Grosse Ile High School. Ready! Set! Improve!

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1 Grosse Ile High School Ready! Set! Improve!

2 Goals of the session Share strategies schools have used to improve student achievement with hopes that we can all improve education results for students Share readily available technology (this is not a sales pitch for some new expensive program) to help digital learners Idea exchange -- we d love to hear what you are doing that we can take back to GIHS!

3 First, a little bit about us GI is a great place to live! GIHS is a great place to learn! (for about 650 students) Grosse Ile is an island in the Detroit River at the mouth of Lake Erie

4 Grosse Ile High School Your friendly presenters: Jim Stewart Principal Joel Fabris Assistant Principal Jennifer Kinsland School Improvement Chair

5 How has GIHS used technology to accelerate school improvement? Network architecture (internal communication) Website (external communication) Moodle (online pacing guide) Smart rooms (instructional technology) e2020 (guided online credit recovery) Online courses (recovery & acceleration) Zangle (student database system, int/ext) MiStar/Pulse (academic intervention) Coming Soon (SchoolConnect App; ipads; more!)

6 Grosse Ile HS 96% 4-year graduation rate 95% go to college Continuous improvement EFFORTS Have lead to improvement RESULTS! Safe and orderly environment Reeves: The most important thing is data Focus on LEARNING for Each & Every student Becoming a Professional Learning Community (Use of specific proven strategies to improve) Technology - digital methods to reach digital learners

7 Grosse Ile High School One of America s best high schools --Newsweek, 2011, 2012, & 2013!!! Composite English Math Reading Science ACT scores,

8 GIHS Points of Pride Okay, data which data? MME, ACT/PLAN, SAT/PSAT, MEAP, AP, etc. Graduation Rate (GIHS has been Top Ten in Michigan among schools with at least 100 student sheer effort on the part of every adult; Todd Whittaker: the students are the constant, the adults are the variable ) Academic performance (course failure, honors, etc.) Student attendance, behavior Enrollment in college and successful completion of first year ( persistence ) If you don t know Go there today!

9 Our improvement results are due to the right people doing the right work the Grosse Ile High School staff! GIHS is a Professional Learning Community!

10 Professional Learning Community What do we want each student to know and be able to do? (Curriculum & clear learning targets) How will we know whether each student has learned? (Communicating assessment data) What do we do then for each student by name and by need? (Targeted instruction and intervention)

11 It is more difficult to become a PLC than it will be to be one. GIHS in 2008 GIHS in 2012(?) We are better together!

12 Effect of Learning Environment Average School/Average Teacher Percentile Entering Marzano/McRel Percentile Leaving 50 th 50 th Highly ineffective School/Highly Ineffective Teacher 50 th 3 rd Highly Effective School/Highly Ineffective Teacher 50 th 37 th Highly Ineffective School/Highly Effective Teacher 50 th 63 rd Highly Effective School/Highly Effective Teacher 50 th 96 th Highly Effective School/Average Teacher 50 th 78 th

13 Which research? In 2012, the educational experts were more aligned than the planets! The Planets The Ed Experts Marzano Reeves Dufour(s) Fullan Lezotte William Ravitch Schmoker Whitaker Wormelli

14 AdvancEd & MDE have been a great resource! Why re-invent the wheel?

15 Larry Lezotte: If you don t know where you re going any map will do

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17 One Common Voice One Plan Michigan Continuous School Improvement Stages and Steps Gather Getting Ready Collect School Data Build School Profile Do Implement Plan Monitor Plan Evaluate Plan Student Achievement Study Analyze Data Set Goals Set Measurable Objectives Research Best Practice Plan Develop Action Plan Do these require communication? Do these require collaboration? 17

18 Communication (Sharing meaningful information) External: StudentConnect & ParentConnect Moodle Chatting IRL Internal: Network Architecture Class A data for professional collaboration (PLC) Common Assessments Mi-Star (Pulse) data for intervention

19 GIHS Website Moodle ParentConnect StudentConnect Communication Guide Important links: Counseling, Handbook, Curriculum Guide, Media Center, Much more!

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21 Moodle Classroom access anywhere

22 Network Architecture Access assigned per folder Middle High share drive 6-12 Departments Office staff GI High School GI Middle School Course folders: C.I.A. Agendas/Minutes Research & data School Improvement Building info & data Forms/files

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26 Instructional Technology How are you using available technology? (Computers, laptops, SMART boards, ELMO s, clickers, slates/ipads, cell phones, etc.) Todd Whitaker (What Great Teachers Do Differently): Each of us can think of many innovations that were touted as the answer in education we must keep in mind that programs are never the solution, and they are never the problem it s people, not programs (and) it s not what you do, it s how you do it.

27 When it comes to using technology to improve student achievement, we are building the airplane while it s flying. How do we create an environment at school where students and teachers are not afraid to make a mistake?

28 Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Bill Gates Does it make sense to use analog methods to reach digital learners?

29 Are students more engaged when they are using technology?

30 Credit Recovery Summer school wasn t working (shrinking budget & increasing rigor under the MMC) Retake it next year does not lead to on time graduation So e2020 GIHS Assistance courses offered in our seven-period day

31 Students recovering credit, >80% success rate

32 GIHS Semester Course Failures to Semester course failures Michigan changes to MMC GIHS changes to 7-periods Semester failures

33 Credit Advancement Michigan Virtual High School Dual enrollment (GIHS is not located close to colleges/universities) Academic consortium (DCTC) Other providers (with pre-approval) Story of one student: C.F. "Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace." but not Any Quality

34 How has GIHS used technology to accelerate school improvement? Network architecture (internal communication) Website (external communication) Moodle (online pacing guide) Smart rooms (instructional technology) e2020 (guided online credit recovery) Other online courses (credit advancement) Zangle (student database system, int/ext) MiStar/Pulse (academic intervention)

35 First year with rigorous Michigan Merit Curriculum graduation requirements

36 GIHS Top Ten 3yrs! Graduation Rate, 2012, 4-yr "on time" rate among Michigan districts with at least 100 students Public District or Academy Graduation Rate number of graduates Statewide 76.20% 129,689 #1 Ida 98.81% 126 #2 Haslett 98.14% 211 #3 Negaunee 98.13% 105 #4 Summit Academy North 97.12% 135 #5 Bloomfield Hills 96.53% 724 #6 Saline 96.43% 459 #7 Grosse Ile 96.41% 161 #8 DeWitt 96.26% 206 #9 Frankenmuth 96.18% 126 #10 Birmingham 95.92% 588

37 287 tests taken in Qualifying

38 Grosse Ile High School MDE Top to Bottom list (based on 3-year MME scores for reading and math, and graduation rate; districts with 100+ students) The 2012 Top to Bottom list (high schools) 99% #1 Ann Arbor Community HS 96% #2 Rochester Adams 95% #3 Forest Hills Eastern 94% #4 Saline 93% #5 Frankenmuth, St. Clair, South Lyon East 92% #8 Grosse Ile High School, Buchanan East Grand Rapids, Plymouth Salem 91% #12 Rockford, Mattawan, Brighton 90% #15-21 Birmingham Seaholm, Forest Hills Central, Grant, Grosse Pointe South, Northville, Okemos, Plymouth Canton

39 At GIHS, we FOCUS on: Learning Improvement Data Research Excellence Results

40 Ready! Set! Improve! Jim Stewart Joel Fabris Jennifer Kinsland