Showing posts with label Data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Data. Show all posts

Friday, April 17, 2015

Using Data to Help Our Kids

Mrs. Hoilien’s reading intervention students track their fluency on this graph. Each week the bar grows to show growth.
Like many schools, at Sacajawea Elementary, we regularly use data to guide our instruction. We have measurable school-wide goals in reading, math, and in writing as well as in the area of maintaining a safe and positive school environment.  We try to make these goals clear to our students, families and staff. Our staff holds monthly “data meetings,” studying actual measurements from our reading, writing and math assessments.  This data helps us to better serve kids.

Additionally, teachers and students have set goals in their own classrooms. Tracking individual growth is a big motivator.  First grade has a “Read-O-Meter” chart in the hall to track fluency. Fourth grade has a rocket in their hallway that tracks individual growth in learning their Math facts. At Sacajawea, we use data to help understand and celebrate what is working and to guide our next steps to make sure that the needs of all students are being met.
Third grade students earn book charms for every 8 words per minute growth they make in fluency.

3rd Grade Reading Charms Show Growth
1st Grade has a "Read-O-Meter" in the hall to track fluency growth.


Monday, April 13, 2015

Effort-O-Meter - Are We Doing Our Very Best?


Effort-O-Meter
Our Goal is better than 80% of our students giving full effort on our ISAT 2.0 Tests, which begin today for our 3rd through 5th grades. See the actual LIVE Effort-O-Meter Below.

Supervisors will use a rubric to report on the number of students in each session that appear to be putting forth full effort.  This includes the fantastic characteristics of effort that we expect every day in class.

  • Showing Perseverance
  • Being Thorough
  • Showing Our work
  • Taking Notes
  • Taking Our Time
  • Planning Our Writing
  • Reading Thoroughly and Checking for Details
Please come to school rested and with an attitude that makes you ready to do your very best.
  • Will it be easy? -  NO
  • Can we do it? -  YES!

Saturday, March 21, 2015

First Graders Rocking Their Reading




First grade is stepping it up for their spring reading. The students are working hard to read every night and meet their goals on the "Read-O-Meter". The "Read-O-Meter" measures the average words per minute (WPM) read in 1st grade. Here are some of the incentives they will receive for reaching their goal:

  •  Throwing a pie in their teachers face
  •  A banana split party 
  •  Possibly going to Luby Park for an end of year celebration. 
The kids are well on their way to reaching their goals. They have already increased from 40 to 51 WPM! This is directly related to their hard work ethic.

*So when you see a first grader remind them to keep "rocking" their reading.*