Lincoln Elementary School used unique approach to improve student test scores

REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- While exertion tin beryllium a large instrumentality for schools, sometimes each you request is simply a pencil and insubstantial to marque an impact.

A Reedley simple schoolhouse is proving that's true.

AnJanae Glaesman teaches astatine Lincoln Elementary School.

She says she enjoys teaching 5th people due to the fact that students are aged capable to recognize her humor, but besides enactment independently.

"We person fun, but we besides learn, and we get down to business," Glaesman said.

That concern includes showing betterment done trial scores for English Language Arts and math.

Principal Antia Elizondo keeps a adjacent oculus connected the data.

But looking astatine barroom graphs and numbers doesn't ever archer the afloat story.

"We said we request to marque definite that we enactment a look to the data, and it's not capable to conscionable cognize '40% of our students are astatine this level', it's 'Which 40%? Who are those students?'" Elizondo said.

That's wherefore Elizondo went backmost to the basics.

She created a ocular with poster insubstantial and post-its.

The schoolhouse has astir 300 students, and each 1 has a sticky enactment with their sanction connected it.

"We conscionable started looking astatine each kid individually, and it lends itself to having a speech astir what students need," Elizondo said.

Each people is breached up into 3 sections of students.

Intensive for those who request added support.

Strategic for those who are successful the mediate and whitethorn spell up oregon down.

And Benchmark for those performing wherever they should be.

From there, administrators and teachers similar Glaesman travel up with a crippled program for the champion approach.

Glaesman created interventions and supports for her students who hadn't reached the benchmark.

"The ones that are successful after-school program, I supply after-school interventions for them and the ones that are not, I either utilize my involution teacher oregon I supply those interventions wrong my schoolroom during the schoolhouse day," Glaesman said.

Doing it "the old-fashioned way" worked.

The schoolhouse was capable to summation its trial scores by treble digits twelvemonth implicit year.

"This is really the champion trial scores that I person gotten arsenic a fifth-grade teacher," Glaesman said.

The improvements didn't spell unnoticed.

Earlier this year, Lincoln Elementary was named a California Distinguished School.

"We've conscionable been precise arrogant to spot that the conversations that we're having. A silly thought of conscionable putting kids' names up with sticky notes, however it tin germinate to having truly heavy conversations and seeing large maturation with our students," Elizondo said.

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