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Posted on 04/10/2003 1:22:45 PM PDT by Carry_Okie
EISS Grant Fully Implemented in Primary Grades at Loma
Lynell Hanck
Linda Smith and Christie Sanden wrote the Early Intervention for School Success (EISS) grant last spring. Our school was selected for the implementation of this $16,000 grant on the basis of our high percentage of GATE children as well as the fact that we are somewhat isolated.
Loma Prieta has become an EISS site. An EISS site is:
"A VEHICLE for delivering appropriate instruction.
A THINK TANK for latest research.
A SUPPORT SYSTEM for teachers.
A CONDUIT for instructional strategies that promote best practice."
Specifically, EISS focuses on:
"Knowledge of Child Development Assessment
Planning/Organization/Management
Family/School/Community Connection
and Program/Self Evaluation"
In other words, we have been learning about center-based instruction to differentiate curriculum. We are also using assessment tools, such as the continuum, portfolios, observations and anecdotal records. This information is gathered in order to determine individual instructional levels.
In the fall of 2002, the need arose for a Site Coordinator at Loma Prieta. The first task for the new coordinator would be to go to Fresno and receive training. I (Lynell Hanck) had a strong interest in the EISS program, and decided to volunteer for this position.
The next task was to find time for a two-day training for the K-2 Staff, RSP Teacher and Instructional Aides. Additionally, I was to find available trainers and (as the coordinator), coordinate times for all the teachers to get together. After countless phone calls, I found two excellent trainers from an EISS Demonstration School who agreed to come to Loma Prieta. Our K-2 Staff agreed to be trained until 6:00PM on two consecutive minimum days.
Next, we were assigned a contact person who would serve as our coach. This teacher came from Palo Alto to speak with Helga Dinning and I to prepare us for our visit from Jana Wright, the EISS Program Specialist.
Helga Dinning is our current co-coordinator and helped with an assessment piece during our last Staff Development Day. The K-2 Staff also spent time touring each other’s rooms that day. It was so great just to have the time to share ideas, cross-grade level and support each other in this way.
January 28th was the actual visitation from the EISS Program Specialist. She toured all the K-2 classrooms, taking note of our centers, word walls, assessment pieces, etc. Ms. Wright commented that Loma Prieta was one of the most beautiful schools she had ever seen!
As part of the EISS Program, it is advised that a new EISS school tour a demonstration site school. Many of our staff members toured Moreland Discovery School the first week of February. I believe it is important to remain open to new ideas regardless of how many years experience are behind you. I found our visitation to Moreland Discovery School both enlightening and inspiring.
There will be an EISS convention in Palm Springs this April, which I plan to attend. So far, we are planning on funding continuing through next year. I am writing an additional EISS collaborative grant in hopes of getting more supplies for our classrooms.
The EISS grant has improved instruction at Loma and helped to support our K-2 Staff on a variety of levels.
"I got great ideas for math centers that reach many ability levels." - Karren Zook
"I loved learning about differentiation in centers …" - Sue Reichstein
"I enjoyed learning more about student
"The improved organizational system for classroom supplies has been very helpful." – Laurie Brandt
I have enjoyed taking on the role of EISS Coordinator. I believe the training and support has directly benefited our K-2 Staff. I am proud of the K-2 Staff for agreeing to jump the various EISS hurdles with me. I hope that this program has enhanced both a sense of pride and togetherness among our primary staff.
And in a related article...
Conflict Manager Program Bonnie Ferranti, Coordinator The Conflict Manager Program has been at Loma Prieta Elementary School for about six years. This program has been beneficial for the students in solving conflicts on the playground and in some cases at home.
Currently, there are 24 fourth and fifth graders involved in the program. These 24 students, along with yard duty personnel and parent volunteers, completed one full day of training. During the training, the students learned listening skills, how to talk through conflicts without taking sides, and that they were not "police officers". They learned when to get involved and when not to. They know when it is necessary to refer a situation to the yard duty personnel. Students are in the program for the entire year. There are 12 teams who are on duty one day a week during the lunch recess. There are three teams on Mondays and Fridays and two teams on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. At the end of the school year, the students are given a party and a token of appreciation for their participation in the Conflict Manager Program.
The Conflict Manager Program is and has been very successful in helping students solve conflicts on the playground, in building self-esteem, and in assisting yard duty personnel when needed. It is hoped that this program can be continued in the future.
The ESS Program Specialist position is used to assure that public schools will successfully transform children's loyalties from their parents to the schools and their globalist system as quickly as possible. The specialist implements the latest and greatest kooky theory or fuzzy ideology as it comes from the State, Feds, or the Teachers' Union (see UN). Our EISS K-2 Programme Specialist oversees 7 classrooms.
The Conflict Management program is of course what they need when all those kooky theories don't work. Be sure to go to this website and learn about the other socializing programmes they are implementing. Warning: virtually all of the writing in the paper is as Orwellian as are these.
Loma Prieta is an upper crust school on the ridge above Silicon Valley, CA. An average home up here is $750,000 - 1.5 million. Last I checked the graduates of the school are in the 25th percentile for its socioeconomic stratum (it does OK when compared to schools statewide) trending downward from entry to graduation. The district has recently passed new taxes for a new middle school, and then promptly changed what they intended to build when they got the money, claiming they don't have the cash to do everything they promised. Maybe it's because they spend so much time and energy on this kind of bizarreness.
Thank God we educate our kids at home.
The local pubelick skewel home study programme is run by a claque of pagans. Walk in the door and there's the Harry Potter Display. The artwork and clay is in classical Druidic motifs. I've even seen one of the assistants wearing an inverted pentacle.
Pagans want freedom of religion too; they just want you to pay for it.
God bless you.
They'd spit in the faces of anyone who tried to foist this sort of vile crap on them.
Seems like a waste of perfectly good saliva. :-)
BTW - Having a hard time finding out anything on Hubbard. Nobody, but nobody, in other DNR departments could even ID him!
Thanks for the Agenda 21 alert! Hope more people are waking up!
As a printer, I've seen my share of eyebrow-raising school newsletters.
It confounds me that parents will buy a million dollar home in a gated community but won't hesitate to send their children into these institutions.
Thanks for posting this one.
Worse, many of them say they can't afford to homeshool! Given the taxes here, many would be surprised to find that they're working for virtually nothing.
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