Project Overview Table Project I

Student: Rachelle De La Cruz Name of Project: STAAR coordinator

Area of Concern Needs Assessment Projects Action Competencies Evaluation Reflection

Plan Addressed
Hollibrook The campus assistant December 2016- December 2016 There is no official This round of testing
Elementary, much principal assigned Met primary assistant evaluation of this was particularly
like, all others this project to me so I principal to discuss C007- Apply decision project. However, all complicated given
schools in Texas will may gain experience the process of making skills. students received the the SPED department
commence high with one of the more coordinating STAAR appropriate was not invited to
stakes testing in intricate parts of and create a to-do C005- Advocating an accommodations and LPACs and thus ARD
March. It is being in an list. instructional program all STAAR decisions were not
imperative for staff administrative role. assessments were honored on the
to be trained and for The project would accounted for and LPACs. Once I found
testing day entail the revising returned to TEA. this discrepancy, I
procedures to be LPACs, ARD Additionally, immediately
planned and orderly. paperwork, and January 2017- January 2017 Teachers were highly contacted and met
With great planning, recording necessary Attended a district satisfied with the with the SPED
students and staff, accommodations. STAAR training led by C003- Act with way the day was run department and the
alike, will have a Additionally, I will be the director of integrity in a legal and felt their input two assistant
relaxing testing training the staff on assessment and manner. was valued principals. We were
environment. protocol, creating accountability in our throughout the able to solve the
testing rosters, district. C002- process. issue. Additionally,
schedule for testing, Communication and teachers were being
receiving secure collaboration with allowed to write in
testing materials, school community. accommodations on
and returning LPAC forms for
materials. Late January 2017- Late January 2017 students and
Trained campus staff C009- Ensuring a provided no evidence
on how to handle safe learning of the decisions.
secure testing environment for all
materials, what participants. LPACs will be held for
constituted as an 3rd grade on April 17th
irregularity, and how C002- and I, in addition to
to handle situation. Communication and the SPED team, will
collaboration with be in attendance.
school community. This is
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 unprecedented on
my campus.

Early February Early February

2017 2017
Reviewed LPAC forms
and met with SPED C002-
staff to review 504 Communication and
and ARD paperwork. collaboration with
school community.
Trained small group
and oral testing
administrators.
Early March 2017 Early March 2017
Met with 4th and 5th C002-
grade teachers to Communication and
finalize testing collaboration with
rosters and schedule school community.
of the testing days.
C007- Apply decision
making skills.

Late March 2017 Late March 2017

Receive secure
testing materials C003- Act with
from district integrity in a legal
warehouse into manner.
TestHound by
scanning each C008- Management
booklet barcode. of campus budgeting
and materials use.
Requested additional
ALT-2 testing

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materials.

Late March 2017 Late March 2017

Created labels with
student name, PEIMS C003- Act with
number, Reading integrity in a legal
testing administrator, manner.
and math testing
administrator. Placed C002-
these on the back of Communication and
each testing booklet collaboration with
to aide in sorting school community.
testing materials for
day 2 of C007- Apply decision
administration. making skills.

Late March 2017 Late March 2017

Created testing
control forms for C003- Act with
each testing integrity in a legal
administrator based manner.
on the testing roster
and organized C002-
testing materials in Communication and
each administrators collaboration with
bucket (i.e. seating school community.
charts, schedules,
student count forms,
scantrons, STAAR
booklets, and
attendance sheets).

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Late March 2017 Late March 2017
Checked out secure
materials to all C003- Act with
testing integrity in a legal
administrators. manner.

Monitored hallways C002-

and classrooms to Communication and
ensure testing collaboration with
procedures were school community.
properly followed.

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 Project Overview Table Project II

Student: Rachelle De La Cruz Name of Project: Building Campus Literacy libraries

Area of Concern Needs Assessment Projects Action Competencies Evaluation Reflection

Plan Addressed
Hollibrook As a literacy November 2016- November 2016 Pre-Assessment of This was a huge
Elementary is a low- instructional coach at Met with the principal literacy library with undertaking. For
performing school in Hollibrook ES, it is and district director C004- Facilitating leadership team. starters, there were
Spring Branch ISD within my job of humanities to design and Pictures were taken many staff members
and has been in description ensure assess the literacy implementation of of the literacy library. who were upset by
improvement that teachers and library and draft a curricula. the old literacy
required (IR) for the students have the plan for moving library books being
last three years. The necessary tools to forwards. C007- Apply decision taken out. In the
area of concern is build early literacy making skills. Final evaluation future, formal
low STAAR scores in skills and continue to Pictures were taken communication
reading. Additionally, grow. Building two of the literacy library needs to be
the campus has been brand new literacy after the new books presented to the staff
lacking a robust libraries will support Early December Early December were put in. We will from my principal
literacy library to our teachers and 2016- Met with 2016 continue to see the detailing the project,
help students students in the volunteers from our effects of having new timeline, and
increase in reading guided reading sister school to set a C008- Management books on instruction intended outcome.
capabilities and initiative on our date for the clean-up of campus budgeting and student
teachers in planning campus. of the literacy library. and materials use. performance data. Additionally, the
and delivering project was worked
effective small group C003- Act with on by myself and two
instruction. integrity in a legal interventionists and
manner. it was extremely time
consuming. Moving
Late December Late December forward, I need to
2016- Sister school 2016 delegate more tasks
volunteers spent five to others who have
hours on campus C005- Advocating an the time and
with me helping to instructional program flexibility to assist.
clean up the literacy
library. We took our C009- Ensuring a
all of the books that safe learning
were longer in sets of environment for all
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six and handed them participants.
out to the students
and teachers for
classroom use.

