Teaching Rubrics

Examples of Anna Kyle teaching rubrics used to set writing expectations and support them to identify the necessary elements.

Teach For Success Instructional Practice

At our Staff Meeting on Tuesday, April 5th, we compared the fall/spring sweeps data and identified academic conversations as the T4S Instructional Practice for us to own and master during the 2016-2017 school year.  Our SPSA includes an action step focusing on academic conversations and related funding for instructional walks.

Parent Engagement Post

We are pleased to announce that all of our parent engagement funding has been exhausted! We thoroughly enjoyed providing our families with the Parent Institute of Quality Education!

PBIS Next Steps

We met with JP on Thursday, March 17th.  Next steps that were determined are for our site to complete the remainder of our Year 1 implementation and begin to implement the SWIS network prior to the end of the 2015-2016 school year.  

Customer Service Surveys Discussion

Anna Kyle’s customer service surveys were discussed at our April 7th Leadership Team meeting  The discussion provided valuable information and key points for reflection and dialogue that was addressed by staff.

Community Engagement Photo and Post

We invited Kim Marshall to visit Anna Kyle on April 13th and we had him present at our ELAC meeting.  Mr.  Marshall shared information about the Fairfield Community Service Foundation and the resources available to our school community.  After the meeting, Mr.  Marshall visited several classrooms with Steve Phillips and learned about the various programs that we have to offer at Anna Kyle.

2016-2017 School Year Attendance Plan at Anna Kyle

Anna Kyle will continue to implement our attendance incentives during the 2016-2017 school year.  These programs include a monthly attendance data bulletin board that is visible in our front hallway, a perfect attendance bulletin board in our cafeteria that is updated each trimester, acknowledgement of the highest grade level percentage each month, individual teacher recognition for having the highest percentage each month, and acknowledging any class that met the school wide goal each month!

We will also be incorporating a set of letters, from the Count Us In Toolkit, that will go out in August 2016 to our highest attendance offenders from the previous school year.  This will allow us to be proactive with these families, and communicate with them prior to school starting.  We will also implement a monthly drawing for those teachers that had perfect attendance within their own attendance.

Assessment Evidence

Steve attended the Illuminate Site Admininstrator Training on Wednesday, April 6th from 8:00-11:00 and Amy attended the Illuminate Site Administrator Training on Thursday, April 7th from 8:00-11:00.

Anna Kyle Teach For Success

Teach For Success:
Completed sharing of Fall T4S data on Tuesday, February 2nd at our staff meeting.  Comments from the discussions regarding the data were as follows:

• Teachers have a concern with the number of classrooms that were visited to represent our site.
• Areas of strength:  engagement, responding overtly to teacher direction
• Areas of improvement:  building on others statements, higher Depth Of Knowledge areas, academic conversations

Anna Kyle Community Engagement

Anna Kyle has connected with our FSUSD Adult School and our own parent community.  We will be offering English Language Acquisition courses for parents in the near future.  The course will teach parents the importance of establishing a family reading routine with their children, how to share a book and help both parents and school age children learn English vocabulary, verbs, grammar, and conversation. It will teach parents the skills they need to share literature and to be involved in the school-going process with their children.

Anna Kyle English Language Acquisition Flyer

Anna Kyle Customer Service Surveys

Anna Kyle completed our “hardcopy” of the customer service surveys on Wednesday, February 10th.  We have forwarded those hard copies to the District Office (Shirley Chavarria) for input and we have kept a copy for ourselves in order to discuss the data we have compiled.

Anna Kyle Attendance

On page 12 of the Count Us In document on our District website, it is recommended to incorporate attendance incentives and contests at our school sites.  Anna Kyle has created a monthly attendance data bulletin board that is visible in our front hallway.  Incentives for  the highest grade level percentage, individual teacher recognition and any class that met the school wide goal of 96.5% will be celebrated each month!

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Anna Kyle PBIS

Anna Kyle PBIS Meeting Notes with JP 1/28/16 9:00-10:00 AM

·         Updated JP on implementation of Eagle Cash and Eagle Cart Reward sytem.  Shared Eagle Cart schedule and that all teachers are participating in the schedule.

·         PBIS site team is creating imovies for positive behavior attributes on site.  Both staff and students are participating.

·         Discussed current and future funding/budget of site PBIS.  Sub coverage costs for PBIS professional development was also discussed.

·         Shared attendance incentives: grade level, highest class in grade level, highest Kindergarten class and those classes that meet the school wide goal of 96.5%.

·         Shared how monthly Character Trait Lunches work for students and staff.

·         Shared the implementation of classroom behavior contracts to support staff with daily management.  Shared a few of our current contracts inside the classroom.

·         Discussed visual signaling and the importance of students identifying their positive behavior.

·         Discussed the impact on referrals to the office.  Unusually high levels of referrals are coming from the classroom according to JP.

·         We shared alternative recess transition form and how that process works for us at AK.

Suggestions:

·         In a month or so, once we get ANY DATA from SWIS, share out with whole staff immediately.

·         Once a week set out 20-30 minutes for classroom lessons on character traits and tie it to our school wide PBIS expectations.

·         Have staff share out the real life situations with using the incentives in the classroom that were a payoff and also that may have needed an adjustment.

Tasks:

·         Share Items with JP that we are using for implementation of multiple (Steve shared).

Anna Kyle Technology

Anna Kyle implemented a presentation with entire staff in October 2015.   Below is the link to our staff meeting presentation, which includes the SAMR Model video.

Anna Kyle Staff Meeting Technology Presentation

Anna Kyle Parent Engagement

Anna Kyle completed the identification of students living with someone other than a parent, flagged these students in Aeries, and contacted each family individually via phone call.  For those families with non-working phone numbers, we sent a personal note home through the mail.  We made 10 first attempt contacts, we left 5 voicemails with 4 return calls that I personally took and spoke with the adults, and I sent 2 personal notes to families when the phone number did not work.These tasks were completed on February 2, 2016.  A few highlights of our conversations:

• “I feel very supported and appreciate the call”
• “Very nice of you to call and I appreciate it!”
• “Mrs. V is fantastic and we see HUGE improvements with _________!  We can’t say enough about her as a teacher.”
• “Everything is good right now.  Thank you for the call.  It is nice to know about the washer/dryer and I actually might take advantage of it.”

Anna Kyle's Writing Survey Results!

100% of our classes had student writing posted.  Of those classes, 71% had writing rubrics posted, and 29% did not.

QR Codes to access writing!

 

Introducing Amy Chavez

I am so glad to be a contributing editor to this blog.  I am currently the assistant principal at  Anna Kyle. I look forward to reading all that my colleagues have to share and say regarding our task force. I am excited to work with my team and share all of our great ideas with you!

Amy Chavez
Assistant Principal Anna Kyle Elementary

Email: amyci@fsusd.org
(707) 421-4105

A Few Tidbits Concerning Steve Phillips

Welcome to my world!  It is a pleasure to be partaking in this blog- the first I have participated in.  I look forward to using this tool to accomplish and share out the work I am completing as a member of the T4S Task Force.  As principal of Anna Kyle, I find great value in the impact T4S has on student learning.  My group will be sharing out resources to support each of the focuses of the new instrument!

Steve Phillips
steveph@fsusd.org
421-4105
Twitter:  @AnnaKyleElem