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- 1. Breakthrough Erik Yamada, Mayu Tobin-Miyaji, Sam Wittmann, Michael Moran
- 2. “Breakthrough’s mission is to prepare students who possess high academic potential, but limited educational resources, for competitive high school programs and college admission.”
- 4. Goals Identified by Breakthrough A system to assess growth in non-cognitive skills during Breakthrough for: 1. Student Intervention 2. Program Improvement 3. Funding
- 5. Research Chris Stickney - McMurtry Master - high school teacher Dr. Jeremy Taylor - CASEL Ryan Brown - Doerr Institute Robin Page - Center for Teaching Excellence Film - Most Likely to Succeed Book - How Children Succeed Visiting the school year program
- 6. How can we create a system to measure the development of soft skills in the Breakthrough Classroom?
- 7. ◉ Provide feedback that is: ■ Constructive ■ Actionable ■ Demonstrable ◉ Create a system for collecting data that is easy to implement within Breakthrough’s curriculum Design Goals
- 8. Measures of Success ● Short: Is the system understood by Breakthrough teachers and approved by Breakthrough administrators? ● Medium: Do teachers and parents feel that the assessment aligns with the reality, from anecdotal experience or qualitative assessment? ● Long: Do the results of the system align with student success in life after Breakthrough (such as college dropout rate)?
- 9. Brainstorming ◉ Peer (teacher/parent/student) ◉ Self-evaluation ◉ Experimental Data ◉ Natural Data
- 10. Interviews with Teachers Met with 3 previous summer program teachers and learned… ◉ Teachers are very busy (sometimes 10 hour days) ◉ Teachers get to know students very well (Families & Advisor groups) ◉ Many systems in place for encouraging character strengths ◉ Word of the day ◉ Spirit stick ◉ Family time ◉ School assignments that relate to character strengths ◉ KidTalks
- 12. Adaptations to KidTalks ◉ Character strength tracking ■ Scoring based on how often specific behaviors associated with each character strength was observed ◉ More robust tracking on deltas ■ After a delta is identified, discuss their progress and consider new actions plans ◉ One sheet per student ■ Easily refer back to the past weeks to discuss progress in the current week
- 13. Prototype #1
- 14. Prototype #2
- 15. Testing ● Negatives: ○ Previous action plans ○ Confusion between action plans and goals ○ “new delta” and “new action plan” can be confusing ○ External problems field ○ Rating improvement 1-5 can be cumbersome ○ use concrete examples for delta ● Positives ○ Pluses are a big ‘plus’ ○ Rating character strengths 1-5 works well though
- 16. Final Prototype ◉ One sheet per student ◉ Sheet functions as timeline that can be used for letter and parent-teacher conferences
- 17. Final Prototype (Excel Sheet and Training)
- 18. Training Overview ◉ Thorough explanation of each section and how to fill them out ◉ Definition of each character strength ◉ An activity for teachers in the family ■ come up with examples of behavior reflecting the character strengths ■ Discuss what others came up with and what strengths they reflect
- 19. Next steps ◉ Give Breakthrough the Kid Talks template ◉ Introduce the training documentation to Breakthrough admins ◉ Attend teacher training to introduce and explain solution, if possible