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School Improvement:

Different Thinking for Different Results.

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Who’s In the Room?

• School Level

• District Level

• State Level

• Teachers

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1. Create a sense of educational awareness

and urgency.

2. Inspire educators to seek their next

step(s) towards improvement.

3. Promote Different Thinking for Different

Results.

CHANGED People, Change People!

Intentional IMPACT

Improve Your AIM on School Improvement

Culture

Leadership

Rigor

Community

Culture

Culture for Learning Safe and Supportive Environment

Culture for Professional Learning Team Development Individual Awareness and Urgency

Culture of Reflection Self-Assessment

• How do we ensure a Culture of growth and effectiveness within our district and school staff?

Intentional Question for Deeper Dialogue

• Why do we need to ensure a Culture of growth and effectiveness within our district and school staff?

• Why do we need to

Leadership Instructional Leadership Campaign the Vision Focus on the Focus Team Building

Organizational Leadership Distributive Leadership Communication Systems Allocation of Resources

Intentional Questions for Deeper Dialogue

• How do we ensure that all stakeholders understand their role in our school’s vision? No Sabotage Agreement.

• Why do we need to ensure that all stakeholders understand their role in our school’s vision? No Sabotage Agreement.


Rigor Curriculum Power Standards Goal Summaries

Instruction District and School Management Administrative Support Equality vs. Equity High Yield Instructional Learning Strategies


• How do we define, ensure, and monitor high quality instruction in all classrooms?

Assessment Assessment System Shared Understanding Data Analysis to Influence Decisions Student Involved in Assessment Process

• Why do we need to define, ensure, and monitor high quality instruction in all classrooms?


Community


• How do we ensure that families and community partners are invited and

involved in our learning and improvement process?

Communication Community Engagement Connection Avenues and Tools

• Why do we need to ensure that families and community partners are invited and

involved in our learning and improvement process?


WHY?

Culture

Leadership

Rigor

Community

“The whole school needs to

understand what culture is and why

it matters. You need to become

aware that it is guiding your actions.

This will help you use your culture

versus being used by it.”

Hay Group Education, 2004

CULTURE

Every Student Can Grow

* SAS

Every Class, Every Teacher,

Every Student COUNTS!

Exceeds Expected Growth 83 2.17 180.11

Meets Expected Growth 101 1.93 194.93





Meets Expected Growth 108 -1.74 -187.92





Meets Expected Growth 25 -1.96 -49













Does Not Meet Expected Growth 108 -7.85 -847.8







Does Not Meet Expected Growth 78 -4.5 -351





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Three teachers with the most negative student growth almost eliminated the positive growth of 14 teachers.

School Enrollment %

AG

%

ED

Growth

2013

Growth

2014

Growth

2015

Independence 1485 21 30 -2.03 19.67 22.08

Jack Britt 1808 20 29 15.4 19.8 21.2

Don’t Settle

There is Always Room for Improvement

“A great

leader takes

people where

they don’t necessarily

want to go, but ought to

be.” Rosalynn Carter

LEADERSHIP

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“The single most influential component of an effective school are the individual teachers within the school.” Robert Marzano

“…the single greatest determinant of learning is not socioeconomic factors or funding levels. It is instruction.” Mike Schmoker

Effective Instruction Matters

Every Student Can Grow

* SAS

Percentile Entering Percentile Leaving

Average School

Average Teacher 50th 50th

Highly Ineffective School

Highly Ineffective Teacher 50th 3rd

Highly Effective School

Highly Ineffective Teacher 50th 37th

Highly Ineffective School

Highly Effective Teacher 50th 63rd


Highly Effective Teacher 50th 96th


Average Teacher 50th 78th

Effective Instruction Matters

Isolated Efforts

The most valuable resource that all teachers have is each other. Without collaboration our growth is limited to our own perspectives. Robert John Meehan

“All Educators are

charged with the

mission of creating a learning

environment where every child can

thrive. Given the right supports and

strategies, every child can learn high

standards.”

Priority Schools: Reaching for Excellence 2013

RIGOR

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Occupations

SAT 1,

ACT,

AP*

* Source of National Test Data: MetaMetrics

Interquartile Ranges Shown (25% - 75%)

Most rigorous reading 12 years ago and remains at the

same level.

Why Raise the Bar?

• 1 3 s t a t e s t e s t 1 0 0 % o f t h e i r j u n i o r c l a s s .

• N C h a s t h e l o w e s t A C T a v e r a g e o f t h e 1 3 s t a t e s .

