1. Trigg County Primary School Principal’s Report 2/10/2011 How to reach our children and families from ages birth to five year old? Early Childhood Council (known state-wide) * Daycares – local training, progress monitoring (Creative Curriculum), materials (literature, mathematics, social/emotional, etc.) * Kindergarten Screening – summer before entering kindergarten * NEW initiative – “Ready, Set, Kindergarten”

2. How to strengthen our preschool program that provides and monitors the early childhood curriculum? Training and evaluations: * Conscious Discipline, Lesson planning, Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS) completed in January, NAEYC portfolio for every classroom, NAEYC assessment in February. * Fundations and Number Worlds - Fundations provides phonemic awareness and phonics through auditory, visual and kinesthetic training. - Number Worlds provides oral counting, numeral recognition and one to one correspondence. * Growth days with primary staff (preschool – 2 nd ) * Met monthly concerning academic issues of students

3. How to reach high expectations for all students? Charted data on all continuous assessments (GRADE, GMADE, AIMSweb, Learning Checks, Common assessments) PLC * PLC leaders monthly meeting * Formative Assessments * Student work * Data Boards * Changing classroom instruction Differentiated Instruction * Anchor Activities * Small, flexible grouping * Literacy Workstations * Technology * Curriculum committee: Carol Tomilson – “Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom (book study)

4. How to reach high expectations for all students? Walkthroughs * Technology * Fundations * Congruent with chosen characteristics (CHETL) CHETL (Characteristics of High Effective Teaching and Learning) * Three characteristics under each standard were chosen by the faculty * Self-assessed each standard during faculty meeting * NEW initiative – design a walkthrough that is congruent with the chosen characteristics. Leadership * Visual Phonics training * Differentiated Instruction – Curriculum Committee * NEW initiative – Teacher Think Tank After the staff has deconstructed the standards, designed appropriate formative assessments, formulated a new pacing guide, the “think tank” teachers would provide growth-minded challenges, research-based strategies and innovative thinking about classroom instruction.

5. How do we provide small group/direct instruction to students needing assistance now? Classified staff schedules have been altered so that our first grade classrooms have daily assistance during reading. Formative assessments = flexible groupings Great volunteer program Literacy Workstations Daytime ESS