Baltimore City Public School System

Telephone: 410.396.0761 or 0762
Fax: 410.396.0342
Message

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of our students, teachers, parents, and Sandtown-Winchester community members, I am pleased to welcome you to our instructional web site. We've worked hard to create these performance tasks to share with you. It is our sincere hope that you will give us feedback as we strive to improve.

Wanda Better-Davis
Principal

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Mission

Our mission at the Wonderful William Pinderhughes Elementary School #28, is to effectively educate our students. We will provide effective strategies and techniques to help our children become productive citizens of tomorrow. At our school we strive to offer students the best instructional environment that enhances learning. With the support of parents, the community, and local businesses our goals are well in reach.

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Action

William Pinderhughes serves approximately 385 students in prekindergarten through grade five. Our priorities are:

  • Improvement of student academic performance as measured by the MSPAP, CTBS Terra Nova, and IOWA Test of Basic Skills by 25% each year beginning 1999 through 2003
  • Improvement of student attendance
  • Improvement of staff development

The initiatives that will help our school address the priorities are:

  • Continued implementation of Direct Instruction Reading (K-5) and Distar Language (PreK-2) Program
  • Continued implementation of Direct Instruction Reasoning and Writing Language Program (Grades 3-5)
  • Implementation of Direct Instruction Mathematics (Pre-K-Grade 2 and Baltimore City Public School System's mathematics curriculum
  • Provide a comprehensive staff development program that will focus on Direct Instruction implementation of reading, language and mathematics, and use the newly adopted BCPSS Mathematics Program in grades three through five

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Performance Tasks

In the 1999-2000 school year we initiated a staff development program entitled: "Performance-Based Instruction and Assessment: Moving to the Next level." With the assistance of a WORKFORCE 2000, INC. consultant we trained our staff and began to develop monthly performance-based lessons. Moreover, we supplemented this program by participating in the Baltimore City Public School System 1999-2000 Title I Staff Development Program "Improving Student Achievement Through Quality Teaching." The Title I program offers 75 teachers and 15 administrators from 15 Title I schools monthly opportunities to plan, teach, check, and act on the results of performance-based lessons and assessments conducted in their schools. Both of these programs will help us to improve student performance on both basic skills tests and Maryland School Performance Assessment Program performance assessments. Participating teachers are using interactive software -- TaskBuilder™ -- to develop performance instruction and assessment tasks for basic skills, academic excellence, and real world applications. Each task represents growth from our current levels of school performance to our vision of high performance on basic skills, rigorous content, and higher order thinking skills. Please consider them as "works in progress" and adopt or adapt them to your classroom. And please send us your comments for making our tasks better.

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A Sample of our Performance Tasks

Grade 1

Performance Instruction Tasks

Grade 2

Performance Instruction Tasks

Grade 3

Performance Instruction Tasks

Grade 4

Performance Instruction Tasks
Grade 5

Performance Instruction Tasks
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Comments:

Please enter your comments or questions about our approach and sample performance tasks in the text block below. We appreciate your feedback.



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Links:

Link to other schools in the TaskBuilder Network

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