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The Successful Practices Network facilitates the sharing of best practices and innovative ideas among its member schools. Each member school is visited by an SPN coach who meets with the leadership team of the school to identify successful practices that will be shared to the full membership. These successful practices range from school program and course curriculum to projects or individual classes’ programs and activities. These successful practices are solicited based on their impact on student achievement and growth. All successful practices are consistent with the idea that rigor relevance and relationships for ALL students. These descriptions are associated with the individual school that submitted them. Successful practices that are reviewed highly are often subjects of future podcasts and webinars to facilitate greater discussion and dissemination.
Benefits:
- “Real world” successful practices that are tested and proven in the schools.
- Connected to shared pedagogy of Rigor/Relevance/Relationships for ALL students
- Format encourages schools to be innovative
- Helps schools who are experiencing challenges find similar schools who are finding success
- Successful practices are used to begin partnerships around persistent problems among member schools.
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11 May, 2010
At Tulare Union High School, we have one family potluck in October sponsored and hosted by senior AVID students and another sponsored and hosted by junior AVID students in May.
Families associated with our AVID students are invited along with campus staff and district personnel. With a turnout of approximately 200 people, the fall semester potluck highlights the positive aspects of the AVID program, which is a support program that targets the first generation college student(s). The eq...Read more
Families associated with our AVID students are invited along with campus staff and district personnel. With a turnout of approximately 200 people, the fall semester potluck highlights the positive aspects of the AVID program, which is a support program that targets the first generation college student(s). The eq...Read more
Learning Criteria:
- Personal Skill Development
Additional Connections:
- Partnerships
- High Expectations
5 April, 2010
Students benefit because they develop a relationship with at least one adult, and they also develop a relationship with students that they may not otherwise know.
Components of School Excellence:
- Clarify Student Learning Expectations.
Learning Criteria:
- Personal Skill Development
Additional Connections:
- High Expectations
- Safe / Orderly Schools
7 April, 2010
Students are in an advisory class once a week. This helps them develop repore with a staff member, receive information, and build relationships with a culturally diverse student population.
Components of School Excellence:
- Clarify Student Learning Expectations.
- Address Organizational Structures.
Learning Criteria:
- Personal Skill Development
Additional Connections:
- High Expectations
11 May, 2010
Any 9th grade student who fails a trimester course must report to the afternoon learning which lasts from 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM. Students report to their teacher for the first half hour for individual instruction and then report to the library where I conduct sessions from 2:45 – 3:30. We do such things as study skills, team building, and attitude work. I also stipend another faculty member who acts as an advocate for these students and who is responsible for meeting with each teacher of a ...Read more
Components of School Excellence:
- Embrace a Common Vision and Goals — Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships for ALL Students.
Learning Criteria:
- Foundation Academic Learning
Additional Connections:
- Meeting AYP Reading
- Meeting AYP Mathematics
- High Expectations
5 April, 2010
Our after school program is a one-hour program set aside to provide remediation or enrichment for students. Students whom are failing are strongly encouraged to attend to gain understanding of concepts and to help complete assignments. All students can attend in preparation for up-coming tests as well as time to complete projects and group assignments. Technological tools are available for student use. There are three paid adults available to help all students including a special educatio...Read more
Components of School Excellence:
- Embrace a Common Vision and Goals — Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships for ALL Students.
Learning Criteria:
- Foundation Academic Learning
- Stretch Learning
- Learner Engagement
- Personal Skill Development
Additional Connections:
- High Expectations
- Safe / Orderly Schools
3 May, 2010
We offer an after school reading intervention for students who are English Learners or at-risk of having reading difficulties.
Teachers are paid to tutor students after school for six week sessions. Students are referred based on local assessment data.
Groups are limited to 6 students. English Learners are clustered separately and recieve intensive English Language Development support.
Teachers are paid to tutor students after school for six week sessions. Students are referred based on local assessment data.
Groups are limited to 6 students. English Learners are clustered separately and recieve intensive English Language Development support.
Components of School Excellence:
- Adopt Effective Instructional Practices.
Learning Criteria:
- Foundation Academic Learning
Additional Connections:
- Meeting AYP Reading
- Alternative Education Program
11 May, 2010
Algebra I for Freshmen is a course that was created three years ago to separate incoming freshmen students that need to take Algebra I from those students who have already attempted, but failed Algebra I previously.
Class size is limited to 20 students to provide a safe learning environment free of upper classmen peer pressure. The teacher is able to cover the material without having to focus on students who have previously failed the course.
A pleasant by-product of the class is tha...Read more
Class size is limited to 20 students to provide a safe learning environment free of upper classmen peer pressure. The teacher is able to cover the material without having to focus on students who have previously failed the course.
A pleasant by-product of the class is tha...Read more
Components of School Excellence:
- Adopt Effective Instructional Practices.
Learning Criteria:
- Foundation Academic Learning
- Learner Engagement
Additional Connections:
- Meeting AYP Mathematics
7 April, 2010
Latin 2, 3 and 4 students benefit from this activity. The students form groups and create an artistic poster or wall hanging. This wall hanging contains a paragraph description of a classical person or place. They brainstorm about the person or place and then describe it using alliteration. They also decorate their poster creatively demonstrating the facts of this person or place through the pictures. This activity allows them to build background knowledge of important persons and places...Read more
Additional Connections:
- Partnerships
5 April, 2010
Alma School District (ASD) used the Arkansas Language Arts Frameworks and current instructional research to develop a core literacy plan. This plan includes assessment, research-based instructional reading practices, ongoing/embedded professional development for staff members, and interventions (see attached chart). The ASD Core Literacy Plan is consistent with the Arkansas Comprehensive Literacy Model.
Components of School Excellence:
- Inform Decisions Through Data Systems.
23 April, 2010
Youth Connections is an alternative educational program that serves thirty-two school districts. Youth Connections is not a charter school program but rather a public high school. Youth Connections targets students who could be: a) disconnected from school due to non-attendance or an inability to succeed in a regular school setting, b) lacking in credits for his or her age group, c) deficient in the areas emphasized in the Ohio Proficiency Test, d) under expulsion for non-violent reasons, ...Read more
Components of School Excellence:
- Adopt Effective Instructional Practices.
Learning Criteria:
- Foundation Academic Learning
- Personal Skill Development
Additional Connections:
- Alternative Education Program
- Multiple Pathways
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