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Red Oak Community School District

School Improvement Advisory Committee

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Observations and Questions

Feedback from February Meeting

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What did we learn?

We were concerned about the results of the student voice grade results. Ex: When students don’t have “heroes” or feel they may fail, they won’t score well on tests.
The growth of each student – proficiency vs. growth
Achievement of students through scores compared to the state. The numbers were helpful.
Need to come up with ideas to improve student to student respect.
School environment:

Work hard at that
Sharing the results
Kids need to be happier and comfortable at the school.

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What do we still want to know?

Alternative school – how many students does this take in? Is their degree the same as a regular diploma? Would like more knowledge about this.

About 20 students each year for the last 2 years
This year there are 10 full-time students and about 25 credit recovery students

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What do we still want to know?

College and Career Readiness – What are the standards used to measure this? For the School Report Card:

Cut scores of 22 on Reading and 22 on Math on the ACT represent college readiness.

A study conducted by Iowa Testing Programs translated the Iowa Assessments scores to the college readiness scores on the ACT.

A benchmark aligned to the ACT is set for students at each grade level.

Individual growth goals are created for each student based on their prior year National Standard Score and the amount of growth needed to score 306, which is considered “college and career ready,” by grade 12.

They literally subtract a student’s score from 306 and then divide that by the number of years left to 12^th grade. Ie: An 8^th grade student standard score of 235 would mean that the student is not college and career ready. The student needs to grow 17.75 points each year to be college and career ready by grade 12.

School Report Card Technical Guide: https://reports.educateiowa.gov/schoolreportcard//content/2017TechnicalGuideIowaReportCardv3.pdf

For students already above the CCR goal, “the trajectory and growth target will be the annual expected growth in the 35-65 percentile range.”
“The individual CCR goal will always be equal to or greater than the expected growth goal at the 50^th percentile for the student’s current grade.”

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What do we still want to know?

How does Red Oak Schools rate on a nationwide basis?

2017	Red Oak	Iowa	U.S.
English	20.5	21.2	20.3
Math	19.2	21.3	20.7
Reading	21.7	22.6	21.4
Science	21.2	22.1	21
Composite	20.7	21.9	21

2018	Red Oak	Iowa	U.S.
English	19.1	21	20.2
Math	19.7	21.2	20.5
Reading	21.7	22.5	21.3
Science	20.3	22	20.7
Composite	20.6	21.8	20.8

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What do we still want to know?

Does changing teachers affect scores and discipline comparing elementary and secondary? Secondary has low scores and discipline.

If class is disrupted, student learning is obviously disrupted for the student causing the disruption as well as for others.

Classroom management in general has an impact on learning.

Research from Visible Learning (John Hattie) shows an effect size of .52. An effect size of .4 is equivalent to 1 year of growth. Based on Hattie’s research, which is a synthesis (combination) of over 800 other meta-analyses, when considering influences on student achievement, this is actually ranked 42^nd. To put this in perspective, teacher-student relationships have an effect size of .72 and rank 11^th.

Meta-analysis is the statistical procedure for combining data from multiple studies. When the treatment effect (or effect size) is consistent from one study to the next, meta-analysis can be used to identify this common effect.

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What do we still want to know?

Is there a way to get the kids more involved in seeing the data?

Tiger Link Crew
Mrs. Erickson & Mrs. Vannausdle – with staff support

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What do we still want to know?

Is there a way for more kids to have activities during the day/seminar (intramurals)?

Time	Class
8:25 - 9:45	Block 1 & 2
9:51 - 11:11	Block 3 & 4
11:15 - 1:07	Block 5 & 6 / Lunch (80 instructional + 25 lunch + 6 passing)
1:11 - 2:31	Block 7 & 8
2:35 - 3:30	Flex & seminar Block

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What do we still want to know?

Is there a way to find out what students think teachers do well to build relationships?

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_m-HcY9QDySP71NwXqbOOgXqj_6pKQlINd77tpEJhJw/edit

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What do we still want to know?

ACT - more information
> 75% think college
Few are taking it (< 25%)
How many times do they take it?

As often as they wish

Since when?

Specific requirements for students age 13 or younger, but students can begin taking it in middle school

Cost?

$50.50 for the standard ACT
Adding the writing portion costs $67

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Information for parents?

District website under HS Guidance
Flyers with test dates, cost, registration, and general info as well as practice ACT tests on the main table during both sessions of P/T Conferences where parents pick up student grades
Registration deadline and ACT test date in announcements at least 3 weeks prior to the deadline
Counselor met with all juniors this spring and told all juniors planning to attend 4-year colleges that they need to take it this spring, summer, or fall.
Juniors planning to attend 2-year colleges or trade schools were told they don’t have to take it to be accepted to those schools.�

Information about the ACT is on the school website on the HS guidance page. I had ACT flyers with test dates, cost, registration information, etc. on it and practice ACT tests on the main table during both sessions of parent-teacher conferences where parents picked up their students' grades. I have also put the registration deadline and ACT test date in the announcements at least three weeks prior to the deadline.

I have met with all juniors this spring and discussed whether or not they should take the ACT. I have told all juniors planning to attend 4-year colleges that they need to take it this spring, summer, or fall. I have told juniors planning to attend 2-year colleges or trade school that they do not have to take it to be accepted to those schools. I have discussed what the test is and handed all juniors a flyer if they are curious or wanting to take it. Right now I have 34 of 55 juniors planning to take it sometime this year. I have 6 of 55 that aren't sure and 15 of 55 that are not planning on taking it. I still need to meet with 16 juniors.

Students can take the ACT as many times as they want to. They can take it any time in high school. Some may choose to take it in 7th or 8th grade as well and that is allowed. Right now the standard ACT test which includes Reading, Math, English, and Science tests costs $50.50. The ACT test which includes Reading, Math, English, Science, and a Writing portion costs $67. If a student receives free or reduced lunch, they may request an ACT fee waiver and those are available in my office.

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Additional Information

Enrollment in Iowa community colleges and Universities

For the Performance Profile, College and Career Readiness will be measured differently. ESSA Plan is calling is PSRI (Postsecondary Readiness Indicator) No score was reported on this year’s profile as they have still been developing the indicators. Proposed indicators are:

Concurrent Enrollment
Post-Secondary Enrollment within 1 year after graduation
Post-Secondary Remediation in mathematics and reading
Successful completion of 15 credits or receipt of an award within the first year of enrollment

This may changed based on the feedback from the stakeholders. This school year, the Department of Ed is developing and piloting an “optimal PSRI” and it will be calculated and added to the performance profile next year.

Our most recent data according to Iowa’s Postsecondary Readiness Report last updated in December is presented here.

The average enrollment from 2014-2016 (within 1 year of graduation) is 63.2%. On average, 12.3% of those who were enrolled took at least 1 remedial English or math course within the 1^st year.

https://reports.educateiowa.gov/postsecondaryreadiness

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Additional Information

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Additional Information

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Additional Information

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What do we still want to know?

Can we get new data when the new school report card comes out in March?

Still not out, but yes!

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