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WINTER 1999 -2000
VOLUME 4
A P U B L I C AT I O N O F T H E H O U S T O N A N N E N B E R G C H A L L E N G E
88 area public schools awarded $4.64 million he Houston Annenberg Challenge has awarded $4.64 million in grants to 88 schools in six school districts, including Alief, Aldine, Houston, Humble, North Forest and Spring Branch. “My vision for Houston includes making it the most child friendly city in the United States where all children have the opportunity to learn and to excel,” Mayor Brown said at the 1999 Grant Kickoff Ceremony, held at the University of St. Thomas. “The Houston Annenberg Challenge grants are another major step in that direction.” This is the third round of grants to reform public school education given by the Houston Annenberg Challenge. Including the 1999-2000 grants, the Challenge has awarded $9.275 million to public schools since 1997. “The Houston Annenberg Challenge grants to assist urban schools with their reform efforts will ultimately lead to teachers who are better prepared to teach, students who are better equipped to learn, and communities that are better able to support public schools,” said Jonathan Day, chairman of the board of the Houston Annenberg Challenge and managing partner of Mayor, Day, Caldwell & Keeton, LLP.
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Mayor Lee Brown visits with Eunice Alexander, Annetra Piper and Michael Bledsoe, principal of Smith Elementary School, after the grant award ceremony. (Photo by Thomas Nguyen)
Rachel Molina, left, Gerado Montiel, center, and Alonso Ervin, fifth graders at Bethune Academy in the Aldine Independent School District, entertain guests during the grant kickoff announcement. (Photo by Thomas Nguyen)
This year’s grants include $1 million toward a partnership with Project GRAD in the Wheatley High School feeder pattern of 18 elementary, middle and high schools. About 300 people attended the announcement breakfast at the University of St. Thomas. Guests were welcomed by University President Father J. Michael Miller. Houston Annenberg Challenge Board Member Jenard Gross emceed the event, while Day and Board Member J. Victor Samuels presented the grant awards. Teacher Catherine Robinson, the Region IV Teacher of the Year, told guests how the Annenberg principles of reform had helped student learning at Pine Shadows Elementary in the Spring Branch Independent School District. For a list of the schools and their grant amounts, turn to page 7.
See page 3 for the text of Catherine Robinson’s remarks.
Established in January 1997 with funding from the Annenberg Foundation and local matching contributions, the Houston Annenberg Challenge is a $60 million, not-for-profit public, private partnership directing the largest single sum of money ever dedicated to public school reform in the Greater Houston area. The Challenge funds school programs and leadership institutes to promote higher academic achievement by all students.
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nside this issue of SchoolWorks, you’ll get a peek at one of the many programs funded by HAC. This unique venture at Hoffman Middle School in the Aldine Independent School District came about after Linda Weiler and others visited an Annenberg school two years ago in New York and learned about the “school within a school” concept. You’ll also find a list of our schools and their 1999-2000 Linda Clarke grant amounts from HAC. To date, we have awarded $9.2 million to our 88 schools, which encompass six school districts. The schools must use this money in one or more of the following ways: To pay for professional development for faculty and staff. To create or expand the number of community partners and active parents a school has. To reduce or reconfigure class sizes to make sure every student has a one-on-one relationship with a faculty or staff member. For an uplifting read, turn to the article by Catherine Robinson, a Houston Annenberg Challenge teacher at Pine Shadows Elementary who was selected as Region IV Teacher of the Year. Catherine tells us what it means to her to work in an Annenberg school. When you open this issue, it will be the year 2000 and the beginning of the 21st century. I look forward to continuing to work with you to ensure more of our students have the education they need to prosper in the new millenium.
involvement in their academic lives, school officials say. However, success for Harrison and other Success Un-Ltd. students didn’t happen overnight. Hoffman school officials found themselves faced with an older student population after school principal Rhonda Johnson implemented a policy in 1995 prohibiting students from passing who did not make the grade. “She was adamant that if a student didn’t pass, we weren’t going to move them
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Hoffman Middle School English teacher Barbara Copeland works with Success Un-Ltd. student Roderick Harrison.
Linda Clarke Executive Director
UNIQUE PROGRAM MOTIVATES STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE ALDINE––Like many youths, Roderick Jamal Harrison spent more time playing basketball, watching TV and hanging out with friends than studying for his classes at Hoffman Middle School. As a result, the Aldine Independent School District student found himself repeating the seventh grade, surrounded by younger classmates. From Harrison’s vantage point, the prospect of making it to high school seemed more remote by the day. But thanks to Success Un-Ltd., an innovative program sponsored by the Houston Annenberg Challenge (HAC), Harrison and other at-risk students have found a new lease on their educational lives.
