ACE Newsletter
THE WEEK OF August 1, Year 3 Volume 1
In this Issue:
Accelerating Excellence through Preparation
- Environment
- Teaching & Learning Foundation
ACE Resources
Happy Summer! I hope you each have had time to rest and rejuvenate. We have an exciting year ahead as we start year three of our ACE journey and welcome six new schools.
This first newsletter is about preparation.
Best Regards,
Jolee Healey
Assistant Superintendent
ACE campuses awarded 13 distinctions!
Congratulations to the ACE campuses for the many distinctions received!
Mills Elementary: 3 out of 6 distincitons!
Umphrey Lee Elementary: 3 out of 6 distinctions!
Dade Middle School: 1 out of 6 distinctions!
Balanced Literacy
Positive Culture and Climate
Strong PLCs/Data Meetings
ACE Champion Classroom Contest!
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Literacy Environment Checklists, click here!
Math Environment Checklists, click here!
Science Environment Checklists, click here!
Social Studies Environment Checklists, click here!
Backwards Planning with Grant Wiggins
Wiggins proposes 3 stages in backwards planning:
Stage 1—Identify Desired Results Key Questions: What should students know, understand, and be able to do? What is the ultimate transfer we seek as a result of this unit? What enduring understandings are desired? What essential questions will be explored in-depth and provide focus to all learning?
Stage 2—Determine Assessment Evidence Key Questions: How will we know if students have achieved the desired results? What will we accept as evidence of student understanding and their ability to use (transfer) their learning in new situations? How will we evaluate student performance in fair and consistent ways?
Stage 3—Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction Key Questions: How will we support learners as they come to understand important ideas and processes? How will we prepare them to autonomously transfer their learning? What enabling knowledge and skills will students need to perform effectively and achieve desired results? What activities, sequence, and resources are best suited to accomplish our goals?
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Literacy: Reading Language Arts
Math
Science
Social Studies
DISD GOALS:
1. All students will exhibit Satisfactory or above performance on State assessments. Students below Satisfactory performance will demonstrate more than one year of academic growth;
2. Dallas ISD schools will be the primary choice for families in the district;
3. The achievement gap by race, ethnicity and social economic status will be no greater than 10 percentage points on all academic measures;
4. 95% of students will graduate. Of the graduates, 90% have qualifying scores for community college, college, military, or industry certification;
5. 95% of entering kindergarten students are school-ready on a multidimensional assessment;
6. All students will participate in at least one extracurricular or co-curricular activity each year.