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Colleen Russell
Comprehensive School Assessment
Arizona State University
PPE 310
Professor Miller
February 4, 2016

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Assessment Results

Overall Grade: F
During School: 0%
Let's get to work. The school day is the critical time for implementing the Active & Healthy Schools Program, which can benefit students, teachers and
staff. Let's look at some steps for improving your Active & Healthy score during the school day.

Curriculum: 20%
Let's get to work. The Active & Healthy Schools Program is committed to creating programs that schools can successfully implement and maintain. Let's
look at some possibilities for your PE program.

Recess / Lunch: 0%
Let's get to work. A few simple changes can encourage students to choose healthy foods over sugary snacks, which will increase your Active & Healthy
score and help students get more out of school.

After School: 0%
Let's get to work. Take a look at a few simple changes your school can make to help create an Active & Healthy environment, both at school and at home.

Step 2
Questions:

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1. What are at least two strengths and two weaknesses of your school?
Based upon the assessment tool, it does not seem like my school has any strengths. To be fair I feel like I am at a wonderful school
with amazing people. When it comes to nutrition and healthy eating there is a lot of room for improvement. Two areas of focus could
be on after school and curriculum.
2. Describe each strength and weakness based on your observation/experience as well as your results from the School Assessment
Tool.
A strength not noted by assessment tool was the positive attitude maintained at my school. I think that this key feature when placing an
emphasis on a healthier environment and life style. In my experience a positive attitude can have a large impact for positive change. A
weakness is after school programs. We do not have any programs that focus on being active for recreational fun (not a committed sport
that cost money) or that help educate students and parents on healthy eating. This limits our students options to be active after school
and gives them more time to get into trouble. The second weakness is curriculum that does not involve movement, nutrition, or any
health related activity. It could be so easy to incorporate small movement activities throughout the day, but we just dont.
3. What are at least two ways to improve the policies in place at your school? Explain detailed information for each way and what
you expect from each way.

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I do not know if it is necessarily the policies that are the problem but rather that the school has not focused its attention to this area. I
do not think the mesa district or any mesa school has policies in place preventing its students from being healthier. Rather it is due to
the fact teachers have an endless amount of work and not nearly enough time.
4. What are at least two ways that you can you use this information to engage administration, teachers, parents, students and the
community in promoting more healthful behaviors? Include a specific description for how to use the results from the school
assessment tool as well as your ideas for improvement.
Like I said before, I do not think the policy is necessarily the problem. We have policies in place to address the problem, and now we
need to utilize them.
5. How can the information obtained be use to support your potential topic for the Signature Assignment?
This information gives me a starting point for my school, and it can only get better from there. It gives me a wide range of areas to
choose and focus on, which is sometimes a benefit and sometimes a challenge.

Step 3
All facts and specific numeric information came from Arizona Report Cards and School Digger websites. I am at Smith Junior High
School, a public school, which is located in the Mesa Unified District. This school is classified as a Title 1 school with a letter grade of

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B. In the school year of 2014-2015 there were 1,040 students enrolled, where there was a ratio of 19.3 students to 1 teacher. There
were 57.3% of students were on free/ reduced lunch. The demographic of the school population is as follows; 33 African American
students, 25 Asian students, 630 White students, 328 Hispanic students, 17 American Indian students, and 7 two or more race students.
Link to my weebly: http://www.weebly.com/weebly/main.php

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References
Smith Junior High School. Retrieved February 02, 2016, from https://azreportcards.com/ReportCard
Smith Junior High School. Retrieved February 02, 2016, from http://www.schooldigger.com/go/AZ/schools/0497002110/school.aspx

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Criteria
Assessment

Exemplary: Points (5)

SCORE:

School
Context
/Writing
Style

SCORE:

Proficient: Points (3)

A minimum of 2 strengths and 2

weaknesses were described
Assessment was completed online
and posted to your E-Portfolio
A direct link was placed at the end of
your document to the assignment in
your E-Portfolio
Suggestions to improve school
policies were clearly stated
At least 2 suggestions to engage
stakeholders were provided

School context contained detailed

information on
grade levels
% free/reduced lunch
enrollment,
proportion ELLs
average class size
urban/rural/suburban,
ethnic makeup
state test scores

A minimum of 1 strength and 1

weakness was described
Suggestions to improve school policies
were stated but lacked sufficient detail
At least 1 suggestion to engage
stakeholders was provided
Assessment was completed online and
not in your E-Portfolio
A link was provided to your EPortfolio to this assignment, however
it wasnt a direct link to this
assignment
School context contained some
detailed information on
grade levels
% free/reduced lunch
enrollment,
proportion ELLs
average class size
urban/rural/suburban,
ethnic makeup
state test scores

Unsatisfactory: Points (1)

Assessment was not completed online or

in your E-Portfolio
No direct link was provided to this
assignment in your E-Portfolio
Strengths and weaknesses were not, or
poorly described
Suggestions to improve school policies
were not stated
No suggestions to engage stakeholders
were provided

School context contained little detailed

information on
grade levels
% free/reduced lunch
enrollment,
proportion ELLs
average class size
urban/rural/suburban,
ethnic makeup
state test scores

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AYP status
All of the following are listed in the
file document name submitted
Lastname.firstname.assignment#.cou
rse#
This rubric was added to the last
page of the document submitted
Your document was in APA 6.0
format, including cover page, body
and reference section with no errors

AYP status
Most of the following are listed in the
file document name submitted
Lastname.firstname.assignment#.cours
e#
This rubric was added but not at the
end of the document submitted
Document was in APA, however errors
were found in formatting of the
sections

AYP status
Few of the following are listed in the file
document name submitted
Lastname.firstname.assignment#.course#
This rubric was not added to the
document submitted
APA was not used

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