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Mobile Devices: Closing the Achievement Gap

South Berwyn School District 100

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Front Row:

Principal Mary Havis, Primary Teacher Amanda Zanchelli, Instructional Coach Shannon Soger

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Back Row:

Superintendent Dr. Stan Fields, Principal Jim Calabrese, Middle School Teacher Bill Davini

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Top 25%

South Berwyn School District 100 will rank in the top 25% of districts in the state of Illinois as evidenced by state testing.

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Welcome to South Berwyn District 100

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1:1 Journey

"I want to come back to District 100!"

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-former Berwyn Principal

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Professional Development

"The best part of the 3.20 Institute Day was that it was by teachers, for teachers."

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-Raul Babolea, Instructional Coach

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Changing Professional Development

  • 8.12
  • Apple PD
  • Fab 40
  • iCoach
  • Fab 40
  • iSWAT

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Focus on Top 25% Vision

  • 68% in 2009, 53% in 2012
  • 4 of 8 schools moved into Top 40% in 2012
  • Growth in Targeted Sub groups
  • Quarterly Assessment Data for Reading & Math
  • School Improvement Planning
  • Continuous review of practices

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Student Growth By Sub-Group

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Closing the Achievement Gap

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Illinois

D100

2012

Low Income Reading

21

9

Low Income Math

16

7

Hispanic Reading

16

10

Hispanic Math

11

7

LEP Reading

43

31

LEP Math

23

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1 to 1: Impact on Assessment

  • Classroom structure
  • Differentiation
  • Immediate feedback
  • Audience
  • Parent communication
  • Student engagement
  • Common Core

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Greater Importance on Data

  • Board of Education
      • Quarterly Performance
  • Staff
      • Building Level Reports
  • Students
      • Reports and Goal Setting
      • Assemblies
      • Emails
  • Community
      • Reports
      • Websites
      • Email Blasts

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Elementary Classroom

Engagement: students are excited to be working with technology.

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Elementary Classroom

Differentiation: students are able to work at their own level at all times.

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Elementary Classroom

Instant Feedback: students are able to practice skills correctly and can be retaught skills they are struggling with.

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Middle School Classroom

Interaction with other Students-21st Century Social Skills

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Middle School Classroom

Flipping the Classroom-"Increasing Student Engagement"

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Middle School Classroom

Communication and Accountability

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