This community forum discussed Dunlap School District's focus on student growth and achievement. The district uses various assessments at the elementary, middle, and high school levels to monitor student performance and identify students who may need additional support. These include ISAT, Aimsweb, STAR, and ACT prep exams. Data is reviewed regularly by teachers and intervention programs are developed based on student needs. Stakeholder feedback from the forum will be used to further guide the district's continuous improvement efforts.

1. COMMUNITY FORUM
Dunlap
Community
School District
#323
October 22, 2012

2. Improve student
growth and
achievement
Partnership with
families & community
Values/Beliefs:
Children learn at
different rates and
ways
Continual stakeholder
feedback guides

3. Purpose of the
Forum
 (Goal 4) Partner with families
 (Goal1) Provide information on student
achievement and how data is used to support
student learning
 (Values/Beliefs) Seek input, feedback, and
ideas
 Transparency
 Accurate/Informational
 Confidentiality
 Some questions may be better answered by your child’s

4. Collect Questions
What information are you
seeking?
What questions do you hope
to have answered?
Using the sticky notes at your place, respond to the questions
above. You’ll be sharing these in groups of 2 or 3 in a moment!

5. Warm Up/Introductions!
 Find someone from another table
you haven’t met
 Introduce yourself
 Share your response…
What information are you
seeking?
What questions do you hope to
have answered?

6. No Child Left Behind
Adequate Yearly Progress

7. No Child Left Behind (2001)
requires:
 95% of all students in grades 3-8 and 11th grades
be assessed (District 99.5%)
 Schools meet the 91% attendance rate for
elementary and middle schools (District 95.7%)
 High Schools meet the minimum of 82%
graduation rate (District 88.6%)
 All students meet the minimum AYP (85% )
 All subgroups (45 students or more) meet AYP
(85%)
 White,
Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native
America, Multi-Racial/Ethnic, Limited English Proficient,
Students with Disabilities, and Economically

8. What is Adequate Yearly
Progress?
Percent of FAY students meeting /exceeding expectations
as per the ISAT and PSAE in reading & math as compared to the
state’s minimum target

9. 2012 District
Performance
All White Asian African American IEP Low SES
100
92 93 92 94 95 97
90 87
82 80
AYP80
Minimum 74
71
70 67
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Reading Math

10. http://iirc.niu.edu/

11. Closing the Achievement Gap

18. Dunlap’s Measures for Student
Growth and Achievement

19. Commercial ISAT/
(textbook) PSAE/
Classroom
exams ACT
Continuous
Improvement
Performance
Assessments District Assessment
System
Teacher Created
District
Formative & Summative
Assessments Ability Tests
Aimsweb, STAR, Assessment
EXPLORE, PLAN CogAT

20. Reflect and Discuss
 No Child Left Behind At your table share
= 1 assessment + 1 your thoughts
data point concerning:
 Dunlap Assessment No Child Left Behind’s
System = a variety requirement for
of assessments + reporting student
numerous data achievement and
points Dunlap’s practice for
measuring student
growth

21. Services for Students with
Disabilities
 Inclusive Philosophy
 Expanded Services
 Targeted Research-based Interventions

22. Response to Intervention
Tier III
Intensive, Individual
Interventions as designed by TIER
the Building Based Teams III
Tier II
Specific Skill Remediation
TIER II
TIER I
Tier I
Classroom Interventions

23. Elementary Process
 ISAT data is reviewed
 Aimsweb assessments are given in the
Fall, Winter, & Spring
 Students needing additional support are
identified (using Decision Matrix of District
RTI Plan)
 Interventions are chosen for individual
students
 Student progress is monitored

24. Aimsweb Reading Improvement
Report

25. Aimsweb Math Improvement
Report

26. Middle School
 Grade level teams review & triangulate the
assessment data
 ISAT
 STAR Reading & Math
 Textbook Inventory (Language Arts)
 Grade level teams provide interventions
 Spartan Learning Community & Panther Pride (all students)
 Specific RTI interventions identified as appropriate
 All students create individual SMART Goals &
progress is monitored.

29. High School
Data reviewed includes:
EXPLORE (9th grade)
PLAN (10th grade)
Mock ACT (11th grade)

30. College Readiness is defined as
…
Minimum English, Reading, Math, and
Science assessment scores required for
students to have a 50 % chance of
obtaining a “B” or higher or about a 75%
chance of obtaining a “C “or higher in the
corresponding college course.

33. EXPLORE Score Report
http://www.act.org/explorestud
ent/score/

34. Suggestions for improvement

36. Dunlap High School
Support includes:
Math RTI Study Halls
Language Arts RTI Study Halls
Peer Tutoring (National Honor
Society)

37. System Interventions
 Continuous Improvement Classrooms
 Students set goals and monitor progress
 Professional Learning Communities
 What is it we want all students to know
 How will we know they know it
 What will we do when they don’t
 What will we do when they already now

38. Ground rules Classroom Classroom and
created by mission student
students statements measurable goals
The
Quality tools and
PDSA used
Continuous Classroom data
Improvement centers
regularly
Classroom
Classroom
meetings Student-led Student data
facilitated by conferences folders
students

39. Classroom Continuous
Improvement

40. Professional Learning Teams
 Weekly
Collaboration among
Grade level, Department &/or
Course Teams
 Curriculum (What)
 Instruction (How)
 Student Achievement
Data
 Analyze assessment
data
 Intervention Planning
 Support

41. Stakeholder Feedback
What is working well? What areas need to be Possible Solutions
improved?

42. What’s next?
 Information & Feedback will be
shared with the:
DistrictLeadership Team
Building Leadership Teams
All stakeholders through our District
Blog
 Feedback will be used for
Continuous Improvement

43. Meeting Feedback