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Today, Harrison, who dreams of becoming an architect, earns straight A's and plans to enter Eisenhower High School next year as a freshman. He credits Success Un-Ltd. with turning his life around. “I feel it (the program) works because I have a chance to show them what I’m really capable of,”says Harrison, 16. “I didn’t apply myself the way I know I can. And knowing that this might be my only chance to get back on my right level, I have to apply myself more than in the past. It gives me a chance to get back on track.” Success Un-Ltd. works where other programs fail by using a “school within a school”strategy, school officials say. At Hoffman, the program’s 80 students study in separate classes with five teachers during 2hour periods each day. What’s more, the students experience more hands-on activities and more structured environment, along with greater family
along,”said Hoffman MS Assistant Principal Mable Holt. “You were going to earn it, or you weren’t going to get it (passing grade).” The end result, Holt said, “is you have students that end up staying behind. You see your (academically failing) population increasing. . .and all of a sudden the frustration
“I feel it (the program) works because I have a chance to show them what I’m really capable of . . .” Roderick Jamal Harrison level gets very high. Across the nation, we lose a tremendous amount of students (retained) between the eighth grade and their freshman year.” Linda Weiler, a skills specialist for English at Hoffman, said the school’s staff and faculty knew something had to be done to correct the problem. “We had a need to do something with some of our students who weren’t being as successful as we want them to be,”she said. Many were ages 16-18 and “getting a little over age for middle school.”
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Good morning! I am privileged to speak with you today––my charge is to describe the impact Houston Annenberg grant monies have had upon my school, my teaching and upon my students. I am so very pleased to do that––rest assured that the generous gifts of the Houston Annenberg Challenge have indeed made a difference in the lives of children. Public schools are today held accountablequite rightly- for success in a setting that is by current definition extremely complex. State and national moves toward standardization of practice and assessment (in contexts that are anything but uniform) test the resources of communities and the mettle of school staff. To be an effective school or Catherine Robinson teacher today requires extraordinary commitment and professionalism. Without partners such as the Houston Annenberg Challenge, our task as educators is difficult indeed. Pine Shadows Elementary, in partnership with Spring Branch Elementary, was awarded a Houston Annenberg Planning Grant two years ago. Among other things, that grant enabled our two schools to administer parent, staff and student surveys; data from those surveys sparked a lively reassessment of our mission and place in the community. That improved, shared focus helped secure the Houston Annenberg
Annenberg School Reform by Catherine Robinson Lamplighter Grant, jointly awarded to Pine Shadows and Spring Branch for the school year 1998-1999. Success in the classroom is a synergy between teacher and students far easier to mandate than to produce. Literacy is without doubt the cornerstone of that success and is the undisputed primary goal of every school. The Houston Annenberg Lamplighter grant has been integral in the progress of our students with its support of classrooms, teachers and parents. To that end, after most careful consideration and debate, the Pine Shadows/Spring Branch Annenberg steering committee applied the grant funds: • to the purchase of guided reading materials for every classroom to support the remediation and growth of specific reading skills • to support every teacher in the pursuit of individual professional goals by paying the registration and substitute fees for one educator’s workshop of his/her choice. • to provide substitutes for every teacher for four planning half-days during the year. Those of you are teachers know there is nothing more appreciated than the provision of extended planning time during the school day.
EVALUATION TEAM SELECTED The Houston Annenberg Challenge has hired a team of 15 researchers from three universities to evaluate its work to reform public schools in the Greater Houston area. The team, the first of its kind, will be led by Professor Pedro Reyes, Ph.D., of the University of Texas. Researchers from University of Houston and Rice University also will participate. The schools’ collaboration is the first time that three universities in the Houston area have Pedro Reyes, Ph.D. worked together to evaluate one project. “The purpose of the study is to determine to what extent the Houston Annenberg Challenge has improved public education,” said Dr. Reyes. “Did student achievement go up? What are schools doing because
• to retain the services of Margaret Kilgo, a Texas educator who has made an extensive study of the skills necessary for success on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills. Her presentations and clinics were enlightening; fresh perspective and analysis in that realm is highly prized in my line of work! • to support the development and implementation of Parent University, a series of evening classes offered without charge to families and caregivers. The focus here is the development of informed support and extension at home for the academic, social and emotional growth of students. Money doesn’t solve every problem; money alone certainly doesn’t guarantee effective instruction. When, however, funds are made available to discriminating professionals who believe that every child can learn and that every child deserves the opportunity to reach their own potential, magic happens. Teachers are empowered with techniques and knowledge tailored to their specific needs, school becomes a place that hums with focused, productive activity, and students take joy in learning. Are there measurable outcomes? You bet. Last year every third grader at Pine Shadows showed a year’s growth. Robinson is a teacher at Pine Shadows Elementary School in the Spring Branch School District. She was named teacher of the year in 1999 for Region IV and for that school district. Robinson’s remarks were given at the Houston Annenberg Challenge Grant Award Ceremony.
