Positive factors advancing student achievement

      
  • Team Teaching-2
  • Sharing resources between teachers
  • Team Work
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  • Team work of Starke office members
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  • Learning Center to help improve students’ technology skills
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  • Learning Center
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  • Classroom & Learning Center planning towards the same goals
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  • Cross graded meetings
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  • Parent Involvement-2
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  • Technology
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  • Awareness of standards
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  • Objective testing more than once a year
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  • I Can Do It!
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  • SAI & sharing of SAI results-2
    • Technical updating (computers, Internet use, etc.)
  • Learning Center time to teach students computer technology
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  • Extra faculty to assist Reading Recovery & Writing to Read
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  • Reading Recovery-3
  • (Title to help remediate)
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  • Technology Club-2
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  • Writing guidelines
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  • Cross curriculum
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  • Encourage staff to attend workshops & conferences for new ideas-2
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  • Writing guidelines
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  • Stars for jumping rope
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  • Fitness awards
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  • Jump Rope for Heart
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  • First Choice-2
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  • Portfolios & work to show parents
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  • Display work in the hallways
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  • Literacy Groups for all grades-8 (More individualized teaching to child’s need & level)
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  • Cross grouping of students
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  • Small Group Work
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  • Discovery Program in KG
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  • Writing to Read
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  • Resource & Self Contained Special Ed.
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    Opposing factors hindering student achievement      

    • Lack of consistency between classes & grade levels
  • Lack of student motivation-2
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  • Lack of definitive objectives
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  • Not being on "the same page"
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  • Grading/Writing SAI
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  • Not understanding some SAI
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  • We need 2 full time literacy leaders
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  • Large class sizes
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  • Resource/inclusion staff-We need more!!
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  • Distinct diversity in ability levels in each classroom-2
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  • Lack of collaboration-2
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  • Curriculum in the classroom
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  • Some teachers want children to spell the words correctly/Some teachers want the children to sound out the words
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  • People who do not adapt to change
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  • Lack of communication between co-workers
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  • More collaboration among faculty
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  • Loss of time in transitions
  • Loss of optimal instructional time (Halloween, Valentine’s Day, etc.)
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  • Lack of parent involvement
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    • Lack of time & time to plan (2)
  • Lack of parent involvement
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  • Not always enough parental communication
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  • Spending to much instructional time on discipline
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  • Lack of respect
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  • Stubbornness-Do not want to work
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  • Behavior problems
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  • Listening skills
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  • Will not listen to authority
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  • Lack of respect
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  • Attitude
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  • Time settling student disputes
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  • Scheduling of activities
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  • Not enough time (release days) to work on committees & with each grade level
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  • Scheduling
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  • Prime teaching interruptions
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  • Not enough instruction time to accomplish projects
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    Categories of Opposing Factors Hindering Student Achievement
    1. Lack of time ( i.e. instruction, planning, interruptions)
    2. Not enough collaboration
    3. Student Issues(i.e. motivation, behavior, etc.)
    4. Inconsistencies (i.e. instruction, interpretation of objectives)