Student+Achievement


 * 1) breakdown and evaluate PSSA results in both areas
 * 2) create a plan for all areas to address needs (not just literacy, English & Math)
 * 3) brainstorm ideas or how to address the gaps
 * 4) create individual learning plans for basic and below basic students
 * 5) create a plan for inclusion in special areas

Date each entry and put the newest entry at the top of the list.
September 15: Attendance: Ian Kerr, Tom Grawe, Chris Bunting, Stacy Remphrey, Wendy Landry, Joanna Stump

Colleen Shearburn demonstrated how to access PSSA results through the SAM system. NOTE: Remember, you cannot see this year's PSSAs. You are looking at last year's. Therefore, for a current 8th grader, you would select "7th grade PSSA results"

Individual results: - Go to class and click on the backpack. - Click on the student you would like to see. - On the right side with the information, click reports and look up PSSA

Class results: - Go to class and click on printer - Choose PSSA results

Plans for the future: - Use emetrics to find the basic and below basic students in each grade level and match them with their teacher. Each teacher will receive an email telling them which students were basic or below basic on the PSSA. - Take these students and assign one of the 6 of us as a "case manager" for that student to help determine what they need. - Create a resource book for each anchor and make it available to teachers in a centralized location and/or online. Approximately 3 weeks prior to the PSSAs, use Study Island to report weak areas. The teachers can use the resource books to remediate in the specific area(s) needed. - Create a test taking strategies handout and make it available online. - Create a website or CD for the teachers where they can access all resources for the PSSA. - Print and give each teacher 1 copy of the 07-08 PSSA questions available through the state based on their grade level. - Discuss ideas with our department in regards to what they want from us. - Analyze data over years to see if certain grades are consistently coming up weak in one or more anchors and then look to change the curriculum if needed. - Look into taking one basic a week as a "math day" where math teachers have coverage and provide math help. (We're working on how that would look.) - Investigate ways to provide help to those who need it but also ways to identify those who don't. (Testing out of it?)


 * October 13**

Attendance: Stacy Remphrey, Tom Grawe, Chris Bunting, Joanna Stump, Chris Pollock

Looked at PVAAS and discussed how it can be used.

Printed lists off of emetrics to begin researching the students who were not proficient on the previous year's PSSAs. Broke them up into grade levels.

Next time: Create a list for each teacher of their students that were below basic with an identification of their weak areas. - Discuss options to help teachers remediate students.


 * February 2**

Attendance: Stacy Remphrey, Ian Kerr, Joanna Stump For the week of March 2nd - March 6th: All math teachers will pretest their students in Geometry & Measurement given a pretest that we will provide. Students who are below the "passing" score will be remediated for 3 basics in Geometry & Measurement using packets provided by us. We chose these topics because this is where our weakness is. We are doing so well on the PSSAs that we feel that we should just keep doing what we are doing and look to just improve in our weak areas.

To work on: Creation of pre-test, answer key, review packets