1. Welcome
Smith Middle School
PTA
ADMINISTRATORS:
LISA MAZZEI AND IAN O’GARA
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2. Goals
 Examine student FCAT scores over the last five years.
 Look for trends that show areas of concern.
 Consider strategies for improving those areas of
concern.
 Discuss the implementation of those strategies.

3. FCAT Math Scores:
Smith vs. District
Percentage of students scoring 3 and above
Grade Math
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
SMS Dis SMS Dis SMS Dis SMS Dis SMS Dis
6 68 56 58 57 62 60 59 63 68 66
7 34 45 50 51 52 55 50 58 63 60
8 27 45 30 46 40 46 53 50 40 50

4. FCAT Reading Scores:
Smith vs. District
Percentage of students scoring 3 and above
Grade Reading
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
SMS Dis SMS Dis SMS Dis SMS Dis SMS Dis
6 61 58 59 58 60 63 58 64 65 71
7 42 51 56 57 61 64 61 66 57 59
8 32 50 37 52 42 55 55 59 47 61

5. FCAT Writing Scores:
Smith vs. District
Percentage of students scoring 3 and above
Grade Writing
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
SMS Dis SMS Dis SMS Dis SMS Dis SMS Dis
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8 44 55 68 68 64 67 76 76 69 79

6. What are the problems?
 Overall average scores on all subsets of the FCAT trend lower than
the District averages.
What factors are affect our school in particular?
 Scores fall with advancing grade levels.
How can we maintain rigor and
engagement as students grow?

7. What are the solutions?
 Need for more community/parental involvement to
support transition through the middle school years.
Research shows that a strong partnership with families
and community can give students the support they need
to increase academic success (Sanders and Sheldon,
2009).
 Communication and planning across grade levels to
curb decrease in student gains.
Teacher collaboration regarding student data, strategies
for improving student success and monitoring student
progress is essential to become higher-performing
(DiRanna, Love, Mundry and Stiles, 2008).

8. What will we do next?
 We will seek out support from local businesses and community
members to develop partnership programs that can help our
school to offer new programs and technologies.
 We will provide teachers with multifaceted PLC opportunities.
They will collaborate with their subject areas, grade levels, and
interdisciplinary teams to use data to identify and address the
specific needs of our students.
 We will use the new Edsby gradebook system to increase levels of
parent/family involvement and communication amongst all
stakeholders.

9. Thank you!
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