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Fresh Start Academy
It is never too late!

Sean Nichols, Principal
Fresh Start Academy October 6, 2010

Demographics
Enrollment
160 152

140
129

120

100

80

60 50

40

20
9

0
9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade

Enrollment Total 340

Demographics
• Girls 149
• Males 191
• Asian/Pacific 6
• Black 330
Numbers • White 4
• Regular 278
• Special Education 62
• LEP 3
• Free/Reduced Lunch 120

• Girls 43.8
• Males 56.2
• Asian/Pacific 1.76
• Black 97.0
• White 1.7
Percentages • Regular 81.76
• Special Education 18.24
• LEP .88
• Free/Reduced Lunch 35.3

Graduation Goal and College
Placement for 2010-2011 School Year
130 students
Indicators 2007-2008 2008-2009 % of Chg. 2009-2010 % of Chg. from
from 2008-09 to
2007-08 2009-10
to 2008-09
Attendance NA 65-70
Percent
Graduation Rate NA NA

Number of Graduates 27 Students 53 Students 87 Students

Number and % tage of 59 Students NA
Grads Taking ACT
Composite ACT Score NA NA NA NA


2009-2010
Placement Test Scores - Reading

Number
of
Students

Grade Equivalency Scores


August-September, 2010
Placement Test Scores - Reading

Number
of
Students


2009-2010
Pre GED Scores-Reading

Number
of

students

Standard Scores

Pre GED Scores - Reading

Number
of

students

Standard Scores

2009-2010
GED Examination Scores

Number
of

students

Standard Scores

Sample Placement Test Scores
GED GED GED
correlation correlation correlation
First Name Reading score Math I score Math II score Essay

Brenda 9.0 400 5.8 350 6.4 360 360
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Donzell 9.4 410 5.3 340 incomplete te

Teyana 12.9 430 8.4 390 12.9 470 390

Derrick 7.4 380 7.6 370 9.4 400 320

Ebony 5.4 350 3.7 300 4.6 320 320

Diamond 5.2 350 2.5 240 3.3 300 390
incomple
Tiron 3.6 320 4.5 310 6.9 370 te


Sample Pre GED Scores
Total GED
Social Standard Average
First Name Science Studies Reading Math Writing Score Score

Amy 470 570 580 410 420 2450 490

Ahmad 490 500 490 500 450 2430 486

Darrayon 490 550 630 450 440 2560 512

Detresa 540 510 410 440 440 2340 468

Eric 470 500 410 510 420 2310 462


Successful GED Test Scores
Sample, 2009-2010
Language Language
Testing Total Arts, Social Arts, Mathemati
First Name Center Score Writing Studies Science Reading cs

Octavia SLU 2280 470 420 460 490 440

Cameron SLU 2400 410 510 520 510 450

Jasmine SLU 2880 490 540 580 700 570

Anthony FP 2560 560 530 540 470 460

Jyra SLU 2370 530 490 470 470 410

Rebekah SLU 2260 490 470 430 440 430

David SLU 2360 470 500 510 420 460


Unsuccessful GED Test Taking
Attempts Sample, 2009-2010
Language Language
Testing Arts, Social Arts, Mathemati
First Name Center Total Score Writing Studies Science Reading cs

Quintin SLU 2480 430 500 530 620 400

Jameesha SLU 2370 470 490 520 510 380

Kevin FP 2200 440 430 460 460 410

Destinee SLU 2240 500 420 480 470 370

Chico FP 2230 400 470 490 480 390

Jabari SLU 2420 430 490 490 510 400


504 Plan
• No students


RtI Model
• Based on student performance,
identify by name students who • Attached
need support/intervention(s) in
Tier I, Tier II and Tier III of the RtI
model. Attach students’ names.
In the elementary grades, include a
separate list of SB319 students
who have been identified as
needing additional support in
reading.

• How many students do you serve
with 504 Plans? Attach a list of
these students.
• No students
• How many of your students are
receiving services from Students
in Transition/Homeless? Attach a • Pending
list of these students?


