2018-19
Annual School Performance Report Discovery Elementary School
Discovery Elementary School
2300 228th Avenue SE, Sammamish, WA 98075 (425) 837-4100 https://www.issaquah.wednet.edu/discovery Principal Marti Shefveland
Mission Discovery is a partnership of students, staff members and parents invested in the lifelong learning and rigorous academic achievement of all students.
Welcome We appreciate Discovery’s families tremendously. They support students and staff members through assistance in classrooms and PTSA involvement. Thank you.
Teacher Experience
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Teacher’s with Teacher Experience data for the 2018-2019 School Year National Board 50.0% Certification will be available via OSPI at a later date.
7.6
Average Yearsat: For complete school data, please visit OSPI’s website Teaching washingtonstatereportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us Teachers with Master’s/Ph.D
Experience
OSPI Data State testing is required by state (RCW 28A.230.095) and federal law. The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), enacted in 1965, is the nation’s national education law and shows a longstanding commitment to equal opportunity for all students. On December 10, 2015 President Obama reauthorized ESEA as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). These state and federal laws result in elementary students being regularly tested by the State to assess their progress as they move through school. State tests at the elementary level which fulfill the federal Every Student Succeeds Act include the following: • Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBA): English Language Arts (ELA) and Math tests (3-5) • Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science (WCAS): Science test (5)
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 STEM Fair
We are proud to be the first school in Issaquah School District to hold our own STEM fair. Close 500 students in grades K-5 participated. Students demonstrated great pride in explaining their projects to the hundreds of parents and guests that attended.
Technology
Due to the generous support of the Issaquah Schools Foundation and our PTSA, Discovery mad progress toward our goal of having one to one computers in grades 3 through 5. We now have one computer for each student available to all fifth graders as well as class sets for check out in grades K-4. We hope to achieve the one to one goal for 3rd and 4th grade within the next year. We are using these to support our STEM Instruction in third through fifth grades. We continued our growth and understanding of integrating STEM instruction throughout the curriculum with support from our building’s STEM and Tech leaders, and training from the district’s STEM specialist. Library Media Specialists continued instruction in digital literacy and citizenship in second through fifth grades. Our new updated digital library allows students to check out a variety of digital books. Every classroom is equipped with computers, projector, document camera, and a Promethean ActivBoard.
Parent and Community Involvement
We are proud of 100% membership in PTSA which supports students’ learning in countless ways. We average about 300 parent volunteers and many VOICE Mentors that include high school students and community members. We are thankful for this strong partnership to help support students’ academics.
Positive Behavior Supports and Emotional Supports (PBSES)
Discovery continues to be a strong PBSES community. We continued to maintain strong supports for all students as well as those needing extra supports. A team of staff members met every other week to support students needing added supports to succeed socially and emotionally in school. Additionally, Tier 2 team members attended a series of trainings to help us make more effective use of data and plan targeted interventions focused on the function of student behaviors.
We continued a strong reward system and the entire student body earned three school-wide rewards including board game days and movie in a bag.
Green Team
This last year, Discovery achieved Sustaining Green School status. Level 3 in King County’s Green Schools Program. We came in 2nd place in the annual Waste Free Challenge Competition this year (We won it the two previous years!).
Kindness Counts Award
Discovery continued its Kindness Counts Award to be given to those students who display kind behavior toward others on a continual basis or who display a noticeably amazing act of kindness at some point during the school year. This year we held a school wide contest to design a T-shirt logo. These T-shirts were given to students who received the award and students’ pictures were posted on our Kindness Counts bulletin board in the front of the school.
Student Ambassadors
Discovery is proud of our Student Ambassador Program which began two years ago and has particularly thrived this year. This program provides fifth graders the opportunity to gain leadership skills throughout the school as well as make a real and important contribution to the school program. Student Ambassadors support many such as the following: • Greet students at buses each morning and monitor sidewalk safety • Hoist the flag and take it down each day following proper flag protocol • Walk Kindergarten students to the buses and/or Eagle Club • Help young students in reading and math • Help Ms. Amy, our custodian clean the lunch tables • Help in the library • Assist bringing in recess equipment after each recess Students complete applications that require parent permission as well as teacher support. Mrs. Darnell, our school counselor, provides training for each job and monitors student activities weekly. It is truly wonderful to observe these students taking their responsibilities so seriously day in and day out.
Improving Student Achievement This year Discovery began its first year of a three-year School Improvement Plan (SIP) focused on Reading. Wednesday Professional Development sessions were dedicated to close monitoring of student progress in reading, teaching students to write effectively about what they read, and helping students think deeply about text. Reading goals are connected to the English Language Arts SBA assessment. Preliminary 2019 state assessment (Smarter Balanced Assessment) results show the following results:
Discovery Smarter Balanced Assessments: Percent Proficient 2016
2017
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2019
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85%
88%
88%
85%
88%
85%
92%
4th
92%
86%
87%
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88%
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91%
90%
95%
95%
87.6%
85%
96%
91%
Special Programs During the school day - Discovery hosts a special needs pre-school, a Learning Assistance Program for Kindergarten and First graders needing extra support in reading, a K-5th Resource Room, and SAGE, a 3rd-5th grade pull-out gifted program. Science to Go lessons with a science specialist, which includes lessons in our outdoor educational areas (wetlands, grade level gardens, butterfly gardens). Students receive Art classes once per month from a professional art consultant and Art Docent lessons classes by our PTSA sponsored Art Docent program. Green Team promotes recycling and composting throughout the school.
Before and After School Enrichment programs were cut back this year because of the lack of space due to the school’s update and remodel project. We did continue Math Club in which numerous students won awards and Green Team. We also have Eagle Club, which is an on-site before and after school day care program and a Fourth and Fifth Grade Choir, led by our music teacher. School-wide Events - PTSA events included a Fall Fundraiser, Cultural Night, Talent Show, Family Fun Night, Eager Reader, Scripts Spelling Bee, and STEM Fair. The annual Art Walk was not held due to the remodel and construction project, but is on the calendar for the 201920 school year.
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.
Smarter Balanced Assessment 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 math. Performance tasks ask students to determine an array of research, writing, and problem solving skills. The SBA results describe student achievement (how much students know at the end of the year). The Grade Level Total ELA and Grade Level Total Math charts on the right-hand side of the page indicate the percent of students in third, fourth, and fifth grade who met or exceeded standard in ELA and Math on the SBA compared to the percent of students who met or exceeded standard in ELA and Math district-wide.
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Grade 5 WCAS - Science
The WCAS fulfills the federal requirement that students be tested in Science once at the elementary level. The WCAS measures the level of proficiency students have achieved (what students know and can do) based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The WCAS assesses all three dimensions of the learning standards (Science and Engineering Practices, Disciplinary Core Ideas, and Crosscutting Concepts). The numbers on the chart represent the percentage of students in grade 5 who met or exceeded standard on the NGSS compared to the percentage of students in grade 5 who met or exceeded standard district-wide.
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