2018-19
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 Teacher’s with
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Teacher Experience data for the 2018-2019 National Board School Year 62.5% will be available via OSPI at a later date. Certification
12.9
For complete school data, please visit OSPI’s website Average Yearsat: Teaching washingtonstatereportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us Teachers with Master’s/Ph.D
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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)
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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 reading. 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 an after school reading program for our 3rd and 4th grade students. • Staff participated in Professional Development around GLAD reading strategies, guided reading, strategy groups, and conferring. • Staff participated in multiple Literacy Labs around a variety of reading topics • Endeavour staff continue to fully implemented Second Step, which is our adopted socialemotional 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 more than 391 students who shared their projects with the Endeavour community. • Endeavour students participate in Math Olympiad and WA State Math Challenges. • Endeavour students participated in Robotics • 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.” Science Fair held in the spring highlighted more than 391 students who shared their projects with the Endeavour community. Our PTSA sponsors E-Kids, whose motto is “Kids helping kids.” afford 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.
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 writing instruction. Seven staff members were sent to Teachers College at Columbia University for a week of professional development in Units of Study. ISF also approved a grant for musical instruments. ISF also supports our after school math and reading 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 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.
Grade 5 WCAS - Science
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Endeavour offers a variety of extra-curricular programs. These include Homework Club, Choir, Safety Patrol, Girls on the Run, 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.
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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).
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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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