Mike Kelley
Jarred Jagger
Andy Dudley
Portia Naze
Frankfort High School
Mike Kelley
Jarred Jagger
Andy Dudley
Portia Naze
Frankfort High School
Frankfort, Indiana
Frankfort High School
Frankfort High School
Frankfort High School
Frankfort High School
Frankfort High School
Frankfort High School
Frankfort High School
Trimester System
• Increased number of credit opportunities
• Flexibility in scheduling
• A 6th period for various uses
– Small group Instruction
– Remediation
– Test or lab make-up time
– ECA & GQE Exam preparation time
Meeting the Needs of our
Students
***Scheduling***
Scheduling Options For Freshmen
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Geometry
Algebra XY
Full Year Algebra
Full Year Algebra Co-Taught
Full Year Algebra Resource
Course Content
Are we preparing our students to
succeed?
Course Curriculum Reevaluated
• 8th grades standards ~What should they already
know?
• State Standards
• ECA Content
• Vocabulary
Structured Vocabulary
 Review state list of important words
for algebra I
 Decide as a department on words
requiring a higher level of importance
 Create chart to organize words,
textbook sections, definitions, and
pictures/examples
 Integrate time to complete chart and
discuss terms into daily lessons
Department Planning
• Standards are divided into 4-week
increments and a test is given every 4
weeks
• Each test covers several standards
Student Success Process
• The lowest standard in re-taught for
one week during mini lessons
• Students are quizzed at the end of
the week on only the standard that
has been re-taught
Mastery learning
• Students much achieve 80% mastery
on a standard in order to master it
• Students are grouped by mastery or
non-mastery on each standard
Student Success Process
• Students who still have not achieved
mastery during mini lessons are required
to stay for 6th period during the next week
• During 6th period, we can do one-on-one
work and try different methods of teaching
to help the students learn the material
No permission to forget
• Students are not allowed to forget old
standards because the tests are
cumulative
• The same standard can be addressed
in more than one SSP cycle
SSP is a school-wide effort
• Our administration supports us in
saying that SSP 6th period trumps all
other 6th period assignments
• Our faculty is united in this idea,
which stresses to our students the
importance of Algebra
SSP helps our students
• Students are motivated to do well on SSP
quizzes so that they won’t be required to
attend 6th period
• Students can see their own progress by
graphing their percentage on each
standard
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62
60
50
40
38
31
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20
10
0
Simplifying expressions
Test
Quiz 1
Quiz 2
How SSP relates to ECA
• Emphasis is placed on core standards
• SSP assessments use the same
vocabulary as the ECA
• It helps us identify the areas that our
students need to work on, and we can fill
in those gaps
6th Period = ECA Preparation
ECA Wednesdays
&
The 20-Day Plan
ECA Wednesdays
• All teachers assigned to a group of students
• Met every Wednesday to work on skill
remediation and reinforcement
• Materials provided to the teachers
• Student volunteers
20-Day Plan
• 5 weeks prior to the test we increased the
meeting time to 4 days a week.
• Application of skills
• Practice tests
• Gridded Response
Benefits
• Parent Communication
• School wide effort
• 775 minutes (approximately 13 hours)
• Carried over to English ECA
preparation.
What do we do with our scores?
•Students who pass go on to Geometry
•Students who fail are placed in 1
trimester of mathlab for remediation,
then move on the Geometry for 2nd and
3rd trimesters
Math Lab Remediation
 Placed students in class as a result of failing
score on algebra I ECA
 Created course calendar to provide daily guide
for curriculum
 Created possible curriculum related to calendar
with each unit approximately one week in length
 Created waiver packet tests over 10 of the most
relevant ECA topics (ex. Systems of equations
and solving quadratics)
Math Lab (Continued)
 Required minimum score of 80% to pass waiver
packets
 Allowed students to revise waiver packets during
bonus period to improve score
 Stored waiver packets in individual binders for
each student
 Recorded waiver packet passing results in
spreadsheet for each class
Benefits of Mathlab
• Students earn 1 credit
• Students get intensive ECA remediation
• Trimester schedule allows scheduling
flexibility so that students stay on track