Take the Lead! Online Training Module

Purpose of Take the Lead! Choosing your students. Student packet contents. Guiding Questions. Initial Meetings. Documentation. Reminders. Questions. AGENDA

To focus on coaching and mentoring students who need additional help. To produce quality results rather than quantitative results for our students. To produce learning gains for all our Take the Lead! students. To help teachers become more familiar with students’ data and encourage discussions about data between teachers, students, and parents. Purpose of Take the Lead!

Choosing students using AYP AYP counts: – Identifies how many times a student’s test score counts towards our school grade and AYP status. – Many of our students fall into all the following categories, which means their AYP counts are high. Minority Free/reduced lunch ELL/ESE Migrant Consider this: – If student X has an AYP count of 16 and makes measurable learning gains on FCAT, their score counts towards our school grade and AYP 16 times. – However, if student Y has an AYP count of 20 and decreases an achievement level, student Y will overshadow student X’s success.

Choosing your Take the Lead! Students

What if my T.t.L student is mentored by other staff as well as myself? If your T.t.L. student is being mentored by several teachers, consider this: – Communicate with those teachers and coordinate which data the student should track in each class. For instance, if my student is being mentored by his P.E. Coach as well as his Guidance Counselor, I may want to focus on Discovery Learning Reading data, while the P.E. Coach focuses on the Math data and the Guidance Counselor is focusing on PSAT scores.

It is important that we discuss the following things: – The packets are IN NO WAY intended to be more paperwork for the teacher/staff member. NOR are they intended for you to complete. They ARE the responsibility of the student to complete. – Each packet contains many measures for progress monitoring, below is our school’s prioritized focus: If your T.t.L. students have not passed FCAT, you are using Discovery Learning and classroom data to monitor his/her progress. If your T.t.L. students have passed FCAT, use the most appropriate measures of progress monitoring. Student Packet

Student Packet – Title Page

Student Packet – Data Tracking for FCAT

Student Packet – Data Tracking for Other Data

Student Packet – Personal Goals

Student Packet – Student Reflection

Student Packet – Student Reflection

Student Packet – Student Reflection

Student Packet – Fourth Quarter Student Reflection

1.Allow the student to Take the Lead! and complete the required portions of the packet. 2.Use the data which is relevant to the student only. 3.Hold students accountable for completing the packet sections in a timely fashion. 4.Use them for documentation purposes. 5.Use them as a resource for data chats. Quick notes on student packets…

Although the student data packets are important, they ARE NOT the only part of the program. By meeting with your student monthly, you will be able to have some discussions in which you check up on them and discuss their data. – Do not be afraid to discuss their success in your class, ESPECIALLY if your content is AT ALL related to any tested content! Data Chats

Guiding Questions

Guiding Questions – Page 2

Before your first official meeting: – Tell them what this program is and why they were chosen to be one of your Take the Lead! students. – Call home and tell parents about Take the Lead! – Let the kids know you care about their success in their classes and on FCAT The first meeting: – Use the guiding questions if you are at a loss as to what to discuss. – Complete all of page one and the first portions of page two. Initial Meetings

Mentor-Student Contact Log

Reminders… Make this student-centered – focus on the areas in which you KNOW your students need help! Hold students and parents accountable for the data. Use the data and information to elicit as much information you can to help your student. Don’t hold your students’ hands – have them reflect and do the writing. They need to be held accountable too! Bring this information to parents – call home and explain what Take the Lead! is and why his/her student is involved.

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Food for Thought… “You always pass failure on the way to success.” - Mickey Rooney