Based on the Pennsylvania Department of Education Keystone Assessment re-sults, our school needs to make improvements in the assessment areas of high school level Al-gebra I, high school level Biology and English III. This competency assessment will focus on English III.
Of the seventy-six students that have participated at least once in the Keystone Assessment for high school English, sixty-six percent of the students scored below basic, thirty-two percent of the students scored basic, and three percent of the students scored proficient. …show more content…
YESPhilly administered the Keystone Assessment to its students for the first time during the winter testing window. The scores of students who participated in previous Keystone assessments transfer with the student profile.
The administration is not surprised with the achievement data that was received after the winter testing window. One hundred percent of the students that YESPhilly serves have dropped out of their traditional educational environment. The student population have multiple academic gaps including an mean entry reading level of seventh grade on the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) , histories of numerous absences, have attended multiple schools or have not attended school for up to several …show more content…
The Gateway cycle would be the first nine weeks that a student is enrolled at YESPhilly. During that cycle, the focus of learning would be specifically on foundational level math and English. This cycle would be used for baseline bench-marking, continually assessed, placed into appropriate RtII levels, and rostered into appropriate courses the following cycle. Using a benchmarking and progress monitoring tool, such as AIMS-Web, students with higher degrees of intervention necessity would be strategically and increasingly more aggressively progressed monitored for several cycles, including throughout their time at YE-SPhilly. The Gateway program would be implemented at the beginning of the September cycle (Cycle