Mrs. Elaine Buxton Walt Whitman Elementary School Principal’s Quarterly Review April 2012

Whitman Performance Evaluation  Eight Levels of Innovations at Walt Whitman Elementary will be identified using the respected research of G. E. Hall and S. M. Hord (1987) to analyze and illuminate our progress.  Dashboard Data will include attendance update, suspension update, and our discipline plan outcomes.

Whitman Performance Evaluation  Student Achievement Data will feature achievement levels and goals, assessment progress and results, RSA utilization and student data and revision plans.  Whitman’s culture of collaboration will be exhibited by the included artifacts.

4 LEVELS OF USE When learning a new strategy, process, or skill LEVELSINDICES NON-USEORIENTATIONPREPARATION MECHANICAL USE ROUTINE USE REFINEMENT INTEGRATION/ COLLABORATION RENEWAL No action taken—user doesn’t know about it. User has just acquired or is acquiring information and is exploring it. Preparing to use it, finding out more, gathering the necessary materials, and getting organized. Use requires focus day by day on steps involved. Use has become routine and comfortable for the user. If changes are made, they are convenient. User makes changes to improve the process and outcome for students. Deliberate effort is made to collaborate with others to achieve broader changes (grade level or schoolwide). All refinements possible have been made, user now seeks more effective alternatives, new approaches, and abandons the old in favor of the new. Return to Non-Use and the cycle begins again —Karen Olsen, The Mentor Teacher Role, 1989

NON-USE: August 2010 – Training began as soon as principalship started.ORIENTATION Acquiring & exploring information in the following areas: School culture Instructional Strategies PLCs started in 2010 (grade level, staff and ILT) Analyzing & using data to improve instruction Staff collaboration meetings Standards based curriculum Staff Development Teacher began 2011 Embedded Professional Development PREPARATION Intentional/ job-embedded staff development Develop SMARTE goals Community Circles Instructional Focus (i.e. Comprehend & Apply what we read DIBELS 12 Power Words Gradual Release Response

MECHANICAL USE Walkthroughs – Positive Environment Feedback Grade Level/Staff/ILT PLCS PBIS ROUTINE USE Students moving from intensive to strategic to benchmark in DIBELS Higher Benchmark Score from Grades 3-6 Teacher Evaluation Brag boards Staff Person of the Week Teacher Attendance boards Student of the Month Boards Clean and organized rooms and school REFINEMENT Fluctuations in Student Attendance and Suspension Rates Grade Level/Staff/ILT PLCS Partners in Education

INTEGRATION/ COLLABORATION Grade Level/Staff/ILT PLCS PBIS Partners in EducationRENEWAL

Dashboard Data  Attendance Updates  Essential Question:  What are we doing to increase student attendance? Attendance incentives (Photo Artifact) Suspensions update

Whitman Attendance Statistics

Whitman Suspension

Dashboard Data  Behavior Response Plan  Essential Question:  How are we implementing the SchoolWide Discipline Plan?

PBIS – Discipline Plan PBIS FormPBIS Folders

Student Achievement Data  Essential Question:  What is our current level of student achievement? Goals to improve In-house Formative Assessment Progress DIBELS & SRI results RSA funding plans Student & teacher charting data Below level reading and math activities

Culture of Collaboration - PLCs  Essential Question  Are Whitman teachers collaborating effectively? Norms and protocols to clarify expectations have become routine Artifacts of PLC pedagogy analysis and improvements Artifacts of PLC teamwork and learning

Literacy Night – Cultivating Literate Community

Parent Involvement Parental Involvement - LiteracyParental Support

PLC Norms

PLC Community Building PLC NewsletterGene Gibbs TRIBES

Staff PLC Artifact – 4 Ps VocabularyClassroom Application

Teachers Track Student Data Standards Linked to LiteracyMath Linked to StandardsLiteracy

Instructional Strategies: Thinking Maps Beginning Thinking Map Higher Cognitive Level Thinking Maps

Higher Cognition Levels Refinement of Thinking MapsTransference

DIBELS Assessments Classroom DIBELS Class Averages – Informal Assessments

Posting of Informal Assessments Formative Assessment PostingAssessment by Standard

Community Circles Inference GameStudent Community Buiding

Perfect Attendance - Teachers

Attendance Incentives Class AttendanceSchool Attendance

A Welcoming School Culture

Affirming School Culture Acknowledgement of ExcellenceHonor Roll Example

Data Walls of Student Achievement Mrs. Hagood – 3 rd GradeMrs. Jones - Kindergarten

Brag Board Principal’s Brag BoardMs. Templeton - Kindergarten

Partners in Education - Tutor Asbury TutorAsbury United Methodist

Continuing on Our Journey…