Good Evening. pdat internally built, managed, and customized Data Warehouse

Good Evening

Presentation to

AIM Program

PVUSD - November 2006

pDAT

internally built, managed, and customized Data Warehouse

High Tech High

a modern, ubiquitous-computing, performance-based learning, high school

by Jeff Billings

pDAT (Data Warehouse)

Multi-year agreement - we’re about 40% complete Initial rollout phases started this Fall

Single sign-on, by job function, to access a variety of “disparate” data Principal can see school - Teacher can see class

Identifying other data sources

The Challenge

SAT9/TerraNova from CTB

ES Grades from pIGB MS Grades from PowerGrade HS Grades from

pOGB

Attendance from PowerSchool and SASIxp

Reading from Dibels, Accelerated Reader, FastForward, etc. SAMs from Scanners

and Moodle Free and Reduced Lunch Counts from Meal Tracker

Math Scores from Carnegie and FasTMath and Accelerated Math

Needs and

Enrollment from SAIS _{Pull Outs, Push Ins,} Tracking, Team Scheduling, Cohorts, HQP, and on it goes.... Data, Data, EVERYWHERE

Bring it together in one Data Warehouse (pDAT)

pDAT

TerraNova SAMs Needs Others?

Educator Analyze tabular and graphical data

All linked by student and/or teacher ID #

Search by Student or Teacher (if access)

Historical AIMs for this Year’s Students

District Wide Search of Male Asian Boys who are Gifted

School and Year Search of Hispanic Girls Grades

Statistics and Pass/Fail Rate of every Item

Test Scores of Each SAM by student, teacher, school

pDAT

Questions???

HTH

a modern, ubiquitous-computing, performance-based learning, high school

High Tech High

Consistent survey answers by high school students across the country, when asked about their high school experience

HTH Founded on...

“No one knows who I am”

“I don’t see the relevance”

http://www.metiri.com/resources.html

The Metiri Group

High Tech High

Nestled in San Diego,

in four years, the

model has developed

to opening a series of

partner and sibling

schools

Oprah Winfrey Show

Funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Governors, Business Leaders, Educational Leaders Press

High Visibility

High Tech High International

High Tech High High Tech Middle High Tech Elem.

High Tech High International Partner schools in Texas, Chicago, Georgia, New Mexico

Chartered by San Diego

City School District

Random drawings of

applications matching

SDUSD zip codes

They’ve compiled

impressive results

HTH Charter

One of their common intellectual threads is based on John

Dewey, “Understanding derives from activity”

Everything is about “Completing Projects”

Based on Research

High Tech High was started by several education

reformers who had compiled years of research

They have remained true to their guiding design

principles at HTH

“Educational Entrepreneurs”

Three Design Principles

Personalization

Common Intellectual Mission

Adult World Connection

Small schools (<400 students) Small classes (<25)

Advisor (teacher) for every student - 4 years - home visits Team teaching - interdisciplinary - e.g., language/physics Loop teaching - 9/10 and 11/12

No Tracking - Heterogeneous Groups

Personalization

Walk the talk

No distinction b/w “College Prep” and “Career Ed” The Curriculum is Projects - Project Based Learning Modified Block Scheduling - Projects - Schedule Busting Rubrics & Authentic Assessment

Digital Portfolios &“Presentations of Learning” Student as Active Learner - Teacher as Facilitator Ubiquitous Computing - Everywhere, yet Transparent

HTH has reversed a 100-year history of separating technical and academic subjects in American high schools, by linking the two in a project-based environment. All HTH students use technology to engage in scientific, mathematical, literary, historical, and artistic pursuits.

Six A’s of Designing Projects

Academic Rigor Authenticity Applied Learning Active Exploration Adult Connections Assessment Practices

PBL

Begin with the End in Mind – skills, standards, and habits of mind Craft the Driving Question – samples

Plan the Assessments -- rubrics Map the project -- the scope Manage the Project -- project tools

HTH - Presentations of Learning & Digital Portfolios

Ubiquitous Computing Ubiquitous Computing

“Some of our best learning occurs outside of school” 9th and 10th graders - “shadow” adult programs

11th grade semester internship (two afternoons a week) with a business or agency

Substantial Senior Project on topic of interest or concern to the community

Adult World Connection

Three years running - 100% of graduates go to college

80% - 4 year university 20% - 2 year college 50% - 1st generation attendees

3 years in a row, awarded ten, scores of 10 - only school in San Diego to do so

score in top level on state standardized tests

scored 2nd out of 100 similar demographic schools in California

When I visited with some of their graduates (now in

college), I asked them how college was going. A

statement that stood out to me, was “college courses

are like projects and we know how to do them”.

Presentations of Learning (POL’s) are embedded everywhere Every student maintains a digital portfolio

Mobile, wireless, ubiquitous computing

Mechanical technology (sabre saws, drills, glue guns, etc.) Traditional Calendar: September - May

High School Starts at 9am

Teachers meet every day from 8am to 9am to assess, plan, develop

HTH first school in California granted the charter to certify their own teachers

Digital Portfolios

HTH ignores the march of “high stakes testing”

HTH focuses on continual “authentic assessment” -

continual rubrics of real life applicability

From information to knowledge to third order learning

(engineering)

Assessment

Significance - Why is it important? Perspective - What is the point of view? Evidence - How do you know?

Connection - How does it apply? Supposition - What if it were different?

Students Are Constantly Reminded

Every student ponders his and other’s work

with the above habits, but can only critique if

the criticism is

helpful

,

specific

and

kind

Circular Seminar

Facility Design Principles

Open, Lighted, Commons Shared Teacher Workrooms

HTH molds curricular content and technology together in relevant project-based learning, infusing ubiquitous computing as “iPBL’s”

HTH focuses on knowing their clients, from small school and class size, to going to the student’s home

HTH exhibits best practices of schedule busting, significant planning time, interdisciplinary teaming, and heterogeneous grouping

HTH bridges the student world to the adult environment and vice versa, with relevant business and community projects and internships

Summary

HTH

Questions???