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.

2009-2010 Learning Improvement Days (LID): September 28, 2009 October 19, 2009 February 1, 2010 March 22, 2010 2009-2010 Non-student day/Floating LID: May 10, 2010

The content of these days stem from the building School Improvement Plans (SIPs). Based on WASL results, school data, classroom data and SIPs, our focus on these days has been mathematics, science, RTI, AVID, reading and writing.

Primary	08-09	09-10
September	Handwriting/New Math Standards	AIMSweb/Dibels work
October	Science Notebooking/Model Lessons + Data Carousel	Communication Arts Training + Data Carousel
February	RTI/Behavior – Dr. Greg Benner, U.W.	Science In-service
March	Talks/Math Education Collaborative	Technology
May	Writing Assessments/Common Math Assessments	Assessment Training/Evaluation
Elementary
September	Math Performance Standards Workshop	RTI interventions in Reading
October	Reading Workshop/Writing in the Content	RTI math screening
February	RTI/Behavior – Dr. Greg Benner, U.W.	RTI interventions
March	Math Content Inservice	RTI -tbd
May	Science, Reading, Writing grade level alignment	Grade level alignment
Middle
September	Common Math Assessments/New Math Standards/Literacy PLCs	RTI follow up-aligning assessments/interventions
October	Differentiated Instruction/Math Standards/Assessment Alignment	Review Student work -Interventions
February	Differentiated Instruction-Resources/Assessment/Grading	Assessment-Continue to build RTI
March	Differentiated Instruction-Resources/Assessment/Grading	Evaluate Progress – Prep for MSP
May	Curriculum Alignment	Curriculum/Instructional Alignment
High
September	WASL Data review – Math focus/Accreditation/Department Meetings	Navigation Advisor/Avid Training/Content PLCs
October	SIP Data Carousel/Content PLCs/AVID Training	Cornell Notes/Classroom Rigor/Content Assessments
February	Star Protocol/Gear Up/Assessment	Gear Up/AP—Horizontal + Vertical Rigor
March	AVID/NCOSP (Science)/Vertical Teaming/Senior Project	Senior Project/Duxdata/Senior Writing Assessment
May	Community Involvement/Subject Area PLCs/Grant Usage	Content PLCs

If you would like more specific information, please contact your school principal or our district Curriculum/Instruction/Assessment director.

Glossary of Terms

AP -Advanced Placement

AVID (Advancement via Individual Determination)-is a ninth through twelfth-grade system to prepare students in the academic middle for four-year college eligibility. The students who volunteer, apply and are accepted into the program are students who are capable of completing a college-prep curriculum but for some reason(s) may be falling short of their potential.

BERC/Star Protocol -Baker Evaluation Research Consulting-effective instruction consultants. STAR Protocol is a tool teachers use when observing one another to lead discussions regarding impact on student achievement/acquisition.

Curriculum Mapping -aligning curriculum, content, skills and assessment (K-12)

Data carousel -review student achievement data to renew Student Improvement Plan

Duxdata -data management system FOSS -Full Option Science System-adopted science curriculum

Gear Up -Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs is a national effort to encourage and prepare more students to enter and succeed in post-secondary education, and is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. At the state level, Washington State GEAR UP is a partnership of the Office of the Governor, the Higher Education Coordinating Board, the University of Washington, and the College Success Foundation. The state has named Blaine High School a “GEAR UP for Student Success” school, which means that the high-school staff has developed plans for all students to further increase awareness and readiness for post-secondary education; these plans have been approved and funded by Washington State GEAR UP.

Kathy Richardson Training -math assessment

NCOSP – The North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership is a National Science Foundation funded project involving 28 school districts, two education service districts, four community colleges, Washington State LASER, the Naval Undersea Museum, Washington State MESA, and Western Washington University. The project involves close interaction of the partners to reform science education in grades 3-10 through teacher professional development, implementation of new curriculum materials, and development and support of learning communities in the schools.

PLCs-(Professional Learning Communities)-teacher teams work together to review data and improve student achievement

RTI (Response to Intervention) – integrates assessment and intervention within a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavior problems. With RTI, schools identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes, monitor student progress, provide evidence-based interventions and adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions depending on a student’s responsiveness, and identify students with learning disabilities.

SIPTAP -School Improvement Planning Technical Assistance Project-reviewing data and developing a working action plan