Annual Report School Year Principal: Russ Facione Annual Report Meeting: Tuesday, September 24 th PM

Bingham Farms Mission Statement: The mission of Bingham Farms Elementary School is to promote rigorous academic standards, encourage positive risk taking and foster life long learning in our rapidly changing world. We all commit to closing all achievement gaps and providing engaging instruction that fosters creativity. We all commit to creating respectful, safe, and caring environments that celebrate diversity, encourage growth and addresses all learning styles.

Parent Participation in Conferences: 98% Overall98% Girls97% Boys

GAN- Walk through our SMART Goal…

 Goals in Writing, Reading and Math – Implementation of Writer Workshop.  We continued to work on our RTI (Response to Intervention) model of targeting our lowest performing Quartile of students and providing Title I funded additional instruction: – Morning Math BBC & ELA BBC (5 student class) – Reading and Math Support during school day.  With the addition of Instructional Specialists, we evolved our PLC (Professional Learning communities) by: – having ongoing discussion about kids and their performance and – reflected on our teaching and monitored interventions. School Improvement:

 PLC- Professional Learning Communities – We work during common planning time. – We analyze student progress – See whether students either missed the target made it or already know it. – Then we adjust and intervene accordingly  RtI- Response to Instruction/Intervention – Tier I Instruction- This happens in the classroom, it’s about 75% of your students experiences. It is differentiated & engaging. – Tier II Intervention- Due to students not making benchmark progress, we then may step into an intervention—examples include BBC Morning classes, Literacy groups. Title I support. – Tier III Intervention – Due to continued lack of progress, we may move on to a more intense intervention, like AARI or Reading Recovery. Also a Special Education Evaluation may be recommended as next steps. School Improvement: Making PLC’s and RtI a part of our culture

Math Program Changes  District Pilot Math Expressions.  See attached letter about Math Expressions.  TOMORROW is a Math Session for BEAC

Grading Update  SBG Standards Based Grading.  How does it look different? – See attached letter about that as well.

Assessment- Our AER The AER is available for you to review below. For more information, visit and search “Oakland Schools” and “School District of the City of Birmingham.” You may also review a copy from the Main Office. The state has identified some schools with the status of Reward, Focus or Priority. A Reward school is one that is outperforming other schools in achievement, growth, or is performing better than other schools with a similar student population. A Focus school is one that has a large achievement gap in 30% of its student achievement scores. A Priority school is one whose achievement and growth is in the lowest 5% of all schools in the state. We received none of these designations this year.

Assessment- Our AER This school year at Bingham Farms, we will continue to aggressively address any achievement gaps we may have amongst our sub-groups. We pay particular attention to our ethnic diversity and how our African American students (who make up 35% of our student population) perform on our standardized assessments compared to their Caucasian classmates. We will address this through a close analysis of each individual student’s success, and to determine what additional assistance that student may need.

Assessment- Our AER We have several outlets for assistance: * Title I funded BBC morning program in both English Language Arts and Math in 1-5 * K-5 classroom assistance, to pull-out small group support. This is in addition to high quality instruction that is both engaging and individualize to each student.

Assessment- Our AER Finally, in addition to our ethnic achievement gap we pay close attention to any potential gender achievement gaps between our boys and girls. We continue to see amongst boys and their writing performance. And we continue to implement new writing strategies to better motivate our boys to write more proficiently.

Testing Results 1st2nd3rd4th5th Bingham Farms ‘13 Bingham Farms ‘ National Norms st 2nd3rd4th5 th Spring Spring MEAP Assessment (% Proficient) 3 rd GradeMath64%, Reading 87% 4 th GradeMath 70%, Reading 88% 5 th GradeMath 75%Reading 88%

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