What interventions are you planning to use
to support students who are not
Proficient/Advanced?
• Partnering with colleges and • Double dose of English and
universities (free tutoring) math/customize student need

• Review, discuss, and develop • Sharing information about
individual lessons for students at vertical team
students who need additional meetings
resources

• Individualize tutoring for • Job readiness training
students

• Ongoing PD for teachers that
• College Summit
provide teachers with effective
teaching strategies
Partnerships: Commerce Bank,
J.P. Morgan, Crown Mobil (these
• Students take the analysis companies donate funds to help
with anything promotes positive
learning environments

What are the challenges your school faces in
providing support to students who need additional
assistance?
• Maintaining the culture of the • Colleges are not prepared
school influx of 17 year old to accommodate students
students taking the GED test in
large numbers (DESE/GED
• As my population becomes office reports that their
more diverse (ESOL), not office does not get funds
having all of the resources to for students who pass
support the student Missouri Options (high
school diploma)----
• High school age students are
• Many students that enter taking up spaces of older
Fresh Start assess between 5th adults trying to take the test
and 7th grade level. A great • Some centers do not want to
number of students are below accommodate high school
5th and 7th grade students.
• With high budget cuts, DESE
does not have the funding to
hire more people to give the
test to students taking the
test from Fresh Start.


What are the challenges your school faces in providing
support to students who need additional assistance?

• Not having our own testing center • Some colleges give students the
in St. Louis Public Schools wrong test (this process can
take up to two months to
straighten out……we have lost
• Unfortunately, there are only three
some graduates through this
places to take the test
process)
• Harris Stowe University (challenge)
test only once a month
• St. Louis University (assess once a • Students not showing up for the
week) not more that ten students at a test
time
• Forest Park (assess once a
month…..this seriously hurts potential
• It is a challenge getting funds
graduates) However, they have been for students to take the test
very helpful assessing students. Up to ($40) per test
40 students at one time
• Committing some students stay
• High Student Turnover in school until their results have
returned
• Getting students prepared for job
readiness training
• In house daycare for male and
female students (heavily impact
student attendance)

What strategies have you established in the Fresh Start
Academy’s School Improvement Plan to improve student
performance over last school year’s performance?
• Implementing Smarting • Mandatory for all staff to
Board Training facilitate be apart of a
committee
• • Develop action plans
Leadership Team Building
with mission, goals
and objectives
• Weekly vertical teaming with • Set deadlines
staff • Developing super
calendars for the
entire year
• Implementing Socratic
• Students participate
circles and discussions with on every committee
students/staff (limited with data)

• Evaluating results to improve
organizational skills

• Discussing data with students
(most of the time, student may
see their data posted in the
halls)-----we want students to
take ownership of their own data


What strategies have you established in the
Fresh Start Academy’s School Improvement
Plan to improve student performance over
last school year’s performance?
• Developing 21st Century • Mandatory for all staff to
Classrooms, by facilitate be apart of a
Implementing Smart committee
Board, Wireless Slates • Develop action plans with
and Appropriate mission, goals and objectives
Technology Training • Set deadlines
• Developing super calendars
for the entire year
• Leadership Team Building
• Students participate on every
committee (limited with data)
• Weekly vertical teaming • Discussing data with
with staff students (most of the
time, student may see
• Implementing Socratic their data posted in the
circles and discussions halls)-----we want students
with students/staff to take ownership of their
• Evaluating our results own data


What are the specific professional development goals in the
Fresh Start Academy’s School Improvement Plan for
supporting teachers in developing skills for effective teaching
and supporting students who are at -risk?

• Trainings on how to build • COMMUNICATE Effectively
relationships with and Responsibly
students • use listening and
• Using Socratic Seminar to observation skills to
enhance READ with gain understanding
Comprehension • communicate ideas
• understand and use clearly and effectively
different skills and • use communication
strategies to read strategies to work
• understand the effectively with others
meaning of what is
read
• read different
materials for a variety
of purposes.