ACT State Averages

ACT - Intervention Treadmill

• Define College and Career Ready

• Forgotten Middle, ACT 2008

• 3% math, 8th to 12th

• 9% & 10% 4th to 8th

• Curricular

• Instructional

• Individual

North Carolina

University System

School # Graduates % Applied % Accepted

Panther Creek 563 95.9% 75.8

Wakefield 677 77.1% 56.4

Middle Creek 411 70.6% 52.3

Jack Britt 396 63.9% 49.1

Cary 522 62.1% 47.1

NC Public HS Average 91686 54.8% 36.9%

Pitt County Average 1539 46.6% 31.4%

NC 2012 Graduating Class

UNC-University Applications

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NAEP Testing

Tennessee NAEP Results

Tennessee NAEP Results

Grades in your class

EOC Score

“Schools have a responsibility to take the lead and help stakeholders feel invited and understand their roles in improving student learning.” 9 Characteristics of High Performing Schools, 2006

COMMUNITY

Skills Gap

• Globally Competitive? • Retirement? • Crime? • Government assistance? • Unemployment?

Can We Afford Your School’s

Improvement Pace?

Effective Districts

Effective Schools

E f f e c t i v e C l a s s r o o m s

District

Schools

Classrooms

Bottom Up Success needs Top Down Support

You Get the Results you are Designed to Get.

Flavor of the Month

Unpredicted Improvement

if Any

The Why is Understood and Communicated

Continuous Process for

Improvement

Culture Leadership

Rigor Community

How How

How How

Consistent Focus Area

Little Improvement In Focus Area

WHY?

Culture

Leadership

Rigor

Community

IMPACT Factors

Different Thinking for Different Results

Everyone Needs a Coach

Improve Your Aim, Identify the Why

The Shark in the Building

Keep the Door Open

Building the Building’s Capacity

Needs Assessment

Elephant Training

IMPACT Factors

Data Influenced Decisions

Rigor vs. Compliance

Circle of Influence

Talking Walls

Managers vs. Leaders

Focus on Your Focus

Campaign the Vision

Gut-Check Reflection

You

Listener

Devil’s Advocate

Honest Answers

Ideas

Agrees

Devil

Circle of Influence

IMPACT Factors

Who’s Failing Who?

Grade Your Grades

Not Easy, But Necessary

Theory into Action Plan

Study School Success

Sift the Junk and Multiply the Great

Excuses or Results

Educator’s Toolkit

IMPACT Factors

School wide vs. 100% Buy In

Underfunding, Overexpecting

Challenge “Pretty Good”

CHANGED People, Change People

Data Transparency

Word of Mouth

Hitting the Wall

Proactive Environment

IMPACT Factors

Identify Fools Gold

Microteaching

Common Language

Sell the Vision, Not the Resources

Do I Belong?

Identify Your Chicken

Greatest Investment

Difficult to Doable

IMPACT Factors

Data Diving, Go Deeper

Community Collaboration

Law and Order in Gotham City

Follow the Leader

Develop the Bench

All In or Don’t Sabotage

Cake Walk Goals

Know Thy IMPACT

IMPACT Factors

Everyone is Important, but….

Research the Research

District / School Identity

Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

Equality vs. Equity

Culturally Competency

Real Child Behind the Bubble

Hire the Best

IMPACT Factors

Who’s Teaching the Neediest Students

Band-Aid Treatment

Visionary Leadership

Handling What’s Not Working

Goals vs. Priorities

Teachers are First Responders

Bottom Up Success, Top Down Support

Action Plan Adaptation

IMPACT Factors

Know Your Vital Signs

Daily 10%

Walkthroughs with I.M.P.A.C.T.

Everyone is Important, but…

Irreplaceables

Fidelity or Lip Service

Best Practices to Chance

• Curriculum

• Instruction

• Assessment

• Partnerships

• Engagement

• Connections

• Instructional

• Organizational

• Learning

• Professional Development

• Reflection

Culture Leadership

Rigor Community

Common Sense

Uncommonly Practiced

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Reference

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Reference

http://visible-learning.org/2013/01/visible-learning-for-teachers-book-review/

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Reference

Characteristics of Rapidly Improving Schools

Reference

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References

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Reference

http://www.marzanoresearch.com/handbook-for-high-reliability-schools

Reference

1. Create a sense of educational awareness

and urgency.

2. Inspire educators to seek their next

step(s) towards improvement.

3. Promote Different Thinking for Different

Results.

CHANGED People, Change People!

Intentional IMPACT

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