I just scooped the DCPCSB - 2018 tiers

[Anonymous]

Ha, pregnant brain, math

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened to TRY?

They had a bad year?

The better question is to ask the school leadership what they think happened and most importantly, what they will do about it. If they stay at this level for 2 or more years, then it's time to worry.

Not necessarily a bad year. The performance score for the prior year only included a couple of indicators -- attendance, re-enrollment, preschool observations (called CLASS). The 2018 report is the first time that PARCC scores are included for TRY. Those seem kind of low especially when you consider that there are Ward 8 schools with a much higher population of disadvantaged kids that are outperforming TRY.

TRY Parent here. I spoke to the leadership about the context of these scores. Only the 3rd grade took the PARCC last year (the school only went up to 3rd grade last year) and the 3rd grade does not have a full complement of kids, so only 20 or so kids took the test. More kids will take the test this coming year and as they have been through the whole TR experience, are more likely to have representative scores (implication: higher scores). They are scheduling a meeting to discuss the scores with interested parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened to TRY?

They had a bad year?

The better question is to ask the school leadership what they think happened and most importantly, what they will do about it. If they stay at this level for 2 or more years, then it's time to worry.

Not necessarily a bad year. The performance score for the prior year only included a couple of indicators -- attendance, re-enrollment, preschool observations (called CLASS). The 2018 report is the first time that PARCC scores are included for TRY. Those seem kind of low especially when you consider that there are Ward 8 schools with a much higher population of disadvantaged kids that are outperforming TRY.

TRY Parent here. I spoke to the leadership about the context of these scores. Only the 3rd grade took the PARCC last year (the school only went up to 3rd grade last year) and the 3rd grade does not have a full complement of kids, so only 20 or so kids took the test. More kids will take the test this coming year and as they have been through the whole TR experience, are more likely to have representative scores (implication: higher scores). They are scheduling a meeting to discuss the scores with interested parents.

The PMF takes growth on MAP scores into account for schools with few children in grades 3-5. For TRY out of 100 points MAP growth counted for 45% of the score whereas PARCC was worth 25%.

The MAP growth scores for ELA and Math were pretty low. You should ask about that at your meeting. https://www.dcpcsb.org/sites/default/files/2018-10-29%20Two%20Rivers%20PCS%20%E2%80%93%20Young%20PK3-8%20PMF.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does "instructional support" actually mean?

CLASS Certified Educator. Instructional Support refers to the quality of the questions and academic interactions between adults and students. For instance: Analysis/Reasoning, Creativity, Real World Connections, Open-Ended Questions, Advanced Language and several other measures.

It is historically very difficult for ECE classrooms to average a score near 4.0 or higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does "instructional support" actually mean?

CLASS Certified Educator. Instructional Support refers to the quality of the questions and academic interactions between adults and students. For instance: Analysis/Reasoning, Creativity, Real World Connections, Open-Ended Questions, Advanced Language and several other measures.

It is historically very difficult for ECE classrooms to average a score near 4.0 or higher.

Just went through all the school reports that had PK classrooms. Only 3 schools had above a 4.0 for instructional support: Briya PCS, Friendship Blow Pierce Ele, and Friendship Woodridge Ele. In fact the other Friendship schools came close while most of the KIPP schools were in the 2's/3's. AppleTree did good in some places as well.

Sounds like the PK program at Friendship Schools needs more hype. Are there Friendship parents on here, too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does "instructional support" actually mean?

CLASS Certified Educator. Instructional Support refers to the quality of the questions and academic interactions between adults and students. For instance: Analysis/Reasoning, Creativity, Real World Connections, Open-Ended Questions, Advanced Language and several other measures.

It is historically very difficult for ECE classrooms to average a score near 4.0 or higher.

Just went through all the school reports that had PK classrooms. Only 3 schools had above a 4.0 for instructional support: Briya PCS, Friendship Blow Pierce Ele, and Friendship Woodridge Ele. In fact the other Friendship schools came close while most of the KIPP schools were in the 2's/3's. AppleTree did good in some places as well.

Sounds like the PK program at Friendship Schools needs more hype. Are there Friendship parents on here, too?

My son went to PK3 at Friendship Armstrong (it is Reggio-inspired, I don't know if all the Friendship ECE programs are). It was great. We left after one year for other reasons, but he had a great year there. I recommend it to parents in the Shaw area all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does "instructional support" actually mean?

CLASS Certified Educator. Instructional Support refers to the quality of the questions and academic interactions between adults and students. For instance: Analysis/Reasoning, Creativity, Real World Connections, Open-Ended Questions, Advanced Language and several other measures.

It is historically very difficult for ECE classrooms to average a score near 4.0 or higher.

Just went through all the school reports that had PK classrooms. Only 3 schools had above a 4.0 for instructional support: Briya PCS, Friendship Blow Pierce Ele, and Friendship Woodridge Ele. In fact the other Friendship schools came close while most of the KIPP schools were in the 2's/3's. AppleTree did good in some places as well.

Sounds like the PK program at Friendship Schools needs more hype. Are there Friendship parents on here, too?

My son went to PK3 at Friendship Armstrong (it is Reggio-inspired, I don't know if all the Friendship ECE programs are). It was great. We left after one year for other reasons, but he had a great year there. I recommend it to parents in the Shaw area all the time.

My child in in their second year (PK4) at Friendship Armstrong and we love the ECE there. Next year we will be back with DC1 in K and DC2 in PK3. This campus is newer than the other Friendships.

[Anonymous]

Former Breakthrough parent here. The instruction my child received cannot be beat but we moved on for two reasons 1) we could not stand Keith and voted with our feet and 2) we needed a longer term option BUT my child is not thriving as before and is stuck with the same curriculum as everyone else. We supplement but never had to at Breakthrough. I know families who were like me, loved loved loved the parents and staff but Keith and Hannah run the school. That’s why re-enrollment was what it was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened to TRY?

They had a bad year?

The better question is to ask the school leadership what they think happened and most importantly, what they will do about it. If they stay at this level for 2 or more years, then it's time to worry.

Not necessarily a bad year. The performance score for the prior year only included a couple of indicators -- attendance, re-enrollment, preschool observations (called CLASS). The 2018 report is the first time that PARCC scores are included for TRY. Those seem kind of low especially when you consider that there are Ward 8 schools with a much higher population of disadvantaged kids that are outperforming TRY.

TRY Parent here. I spoke to the leadership about the context of these scores. Only the 3rd grade took the PARCC last year (the school only went up to 3rd grade last year) and the 3rd grade does not have a full complement of kids, so only 20 or so kids took the test. More kids will take the test this coming year and as they have been through the whole TR experience, are more likely to have representative scores (implication: higher scores). They are scheduling a meeting to discuss the scores with interested parents.

Thank you. Makes sense.