horry county blended learning first year
DESCRIPTION
Student achievement results from the first year of implementing blended learning in Horry County School's Whittemore Park Middle School. On average in 2013-14, students in the school grew 1.5 years in reading and 1.3 years in math in just one year on the NWEA MAP assessment. In fall 2013, Whittemore Park began implementing a blended learning approach to support personalized learning and improve outcomes for its middle schoolers.TRANSCRIPT
Horry County Blended Learning First Year
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WPMS Results 2013-14
PERSONALIZED LEARNING
Spotlight: Whittemore Park, Horry County , SC
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WPMS shifted their bell schedule to focus on a personalized remediation morning skills lab and further broke out teacher roles to ensure al deeper level
of learning in small groups with students.
DISTRICT FAST FACTS
• Serves PK-12 • 41,000 students • 65% FRL
WPMS
• Serves 6-8 • 584 students • 81% FRL • 6th grade blended full
year; 7/8th blended half year
• NGLC Winner
STRATEGY
• Blended classrooms to support personalized learning
• Multi-year adoption with MS roll-out first, build up into HS opt-in, and then down to ES
Whittemore Park Results
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DISTRICT FAST FACTS
• Serves K-12 • 40,000 students • 65% FRL
WPMS
• Serves 6-8 • 584 students • 81% FRL • 6th grade blended full
year; 7/8th blended half year
• NGLC Winner
STRATEGY
• Blended classrooms to support personalized learning
• Multi-year adoption with MS roll-out first, build up into HS opt-in, and then down to ES
Amazing Growth!
• WPMS had the highest % of students meet MAP growth targets in reading in the district and had the second highest % of students meet MAP growth targets in math
• 6th graders on average tested at a 3rd grade reading level and ended the year at 5th grade level, making an impressive two grade level jump in their Lexile levels in a single year
• On average, the school grew students 1.5 years in reading and 1.3 years in math as compared to NWEA growth norms
Model Design
Core: ELA, Math • Classroom Rota+on • 100 min. / day • 5 days / week
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Core: Science, SS • Classroom Rota+on • 100 min. / day on a A/B
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© 2013 Education Elements
Remedia6on: ELA, Math • Morning Skills Lab • 30 min. / day • MWF for math; TTh for
ELA
Direct Station Creative Digital Station Independent Station
Skills Gap Remediation Lab Teacher
Review: Blended Learning Goals © 2013 Education Elements
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Blended Learning Year 1 Goals 6th grade students achieve the bold goal of 1.5+ years of growth in ELA and Math as measured by the MAP assessment, closing literacy and numeracy skills gaps. 6th graders exceeded their NWEA growth reading expectations by 60% (growing 1.6 years in a single year). Students in blended math classrooms on average met the NWEA expected growth (1.0 years in a single year). On average, the school grew students 1.5 years in reading and 1.3 years in math.
Reading: MAP Growth Targets
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• WPMS was well above the district average in meeting fall to spring growth targets and even had the top percentage 6th and 8th grade reading.
• 25% more students met growth targets at WPMS than the district average.
Math: MAP Growth Targets
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• WPMS was second in the district in meeting fall to spring growth targets and even had the top percentage 7th grade math, above 70%!
• 15% more students met growth targets at WPMS than the district average.