2015-16
Annual School Performance Report Endeavour Elementary School
Endeavour Elementary School
26205 SE Issaquah-Fall City Road, Issaquah, WA 98029 (425) 837-7350 http://connect.issaquah. wednet.edu/elementary/ endeavour/default.aspx Principal Kathy Connally
Welcome Involved parents and community members enrich our school and enhance our students’ learning experiences. Thanks for making a difference!
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.
Demographics Grades: K-5
Teacher Experience Enrollment: 693 95.4%
60.0%
Teachers with Master’s/Ph.D
Teacher’s with National Board Certification
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3 Average Years 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.
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District Report For budget details and more go to www.issaquah.wednet.edu/district/annualcommunity-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.
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 schoolwide. • Teachers use weekly collaborative time to assess student learning and focus on improving instructional strategies and implementing best practices in reading and writing. • All staff participate in reflective learning walks focused on powerful teaching and learning strategies. The 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 employs principles of Love and Logic throughout the school to teach students responsibility and problem-solving skills. • 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). • We are one of six elementary schools in the District with an environmental outdoor education site. Student learning in science is enhanced by our on-site garden area and developed wetlands outdoor learning lab made possible through a King County Small Change Grant. • Endeavour has a Green Team and students’ school wide participate in the Green Schools program focused on teaching students about recycling and waste reduction. We are a certified
King County Level Four Green School. • Our Stellar Student Recognition program encourages students to learn skills that will help them be successful in school and life. Students are nominated by teachers and peers and recognized in the classroom, awarded a certificate, and invited to join the principal for lunch on stage. • Science Fair held in the spring highlighted more than 375 students who shared their projects with the Endeavour community. Endeavour students participate in Math Olympiad and WA State Math Challenges. Our 5th graders took 3rd place in the Washington State “Math is Cool” competition. • Endeavour’s 3rd grade Destination Imagination team won 1st place in the Regional DI Challenge. • 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. Endeavour takes pride in being a culturally diverse school and share a strong partnership with our parents and the community. Endeavour PTSA was recognized with five awards at its Annual Convention in May: Gold Level Standards of Excellence, Silver Level for Outstanding Website, Silver Level for Outstanding Newsletter & E-blast, Bronze Level for Outstanding Communication Strategy, Bronze Level for Membership. PTSA supports Science Fair, Reflections, E-Kids, and our Eager Reader incentive program, which resulted in 100% student participation and 750,000 minutes read promoting life-long reading habits.
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 leveled literacy in classroom libraries and additional non-fiction resources to our school library. ISF also supports our after school math enrichment program ASAP.
Before/After School 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 and Student Ambassadors. The PTSA sponsors many fun and enriching activities throughout the year, such as Book Fair, Movie Day, Reflections, Science Fair, 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 Destination Imagination , Math Olympiad, and Robotics.
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.
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 handson 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 Walk-A Thon 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.
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Assessment Two tests given to elementary school students—The Smarter Balanced Assessment and the Measurement of Student Progress (MSP)—help indicate how well Issaquah students are learning.
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Smarter Balanced Assessment The Smarter Balanced Assessment is a system of valid, reliable, and fair nextgeneration assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts/literacy (ELA/ literacy) and mathematics for grades 3-8 and 11. The system—which includes both summative assessments for accountability purposes and optional interim assessments for instructional use—will use computer adaptive testing technologies to provide meaningful feedback and actionable data that teachers and other educators can use to help students succeed. Smarter Balanced assessments will go beyond multiple-choice questions to include extended response and technology enhanced items, as well as performance tasks that allow students to demonstrate critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Performance tasks challenge students to apply their knowledge and skills to respond to complex real-world problems. They can best be described as collections of questions and activities that
are coherently connected to a single theme or scenario. These activities are meant to measure capacities such as depth of understanding, writing and research skills, and complex analysis, which cannot be adequately assessed with traditional assessment questions. The performance tasks will be taken on a computer (but will not be computer adaptive) and will take one to two class periods to complete. Smarter Balanced capitalizes on the precision and efficiency of computer adaptive testing (CAT). This approach represents a significant improvement over traditional paper-andpencil assessments used in many states today, providing more accurate scores for all students across the full range of the achievement continuum.
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MSP The MSP is an exam developed by and mandated by the state; it replaced the state’s original annual exam, the WASL, in spring 2010. Washington’s education reform efforts began in 1993 and involve annual state-specific tests for students in grades 3-8 in reading, writing, math, and science (MSP) and then again in grade 10 (High School Proficiency Exams in reading and writing and End of Course assessments in math and biology). MSP goes beyond multiple choice tests. The tests are much shorter than the WASL and include multiple-choice and short-answer questions. Four-point essay questions have been eliminated on science tests. This change allows students to show they are able to solve the problems, while not being scored on their writing ability on the science test. Besides being a state test rather than a national assessment, MSP results are reported differently. Each student either “Meets Standard,” “Exceeds Standard,” or “Does Not Meet Standard” in each subject—science—and subjects tested vary among grade levels. MSP scores do not compare students to other students; instead they show the learning level of each student as compared to the state’s expectations for a well-taught student at that grade level. MSP results help parents know how well
each student is meeting learning targets, and the results help schools plan instruction and curriculum focused on these learning targets. Numbers represent percentage meeting or exceeding standard.
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