Project MORE, Year 1
Fostoria Intermediate Elementary School
Grades 3-6
2012-2013
•Fostoria City Schools District
Demographic Information
District
1857 Student Enrollment
Buildings
Longfellow- Pre-K- K
Riley- Grades 1-2
FIES
Enrollment
571 students
Economics
District 77.83% free and reduced
FIES 82.55% free and reduced
Ethnicity
FIES
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African American- 5.5%
Multi-Racial 23.2%
LEP- 2.6%
FIES- Grades 3-6
Fostoria JSHS Grades 7-12
Hispanic- 13.5%
White- 57.2%
SWD- 11.7%
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•Why Project MORE?
What the Data tells us
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2011-2012 OAA Data Reading
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3rd Grade- 69.3%
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4th Grade- 82.0%
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5th Grade- 62.1%
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6th Grade- 76.0%
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Value Added- Met expected growth for grades 4-6
3rd Grade Guarantee
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OAA TEST SCORES
A NEED FOR AN
INTERVENTION
DURING THE DAY
Need for all 3rd graders to score 390 or above
Mobility
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69 students have enrolled since the start of the
year
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Students who are continuously enrolled in our
district score 10% higher than students who move
into the district
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•FIES Students in Project MORE
3-6th graders
Grade
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Total Students/IEP
students were serviced over
3rd
35/7
4th
18/4
5th
16/7
on OAA test scores: Limited and
6th
6/2
Basic
TOTALS
the course of the 2012-2013
school year
•Selection
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was determined based
75/20=95 students
students exited (3 passed the 3rd
grade fall OAA; 5 moved out of
district)
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•Our Project MORE Program
Reading-Tutors.com
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4 day lesson plan
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Fluency
Book Lesson
• Before Reading
• During Reading
• After Reading
• Graphic Organizer
• Comprehension check
• Game
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•Volunteer Recruitment
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Recruited EVERYWHERE!
• Staff
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Visited study halls
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Classes that require
volunteers (Government,
DEKA, CBI, Catholic schools,
etc..)
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Service groups (Kiwanis,
Rotary, previous mentors)
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Letters to parents
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Older students (4-12
grades)
*Teacher recommendation
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•Roles of Volunteers
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150 volunteers by end of year
• Staff
• Parents
• Relatives of staff/students
• Community members
Volunteers needed for
• Mentoring
• Filing
• Paperwork
• Copying
• Making materials
• Various tasks
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•Appreciating Volunteers
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Snacks and drinks
Schedule posted
Thank you gifts
Thank you dinner
Newsletters (every
other month)
End of year party
with mentors and
mentees
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•File Cabinets
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Completed levels we needed
before we started
Retired teacher set up the
system
Volunteer cleans them out
Two volunteers maintain copies
once a week
One volunteer works on folders
almost daily
Book and materials, master
copies, consumables in each file
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•File Folders
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Hanging file for each
book, color coded by
levels
Packets in front, originals,
then consumables
More copies of ones we
use often (H-S)
When a student finishes a
lesson, we replace the
consumables and put it in
the front of the file
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•Assessments
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DIBELING
• Dibeled a student when
they were due to begin
• Benchmarked three times
a year
• Kept in tote to organize
(by grade level and
teacher)
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•Schedule
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Teachers gave me their first
and second time choices
I sent out times I had
volunteers available
Used Microsoft Word to
create the schedule (table)
Posted the schedule in the
room with the monthly
calendar
Students and teachers got
note card with schedule on it
Corrected/changed weekly
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Time
Student
Teacher
Mentor
9:00
Matthew
5J
Mrs. D
9:00
Ramiro
5J
Mrs. F
9:00
Aryah
5J
Mrs. B
9:30
Gabe
6W
Mrs. C
9:30
A’livea
5L
Mrs. Z
9:30
Cashara
5L
Timothy
9:30
Brian
5L
Zabian
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•Routine
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Students and/or mentors get
their folder
Check the schedule
Take a seat
Students: shade in calendar
and practice fluency
Mentors: Look over lesson
Student absent: we pull
another student
Mentor absent: we take the
student or get another
mentor
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•Things we learned
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Make games cards on thicker, colored paper
Ask for help
Be organized
Be flexible
We can not make everyone happy
Dibeling takes longer than we plan
Have packets ready before we start
Schedule a lunch and planning time
Volunteers need trained in more
than just our program (how to read,
hygiene lessons, oral language skills
around students)
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Changes for Year Two
Contact businesses (churches, factories, etc.) and
colleges over the summer
• Create a worksheet and policy for student (4-12
graders) mentors
• Turn multi-sessions plans into 4 day lessons
• Buy plastic folders
• Place labels on the front of each folder (student name,
picture, and schedule)
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•Things we learned continued
Have monthly meetings with snacks that offer the
opportunity to retrain or give suggestions to mentors
• Have meeting with students who are being tutored
to establish ground rules
• Hold informational meeting for parents whose student(s)
could benefit from Project MORE to gain volunteers
• As a student finishes a lesson, complete a parent report
and fill in the book tracking form
• Students who return the signed parent report,
will receive a coupon from an area business
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•Questions? Need More Information?
Feel free to contact us.
Pam Berrier
Fostoria Intermediate Elementary School
1202 HL Ford Dr.
Fostoria, OH 44830
pberrier@fostoriaschools.org
419-436-4125
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