Anchorage School District

Christine Garbe

Supervisor, English Language Learners

Presentation

This presentation was a collaborative effort among the Superintendent’s Office, Title I, the English Language Learner Program and staff at Williwaw Elementary School

AnchorageFacts

Anchorage has 1/2 the population of the entire state

State capital, Juneau not accessible by road Average state teacher salary is $59,667.16

Least densely populated US state Less than 1% of Alaska land is privately owned Entire state population is 600,000, roughly

same as Austin, TX

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Anchorage SchoolDistrict

Student population is 49,091 11% LEP 8 comprehensive high schools 10 middle schools 60 elementary schools 8 charter schools School district area is the size of Deleware-1900

square miles

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1998-2010 Anchorage School District's Increasing Diversity

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Alaska Schools’ Top 5 Languages (including Anchorage)

Yup’ik Inupiaq Spanish Filipino Hmong

Top 5 languages in the ASD

Spanish Hmong Samoan Filipino Yup’ik

Williwaw ElementaryK-5 School

WilliwawSchool Information

K-5, Title I School with close to 400 students Pre-school program 2 Autism Classrooms 2 Hard of hearing classrooms one preK and

one primary Facility built about 10 years ago Walking school 21st Century After School Program 100% breakfast and lunch program

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MoreSchool Information

41.8% LEP Hmong is dominant non-English language Samoan is second 12 Caucasian students out of 181 took the

state test in 2009-2010 2003-2009 Made AYP only once and

currently are at level 5

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Williwaw Timeline

2008-2009 Develop the new plan

Restructuring/ Alternative Governance Options Option 5 was chosen which reads

– 5)   Any other major restructuring of a school governance arrangement that makes fundamental reforms, such as significant changes in the school, staffing and governance, to improve student academic achievement and that has substantial promise of enabling the school to make AYP.

Description of Plan

Planning team included Title I, ELL, CORE, Elementary Education, leadership coaching, and the established site leadership team at Williwaw– Reflected on school improvement plan

Team attended the CGCS Bilingual conference Team looked at previously used strategies:

– LEP Planning sheets– Front loading HM vocabulary– Ongoing PD – Pullout for alternative curriculum

Team Determinations

Schoolwide approach needed Focus on vocabulary for ALL students Acquire language acquisition materials Train staff in use of materials

Williwaw Timeline

2008-2009 Develop the new plan

2009-2010 First Year of Imple-mentation

Action Buy in by all staff Dedicated 30 min ELL time-built into the

master schedule Core instruction-explicit and systematic with

infused SIOP Universal Screening and progress monitoring 90 minutes of Tier 1, intervention block-30

minutes-Tier 2 as well as a 30 minute ELD time

Used Carousel of Ideas Kits as language acquisition materials

Continued

RTI Model incorporated– Training in collaborative SST meetings with

emphasis on strategies for ELL students ELL Coach (ARRA) Strategically placed ELL staff according

to student needs

Example Of Master Schedule

Williwaw Timeline

2008-2009 Develop the new plan

2009-2010 First Year of Imple-mentation

Summer 2010 Review Results

Williwaw Timeline

2008-2009 Develop the new plan

2009-2010 First Year of Imple-mentation

Summer 2010 Review Results

2010-2011 Second year of plan

Second Year Implementation

Elementary Newcomers’ Center Plan for sustainability Coach’s Role Professional Development

– Monthly professional development

Williwaw Timeline

2008-2009 Develop the new plan

2009-2010 First Year of Imple-mentation

Summer 2010 Review Results

2010-2011 Second year of plan

Spring 2010 develop a plan for sustain-ability

Sustainability

Built a strong team of teachers who will easily be able to bring in new teachers and work with them on strategies for ELL students

Grade level meetings are developed and conversations will continue around needs and strategies

PD will continue at the building level

Ah Ha Moments

Williwaw students are surpassing the other LEP students in the district on State standardized assessments

It was involved process whereby the staff embraced that the instruction presented was not working for all students-Evolution!!

Collaborative efforts-WORK!

Key Factors for Success

Uniform approach- BUY IN Collaborative support-ELL, School, Title

I, extended school day, summer school Professional Development Sustainability