of the Annenberg initiative? Did the non-profit’s funding make a difference?” The study also will look at how the Houston Annenberg effort fits into the national public education reform effort underwritten by former U.S. Ambassador to England Walter Annenberg of Philadelphia. Houston is one of 18 sites to receive funds from Ambassador Annenberg. The evaluation team will issue a series of interim reports; the final report is scheduled for release in June 2002. Evaluation team researchers are: •University of Houston––Kip Tellez, J. Hawkins, Amaury Nora, Gary Dworkin University of Texas––Reyes, Jo Worthy, Henry Trueba, • Lonnie Wagstaff, Angela Valenzuela, Chandra Muller, Joy Phillips •Rice University––Cylete Willis, Nonie Harcombe, Linda McNeil, Cheryl Craig
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Anita Perez-Najar, left, from Briscoe Elementary School in the Houston Independent School District, gets an autograph from keynote speaker Dr. Michael Fullan at the Houston Annenberg Challenge Ref orming Schools Summer Institute III, held at Rice University . (Photo by Jeff Fitlow)
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With funding from HAC, several Hoffman Middle School teachers traveled last year to New York, where they surveyed several Annenberg-sponsored schools and saw firsthand their success in motivating students to succeed. “We went to (principal) Ms. Johnson and she was all for it,’Holt said. “She (Johnson) said,’Draw it up, come to me and tell me what it is all about.“ Nowadays you have to be creative and do what you need to do to make kids successful.” Because of the small classroom size –– an average of 15 students versus 30 in regular classes -– Success Un-Ltd. students received personalized attention and closer supervision, Holt pointed out. An Annenberg-sponsored companion program at Hoffman, called “Tribes,”has resulted in more family involvement in community activities. Students take part in a wide range of community projects ranging from school clean-ups to church activities to neighborhood trash pick-ups. In fact, parents are required to sign a contract stating they will make sure their child arrives at school on time, that they will participate in 2-3 hours of community service with their child every six weeks, visit the school and serve as chaperones for field trips. Just how effective is Success Un-Ltd. and the “school within a school”concept? “It’s a difference between light and darkness for them (students),”Holt said. “This is their one chance.” ––Robert Stanton See chart on the right for a complete list of Houston Annenberg Challenge schools. GRANT AWARDED Exxon Education Foundation has given $25,000 to the Houston Annenberg Challenge to put together a plan to improve the way elementary school teachers in grades K-3 teach mathematics. “This is a great start,”said Linda Clarke, executive director. “We hope that our plan eventually can be expanded throughout the metro area and into the colleges of education at local universities.” Nationally, Exxon supports a network of teachers in 50 school districts that includes college and university-based educators dedicat-ed to supporting teachers working to improve mathematics instruction in elementary schools.
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Following is a list of the Houston Annenberg Challenge schools and their 1999-2000 grant amounts: BEACON SCHOOLS: These 11 schools have proven records of reform to serve better their diverse students. The grants are used to deepen and expand the school’s own school-wide reforms and evaluate the effectiveness of those reforms; create learning laboratories in which to refine the Challenge reform planning process, define and develop appropriate technical assistance strategies, and pilot leadership and outreach activities. Beacon Schools
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Bethune Academy Browning Elementary Drew Academy Eisenhower High School Helms Learning Community Kennedy Elementary Lanier Middle School Poe Elementary Quest High School Scott Elementary Spring Shadows Elementary
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150,000 160,000 175,000 350,000 150,000 220,000 330,000 175,000 200,000 100,000 150,000
$ 2,160,000
LAMPLIGHTER LEARNING COMMUNITIES: These 65 schools applied for Annenberg funding as clusters of schools––some with as few as two schools, one with a total of 13. The schools in these clusters are working as teams to identify the best way to meet the needs of their respective student populations, as well as the parents of students.
