1. December Bonus GATE Equity Webinar Sunnyside’s Early Warning System: Precision through Data
Thank you for joining us for the December GATE Equity Webinar.
Where we explore topics related to equity in graduation success.
This webinar will be recorded and we are working on our process for making our webinars ADA compliant, so stay tuned for recordings.
The PowerPoint is posted on OSPI on the GATE Equity Webinar page if you want to follow along.
Also, we’d like to ask that you direct the questions you want us to answer in the Q&A not the chat, so we can more easily monitor and respond to you. Chat is more for your own commentary. Thank you!
I’m Kefi Andersen, OSPI Graduation Equity Program Supervisor.
Today we’re talking about Sunnyside’s Early Warning System.
I’m joined today by Dixie Grunenfelder Director of K12 System Supports for System and School Improvement.
We’re featuring Assistant Dave Martinez from Sunnyside High School to talk about how they created their early warning system.
We’re so glad you could take the time to be here today to share your expertise.
Exploring topics related to equity in graduation success
Kefi Andersen – OSPI Graduation Equity Program Supervisor
Special guest: Sunnyside School District

2. Superintendent Reykdal’s K-12 Education Vision
“The goal of our education system is to prepare all of our students for post- secondary aspirations, careers, and life.”
Superintendent Reykdal ‘s K-12 Vision has three phases — each lasting two years — from small improvements to a full redesign of the K-12 education system. 
Early warning systems are an important part of these goals because they use data to close opportunity gaps and help more students for careers, college and life.
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3. Measuring Success Performance Indicators
Measures of Success
Increase four- and five-year high school graduation rates
Increase enrollment and completion rates and decrease remediation rates in post-secondary training and education
Performance Indicators
We must help students:
Enter kindergarten with expected skills in all six areas identified by the Washington Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (WaKIDS).
Meet standard on the 3rd-, 8th-, and 11th-grade statewide English language arts (ELA) and math assessments, and the 8th-grade statewide science assessment.
Grow toward proficiency in ELA and math, as determined by Student Growth Percentiles, in 4th and 6th grades.
Enroll in Algebra I/Integrated Math I by the end of 8th or 9th grade and earn high school credit.
Enroll in college-level courses and earn dual credit.
Take the SAT and ACT and earn college-ready scores.
Access financial aid for post-secondary learning.
We must help students avoid:
9th-grade course failure.
Suspensions and expulsions.
Chronic absenteeism.
Measuring Success
According to a 2014 analysis done by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy, we know each graduate creates benefits of more than half a million dollars in higher earnings, as well as societal savings in areas such as health care and unemployment compared to students that don’t graduate.
Early warning systems are built on the ABCs (attendance, behavior, and course work).
These are bourn out in research as high leverage points that predict graduation success.

4. Today’s Topics What are Early Warning Indicators?
Chronic Absenteeism
Discipline
9th Grade Course Failure
What are Early Warning Indicators?
What did Sunnyside do to implement an early warning system?
What are some things you can do to strengthen your early warning system?
Resources
Our goals for today are to get you familiar with early warning systems, get some practical advice on early warning systems from Sunnyside, and we’ll give you some resources to help you along the way.
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5. WA State MTSS Framework
I want to mention that at OSPI we are working on an Integrated Student Support Protocol to help schools implement a multi-tiered system of supports or MTSS.
I want you to appreciate that Sunnyside has a robust MTSS. They have composed this like a symphony where one aspect compliments and blends with the others.
Their early warning system is run through shared leadership. It is built on data that activates tiered supports. Supports are put in place using team-driven problem solving and including family and community partnerships.
Data work isn’t done in isolation, but incorporates all key players in constant communication.
Dave and his team are doing really amazing work and he’s going to tell you more about it.

