WELCOME

CFA Your Way to Success

CFA PROCESS - ABOUT US
Sheri Heslington & Amanda Sessions
David Gourley Elementary
Title 1
Kearns

Standards Based Grading Approach

PLC Process at David Gourley
JUSTIN
Below average I.Q
Provided several interventions in order to qualify for SPED
Discipline problems associated with failing grades and falling behind his
friends
Multiple opportunities to show he could learn the information
Initial push-back
Ultimately pushing me for time to re-test
SAGE DATA
SAGE Results
ELA
Utah: 47% Proficient
Granite District: 36% Proficient
Class: 63% Proficient

Math
Utah: 40% Proficient
Granite District: 33% Proficient
Class: 45% Proficient
CFA CYCLE

1. PLC
Planning
Process &
Discussion

2. Direct
5. Retest(s)
Instruction

4. Focus
Standard 3. CFA #1
Practice
1. PLC PLANNING PROCESS

In Digital
Packet

Available for
download on
6th Grade
Website
EXAMPLE: MATH
YOUR TURN
http://bit.ly/2rfgIOv
(capital i capital o)
Choose a standard from your grade level.
4th Grade: Standard 4.NBT.1
Recognize that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it
represents in the place to its right
5th Grade: Standard 5.NBT.3
Read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths.
6th Grade: Standard 6.NS.3
Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for
each operation.

1. Write Standard
2. Identify sub-standards and prerequisite skills students may need to know
3. Identify any vocabulary necessary
4. Determine possible time-frame for each sub-standard or skill
5. Create Mastery statements for what students should be able to do at the end of
the direct instruction cycle
CREATE CFA
School City
Item Bank
8-12 questions
Varying DOK levels

Wonders
Weekly Assessments
Interactive Data Dashboard
2. DIRECT INSTRUCTION
Math Resources ELA Resources
Go Math Wonders
EngageNY SAGE Formative
BetterLesson.org School City
Teachers Pay Teachers Readworks.org
NewsELA

Lesson Format
I Do (5-10 minutes)
We Do Together (10 minutes)
You Do Together (15-20 minutes)
You do Alone (10-15 minutes)
 ELA EXAMPLE

Pre-read text
Purpose for having
students read
What specific
skill do we want
them to learn?
Essential Questions
HABITS OF EFFECTIVE READERS
EXIT TICKETS: MATH

Exit Ticket Formats

SAGE Formative
Socrative
Paper/Pencil
Padlet
Plickers
EXIT TICKETS: ELA
q Wonders Assessments: Weekly Selection Test
Socrative
 EXIT TICKET PLC DISCUSSION
Data Analysis: Daily Probes/Exit Tickets
Standard Review
Standard (long-range goal): Current Substandard (weekly goal/goals): In Digital
Packet

Student Data Review Available for

Areas of strength: Gaps or Misconceptions: Missing Prerequisite Skills:
download on
6th Grade
Website
Action Steps
Extensions: Tier 1 : Tier 2:

Student Data Review

Areas of strength: Gaps or Misconceptions: Missing Prerequisite Skills:

Action Steps
Extensions: Tier 1: Tier 2:
3. CFA #1
School City
Item Bank
8-12 questions
Varying DOK levels

Wonders
Weekly Assessments
Interactive Data Dashboard

Standards Based Grading

Scores 1-4
WONDERS INTERACTIVE QUIZ
DATA
Standard Description of Standard
BINDERS 100%

90%

In Digital
80%
Packet
70%

Available for
60%
download on
6th Grade 50%

Website 40%

30%

20%

10%

0%
Post #1 Post #2 Post #3 Post #4 Post #5 Post #6 Post #7 Post #8

______% ______% ______% ______% ______% ______% ______% ______%

Date: _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______

SPREADSHEET
4. PRACTICE (SMALL GROUP TIME)
Flexible Grouping
Math
ELA

Math: Independent Activities- Student Choice

3 Things to Do
Website
School City Resources

Reading: Focused Independent Activities

Wonders (Assigned)
Games
Weekly Comprehension Passages and Questions (On-Level Practice Book)

Close Reading Companion

Focused on reading domains and bands instead of specific standards (ex. Main Idea & Details)
3 THINGS TO DO

In Digital Packet
q 6th Grade Gourley Website
q School City Resources Available for
download on 6th
Grade Website
5. RETESTS
Scheduled once a week on Fridays for individual Focus Standards
Class refocus lessons and retests when needed
Teachers kept list of current focus standards and activated specific tests
PLC PROCESS: ASSESSMENT DISCUSSION
Review of Current Sub-Standard and Student Progress
Where are students with the focus concepts and skills?
Current Sub-Standard: Percent of students at mastery (80%)
Teacher:
Teacher:
Teacher:
Teacher: In Digital
Grade-Level:
Data-Based Decision
Have students made sufficient progress to move on?
Packet
Sub-Standard(s) for next week: Time frame for teaching:

Available for
download on
Weekly Common Formative Assessment
6th Grade
How will we quickly measure progress of the grade level next week?
Website

Daily Probes
What options do individual teachers have to monitor student understanding?
Which probes will we commit to bring to PLCs next week?
Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday:
 TEST TAKING STRATEGIES- STUVWYX

S Summarize the story in one sentence

T Determine the Topic of the question
U Underline the correct answers (choose two)
V Identify the Verb of the question (analyze, explain)
W Where in the text would I find the answer?
X Be able to explain your answer choice
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
What the teachers did this year was amazing, I loved it so much. Being able to go
back and retest ad the options it gave you were amazing.

I liked it better because it helped me get better grades because if a dont do my

best in a certain standards I could re-test in it and get a better grade instead of
getting a bad grade. Also grades are easier [to understand] because it is just based
on tests.

I understand the standards based grading because I didnt just take a test and that
would be my final grade. I got multiple chances to up my grade.

It was very helpful to know that I could retest on a subject I was bad at.
CLASS DATA- GROWTH
CLASSROOM SUPPORTS
Homework Club (Homework not a part of students grade)
Brag Tags
Monthly Awards Assemblies
Proficiency
Growth

Enrichment Activities: Enrich Go Math Lessons and Performance Tasks

Task Cards
Kagan Cooperative Learning Activities
YOUR TURN
Create a step by step close reading process that you would teach to
your students.
How would you teach your students to walk through a text?
What skills do you want students to demonstrate as they read?
QUESTIONS
alsessions@graniteschools.org
sjheslington@graniteschools.org

We will be adding documents to our 6th Grade Gourley Website that

you may download and use. Please let us know if there is anything
specific you would like us to add!