2017-18
Annual School Performance Report Maple Hills Elementary School
Maple Hills Elementary School 15644 204th Avenue SE, Renton, WA 98059 (425) 837-5100 https://connect.issaquah.wednet.edu/elementary/maplehills/ Principal JoEllen Tapper
Mission Maple Hills is a dynamic learning community where everyone has the opportunity to achieve their highest academic and social potential.
Welcome At Maple Hills it is about teamwork! Students, staff, and parents all work together to prepare students for a successful future. Besides meeting all district and state requirements staff and parents challenge students to become Soaring Eagles by being Respectful, Responsible, Safe, and Kind every day in every way. We know that with our Soaring Eagle expectations in place in our community, students will become successful, lifelong learners who continue to grow and achieve every day. Having involved, supportive parents and community members are a vital part of the Maple Hills’ community. On any given day you can find volunteers supporting small groups in reading, teaching an art lesson, or volunteering in the classroom. We are fortunate to have an active and involved PTA. They offer many opportunities for families to get involved through various events throughout the school year. We also have an active and growing WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) Program, where dads volunteer their time during the school day.
Teacher Experience
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Teacher’s with National Board 57.7% Experience Teacher Data for the Certification
2017-18 School Year will be available December 2018. Average Years Teachers with Master’s/Ph.D
10.2
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. Maple 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.
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Highlights Located in the center of a vibrant neighborhood, Maple Hills’ volunteers include parents, community members, retirees, and middle and high school students—some of whom are Maple Hills alumni. Each year in classrooms, the library, and throughout the school, volunteers donate 10,000 to 12,000 hours to benefit students. The Maple Hills PTA supports the school in a wide variety of ways and with unending dedication and enthusiasm. PTA has earned the 100% Membership award and the State PTA Standards of Excellence Award for seventeen consecutive years. The Arts also thrive at Maple Hills. Our music teacher offers choir programs as well as multiple grade level performances. Our PTA Art Docent program is stronger than ever with an art docent in every classroom who leads amazing projects for the students culminating in an Artwalk in the spring. In addition, every year, a contest is held to select student art to be framed and added to our Student Art Gallery. We are also leaders in technology. Every classroom is equipped with computers, a projector, document camera, and a Promethean ActivBoard. Several classes are equipped with ActivExpressions, and ActiVotes. Our teacher tech liaison provides additional training on programs and tools that are available to teachers to use in their classrooms. This year our staff held their second annual Science Night by combining the Science Fair with STEM activities, including robotics, Scratch, engineering, and more. This year, students in 1st – 5th grade also had the opportunity to participate in after school coding clubs led by teachers.
Improving Student Achievement Just like our students, we are always striving to improve and grow ourselves. Every year we use the information we learn from our students’ test scores, previous assessments, and past experiences to better prepare us for the following year’s instruction. Our School Improvement Goal is to increase our overall math achievement across all grade levels as well as to reduce the gap we are seeing between a higher math achievements of boys than girls. Our teachers engage in ongoing professional development in researchbased instructional strategies. Throughout the math curriculum, the teachers use a common math rubric to assess student achievement and the grade levels meet regularly to collaborate and brainstorm strategies to support all of our students. We are also fortunate
Improving Student Achievement Continued to receive a grant from the Issaquah Schools Foundation for a second year to fund an after school math program to tutor some of our students struggling in math.
Before/After School Maple Hills offers several extracurricular activities. Eagle Club (before and after School Age Care), morning Music Program, Scratch Program, Green Team, Math Olympiad, and Student Council are just some of the programs available for students. In addition, PTA sponsors such events as family fun nights, Science Fair, Art Walk, an ice-skating party, and the Reflections program. Our learning community provides a positive environment that motivates and supports students and families. Working as a team with parents, the Maple Hills staff makes a difference in children’s lives.
Special Programs Students approaching standard in reading are supported through Title 1/LAP; students receive extra support learning English through ELL; highly capable students are involved in a pull-out SAGE program which included having guest students participate in Challenge math and reading groups. Special needs student learning goals are supported through our Learning Resource Center; Science to Go lessons with a science specialist; and Art lessons by a PTA Art Docent. Consistently showing responsibility, respect, safety and kindness, students receive the Maples Hills Soaring Eagle Award. These students are recognized each week in announcements and their Soaring Eagle certificates help to fill up the Eagle’s Nest to earn schoolwide prizes such as an extra recess, a dance party at lunch, etc.
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. For a few schools the 2017-2018 SBA results in English Language Arts and Math, and the WCAS were suppressed by OSPI. For information from OSPI on test suppression rules, including Cross Organization as seen at Maple Hills Elementary, please view OSPI’s Suppression Overview document here: http://reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/Suppression_Overview_3v3.docx.
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.
Smarter Balanced Assessment Continued 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
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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 well-taught student at that grade level. The numbers on the chart below represent the percentage of students who meet or exceed standard.
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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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