Pagosa Springs Middle School Grades 5-8

Pagosa Springs Middle School Grades 5-8

Performance Summary & Strategic Planning

Empowering students to navigate the future through learning and problem solving.

School Performance Framework

Performance Indicators (3yr) 2011 2011 2012 2012 2013 2013 2014 2014

Academic Achievement Meets 68.8 Meets 71.9 Meets 68.8 Meets 62.5

Academic Growth Meets 70.8 Meets 70.8 Approaching 59.6 Approaching 58.3

Academic Growth Gaps Meets 67.9 Approaching 60.7 Approaching 53.3 Approaching 50.8

Test Particiaption >95%   100%   >99%   >95%  

Total Rating Performance 69.6 Performance 68.6 Performance 60.3 Improvement 57.5

School View

Colorado Growth Model: Visualization tool to view student growth for schools or districts

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New District Strategic Framework

Whole Student Point of View Curriculum Reset Simplicity Re-Design Community Conversation Transformed Assessment Program Review

BIG ROCKS for 2014-2015

Full Implementation of the Literacy and Math Shifts that embed high level problem solving at the core of every student’s learning. Revise Mission Statement Leadership through peer coaching and

high functioning professional learning community ▪ Peloton Narrative

Key Shifts in English Language Arts

Across all content areas: Building knowledge through content-

rich nonfiction text Reading, writing and speaking

grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational

Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

Key Shifts in Mathematics

Focus:  Narrow and deep emphasis based on standards embedding algebraic thinking at all levels

Coherence: Encompassing all grades levels and all contents within grades

Rigor: Equal intensity of conceptual understanding, procedural skills, fluency and application through the regular use of student dispositions: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them Reason abstractly and quantitatively Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others Model with mathematics Use appropriate tools strategically Attend to precision Look for and make use of structure Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

Empowering students to navigate the future

through learning and problem solving.

Pagosa Springs Middle School - Mission

The peloton is the main group of riders in a road bicycle race. Riders in a group save energy by riding close (drafting ) near (particularly behind) other riders. The reduction in drag is dramatic; in the middle of a well-developed group it can be as much as 40%.[1]

BIG ROCKS

Building COMMUNITY through communication and engagement Students Parents Staff