Arts & Humanities – Program Review Scoring Guide (Mid-Review February and Final Review March/April) When emailing me your evidence – include which Program Review and short (one to two sentences) description of topic/activity. Curriculum and Instruction: Demonstrator 1 – Student Access Needs Improvement Proficient Distinguished What is your evidence? Where is it located? th The arts program Access is provided for all The arts program 6 Grade: Students learn Dances of the Donaldson: Lesson plans offers creating, students through offers individual Decades on H Drive performing, and intentionally scheduling students the Bucklew: student cartoons and drawings using Johnson: Student work and responding processes time within the opportunity to foreign language vocabulary video in the arts, but not all instructional day for a develop their own Donaldson: Flocabulary used to put parts of Martin: classroom four arts disciplines balanced program of talents in the three speech to music McKinney: video are included creating, performing and processes of Johnson: Graph/chart, music to teach content Mudd: Agenda, tests, responding to the arts in creating, (properties song, Itty Bitty Dot), initials officers list and materials each of the four arts performing, and measure angles folder disciplines (dance, drama, responding to the Martin: co-ordinate graphing (UK), Smith-Thomas: in student music, visual arts) arts with the Icosahedron paper folding activities, creating folders, located in teacher support of teachers, beyond an astrolabe binder and pictures the regular McKinney: students singing math songs Tyree: Journals, Plate classroom. Mudd: Physically mapping the Nile employs boundaries, pictures, motions, rhythm, dynamics applied to drawing a map of the Nile. Smith-Thomas: student performances Taylor: Flocabulary Tyree: Diagrams: human organ systems (labeled), geologic events, mouse trap car project (design, build and revise), rain shadow effect – similar comparison, rock cycle, nitrogen cycle and moon phases Wallace: Reader’s Theatre, Alien Names/Symmetry & Music Bratcher: 12 Days of Christmas (own words) & sung to class, SumoPaint, Wordle and Commercials Eadens: Drawing demonstrating electrical wire Elmore: Flocabulary, Funeral, and skit of Raven (mood of painting with skit) diagrams, and models Wallace: Lesson Plans, Photograph & Video Bratcher: Go Animate acct, SumoPaint and Wordle, iMac or CD/DVD Eadens: Sample work Elmore: Lesson plans and student’s writers notebook Doughty: Lesson plan All students have access to regularly scheduled disciplinebased, arts courses in three or less art forms which provide a firm grounding in basic creating, performing and responding to the arts. Students wishing to begin a specialization in an art form(s) are provided regularly scheduled classes. All student have access to regularly scheduled discipline-based, arts courses in each of the four art forms which provide a firm grounding in basic creating, performing and responding to the arts. Students wishing to begin a specialization in an art form(s) are provided regularly scheduled classes Doughty: Flocabulary, Elements of Plot song & Poetry Toolkit Taken care of by Administrators, A & H Teacher Taken care of by & G/T Teacher Administrators, A & H Teacher & G/T Teacher All students have regularly scheduled discipline-based, arts courses in each of the four art forms yearly which provide a firm grounding in basic creating, performing and responding to the arts. Students wishing to begin a specialization in an art form(s) are provided regularly scheduled classes. Curriculum and Instruction: Demonstrator 2 – Aligned and Rigorous Curriculum Needs Improvement Proficient Distinguished What is your evidence? The arts curriculum is The arts curriculum Teachers Smith-Thomas: collaborate with Art teacher not fully aligned with encompasses creating, responsible for 6th Grade: Decade Dance with Bivens the Kentucky Core teaching the arts performing and Academic Standards responding and is fully regularly aligned with the collaborate to Kentucky Core Academic ensure that Standards. curriculum is aligned vertically and horizontally with the Kentucky Core Academic Standards. The curriculum may The arts curriculum The curriculum Bucklew: poems, songs to remember be designed to provides for the goes beyond basic demonstrate develop some basic literacy in the arts development of arts Donaldson: Students listen to songs and read arts literacy skills in literacy in all four arts to include lyrics and evaluate figurative language. the arts, but does not discipline and also utilizes communication Fazel: Reading Activity support full literacy the Common Core through the Where is it located? Smith-Thomas: Lesson plan 6th grade: lesson plan Donaldson: Lesson plans, 6th grade binder Fazel: PowerPoint and Pictures in the four arts disciplines. Standards for English/Language Arts. Cross-curricular integration between the arts and other content areas is happening but it is not fully developed or intentionally based on the Kentucky Core Academic standards. The school curriculum provides opportunities for integration as natural cross-curricular connections are made between the arts and other content areas. Students receive little exposure to exemplary works of dance, music, theatre and visual. The arts curriculum includes the study of representative and exemplary works of dance, music, theatre and visual arts from a variety of artists, cultural traditions and historical periods. The school arts curriculum is revised based on a single or limited indicator(s) of student performance The school arts curriculum is revised using multiple indicators such as student formative and summative assessments, arts organization performance assessments from students’ arts products and performance as a distinctive literacy in itself as well as written and verbal communication utilizing the Common Core Standards for E/LA. The school curriculum provides intentional and meaningful integration of the arts and other content areas with natural crosscurricular connections. The school-wide curriculum includes the study of representative exemplary works, artists, cultural traditions, and historical periods for each arts discipline to show natural connections. The school arts curriculum is revised by using multiple indicators by a committee comprised of arts and cross-content area teachers. Taylor: Venn Diagrams, flashcards Elmore: Cowboy Casanova and See It, Sketch It Mudd: timeline illustration analysis Brown: Key vocabulary art Elmore: lesson plans and writer’s notebook Mudd: lesson plans Brown: lesson plans and student work Bucklew: design an animal in adaptation unit and make habitat Fazel: Animal Poster Designer Animals Wallace: Preamble – Draw icons Elmore: Edgar Allen Poe lesson plan using art Taylor: student made fraction strips Mudd: Timeline illustration analysis Brown: key vocabulary art Bucklew: student drawings & description Fazel: Feb – in classroom Wallace: Student journals Elmore: Student journals Mudd: lesson plans Brown: lesson plans and student work Bucklew: study cultures in each and traditional after school snacks from other cultures Donaldson: Renaissance Smith-Thomas & Elmore: Holocaust and Outsiders Mudd: Timeline illustration analysis Bucklew: pictures Donaldson: student work and lesson plans Smih-Thomas – lesson plan, movie and essay Mudd: lesson plans sanctioned events, or other student needs. Curriculum and Instruction: Demonstrator 3 – Instructional Strategies Needs Improvement Proficient Distinguished Teachers rarely Teachers systematically Teachers engage incorporate all three incorporate all three students in highcomponents of arts components of arts level creative study: creating, study: creating, activities and performing and performing and problem solving in responding to the responding to the arts. the arts through arts. creating and performing. Students apply analytical skills at a high level while responding to the arts Teachers provide Teachers provide models Teachers provide limited models of of exemplary artistic print, electronic artistic performances performances and media, virtual or and products to products to enhance live models of enhance student students’ understanding exemplary artistic understanding of an arts discipline and performances and to develop their products to performance/production enhance students’ skills. understanding of each arts discipline and to develop their performance/prod uction skill Arts teachers provide Arts teachers provide for Arts teachers basic artistic theory, the development of ensure that skills, and techniques artistic theory, skills, and students are able but do not help techniques through the to create original students find their development of student artworks by relevance to products performances or intentionally or performances. products that are applying artistic relevant and theory, skills and techniques that What is your evidence? Where is it located? Johnson: Performing songs (Property song, Itty-Bitty Dot and Integer Song) Smith-Thomas & Elmore: writing play and performing Mudd: China Cheer Brown: YouTube Song Johnson: Copies of lyrics & video of performance on cell phone Smith-Thomas: lesson plan and student work Mudd: lesson plans Brown: lesson plans Smith-Thomas & Elmore: writing play and performing Brown: images from Australia Embry: White House Alexander Hamilton Flocabulary Brown: Flocabulary Smith-Thomas: lesson plan and student work Brown: lesson plans Embry: Lesson plans Brown: lesson plans A & H Teachers ONLY A & H Teachers ONLY developmentally appropriate for students. are relevant and developmentally appropriate. Guest artists are not The arts curriculum is Guest and used, or guest artists enhanced and community artists, provide arts strengthened through artist residencies, instruction in place of collaboration with guest field trips, etc., are regular disciplined artists, complementing integrated into the based arts instruction. discipline based arts school arts culture instruction during the for all students and regular school day. provide experiences that are designed to promote learning of Kentucky Core Academic Standards within the arts and other content areas. Curriculum and Instruction: Demonstrator 4 – Student Performance Needs Improvement Proficient Distinguished Students are not Students Students are actively actively engaged in demonstrate engaged in creating, all three components performing and mastery of skills of creating, and theoretical responding to the arts. performing, and understanding with responding in the high levels of arts. creativity, performing, and responding to the arts appropriate to the age and grade level. Students' products Students Students identify a show a lack of independently purpose and generate variety, scope or create rich and original and varied art purpose; ideas, insightful products works or performances products, and performances that are highly performances, etc. with variety, scope expressive with teacher are primarily teacher- guidance. and purposes. driven. Donaldson: Landon Hampton Embry: Art Guest What is your evidence? Donaldson: PowerPoint Embry: picture Where is it located? Wallace: Reader’s Theatre LA Group: Flocabulary Mudd: China Cheer Wallace: Lesson Plans LA: Lesson plans Mudd: lesson plans Elmore: Wounded Warrior cards – students drew pictures on some of the cards Smith-Thomas: Anne Frank comparison of Black/White Anne Frank vs new version Doughty: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – comparing