2017-18
Annual School Performance Report Endeavour Elementary School
Endeavour Elementary School
26205 SE Issaquah-Fall City Road, Issaquah, WA 98029 (425) 837-7350 https://connect.issaquah.wednet.edu/elementary/endeavour/ Principal Alaina Sivadasan
Mission Endeavour Elementary is a learning environment that develops the gifts and talents of all individuals. Excellence in education is achieved through high levels of collaboration among staff, parents, and community.
Welcome Involved parents and community members enrich our school and enhance our students’ learning experiences. Thanks for making a difference!
Teacher Experience
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Teacher’s with National Board 57.5% 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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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. Endeavour 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 Our School Improvement Plan continues to focus on improving student learning skills for all students in writing. We strive to actively promote habits of sustainability and create a Culture of Kindness school-wide. • Teachers use weekly collaborative time to assess student learning and focus on improving instructional strategies and implementing best practices in reading and writing. • We have provided targeted EA support at fifth grade for struggling writers. • We offered an after-school writing program targeted towards our 3-5th grade ELL students. We provided transportation to help support student access to this program. • Staff participated in Professional Development around GLAD writing strategies, projecting units of study, and conferring. Learning Walks focused on powerful teaching strategies in the area of math. The Learning Walk protocol involves a process of reflection and conversation that improves instruction and student achievement. Teachers designate time to observe one another’s lessons, review data and reflect on their instructional practice. • Endeavour staff continue to fully implemented Second Step, which is the newly adopted social-emotional curriculum. • Endeavour partners with other district elementary schools with the goal of building and implementing a multi-tiered system of evidence based practices geared toward meeting students’ social and emotion needs (PBSES). • Endeavour has a Green Team and students’ school wide participate in the Green Schools program focused on teaching students about recycling and waste reduction. Students participate in maintaining and harvesting our school garden, they run a classroom composting program, and in addition to our lunch Waste Watchers program, we also switched to using metal silverware. We are a certified King County sustaining Green School. • Science Fair held in the spring highlighted
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more than 391 students who shared their projects with the Endeavour community. Endeavour students participate in Math Olympiad and WA State Math Challenges. Our team took 13th place overall in the Washington State “Math is Cool” competition. The Global Reading Team took 2nd place in the inter-district challenge. Our PTSA sponsors E-Kids, whose motto is “Kids helping kids.” This affords students the opportunity to serve as ambassadors for many humanitarian outreach efforts throughout the school year. “Discover Art” PTSA’s Art Docent Program showcases student art at our annual spring Art Walk.
Endeavour takes pride in being a culturally diverse school and we share a strong partnership with our parents and the community. The PTSA supports Science Fair events and programs such as Science Fair, Reflections, Kind Kids Service Club, Discover Art, Student Banking, and our Eager Reader incentive program, which resulted in excellent student participation and 750,000 minutes read, promoting life-long reading habits.”
Just So You Know... Endeavour Elementary has a supportive parent community in addition to our outstanding professional staff. Our PTSA is committed to ensuring the learning success of all students and leads fundraising efforts to enhance curriculum with hands-on learning opportunities. PTSA provides strong support to classroom curriculum and instruction by funding science and art enrichment programs as well as providing teacher/grade level grants. Once again this year PTSA supported our building goals in literacy with a grant to provide additional resources and support for students. The Fun Run contributed funding to support technology, literacy, art, and other school programs. Technology helps learning come alive in our classrooms. Through PTSA’s generosity, Endeavour is equipped with mobile technology stations to support learning.
Improving Student Achievement Teachers at Endeavour are trained in GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition by Design) strategies that are integrated into all curriculum areas and focus on best instructional practices in the classroom. To meet our goal of seamless integration of technology throughout the curriculum, our teachers participate in summer technology training institutes. This year Endeavour received 3 grants from the Issaquah School Foundation to support social-emotional learning through providing us with an additional library of resource. They also approved a grant for wiggle seats, standing desks, and pedal desks. ISF also supports our after school math enrichment program ASAP.
Special Programs Endeavour hosts one of two district MERLIN programs for highly capable students. The MERLIN program is a self-contained model serving students in grades 3-5. Highly capable students participate in SAGE, a program designed to enrich and challenge students in academic areas. Endeavour also hosts a Learning Resource Center focused on students needing additional academic support, Learning Assistance Program (LAP/Reading Buddies) to support developing readers, and English Language Learner (ELL) program to support students learning English.
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
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Endeavour offers a variety of extra-curricular programs. These include Homework Club, Choir, Safety Patrol, Jogging Club, Math Club, Spanish Club, Art Class, Drama Class, E-Kids, Green Team, Chess club, Global Reading, and Student Ambassadors. The PTSA sponsors many fun and enriching activities throughout the year, such as Book Fair, Movie Day, Reflections, Science Fair, Coding Classes, Culture Night, Spooky Spaghetti and Art Walk. In response to parent and student requests for more after school and STEM related opportunities, the PTSA funded after school programs Math Olympiad and Robotics.
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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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