The state provides two days and our district receives a waiver for three days, giving us a total of 5 LIDs a year. These days are extremely valuable as they allow us the opportunity to work collaboratively within grade levels, school wide and district wide. We spend our time learning about current best practices, reviewing data and research based programs/ideas to support our day to day instruction. We also spend this time aligning what we do so that as students move from one grade to the next, there is continuity.
2008-2009 Learning Improvement Days: September 22, 2008 October 20, 2008 February 2, 2009 March 23, 2009
The content of these days stem from the building School Improvement Plans (SIPs). Based on WASL results and SIPs, our focus on these days has been mathematics and science.
Primary 07-08 08-09
September Math Investigations
Inservice Handwriting/RTI
Model/Data carousel
October Data Carousel/Math Investigations New
Math Standards/Science
February Strand Mapping
(K-5 together) Greg
Benner
March K-5
Math alignment Effective Instruction/BERC Group Number Talks/Math Education
Collaborative
May Science
alignment/FOSS Inservice (K-5) Staff
directed
Elementary
September Math Investigations
Inservice Math
Performance Standards Workshop
October Data Carousel/Math
Investigations Reading
Workshop/Writing in the Content
February Strand Mapping
(K-5 together) Math
Content Inservice
March K-5 Math alignment Science,
May Science
alignment/ FOSS Inservice K-5)
Middle
September SIPTAP Content
PLC-CBA/Alignment Common
Math Assessments/New Math Standards/Academy
October Study team
Math Barrier research/progress Differential
Instruction/
February Develop Math
Goal Action Plan
March Monitor Action Plan/Accreditation
May Subject Area PLCs
High
September Carousel/Duxdata
October Effective
Instruction/BERC
February Subject Area PLCs
March Effective
Instruction/BERC Group
May Subject Area PLCs
*Every LID at the HS
also includes Senior Projects/Advanced Placement/ABC’s Content*
If you would like more specific information, please contact your school principal or our district Curriculum/Instruction/Assessment director.
Glossary of Terms
ABCs- Advancement through Borderite Connections- advisor/advisee
AP- Advanced Placement
BERC- Baker Evaluation Research Consulting- effective instruction consultants
Data carousel- review student achievement data to renew Student Improvement Plan
Duxdata- data management system
FOSS- Full Option Science System- adopted science curriculum
Kathy Richardson Training- math assessment
PLCs- (Professional Learning Communities)- teacher teams work together to review data and improve student achievement
SIPTAP- School Improvement Planning Technical Assistance Project- reviewing data and developing a working action plan
Curriculum Mapping- aligning curriculum, content, skills and assessment by dates (K-12)