the new and old version. Read and perform the parts Elmore: student samples Smith-Thomas: lesson plans Doughty: Lesson plans Student work in the arts demonstrates that they are applying minimal creative, evaluative or analytical and problem solving skills in their artistic performances or products. Students rarely reflect upon exemplary exhibits and live or technologically provided performances. Students rarely demonstrate the ability to be selfsufficient in creating artistic products. Some students are encouraged to participate in grade level appropriate juried events, exhibitions, contests and performances outside the school environment. Students, with teacher guidance, routinely use creative, evaluative, analytical and problem solving skills in developing and/or reflecting in their artistic performances and products. Students independently apply creative, evaluative, analytical and problem solving skills in developing and/or reflecting on their artistic performances and products. Students use written and Students verbal communication to subjectively reflect on exemplary objectively reflect on exhibits and live or exemplary exhibits and technologically live or technologically provided performances as performances to a variety of classroom assignments. audiences through a variety of means of communication (e.g. written, verbal, their own artistic means). Students initiate Students demonstrate and produce their the ability to become self-sufficient in creating own creative projects. performances and/or products after teacher guidance Students are supported School arts and encouraged to programs and participate in grade level individual students appropriate juried routinely events, exhibitions, participate in contests and grade level performances outside appropriate juried events, the school exhibitions, contests, performances. Donaldson: LA Vocabulary Poster Wallace: Word Wall Mudd: 42 movie – discussion about time period Brown: Tolerance lessons Donaldson: Picture Wallace: Picture Mudd: lesson plans Brown: lesson plans Bucklew: journal about French art Donaldson: Journal reflections over creating the poetry tool kits. Johnson: singing Donaldson: Journals in room 101. Martin: PowerPoint and Mouse trap cars Brown: wall Martin: classroom Brown: pictures Bucklew: Red Ribbon Web, canned food drive, raising money for Relay for Life Donaldson: Students participate in plays during class. Doughty: Donaldson: 6th grade binder. Performance assessment events are used as tools for reflection and review, and used adjust and improve the school instructional program. Formative and Summative Assessment: Demonstrator 1 - Assessment Needs Improvement Proficient Distinguished What is your evidence? Formative and Formative and Formative and summative Bucklew: grade summative arts summative arts arts assessments for Tyree: Mouse trap cars assessments for assessments show individual students and Doughty: 3.8 Paragraph individual students some alignment with performing groups are Elmore: 3.8 Paragraph – mid-term grade and performing components of the clearly aligned with the groups are clearly Kentucky Core components of the Academic Standards Kentucky Core Academic aligned with the components of the and measure a Standards and KCAS and inform specific concept, authentically measure a instruction in the understanding specific concept, classroom leading and/or skill understanding and/or to student skill and lead to student improvement. growth. Students Teachers are the Teachers guide students Donaldson: Students complete PQP of peer work. independently and Tyree: Mouse trap cars – test for speed, primary reviewers of to use developmentally student work and or grade level appropriate objectively utilize acceleration and momentum students do not peer review and critique developmentally or grade level effectively use to evaluate each other’s appropriate oral developmentally or work. and written peer grade level reviews and appropriate peer critiques to review or critique to evaluate each evaluate each other’s other’s work. work. Formative and Summative Assessment: Demonstrator 2 – Expectations for Student Learning Needs Improvement Proficient Distinguished What is your evidence? Exemplars or models Exemplar/models are Exemplars/models Bucklew: show examples of family trees and are used in classroom used to encourage are used with cartoons Where is it located? Tyree: design and functionality Doughty: lesson plan & student work Elmore: lesson plan & student work Donaldson: 6th grade binder. Tyree: Lesson plans Where is it located? Elmore: lesson plans instruction, but students are not clear as to how they can apply what they learn from models. students to demonstrate characteristics of rigorous work in the appropriate art form in most instructional lessons/units. Teachers use clearly defined rubrics or scoring guides but do not share them with students. Teachers share clearly defined rubrics or scoring guides with students before creating, performing, or responding assignments or assessments appropriate to the age and grade level and students have the opportunity to provide input into the scoring guide. Teachers develop rigorous student learning and academic growth through student learning objectives and refined SMART (specific, measurable, appropriate, realistic and time bound) goals that are rigorous, attainable and reflect acceptable growth during the course or school year every instructional lesson/unit (e.g. historical masterpieces, current works, performances by exemplary artists, or exemplary student work). Teachers engage students in creating their own rubrics or scoring guides for creating, performing, or responding assignment/assess ments appropriate to the age and grade level. Elmore: Gradual