• Socratic Seminars improve • Make solid judgments about a
Critical Thinking and Critical text derived from interpretation
Reading skills by teaching and inferential information
students to: • Technology
• Clearly express opinions with • Smart Board Training used to
supporting evidence from the integrate the subject area
text • Certified Smart Board Teacher
• Question or defend the accuracy provides training to staff
of what they read • Nutrition/Wellness
• Challenge the ideas of the author • Creating wellness lifestyle
by noting bias, distortion, or lack
• Researched Best Practices
of information
• Book Readings/Jigsaw
• Contrast the accuracy of one text
with other sources to form • Staff read articles, books, and
defensible critiques journals
• Present information in a power-
point format to staff
• Utilize knowledge and
information of colleagues



• Off Site PD
• Teachers visit other schools, districts, and training
(some out of state)
• Present what they have learned and gained to
staff
• Provide packages to entire staff of information
gained from the workshop/visit


• Did teachers’ attendance, • NO
especially in tested grades,
have an impact on student
achievement?

• None. However, I am
• How many teachers are on working with Sharonica to
PIPs? place a teacher on a PIP.


Budget

• What is the amount of funds (all • $13, 383.00
fund sources) allocated to your
school? What percentage of funds
has been expended to date? Attach
budget documents.
• $1,000.00
• What percentage of funds has been
allocated to purchase intervention
support for students?

• What percentage of funds has been
allocated for professional $3,000.00
development?


What will you do differently this year compared to
last year to focus on increasing student
achievement?
– Register students to take the E. Now that we must sponsor/
test immediately after first day pay for our own field trips,
orientation (students receive encourage more
their results the next colleges/universities to
day…………..assessments are visit our school
scanned and scored) F. Utilize more students to
– Continue to talk to colleges to tutor other students for
support students that need volunteer hours
assessments G. Develop more partners in
– Visiting colleges on test dates the community to get
to see if student show up the involved with the school
second day (some students H. Ask staff to provide more
did not show up the second individual written
day) reflections of their teaching
– Continue to see if St. Louis Public practices
School can sponsor our own
assessment for students since
higher Ed institutions are
challenged with testing a lot of
high school students


What are the things you will stop doing to
focus and build coherency for improving
student learning and increasing student
achievement?

• I stopped trying to put a lot of things on a few core people
and get all of the players involved in the game


Based on data for 2009-2010, provide highlights
of what you consider to be points of pride for
the Fresh Start Academy.
• Graduating students who • Preparing the students to take
probably will have never the test more the once (I will
gotten a high school diploma explain)
• We have developed a strategy
for those lower level students • 40 students came within 10
to pass the GED assessment points of passing the test last
• High school graduations year
with high school
diplomas • Some students as low as 2nd
• 2007-2008 and 3rd grades levels have
School Year 27 passed the test
Graduates
• 30-50 students came 20-100
• 2008-2009 points of passing the test
School Year 56
Graduates
• 25-40 students were 200 points
• 2009-2010
or less (2250 is the passing
School Year 87
score)
Graduates


What support do you need for your school for
improving and achieving success in
2010-2011?
•More resources (preferably hands on) for low readers in math and
reading
•Missouri Option Programs (212 program schools in Missouri) across
Missouri will only allow students 10th grade level in reading and above to
enroll

On a scale of 1 to 5 (with 1 being low) to what
degree have the following been implemented at
the Fresh Start Academy?
A. Differentiation Initiative 5
B. Data Team 5
C. Data Walls 5
E. PLCs Vertical Team Meetings led
by teachers
F. RtI 3
G. Dropout Prevention Plan 4

Summary
Enrollment

Additional
Demographics
Support

Points of
Pride Graduation
Goal/College
Placement

Fresh Start
Academy
Increasing
Student
Achievement Student
Data

Budget
RtI Model

Professional Student
Development Support/
School Interventions
Improvement
Plan


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