GEAR+UP+Collaboration

__**Overall Purpose of the GEAR UP grant is to**__ create a system to assist low-income students, including students with disabilities, in obtaining a secondary school diploma and preparing for and succeeding in postsecondary education. **Interview Quinton Freeman** …Consultant Wendy Hoffer, Public Education Business Coalition: [] who does work on science as thinking. Quinton is not sure if she normally travels outside of Denver or not. || Include parents in job shadowing events and college visits. || Signage reflects expectations (1st sign seen: No Guns Allowed; Advisory Period Called Intervention) || Plan how to design and implement academies to prepare students for careers in STEM: Careers in the health care industry Careers in the energy corridor **Currently not yet discussed with NHS administrative team.** ||
 * Notes from GEAR UP Meeting Led by Julie Hodson on May 3, 2011**
 * **Campus** || **Needs** || **Proposed Solution** ||
 * NHS, NMS, LMS || **Math state assessment test scores have decreased**at the same time that Richardson ISD’s Math scores have increased. (Insert comparison of multi-year data that Ann Worley sent me. ) || # **Implement** [|TI MathForward] **to increase algebra scores**
 * 1) Share articles and arrange for demos to build teacher/administrator buy-in
 * 2) Double block at-risk students in master schedule
 * 3) Get Board approval of purchase of handhelds and navigator systems
 * 4) Get Board Approval, schedule and contract for P.D.
 * 5) For higher level math classes, buy handhelds and screen sharing software and arrange PD on available lessons. (Jim Lefeber ought to be able to share on what is available.) ||
 * NHS, NMS, LMS || **Low student performance in Science**; lack of hands on instruction in 6th and 7th grades. Students are tested in 5th & 8th grades. TEKS and assessments in these two grades are aligned. (Find out if Joyce Olson has any data similar to what Ann Worley has shared with me. Ask Joe Zerbe for multi-year State Assessment Data.) || # **Plan implementation of Discovery Education at NHS, NMS, and LMS with Sheri Alford**. Find out if there are any other similar districts that have used Discovery Education. Why do we think it will work? DE plans to publish a Science TECH book to submit for TEA adoption. DE has tended to focus on M.S. science.
 * 1) Explore the possibility of collaborating with C-STEM (insert link) to plan teacher staff development. Is C-STEM staff familiar with Discovery Education’s Science component?
 * NHS, NMS, LMS || **College Readiness Indicators have decreased** at the same time that a similar district’s Math scores have increased. (Insert multi-year data source that Ann Worley sent me and info Hortensia sent me indicating that NHS is in year 3 of 5 of State’s “warning” to increase # of students attaining college readiness standards; Terry Estes, NHS AP reports annually on progress made as required by HB 400.) || # Hire SREB to provide Raffy as a coach to conduct walk throughs, meet with teachers and administrators and follow up with written reports at NMS and NHS. Require that Raffey use the H.E.A.T. rubric to dialogue with teachers about their lessons. ||
 * || **SBISD does not have support systems built in for students taking Dual Credit and AP courses** || # Could we use techniques learned in November Learning Training such as teachers facilitating a website in which students could create and post tutorials for each other similar to MathTrain. ||
 * || **SBISD does not have any pre-AP written curriculum** || # Ask Lynette Breedlove and/or Lynda Maxwell for a written plan for the writing of pre-AP curriculum. I understand that it will be written by teachers under the guidance of Interdisciplinary coaches. Could we include student review and voice in the curriculum? ||
 * NHS, NMS, LMS || **Low teacher expectations**, especially for homeless, student parents, LEP and culturally different students. (Source: Students in last year’s forum & parents surveyed by district reported, GEAR UP Focus group || # What PD can address [|Low] or [|High] expectations expectations??? LMS is inviting ICU presenters in August 2011. NMS staff is planning a ICU book study for 2011-2012; Lifeguards assigned to students in addition to teachers to help motivate students to complete assignments. ||
 * || New teachers do not understand culture of poverty. || Plan implementation of Ruby Payne’s Framework for Understanding Poverty through a Train the Trainers model to build capacity for continually training new hires. ||
 * || **What are the demographics and the gaps in student achievement? Are there specific gaps that need to be addressed?** ||  ||
 * || **Low Parental Involvement** || Implement [|PIQE] for the first time at NHS. 70 parents went through PIQE in 2010-2011? It has already made a difference in the culture of the school. LMS implemented PIQE is 2010-2011 and graduated 150 parents.
 * || **Communication barriers** between Spanish speaking parents and English speaking teachers. || Solution not yet mentioned. ||
 * NHS, NMS, LMS || **Lack of student role models** || Provide Community & Employee [|Mentors]. Ask Sue Loudis # of Mentors assigned to NHS, NMS, LMS is 2010-2011; Plans are for Becky Wuerth to assign employee mentors to students; What is Linda Buchman’s Dept.’s plan for LMS, NMS and NHS? ||
 * LMS specific || **Students uninformed about careers** (CRIMMS data) || Arrange job shadowing events and college visits to colleges and the specific departments within the college associated with the careers. ||
 * NHS specific || **Low Staff Expectations:**
 * NMS specific || None yet mentioned. ||  ||