2009-2010 ADS & RBS Test Analysis

1. Butler School District 2009-2010Assessment Results andReport Card Data Butler School District 2009-2010 ADS & RBSTest Results andAssessment Data

2. Education Process Budget

3. Standardized Testing Federal No Child Left Behind legislation requires state testing for grades 3 though 8 NJ ASK 3 NJ ASK 4 NJ ASK 5 NJ ASK 6 NJ ASK 7 NJ ASK 8 HSPA (High School Proficiency Assessment)

4. NJ ASK 3 Current 4th Grade Better Than DFG Average

5. NJ ASK 4 Current 5th Grade Better than DFG Average

6. NJ ASK 5 Current6th Grade Better Than DFG Average

7. NJ ASK 6 Current 7th Grade Better Than DFG Average

8. NJ ASK 7 Current 8th Grade

9. NJ ASK 8 Current 9th Grade Better Than DFG Average

10. How Will We Improve?Aaron Decker School Action Plan Review: T&E 2009 - 2010 Weekly grade level and team meetings Scheduled across grade level articulation Scheduled data analysis and planning Review of lesson plans Summer Reading Program Parent information meetings Enrichment classes NJASK Review Teacher observation Study Island program NJASK format lessons and worksheets Writing Workshops for Grades 3 and 4 Writer in residence for Grades 3 and 4 Basic Skills Instruction Benchmark Assessment for Language Arts (K-3) Interschool articulation for writing Writing Across the Curriculum Use of a Rubric for all Writing PRISM and Standards-based Professional Development Differentiated Instruction Essential Elements of Instruction Training Administrative Professional Development - TurnKey

11. How Will We Improve?Richard Butler School Study Island computer program - skill practice of math strands specific to each grade level Learnia Assessment – Benchmark assessment tool for Mathematics and Language Arts Monthly checks of lesson plans – plans are aligned to the state standards Teacher Observation Faculty meetings to review NJ ASK results and discussion of remedial plans PRISM and Standards-based Professional Development Differentiated Instruction Essential Elements of Instruction Training Administrative Professional Development - TurnKey Writing Across the curriculum instituted to develop consistency with proper punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure in all courses. Use of state rubrics for writing used throughout the building NJ ASK affiliated tasks demonstrated, assigned, and reviewed in class Interschool articulation meeting with Aaron Decker 4th grade staff NJ ASK grade 8 quarter course Basic Skills Improvement class instituted in 2010 – 2011 school year for Mathematics and Language Arts Action Plan Review: T&E 2009 - 2010

12. Education Process Budget

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