Horry County Blended Learning First Year

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Horry County Blended Learning First Year 1 WPMS Results 2013-14

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Student achievement results from the first year of implementing blended learning in Horry County School's Whittemore Park Middle School. On average in 2013-14, students in the school grew 1.5 years in reading and 1.3 years in math in just one year on the NWEA MAP assessment. In fall 2013, Whittemore Park began implementing a blended learning approach to support personalized learning and improve outcomes for its middle schoolers.

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WPMS Results 2013-14

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PERSONALIZED LEARNING

Spotlight: Whittemore Park, Horry County , SC

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WPMS shifted their bell schedule to focus on a personalized remediation morning skills lab and further broke out teacher roles to ensure al deeper level

of learning in small groups with students.

DISTRICT FAST FACTS

•  Serves PK-12 •  41,000 students •  65% FRL

WPMS

•  Serves 6-8 •  584 students •  81% FRL •  6th grade blended full

year; 7/8th blended half year

•  NGLC Winner

STRATEGY

•  Blended classrooms to support personalized learning

•  Multi-year adoption with MS roll-out first, build up into HS opt-in, and then down to ES

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Whittemore Park Results

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DISTRICT FAST FACTS

•  Serves K-12 •  40,000 students •  65% FRL

WPMS

•  Serves 6-8 •  584 students •  81% FRL •  6th grade blended full

year; 7/8th blended half year

•  NGLC Winner

STRATEGY

•  Blended classrooms to support personalized learning

•  Multi-year adoption with MS roll-out first, build up into HS opt-in, and then down to ES

Amazing Growth!

•  WPMS had the highest % of students meet MAP growth targets in reading in the district and had the second highest % of students meet MAP growth targets in math

•  6th graders on average tested at a 3rd grade reading level and ended the year at 5th grade level, making an impressive two grade level jump in their Lexile levels in a single year

•  On average, the school grew students 1.5 years in reading and 1.3 years in math as compared to NWEA growth norms

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Model Design

Core:  ELA,  Math  •  Classroom  Rota+on  •  100  min.  /  day  •  5  days  /  week  

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Core:  Science,  SS  •  Classroom  Rota+on  •  100  min.  /  day  on  a  A/B  

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© 2013 Education Elements

Remedia6on:  ELA,  Math  •  Morning  Skills  Lab  •  30  min.  /  day  •  MWF  for  math;  TTh  for  

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Direct Station Creative Digital Station Independent Station

Skills Gap Remediation Lab Teacher

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Review: Blended Learning Goals © 2013 Education Elements

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Blended  Learning  Year  1  Goals    6th grade students achieve the bold goal of 1.5+ years of growth in ELA and Math as measured by the MAP assessment, closing literacy and numeracy skills gaps. 6th graders exceeded their NWEA growth reading expectations by 60% (growing 1.6 years in a single year). Students in blended math classrooms on average met the NWEA expected growth (1.0 years in a single year). On average, the school grew students 1.5 years in reading and 1.3 years in math.        

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Reading: MAP Growth Targets

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•  WPMS was well above the district average in meeting fall to spring growth targets and even had the top percentage 6th and 8th grade reading.

•  25% more students met growth targets at WPMS than the district average.

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Math: MAP Growth Targets

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•  WPMS was second in the district in meeting fall to spring growth targets and even had the top percentage 7th grade math, above 70%!

•  15% more students met growth targets at WPMS than the district average.