Release Donaldson: Story journal scoring guide. Embry: Rubric Teachers develop Teachers, in 6th Grade Dance rigorous student collaboration with learning and the individual academic growth students, develop goals that are rigorous student attainable, reflect learning and acceptable growth academic growth and are related to SMART goals that identified student are rigorous, needs, but the attainable and SMART (specific, reflect acceptable measurable, growth during the appropriate, realistic course or school and time bound) year goals process needs refining Formative and Summative Assessment: Demonstrator 3 – Assessment of Teaching Donaldson: On the H Drive (7th grade English) Needs Improvement Teachers provide limited documented feedback to students on performances/ products. Proficient Teachers regularly provide students with authentic, meaningful and documented feedback from a variety of sources (e.g., staff members, arts adjudicators, peers, etc.) on their performances/ products so students may strengthen their future performance/products. Distinguished What is your evidence? Students are very clear on their progress and capabilities in the arts, and are carefully guided by documented individual plans based on feedback (from staff, professional, peers, etc.) as to next steps in their progress. Students engage in Students regularly reflect Students purposely Bucklew: students discuss and journal about critique and on, critique and evaluate use the language caroling and folk dancing evaluation of artistic the artistic products and of the arts in Donaldson: Story journal edit. products; but those performances of others critiquing and processes are not and themselves as is evaluating formalized or grade level and age performances. students are not yet appropriate They further make capable of making recommendation strong evaluations. on how those products or performances can be more effective as is grade level and age appropriate. Professional Development: Demonstrator 1 - Opportunity Needs Improvement Proficient Distinguished What is your evidence? The professional The professional A professional development action plan development action development action is linked to the plan is linked to plan is developed. the Comprehensive Comprehensive School School Improvement Plan Improvement Plan (CSIP) and supports (CSIP), supports grade level appropriate quality instruction Where is it located? Donaldson: On the H Drive and lesson plans. Where is it located? instruction in the Arts and Humanities. Arts and Humanities teachers have some access to job embedded professional development opportunities. Job embedded professional development opportunities are available to Arts and Humanities teachers to encourage continuous growth. Arts and Humanities professional development opportunities are limited and do not focus on research based best practices that will support teacher Professional Growth Plans. Arts and Humanities professional development opportunities focus on research based best practices and are planned based on school and student data and teacher Professional Growth Plans. The school encourages The school schedule allows for Arts and in the Arts and Humanities and is revisited throughout the year to assess the implementation, program fidelity and to make necessary revisions. A variety of job embedded professional development opportunities are available to the Arts and Humanities teachers to encourage continuous growth and are tailored to meet individual needs of teachers and students. A variety of Arts and Humanities professional development opportunities are available and focus on research-based best practices that support teacher Professional Growth Plans and are based upon school and student data. The school allocates time for A & H TEACHERS ONLY Elmore: Engagement Cube Embry: PGP – incorporating more art discipline in content A & H TEACHERS ONLY Elmore: PGP – Mr. Tuck collaboration between Arts and Humanities and academic core teachers, but does not allocate time for collaboration to occur. Humanities and academic core teachers to collaborate and exchange ideas. Arts and Humanities and academic core teachers to collaborate and exchange ideas during the school day, in professional learning communities and through professional development trainings. Professional Development: Demonstrator 2 – Participation Needs Improvement Proficient Distinguished What is your evidence? Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities Arts and A & H TEACHERS ONLY teachers participate teachers participate in Humanities in arts contentarts content-specific teachers specific professional professional participate in arts development, but no development selected content-specific evidence of based on school, student professional implementation. and teacher data development that analysis. is selected based on school, student and teacher data analysis and impact is evident. Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities Arts and A & H TEACHERS ONLY teachers are teachers actively Humanities members of participate in teachers take on a professional learning professional learning leadership role in communities. communities to address professional issues related to learning instructional practices, communities to data analysis, and address issues improving student related to achievement. instructional practices, data analysis, and Where it is located? A & H TEACHERS ONLY A & H TEACHERS ONLY Arts and Humanities teachers are members of professional organizations. Arts and Humanities teachers have limited contact with external partners. Some teachers in the school receive professional learning opportunities to enhance the integration of the improving student achievement and share this information school wide. Arts and Humanities Arts and teachers are leaders in Humanities professional teachers are organizations and the leaders in school. professional organizations, the school and the community. Arts and Humanities Arts and teachers regularly Humanities collaborate with teachers are community, business, and provided with time postsecondary partners in the school through advisory schedule, a stipend committees, work and/or exchange programs professional and/or community development groups with a focus on credit for the arts. collaboration with community, business, and postsecondary partners through advisory committees, work exchange programs and/or community groups. Most teachers in the All teachers in the school receive and school receive and implement professional implement development to enhance professional the integration of the Arts development to enhance the A & H TEACHERS ONLY A & H TEACHERS ONLY A & H TEACHERS ONLY A & H TEACHERS ONLY Social Studies: Cobin MS – Brent Jackson arts and humanities content. and Humanities content into school curricula. integration of the Arts and Humanities content into school curricula. Administrative/Leadership Support and Monitoring: Demonstrator 1 – Policies and Monitoring Needs Improvement Proficient Distinguished What is your evidence? School School School councils/ Taken care of by Administrators councils/leadership councils/leadership leadership establish policies to implement policies to monitors and ensure that Arts ensure that disciplined evaluates the concepts are taught based arts instruction is a teaching of arts throughout the part of the school concepts school and across the curriculum and arts throughout the curriculum concepts are taught school and across throughout the school the curriculum and across the curriculum Time in the school Protected time is Time allocated Taken care of by Administrators schedule is not allocated in the schedule extends beyond adequately allocated so that all students can usual for all students to receive instruction in the implementation, receive instruction in Arts and Humanities demonstrating a the Arts and disciplines. strong school Humanities commitment to disciplines. the needs of students in the arts. School leadership Arts teachers are invited Arts teachers A & H TEACHERS ONLY and select teachers to participate in planning participate in and plan the annual the annual school budget provide input into school budget. the school budget to ensure adequate and quality materials, equipment, space and technology are available to offer the curriculum Where is it located? Taken care of by Administrators Taken care of by Administrators A & H TEACHERS ONLY Arts teachers are assigned unmanageable class loads and/or inadequate/ inappropriate facilities. Arts teachers are assigned manageable class loads based on course and facilities. Arts teachers are A & H TEACHERS ONLY assigned equitable class loads based on course and facilities as compared to other teachers in the building. Arts teachers receive Arts teachers receive Arts teachers A & H TEACHERS ONLY planning time, but planning and travel time receive equitable this is not equitable that is equitable with planning time and to other content other content areas participate in areas. cross-curricular planning. The principal The principal and Arts The principal Taken care of by Administrators allocates time and and Humanities teacher collaborates with resources to leaders collaborate to Arts and implement the arts allocate equitable time, Humanities programs, but these appropriate facilities and teachers when are not equitable to resources to implement planning for the other content areas. the arts programs. allocation of time, appropriate facilities and resources to implement the arts program, and acts upon the recommendations. School councils Decisions related to arts Decisions related A & H TEACHERS ONLY establish policies for program staffing are arts program the allocation of staff based on student need staffing are made based on needs of and interests based on data students from the ILP, student need and/or interests and/or community needs. Administrative/Leadership Support and Monitoring: Demonstrator 2 – Principal Leadership Needs Improvement Proficient Distinguished What is your evidence? A & H TEACHERS ONLY A & H TEACHERS ONLY Taken care of by Administrators A & H TEACHERS ONLY Where is it located? The principal is the only evaluator of the impact of arts instructional practices on overall student achievement in the school The principal enlists Arts and Humanities teacher leaders to collaborate, evaluate and reflect on the impact of the arts instructional practices on overall student achievement in the school The principal initiates professional learning regarding the school’s arts programs The principal initiates and participates in professional learning regarding the school’s arts programs The principal rarely provides communication with parents and community about arts and humanities programs. The principal frequently provides communication with parents and community about arts and humanities programs. The principal and Arts and Humanities teachers collaboratively evaluate, reflect on the impact of, and provide support for the arts instructional practices on overall student achievement The principal participates in and leads professional learning regarding the school’s arts programs The principal regularly provides a variety of sources, including technology and media resources, when communicating with parents and community about arts and humanities programs Taken care of by Administrators Taken care of by Administrators Taken care of by Administrators Taken care of by Administrators SS - PD Taken care of by Administrators Taken care of by Administrators