Cardinal Connection
March 2013
What is your PLC's thirty 30 day plan?
Kindergarten Reading Assessment Data
During kindergarten PLC, the team has been incredibly intentional with naming and claiming every student. Last spring the kindergarten team worked collaboratively and designed a Chancey kindergarten readiness assessment. Preassessing the kindergarten students in the spring gave the team a head start in moving students. They did not wait on some arbitrary date to start meeting the students' individual needs. The tiering has been fluid and students are placed according to their tier. They personalized the learning and the students made incredible gains. Based on the district assessment (not Chancey assessment) we only have 9 kindergarten students not on grade level!!!!!!!!!! Go K!!!!!!!!
The first two assessments are students based on the tier rotation (which they base on our assessments that's why they are called assessment 1 and 2). The last assessment is the district assessment.
1. Chancey's assessments (1&2) are more rigorous than the district assessment
2. There is an obvious increase in students moving up in tiers and a decrease in students in tier 2&3
3. Chancey's rigorous kindergarten assessments compared to the district assessments (assessment 3) allowed for most of our students to be on or above grade level as evidenced by the chart below.
First and Second Grade Reading Data
The second grade team has 90 out of 109 students on level, above level or two points away from the winter DRA level. They are continuing to work hard to help students meet the spring DRA level of 28.
All students that are not meeting their winter DRA is receiving some type of intervention. All three primary grades recognize the sense of urgency in getting students on grade level prior to leaving their current grade.
Grades 3-5 RPA #2 data Grades 1-5 MPA #2 data
For Your Information
*Dont' forget March 15 at 4:30 all Chancey math teachers may go to Gheens and receive an iPad from the MSU iPad research project. Each day you will commit to completing a brief daily journal entry that is set up with drop down boxes. According to Sabeen at Gheens it is an easy entry based on your lesson of the day and they are not requiring a particular math program. This will add a fourth iPad to your class.
*Mark your calendars for Family Fun NIght on April 9.
*On-line transfers are available for certified and classified personnel from March 11-April 18, 2013. Remember to go where you can grow. If you are not growing under my leadership please go where you can grow.