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Gregory-Lincoln/Condit Reagan/Hamilton/Hogg Johnston/Anderson/Westbury YES/KIPP Furr/Clinton Park/Harris/Oates/Pleasantville/Port Houston/Whittier/Holland Sharpstown HS&MS/Neff/White DeBakey/Revere/Clifton/Hartman/Fleming Briscoe/De Zavala/Gallegos/Edison Lamar/Gregory-Lincoln/River Oaks/Wharton/J. Will Jones/Lanier/Poe/Roberts/ Will Rogers/Mark Twain/West University/Wilson/MacGregor Scroggins/McReynolds Albright/Rees Best/Olle Carver/Hoffman Grantham/Reed/Raymond/Stovall Anderson/Reece Hillard/Elmore/Northwood Pine Shadows/Spring Branch Twain/Pershing Thompson/Whidby
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FLOODLIGHT SCHOOLS: The newest category of schools, these will receive a total of $1 million this year from the Challenge to put programs from Project GRAD and the Challenge into the following schools:
Floodlight Schools Atherton Elementary Bruce Elementary Concord Elementary Crawford Elementary Dogan Elementary Eliot Elementary
N.Q. Henderson Elementary Isaacs Elementary Anson Jones Elementary Martinez Elementary Pugh Elementary Scott Elementary
Scroggins Elementary E.O. Smith Elementary/Middle Fleming Middle McReynolds Middle Wheatley High
CHANGING HIGH SCHOOL PRACTICES Schools need to get rid of people who take the attitude that children can’t learn and innovative new programs won’t work, according to Gerald Tirozzi, Ph.D. “We need to take down those “All Children Can Learn” Signs in schools and replace them with “All Children Can Learn at High Levels,” Tirozzi told a crowd of 140 at the Houston Gerald Tirozzi, Ph.D. Annenberg Challenge Distinguished Speaker Series fall luncheon at The Warwick Hotel. “We do a disservice to our kids when we have low level expectations,” he continued. To that end, the first change high schools need to make to better student achievement is to enact and enforce a rigorous curriculum for all students, Tirozzi said. A recent study by the U.S. Department of Education showed that completing a strong academic core of courses in high school was the single most important indicator of graduating from college with a bachelor’s degree, he said. Today, however, in American high schools, only 10 percent of students take Advanced Placement college level courses while only 49 percent of high schools offer these courses.
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“Every high school should have them,”he said. In addition, “we should put algebra in the eighth grade.” Secondly, high schools need quality teachers in every classroom.“When the classroom door closes, that’s when educational policy begins.” Attracting and keeping quality teachers means paying them a decent wage, Tirozzi said. In Connecticut, where Tirozzi was an educator before becoming Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education in the Clinton Administration, beginning teachers earn $36,000 a year. Getting good teachers also means demanding they be educated in the subjects they teach. In Connecticut, students major in college in the subject they will teach when they graduate. A national report released this week concluded that schools of higher learning should bring their education programs to the center of their universe or get out of the teacher training business, Tirozzi said. “I challenge the colleges and universities to change.” Thirdly, the role of the principal in high schools needs to evolve. “The principal needs to be an instructional leader. He has to have an appreciation for what goes on in the classroom.” Faculty meetings should be about curriculum, not about school logistics. “One of the greatest secondary school challenges of the next century will be a shortage of principals of quality,” Tirozzi said.
The triple pressures of accountability, low salaries, and safety issues in schools are driving principals out and preventing teachers from wanting to move up. The fourth change high schools need to make is to rearrange how they allocate time, Tirozzi said. “The 180-day school year is based on a manufacturing, agrarian economy.” Tirozzi suggested schools consider eliminating the senior year of high school and working with colleges to get 18-year-olds in those schools or beginning class work at the pre-kindergarten level. “Perhaps we should direct our resources to the earlier age groups,” he said. Finally, high schools should teach reading. “One of the great deficiencies in schools is that middle and high schools have forgotten how to teach reading.” Children should be able to read by the third grade, Tirozzi said. But if they can’t, schools need to teach them how. Once schools change, elected officials, parents, teachers and administrators need to be patient and give the changes time to work. “Education reform won’t end in our lifetime,” Tirozzi said. “Reforms take a long time to put in place and you have to leave them there. You have to stay the course.” Tirozzi is Executive Director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
The Annenberg Institute at Brown University is affiliated with the 18 Annenberg Challenge sites around the nation, including the one in Houston. Dr. Warren Simmons, executive director, was in town recently and talked to the Houston Annenberg Challenge about the work of the institute in Providence, R.I. Q: What new things are happening at the institute? A: We are expanding our mission to include generating, sharing and acting on its knowledge to reform American schools, particularly those in urban communities and those that serve disadvantaged children. Q: How will you do these things? A: We have a number of strategies. We will: • Create a task force to examine the future of the school district as an entity that supports school reform. • Identify, develop and implement new models for creating new kinds of principals, superintendents, teachers and school board leadership to support reform. • Create comprehensive school reform designs that show what it takes to design and implement whole school change in urban setttings. • Rethink accountability to move the pendulum on this issue back toward measures that focus on practices that accomplish school reform, not just on the oucome of the reform. • Connect the learning environment inside the school with the learning environment outside the school and strengthen professional development of community resources. Dr. Warren Simmons, executive director of The Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, visits with Dr. Rod Paige, superintendent of schools at HISD, and Don McAdams, a member of the HISD school board. Simmons was in Houston recently to see the work of the Houston Annenberg Challenge. (Photo by Thomas Nguyen)
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