2017-18
Annual School Performance Report Cascade Ridge Elementary School
Cascade Ridge Elementary School
2020 Trossachs Blvd. SE, Sammamish, WA 98075 (425) 837-5500 https://connect.issaquah.wednet.edu/elementary/cascade/ Principal Tia Kleinkopf
Mission Our students will be prepared for and eager to accept the academic, occupational, personal, and practical challenges of life in a dynamic global environment
Welcome At Cascade Ridge we work to become independent problem solvers by following our Coyote Code: Be Safe, Be Kind and Do Your Job.
Teacher Experience
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Teacher’s with National Board 54.5% Teacher Experience Data for the Certification
2017-18 School Year will be available December 2018. Average Years Teachers with Master’s/Ph.D
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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. Cascade Ridge 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 We are grateful for our outstanding, supportive community. The partnership between Cascade Ridge Elementary and our PTSA provides a deep and caring commitment to the important partnership between the school and families. We kicked off the school year with the very successful PTSA Walk-A-Thon – this year’s theme was Color Run. Students ran around the field, were sprayed with color and kept coming back for more! Our amazing community raised enough to fully fund the PTSA budget and give us an incredible new climbing wall in the gym for all students to use! With this substantial financial support, students also benefit from extra reading instruction, science focused guest presenters, the GREAT kid program, a drama residency, Science Fair, the Eager Reader program and teacher/grade level grants that allow for a variety of enrichment activities and experiences for our students. Our community gives far more than just money – they also give us time and commitment to a great education for their students. Logging hundreds of hours, no job is too big or too small for our amazing volunteers. Cascade Ridge is one of three elementary schools in the District offering a Science Technology magnet program. This program features a multi-age classroom for fourth and fifth graders that provides the standard district curricula with an emphasis on science and technology. Students use technology and its resources through engaging projects, simulations, robotics, probes and scientific investigations. Technology enhances student learning experiences daily. Every classroom is equipped with computers, a projector and document camera, and an interactive whiteboard. Many classes are equipped with student response devices (ActiVotes and ActivExpressions), with some classrooms having additional student i-Pads or small student laptops. Music is also a significant focus at Cascade Ridge. Led by our dynamic music team, all grade levels learn foundational music skills that build on each other each year. All students display their musicianship at their grade level concert, with additional opportunities for students to perform made available through Choir and Marimba Club.
Improving Student Achievement Staff works collaboratively on a weekly basis to plan and implement quality, rigorous curriculum aligned across the grade levels. Wednesday early release provides staff members time to work as teams, as well as a whole staff, to develop and support school improvement plans as well as delve deeper into curricula. The 2017 - 2018 School Improvement Plan focused on writing and through the district adopted writing curriculum, Units of Study, teachers delivered quality and explicit writing instruction in a variety of genres. Another major focus this school year centered on our recently adopted district math curriculum: Eureka. Teachers engaged in staff development and focused conversations with their colleagues around instruction and assessment to strengthen their classroom practices. The Instructional Coach (IC) provides multiple learning opportunities in individual classrooms and in formal in-service settings. Teachers work closely with the IC to model, design lessons, share instructional strategies, and reflect on their teaching.
Before/After School A few of our clubs include Student Leadership, Safety Patrol, Choir, Marimba Club, Math Club, Art classes and many other class/club offerings. We also have a wonderful before and after school child care program—Coyote Club where kids play, laugh, continue to learn and have enriching shared experiences.
Special Programs At Cascade Ridge we are proud to host three Learning Resource Center (LRC) classrooms delivering quality education to students with special needs, as well as those needing additional academic support. Both the Learning Assistance Program (LAP) and Reading Club offer support for students who may benefit from additional help with reading. Highly capable students participate in the Primary Enrichment Program (PEP)/Special Approach to Gifted Education (SAGE) program for added academic challenge. Also, English Language Learners (ELL) benefit from quality instruction in the whole class and small groups.
What’s New This year students, staff and families focused on Kindness all year long and participated in our first ever Kindness Week where students gave each other coins when they spotted a kind act. Students heard stories, watched videos and had lessons about kindness. They had the opportunity to share acts of kindness they witnessed and write about them on a graffiti wall. This work goes hand in hand with our Second Step Social Emotional Learning Curriculum that was implemented in every classroom this year. This work is supported by our Coyote Code – Be Safe, Be Kind, Do Your Job. We continued to “be green” sustaining Level 4 Green School Status. Safety was a focus as we implemented “Safety Week” where we taught all emergency drills and then practiced at least one a month throughout the school year. We look forward to another year of building relationships, improving our social emotional health, staying safe, being green and having a great time doing it all!
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 Cascade Ridge 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.
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The Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA) is a state-mandated 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 statespecific 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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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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