the author reveal this?

Guided Reading/Writing Connection What have you learned today as a reader about developing character that you can use as a writer?

Guided Practice As A Writer Learn as a reader, use as a writer An invitation to practice what we learned as readers to apply to our writing

Guided Practice – Quick Write Take a minute and think about an argument you had with your spouse, son or daughter, or friend…. Put pen to paper and recreate that incident

What techniques did you use as a writer?

Classroom Application Purpose Grade levels Instruction

“ Students should concentrate not just on what the authors are saying but, more important, how they are saying it. Ralph Fletcher

“Teachers might take time to help students abstract the various techniques being used: humor, rhyme, myth/truth, question/answer, diagrams, interview, fantasy.” Ralph Fletcher

“ Most writing-craft skills can be applied across all genres. These skills include: description using strong verbs and adjectival vocabulary of attributes; literary devices; specificity; alliteration; contrast; embedded definitions; clues to provide for reader inference; repetition; beginning and ending techniques; supporting details; organization schema, including text structure; sentence variation; and voice techniques.” Marcia S. Freeman

Writing-Craft Skills Across Genres What writing-craft skills are evidenced in the ACT writing sample? Read and discuss at your tables.

What evidence did you find of… –Description using strong verbs? –Appeal? –Literary devices? –Inference? –Specificity? –Alliteration? –Sentence variation? –Repetition? –Organization schema?

Application What do teachers, grade level teams and schools need to know and be able to do as a result of this writing module? Think about what you will need to put in place to support them at the –ISD level –District level –Building level

Data for Student Success Key Contact Information General – Andrew Henry – Data 4SS Project Director Stephen Brodeur – Data 4SS Project Coordinator Mary Gehrig, Assistant Superintendent, Calhoun ISD Mike Oswalt, Assistant Superintendent, Calhoun ISD Becky Rocho, Assistant Superintendent, Calhoun ISD Maureen Slamer – Data 4SS PD Director, Calhoun ISD