Mead+Middle+School+SMART+goals

**School Year**:2010/2011 **Name**: Sherri Platt **Date**: 10/5/10 **Position:** Teacher Librarian **School**: Mead Middle ** Goal: ** To track Accelerated Reader usage to see if there is a change from last year to this year using the online version of AR. I will be tracking two components of the program. I expect to see an increase of quizzes taken by 3% per student and the average book level to increase by .3 average book level across all grades and overall. ** Data: ** 2009/2010 School Year Average book level: Quizzes Taken: 11,686   Total number of students: 368 Average books per student: 31.8 ** Activities to Reach Goal: ** ** Evaluation Process to Determine if the Goal/Objective Has Been Reached: ** Schoolwide Summary Report from Accelerated Reader on May 25, 2011 ** Timeline: ** On going, beginning in August and to be completed by May 25, 2011. ** _ _ ** ** Teacher’s Signature Evaluator’s Signature **
 * Professional Growth Plan **
 *  5.0 all grades
 *  4.8 6th grade
 *  5.0 7th grade
 *  5.0 8th grade
 *  Promote AR online through advisory classes and English classes
 *  Teach all 6th graders how to use the program and how to monitor progress.
 *  Promote at home monitor through AR Home Connect
 *  Inform parents of AR online features via weekly updates and back to school night.
 *  Promote AR BookFind to encourage students to read material outside of the Mead Middle School library collection

Update: February 11, 2011 For the PLC, the plan was for elective team to revisit their growth plan and look at data. I did look at mine and thought I would pass along my findings. My growth plan is to monitor AR since we are with AR online this year. My goal was to see an increase in AR activity; however, this is not what I am seeing. Current Stats: To date – we are currently at 61% of the school year and our quiz number is matching at the 53% mark of last year. We are down 905 quizzes We are up by 7 students Average per student last year at this time was 19.3 books per kid Average per student this year at this time is 16.6 book per kid Average book level is up from 5.0 to 5.1 Observations: Pat and I have both noticed a drop during advisory of students in taking quizzes and checking out books. Our usual rush after weekends and breaks has not been happening. I am concerned about the fidelity of AR. Mornings seem more scattered with teachers leaving rooms for meeting, students being pulled for individual instruction and just not the overall strong structure of AR during Advisory. I do have concern how this drop in our AR will play a part in the Reading portion of the CSAP. will, Guts are not always wrong and you do have some numbers to give you some pause. Joshua Barnett Principal Mead    Middle School St. Vrain Valley School District (970) 535-4446
 * Growth Plan Update Shared with Principal on February 4, 2011:  **
 * Dialog between me and principal:  **

** From:  **  Platt Sherri Absolutely – I do agree, but we also need to keep in mind that these 7th graders were here last year as 6th graders and our numbers did not drop. This is the first time I can remember since we started AR that our numbers have dropped. Call it a gut feeling, and I know you don’t like that, but I just don’t feel the whole school intensity with AR that we have felt in the past. It seems like we have said AR works, we have it figured out, it’s a great program, we have the system down, but now we are coasting. Please, ask other teachers. Get their feel. Maybe it’s just me and I shouldn’t worry. Sherri Platt Mead    Middle School Teacher Librarian/Tech Rep.
 * Sent: ** Friday, February 04, 2011 2:55 PM
 * To: ** Barnett Joshua
 * Subject: ** RE: growth plan update

** From:  **  Barnett Joshua Looking at this it seems that 7th grade is the weak link. 1. Given that they are way lower than 8th and 6th. 2. Given that despite having lots of ILP kids, Michaela’s group leads 8th grade per student. Do you agree? Joshua Barnett Principal Mead    Middle School St. Vrain Valley School District (970) 535-4446
 * Sent: ** Friday, February 04, 2011 2:45 PM
 * To: ** Platt Sherri
 * Subject: ** RE: growth plan update

** From:  **  Platt Sherri See response below: Sherri Platt Mead    Middle School Teacher Librarian/Tech Rep.
 * Sent: ** Friday, February 04, 2011 1:36 PM
 * To: ** Barnett Joshua
 * Subject: ** RE: growth plan update

** From:  **  Barnett Joshua Thanks Sherri, I am not sure which students are being pulled anymore this year than last. That might just be my impression because almost on a daily basis there are kids pulled into my office by either Brad, district speech, special ed testing. And I don’t mind them using my office. It is great place for them to use, but at the same time I think it still is sending that message that AR is not a sacred time. You would have to check with other teachers to see how much kids are pulled from their rooms during this time. I wonder…have you broken it down by class or grade level? It might be interesting to see if one grade level or particular advisory classes are lower than normal and accounting for some of this. 6th grade – average 505 quizzes 7th grade – average 356 quizzes 8th grade – average 448 quizzes By doing it that way we could also test the teacher out of the classroom theory. 6th grade, Salva, Servold and Latchaw would not have this issue. Campbell, Youngs, Davis, and Shaffer would have more of this going on than anyone else. Latchaw and Servold are both at the top of their grade level for number of quizzes taken. Broken down per student Campbell is 1st for quiz per student with Latchaw second. Servold is still first with quiz per student with Salva second for 7th grade. One thing to consider while doing this is that last year for 2 months I met with 7th and 8th grade core teachers during advisory to talk about at-risk-kids (January and February). Was there a drop last year during this time period in 7th and 8th grade? I don’t have the monthly break down. The numbers are based on what we ended with last year, calculated out to the 61% of the year we are currently at and then compared to our actual number this year. With this being said, the argument could be made that they will pull it out at the end of the year and numbers will balance out. Yes, hopefully that will happen. However, the reason I am even bringing this up is because I have had the sense all year that our quizzing felt to have the same intensity as it has in the past. I started looking at the numbers in November, noticed they were low. Chalked up to still fairly beginning of year for 6th grade, once they kick into gear the numbers will level out. Still after Christmas I checked again and numbers were still low. When it really hit home was when I changed the number on the bulletin board today and students had only taken 200 quizzes in 2 weeks. Yes, this week was cut short, but even so that means we should have had a flood of testers in Thursday and Friday and that was not the case. Also, given that the book level is up slightly could it be that kids are reading less books…but harder ones and thus reaching their goals that way? Is there a way to test this theory? Book level and point goals are not tied together. Points are based on length of book. If anything the with the higher book level, which normally comes from non-fiction and these are shorter books, which would result in more books read rather than less. Joshua Barnett Principal Mead    Middle School St. Vrain Valley School District (970) 535-4446
 * Sent: ** Friday, February 04, 2011 12:00 PM
 * To: ** Platt Sherri
 * Subject: ** RE: growth plan update