6. Questions & Polling Are you using an early warning system? Yes Maybe?
Not yet
Feel free to type in the questions box any questions you have as we go.
Dixie or Dave do you want to talk a little bit about how you define an early warning system?
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7. Introductions Dave Martinez Assistant Principal Sunnyside High School
We’re lucky to be joined by Dave Martinez, Assistant Principal at Sunnyside High School.
Dave we are so glad you’re here. Can you tell our audience a little bit about Sunnyside?
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8. Sunnyside High School Early Warning Systems
Dave
How To Manage Data To Impact & Support Students & Staff

9. Sunnyside School District
Sunnyside High School
1,927 Students
Sunnyside School District
Graduation Rate Trend
Graduation Year Graduation Rate % % % % % % % % %
SHS
90% Hispanic
89% Free Lunch
87 Certified Teachers
12.3 Years Experience
60% Master’s Degree
10% National Boards
Transformation
Academic Press
Social Support
Relational Trust
Staff
Dave

10. Where It All Began •Sunnyside Story SIG Process Gonzaga Partnership
Realizing there was a need to change
Graduation Year
Graduation Rate
2007 46
2008
49.9
2009
49.7
Dave

11. Special Populations: Graduation Rate
State Average
Sunnyside
Difference
All Students
79.1%
90.1%
+11%
Hispanic
70.8%
89.3%
+18.5%
Special Education*
58.1%
82.9%
+24.8%
Limited English/Bilingual**
57.6%
80.7%
+23.1%
Low Income**
69.4%
90.0%
+20.6%
Title 1 Migrant**
67.4%
86.8%
+19.4%
*Ranked 2nd in the State
**Ranked 1st in the State
Dave

12. Gardens: One Vision One Voice
Ryan Maxwell
Principal
Gabe Darbyson
English, Assessment, Grizzly Time
Dave Martinez
Counseling, Science, Student Activities
Holly Ohler
CTE, Fine Arts, Senior Projects
Wally Shearer
SPED, Discipline, Technology
James Wise
Mathematics, Attendance
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HOLLY
-Departments
-Previously set up by tasks or grade level
-Accountability vs. responsibility (example)
-Gardens: Grow, fertilize, weed
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Glickman quote -

13. Foundation of Our Work Salina et al. 2010/11 DAVE:
Example: Grizzly Time (Student care more, staff cares more)
-Must start with Relationships
Salina et al. 2010/11

14. Kaizen Approach to Improvement
IDEAL
Ohler
Current Reality
Systems need to grow in order to adjust to the new current reality so there is continued growth towards the ideal situation.

15. Counseling: AHOD & Graduation Meetings
Dave

16. PLC Structure Dufour’s 4 Qs
What do you want students to know? - Graduation Status
How do you know if they know it? - Color System
What do you do if they don’t? - Red, Yellow, Orange Success Meetings
What do you do if they do? - FAFSA/College Applications
Gabes
Freedom to plan, and create (power is teachers are able to make sense of the work together)
Provide a structure for them to operate
Engage in the CIA Framework

17. What are you willing to hold yourself accountable for?
Admin Data Dashboard
What are you willing to hold yourself accountable for?
There are a few things that occur within all of our gardens: Use of Data, Problem of Practice, and continuous 1-on-1s
Data is collected on those things that are most critical to assessing progress on critical goals

18. What are you willing to hold yourself accountable for?
Admin Data Dashboard
What are you willing to hold yourself accountable for?
There are a few things that occur within all of our gardens: Use of Data, Problem of Practice, and continuous 1-on-1s
Data is collected on those things that are most critical to assessing progress on critical goals

19. What Is Important To You, Becomes Important To Students & Staff
Connect (To the School): Write down all Fall Sports
Envision (Your Future): Blindfold and envision your path
Build (Relationships): Link arms and work together to keep the balloon from falling
Dave

20. Implementing New Ideas

21. Social Emotional Support

22. Envision Your Future

23. Questions & Polling
What is one major takeaway you have from Sunnyside?
Let’s learn together:
Type it in the chat box – share your thought with everyone.
Take a moment to reflect. After hearing all this great information, what is one major takeaway you have from Sunnyside’s experience?
If you’re willing to share, we’d love to see your thoughts, just type in the chat.
Also, feel free to type in the questions box any questions you have for Dave.
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24. Survey Tell us how we’re doing: http://bit.ly/GATEevaluation
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Tell us how we’re doing:
We got some great responses last month from our first round of evaluations.
We are trying to constantly improve our performance. In an effort to capture your comments over time we’ve created a quick survey. Please help us by taking a minute to fill it out. If the webinar closes out, this link is also available in our Zoom reminders so you can always let us know your thoughts. We appreciate our audience and want to improve this experience for all of you.
We’ll put this link in the chat for you also.
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25. Systematically Building Capacity
Next Month
Systematically Building Capacity
January 10, 2017
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Join us next month as we take a look at predicting graduation with early warning indicators.
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