Team+Goals

Welcome to our Team Goals page. We will use this page to organize our SMART Goals (and other goals), record our action steps that we plan to use to help us reach our goals, and record data related to our goals.


 * [[image:spreadsheet.PNG width="400" height="200"]] || **How does our team gather internal data?**
 * We already have common reading assessments thanks to our curriculum, Edge by Hampton Brown. Our team has also worked hard to create common formative writing assessments. For each assessment, teachers record student performance on our shared Google spreadsheet. We use this gathered data for gauging our progress toward meeting goals and for making placement decisions at the end of the year. ||

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 * 2011-2012 SMART Goal:**
 * 75% of students will meet standard at each level on the Narrative Benchmark quarter 1 and the Expository Benchmark quarter 2.

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 * ~ Narrative Benchmark ||~ Expository Benchmark ||
 * # Implement the formative assessment unit in which teachers and students keep track of learning.
 * 1) After the formative assessment unit, collect data on student performance on the Benchmark Assessment.
 * 2) Continue to look for ways to improve student learning through this formative assessment unit.
 * 3) Although we have not met our goal of 75% of students meeting/exceeding the standard, we are maintaining this high goal rather than lowering it. The standard this learning objective comes from is a 9th/10th grade ELA standard, not ELD. || # Implement the formative assessment unit in which teachers and students keep track of learning.
 * 4) After the formative assessment unit, collect data on student performance on the Benchmark Assessment.
 * 5) Continue to look for ways to improve student learning through this formative assessment unit.
 * 6) Although we have not met our goal of 75% of students meeting/exceeding the standard, we are maintaining this high goal rather than lowering it. The standard this learning objective comes from is a 9th/10th grade ELA standard, not ELD. ||

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 * SMART Goal Results**

We have not yet met our goal, however we are showing progress. Increases in student scores are present at the High Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced levels.


 * Narrative Results**
 * SMART Goal Results from 2007-2008
 * SMART Goal Results from 2008-2009
 * SMART Goal Results from 2009-2010
 * SMART Goal Results from 2010-2012
 * Expository Results**
 * SMART Goal Results from 2008-2009
 * SMART Goal Results from 2009-2010
 * 2008-2010 Two Column View
 * SMART Goal Results from 2010-2012
 * SMART Goal Results from 2010-2012

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 * 2011-2012 QEIA Goal:**
 * Decrease the % of English Learners who are enrolled in ELD classes (who have been enrolled in school in the U.S. 12 months or more) who score BB and FBB on the ELA CST by 2% annually.

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1. Find out the total number of questions on the test. (81 for 9th/10th grades, 96 for 11th grade) 2. Find out the number of correct answers students need to move up from FBB to BB. 3. Look at the different sections of the test and identify practice materials based on the standards we have been teaching such as grammar, expository, informational text, etc. This seems more realistic than teaching all the unknown literary devices and Latin roots in the short amount of time left before the test. Maybe we can teach the most common literary devices such as simile and metaphor again. 4. Explicitly teach test taking strategies plus a few more focused on English Learners on the practice materials.

Other Action Steps:
 * ELD Teachers will implement a performance incentive, giving students who move up at least one level (or score Proficient/Advanced) a 10% grade boost in their ELD course.
 * ELD Teachers will administer Cluster and Unit tests from the EDGE.
 * This curriculum is standards-based, so the tests are useful tools to gauge our students' progress toward mastering ELA standards.
 * ELD teachers will participate in active proctoring during the CST
 * Walk around the room during the test.
 * Make sure students are using the CST strategies we have taught them.
 * CST Preparation Program
 * Review CST Vocabulary--academic vocabulary words commonly found on the CST.
 * Practice test taking strategies using released CST questions.
 * Show students how our Analyzing Prompts unit is related to other prompts (Edge Tests, CST questions, CAHSEE questions, prompts from other content areas).

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 * SMART Goal Results:**
 * 2010-2011 Reading Test Scores**
 * || Average Test Score ||
 * Beginning || 64.95 ||
 * High Beginning || 52.23 ||
 * Intermediate || 55.78 ||
 * Advanced || 53.01 ||
 * 2011-2012 Reading Test Scores**
 * || Average Test Score ||
 * Beginning || 64.44* ||
 * High Beginning || 51.79* ||
 * Intermediate || 56.17* ||
 * Advanced || 50.05* ||
 * as of March, 2012. We are currently on pace to improve over last year's results. Student scores increase as the school year progresses.**

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 * 2011-2012 SMART Goal:**
 * We will continue to focus on increasing ABC rates in our classes.
 * Action Steps**
 * Teachers create and adhere to common grading categories.
 * Teachers agree on a late work policy that allows students to turn in late work in exchange for a 30 minute penalty.
 * Make calls home for students at risk of receiving a D or F.
 * SMART Goal Results:**
 * SMART Goals Progress Reports

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 * 2011-2012 SMART Goal:**
 * 100% of each teacher's students will improve speaking according on the biannual LAS by 10% (speaking portion, comparing points from mid-year administration to end-of-year administration).
 * Action Steps**
 * Increase the number of opportunities our students have to speak about what they are learning in class.
 * Increase the amount of Think-Pair-Share and other small group activities in our instruction.
 * Provide students with templates and sentence starters in order to support the use of academic English in speaking.
 * SMART Goal Results:**
 * We will measure this goal using results from the speaking portion of the LAS. We will administer the LAS in January of 2011. Once we receive those results, we will have our baseline and we will use that baseline to create a more specific goal.