Creslane Board Report
April 2008
Calendar: April 4 – Fifth Grade field trip to Recycling
April 7 – State Records Day
April 10 – Third/Fourth/Fifth Grade Talent Show (1:00 and 6:30 p.m.)
April 10-11 – Lion’s Eye Screening
April 14-25 – Greg Gurly’s Mime classes from Lane Arts Council
April 17 – Guidance and Counseling meeting
April 23 – Secretary’s Day
April 24 – Positive Behavior Support meeting (2:30)
April 28-May 2 – Volunteer Appreciation Week
May 5 – Kindergarten field trip to Hult (Winnie the Pooh)
May 6 & 13 – Title 1 Pizza Party for Parents
May 11 – Mothers’ Day
May 12 – 23 – Lane Arts Council: clay works
May 13 – Creslane Choir Concert (7:00)
Every Tuesday (2:30) = Special Education Child Study Team meetings.
Every Tuesday and Thursday (2:15-3:00) = Creslane Choir practice
Every Wednesday (2:30) = staff meetings at Creslane.
Enrollment: March
2008 April 2008
Total:
597 596
Kindergarten
89 89
First
88 87
Second
106 106
Third
114 114
Fourth
101 101
Fifth
99 99
Discipline: (Please see the attached graph.) Nice results, but it was hard work!
We credit the improved
behavior report to a major focus on the positives with morning “celebrations,”
paper acknowledgments during the day, and daily prizes for a few lucky
winners. Ms. Krupicka, the office
secretaries and I also met with the students who had the most office referrals
every recess to reinforce expected behaviors, generate ideas on appropriate
games to play, how to get help, and practice when to get help. We also spent hours getting outside help for
the most severe of the students with behavior problems.
A couple months ago at
Creslane’s Site Council meeting a question was asked in relation to behavior
and when recess occurs.
Question: Are behaviors better if students eat before
they go out for recess?
Data:
·
Group “A” is
comprised of two grades (second and third) that have recess before they
eat. There were 55 office referrals from
these two grades during the recess/lunch period. This equals about .25 office referrals per student. 55% of the referrals occurred during recess
and 45% of them occurred in the cafeteria.
·
The three grades
that have recess after lunch (first, fourth and fifth) make up Group “B”. There were 74 office referrals during
recess/lunch from this group. This also
equals about .25 office referrals for each student in these grades. In this case, 73% of the office referrals
came from recess and the other 27% occurred in the cafeteria.
Analysis: It does not appear that eating lunch
decreases conflicts (although the Creslane office staff certainly make sure
this principal eats lunch before they make a request! J). Both groups
had the same average number of referrals per student and the majority of the
office referrals originated from the playground. However, there was a
significant difference between the two locations in regards to when the
students ate lunch. Group “A” was more
evenly divided in conflicts in the cafeteria and on the playground, whereas Group “B” had a lot more office
referrals in the playground and a lot fewer in the cafeteria. This may be due to the fact that the students
who got playground office referrals from Group “B” ate lunch in the office
waiting to meet with the principal, so were not in the cafeteria.
Curriculum:
Writing Scores: This
year the writing scores for our fourth grade students once again indicated our
strength in writing is in “Voice” and our greatest weakness is in
“Conventions.” We were strong in “Ideas
and Content” and “Word Choice.” We had
more difficulty in “Organization” and “Sentence Fluency.”
Two different judges evaluate
each paper. There are basically 5 points
possible in each category. To “meet” the
benchmark a student must receive at least a “4” from both judges in the
different categories. If one of the
judges evaluated one or two categories with a “3” but the other judge evaluated
it with a “4” the student receives a “conditionally met.” The District can qualify that student with a
“met” if their usual work meets the criterion for a “4.” Anything lower than a “3” from both judges constitute
“Does Not Meet.” To “exceed” the
benchmark the writer must receive a score of “5” from both judges in every
area.
This Year: Thirty-four percent (34%) of our students
“met” the benchmark. Twenty-one percent
(21%) were at the “conditionally met” category.
A disappointing forty-three percent (43%) “did not meet.” Three percent (3%) exceeded the benchmark.
School-wide Title 1 Exploration:
Last month on March 11th
(not February as listed in last month’s report), seven teachers visited two
Oregon City schools that went through the process of moving from Targeted Title
to School-wide Title. The seven teachers
represented every grade and Title. As
hoped they came back with ideas of how it is possible to “do business
differently.” What they saw will not
work at Creslane, but they were able to start envisioning beyond our historical
methodology. We will be sending another
team of teachers to view a couple other state-approved school-wide Title
schools later this month. It was also
suggested by ODE to employ the guidance of some of their specialists in working
our way toward this goal.
Guidance and Counseling Workshop:
Debra Weber, Lauri Thomas,
Mary Lou Christiansen, Ken Donner, Amber Dawn Krupicka, Lane ESD employee
Kathryn Henderson and I attended a workshop on implementing systemic
change. This was an extremely helpful
training when thinking through the changes the District will need to consider
for the Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Plan and for Creslane as we
attempt to move from the Targeted Title to a School-wide Title 1 model. We learned the steps we need to proceed
through before we can expect compliance and success. We learned the pitfalls and hurdles that have
to be overcome and some of the ways to make the pitfalls and hurdles learning
tools.
Discipline Data:
Generated: 04/03/2008, 1:32:40 PM
All Referrals & Minors
2007-08
|
Year |
Month |
Days Count |
Referral Count |
Avg Referrals |
|
2007 |
Aug |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
|
2007 |
Sep |
19 |
32 |
1.68 |
|
2007 |
Oct |
22 |
58 |
2.64 |
|
2007 |
Nov |
15 |
36 |
2.40 |
|
2007 |
Dec |
15 |
62 |
4.13 |
|
2008 |
Jan |
17 |
38 |
2.24 |
|
2008 |
Feb |
20 |
63 |
3.15 |
|
2008 |
Mar |
16 |
42 |
2.63 |
|
2008 |
Apr |
21 |
4 |
0.19 |
|
2008 |
May |
21 |
0 |
0.00 |
|
2008 |
Jun |
6 |
0 |
0.00 |
|
2008 |
Jul |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
|
Totals |
172 |
335 |
|
|
|
Days: 172 |
Referrals: 335 |