2017-18
Annual School Performance Report Sunny Hills Elementary School
Sunny Hills Elementary School
3200 Issaquah-Pine Lake Road SE, Sammamish, WA 98075 (425) 837-7400 https://connect.issaquah.wednet.edu/elementary/sunny/ Principal Leslie Lederman
Mission Sunny Hills is a community of life-long learners who are committed to academic and social growth and who celebrate each student’s unique strengths.
Welcome Sunny Hills is a great place of learning made possible by our strong partnership with families. Thank you for making the difference in our students lives!
Teacher Experience
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Teacher’s with National Board 72.5% Teacher Experience Data for the Certification
2017-18 School Year will be available December 2018. Average Years Teachers with Master’s/Ph.D
9.3
Teaching Experience
OSPI Data In March 2014, the U.S. Department of Education declined to renew the state of Washington’s conditional Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility Waiver for schools receiving Title I, Part A funds. This decision affects all schools in Washington State, which are now subject to the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Washington is the only state that has lost its waiver and must revert to NCLB standards and timelines of assessment. For schools and districts to be considered succeeding under NCLB, schools must meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards. For schools to meet AYP, 100 percent of all students, regardless of special needs or English language mastery, must meet proficiency standards. Sunny Hills met AYP this year. For complete information about the Issaquah School District’s assessment data, highly qualified teachers, annual yearly progress, and state NAEP (of Educational Progress) results, please visit the state’s online district report card.
District Report For budget details and more go to www.issaquah.wednet.edu/district/ annual-community-report/ The Issaquah School District believes in seeking continual feedback from a broad and diverse range of constituents regarding their experiences with the District and their neighborhood school. See the Community Polling Study site at www.issaquah.wednet.edu/district/polling for more information and survey results.
Demographics Grades: K-5
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Highlights Sunny Hills, which opened a new building in 2016, is a state-of-theart facility including two gymnasiums, a multipurpose room, stage, music room, library, computer lab, kiln room, two outdoor covered play areas and a large sand field. Throughout the building, you will find the latest technology used by students and staff. Sunny Hills serves students in grades Kindergarten through 5th grade. In addition to a full range of academic subjects, all students participate weekly in library, music and physical education classes. Each class visits the computer lab about once a week. Throughout the year, a specialized art program is funded by our PTA. This program offers four lessons per class teaching students how to create art in a variety of mediums. Our wonderful Music teacher, Dayle Walters, received a grant from the City of Issaquah and our PTA to bring to our school a guest artist. Thione Diop met with every student to share his culture through drumming. We were so grateful to have this guest from Senegal and thank Mrs. Walters, the City of Issaquah and our PTA for the opportunity. Sunny Hills is proud of its diverse community. We celebrate our cultures throughout the year. Heritage Night has become a new tradition for our community highlighting the many cultures Sunny Hills represents. To bring families together through art, our 4th grade team wrote a grant based on the story Only One You. Through the grant, funding was provided to allow families to paint a rock unique to themselves. The rocks are now a part of our landscaping showing those who visit Sunny Hills how colorful the lives of our families are and how beautifully we all work together. One of our points of pride is our amazing garden. Led by first grade teacher, Kathy Dunn, all of our students enjoy the opportunity to garden. Some classes plant bulbs to add to the beauty of our school. Other classes grow vegetables and then harvest them for an annual Salad Party.
Enrichment Opportunities Our enrichment opportunities continue to grow. We happily hosted a variety of experiences for our students including tech, sports, drama club and language classes. Students are able to take classes, some at a cost and others for free, to support their learning and their interests.
Culture of Kindness As you enter Sunny Hills, we hope you will feel our Culture of Kindness throughout all of your interactions. We have worked hard with students and families to integrate The Mustang Way: Be Respectful, Be Responsible and Be Engaged in all that we do.
Community and School Partnership Our partnership with our PTA and with ISF remains strong. Teaming together, we have brought a variety of valuable programs to Sunny Hills.
Congratulations to our fantastic PTA! They have earned the Washington State PTA Standards of Excellence Gold award. Out of over 875 PTAs in the state, only 24 achieved this honor. It recognizes our PTA as being child-focused, responsible to members, knowledgeable, fiscally responsible, involved and well-trained. Of the 24 PTAs honored only 16 received the Gold level or higher. Community building events that unify our families even though our students leaving Sunny Hills after 5th grade attend two different middle/ high schools. PTA has brought us: • Support our green efforts and our Culture of Kindness • Partnered with us to create a safe campus • Raised funds to allow for a successful implementation of our new curriculum ISF has allowed us to: • Build teacher capacity--funding provided by ISF supports teachers pursuing their National Boards and has provided staff with professional development for our new writing curriculum by bringing in national presenter, Matt Glover. • Our school is represented on ISF board with several board members, with even more parents serving as ISF committee members. • Support student learning through the VOICE mentor program.
Assessment Two tests given to elementary school students—The Smarter Balanced Assessment and the Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science help indicate how well Issaquah students are learning.
WCAS The WCAS is an exam developed and mandated by the state; it was given for the first time in Spring 2018. The WCAS measures what students know and can do on the 2013 science standards. WCAS assesses all three dimensions of the learning standards (science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts) and goes beyond multiple choice tests. The test includes a variety of item types including selected response (multiple choice, multiple select), technology enhanced, and constructed responses (equation builder, short answer). WCAS scores show the learning level of each student as compared to the state’s expectations for a welltaught student at that grade level. The numbers on the chart below represent the percentage of students who meet or exceed standard.
Grade 5 WCAS - Science 85.6 78.7
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Smarter Balanced Assessment The results of Washington State’s Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA) and Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science (WCAS) help parents know how well their student is meeting learning targets. They also help schools plan instruction and curriculum based on these learning targets. The Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA) is a statemandated test that measures students’ progress toward College and Career Readiness in English Language Arts (ELA) /Literacy and Math. The SBA replaced existing tests in English and Math in the spring of the 2014-2015 school year. The tests are given as part of Washington State’s education reform efforts which began in 1993 and involve annual state-specific tests for students in grades 3-8 in ELA (SBA), Math (SBA), and Science (WCAS) and then again in high school (SBA in ELA and Math and WCAS in Science). The SBA consists of two parts: a computer adaptive test and a performance task. Writing is included at every grade level and students are asked to solve multi-step, real-world problems in Mathematics. Performance tasks ask students to demonstrate an array of research, writing, and problem solving skills. The SBA results accurately describe student achievement (how much students know at the end of the year) and are reported in two ways: scaled scores and achievement levels. A scaled score is the student’s overall numerical score. These scores fall on a continuous scale (from approximately 2000 to 3000) that increases across grade levels. Scaled scores are used to illustrate students’ current level of achievement. Based on their scaled scores, students fall into one of four categories of performance called achievement levels. Levels 3 and 4 represent “Meeting Standard” and reflect “adequate understanding” and “thorough understanding” of the learning standards. Levels 1 and 2 represent “Not Meeting Standard” and reflect “minimal understanding” and “partial understanding” of the learning standards.
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