Early January Early January

2017- With a 2017-
$50,000 dollar C008- Management
budget, I began to of campus budgeting
craft a purchase and materials use.
order for the leveled
books.

Mid-January 2017- Mid-January 2017

Met with a
representative from C006- Principal
Houghton-Mifflin on knows how to
campus to review my implement a
quote and come up development system
with three to improve
comparable for the performance of staff.
finance department.
C004- Facilitating
strategic plans that
ensure alignment of
vision and curriculum
Late February Late February
2017- 2017
The books began to
arrive. A team of C002-
interventionists and I Communication and
began inventorying collaboration with
all of the books, school community.
creating labels, and
unpacking them.

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March 2017- The March 2017-
books are labeled,
sorted, and bagged. C005- Advocating,
They have been nurturing, and
placed in the literacy sustaining
library and the staff instructional program
has been notified of and campus culture.
the new check out
system in place.

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 Project Overview Table Project III

Student: Rachelle De La Cruz Name of Project: RtI and reading incentive program

Area of Concern Needs Assessment Projects Action Competencies Evaluation Reflection

Plan Addressed
Hollibrook As a primary literacy August 2016- Met August 2016- Pre-Assessment of Creating a school
Elementary has been instructional coach, it with my assistant the state of the climate and vision is
an Improvement is my responsibility principal to review C004- Facilitating primary grades, exceptionally difficult
required (IR) school to help increase the needs of design and teacher skill, and and getting 100% of
for the past 5 years reading levels in our teachers in primary implementation of instructional practice staff members on
going into our 6th primary students to based on her curricula. as well as data. board is an amazing
year. Math and help them develop observations and feat. This year, our
reading performance early literacy skills experience with C007- Apply decision staff made leaps and
on STAAR has been that will enable them them. We created a making skills. Final evaluation bounds in literacy
very low however we to succeed on the set of reading level Results on DRA/EDL instruction, tracking,
have been able to STAAR. expectations month on end of year and providing RtI to
bring up math to by month. administration in all students in
68% passing in this May. conjunctions with
recent interventionists. Next
administration. year, I will continue
Literacy remains an modeling and
area of concern. I August 2016- August 2016- reviewing the
work with the Created a tracker strategies we worked
primary grades and with formatting to C004- Facilitating on this year.
believe we can bring help teachers quickly design and
the school up by enter data and implementation of In the near future, I
ensuring all students facilitate analysis. curricula. hope we will see an
have a strong increase in STAAR
foundation. As a C007- Apply decision scores given the
result, my charge making skills. foundation our
this year, from the primary students

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leadership team, has Late August 2016- Late August 2016- have been given this
been to increase Trained all primary year.
reading ability. teachers: where do C005- Advocating an
you find the tracker? instructional program
When will we enter
data? What data will C009- Ensuring a
be entered? Teachers safe learning
also received their environment for all
literacy binder and participants.
were given the
opportunity to ask
questions.

Rolled out the

incentive system we
would be utilizing for
students as they
increased their
reading levels.
Teacher were bought
into it.
Early September Early September
2016- 2016
Met with
interventionists to C001- Shaping
create their campus culture by
schedule, review facilitating vision for
data, and create learning.
groupings as well as
set goals for the C001- Facilitating
students they would implementation of
be working with. campus vision.

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Mid- September Mid-September
2016- First training 2016
session during PLC
time with teachers to C006- Principal
teach them how to knows how to
conduct running implement a
records and analyze development system
them. The to improve
expectation is they performance of staff.
conduct running
record every 3
weeks, enter the
data into tracker,
analyze, and modify
their small group
instruction.

Late September Late September

2016- Staff training 2016-
on guided reading. C001- Articulation of
Trainers introduce vision of learning.
topic: What is guided
reading? What C002-
materials do you Communication and
need? How do you collaboration with
choose good fit school community.
books? What is the
protocol for guided C004- Facilitating
reading? Staff were strategic plans that
given posters to use, ensure alignment of
a guide lesson to vision and
follow as they began curriculum.
working in guided
reading, and we took
a tour of the newly
built literacy library.

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January 2017- Mini January 2017-
trainings based on
data collected in the C004- Facilitating
tracker. Breakout strategic plans that
sessions available for ensure alignment of
three areas of need. vision and
1. Writing in guided curriculum.
reading
2. Guided reading for
emerging readers
3. Shared reading in
guided reading to
increase fluency
4. Guided reading for
transitional readers

February- April February- April

2017- 2017-
1. Visited C004- Facilitating
classrooms strategic plans that
with assistant ensure alignment of
principal to vision and
give our curriculum.
reading
medals to C006- Principal
students. knows how to
2. Continue to implement a
observe and development system
model desired to improve
instruction in performance of staff.
all
classrooms.
3. Continued to
work with
interventionist
s to exit
students from
interventions
and place
students in
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 need of tier 3
instruction.

Planned final May 2017-

training for Late
May 2017- Teachers C005- Advocating,
will administer the nurturing, and
final DRA/EDL, enter sustaining
the data into our instructional program
tracker and the and campus culture.
districts tracker. We
will revisit the
expectations and
practices that
enabled our students
to show significant
movement. We will
begin planning for PD
in Fall 2017 by
surveying teachers
on what they believe
is needed for next
year.

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