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Franklin teachers report large gains after redesigning sixth-grade ELA instruction
Summary
Franklin Middle School teachers told the Janesville School Board they used a backwards-design process, item analysis and targeted supplemental resources to strengthen sixth-grade English language arts instruction; teachers reported that students’ scores on common summative assessments and nationally normed STAR assessments rose after the changes.
Kurt Krueger, principal at Franklin Middle School, told the Janesville School Board on April 7 that a teaching team’s changes to sixth-grade English language arts instruction produced measurable gains for students.
The presentation described a process teachers used after an initial common summative assessment (CSA) showed only 19% of sixth graders scored at A, B or C. The team used a backwards-design review of the CSA, drilled into priority standards, taught skills explicitly, mined supplemental materials in the HMH curriculum, and gave a mid-unit check to track progress.
"We broke down the standards, we broke down lesson objectives, the skills, vocabulary," said Stephanie Schley, the academic learning coach. She described regular PLC meetings and the team approach that included sixth-grade ELA teachers Adam Launick and Jesse Ramirez and special education…
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