1. Kent Elementary School
Growth Plan 2012-2015
“Focusing On Our Strengths”
School Planning Council:
Wendy Clark, Leah Ochoa, Kate Onos-Gilbert, Amber Kafi, Chris Wejr
Staff, Parents, and Students of Kent School
2.
3. GOAL A: To work to ensure that each
student masters the basic skills of
numeracy and literacy.
4. 3 Key Questions:
1. Where are we right now?
2. Where do we need to go?
3. How do we get there?
Dylan Wiliam
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5.
6. Focusing more on
Formative
Assessment…
…becoming more
consistent and
transparent with
Summative
Assessment
7. Objective 1: To increase the
number of students fully meeting
in reading in grades 4-6 to 80% on
report cards, DART and FSA.
24. Goal C:
Work to ensure
that each
student believes
that he/she is
a confident
learner.
25. I am a confident learner.
I know that if I try hard I can learn.
100%
2012 End of Year Poll of Kent Intermediate Students
26. Assessment
for
Learning
Assessment explicitly designed to
promote learning is the single most
powerful tool we have for raising
achievement.
-- Black and Wiliam
27. Developing a
Growth Mindset
Developing
Confident Learners
Welcome – share the stories behind the words and numbersEvolution of our growth plan – added more SMART goals, more accountability Moving from qualitative to quantitativeAfterwards, if you have a question on actual growth plan, we can go over afterwards
Our vision remains the same
But how do we do this?
Quality teaching based on the most powerful tool we have: formative assessment
Adapting BC Performance Standards for Kent Teachers, Students, parentsPosting standards online and in classrooms (based on parent feedback and staff discussions)
Quality teacher, modeling a love of reading, targeted intervention
And there is more plans to come from this group.
Transparent criteria to guide teaching and learning
Using technology as a platform for writing.Websites, blogging, collaborative writing
Using Inquiry for reading, writing, learning
Focus on consistent standards, quality teaching, increasing the use of manipulativesParent communication around the “new math”
Lorna Williams: Every child has a gift, we need to nurture and bring out this gift in our children.Focus on encouraging strengths while challenging deficits
And there is more plans to come from this group.
Teachers teach in an area of passionStudent explore interests
No criteria, gradesAll about sharing who we are.
Smaller, local events.
Celebrating the strengths in our kids. Not taking away from academics and athletics, but adding to it.
Creating the conditions to lead
Try to embed FN culture rather than making it a “field trip”
Assessment, Growth Mindset, Lagging skills
Hard work, effort, risk taking, respond to setbacksWe are not born with fixed talents.
Movedaway from punishment and banning – toward coaching.Create conditions for students to be successful.Kids Do Well if They Can – lagging skills
More than involvement – voice in their child’s education
SPC meets once per monthFN Parent group before every honouring ceremony
THE most important thing we can do – build relationshipsOne hand up, the other hand inviting
Using tech to meet parents where they areCommunication WITH rather than TO