Post on 20-Aug-2018
Results from Trusty Elementary School!
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School Improvement Project
Trusty Elementary School !
Fort Smith, AR !
(unionized state) !
• 342 students K-6!
• 95% economically
disadvantaged !
Results from a Osceola Middle School!
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Osceola Middle School is
a rural school in
Northeast Arkansas
(unionized state). !
• 113 students in grades
6-8 !
• 89% economically
disadvantaged !
• 15% of the students
with disabilities!
Experience in Applying and Continually Improving the Model !
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Mississippi – Contracts since 2000 – 544 !Arkansas – In the past 3 years – 238 !Louisiana – In the past 3 years – 287 !Alabama – In the past 3 years – 45!Missouri – Systemic Improvement in Grandview School District – 2012-13 and 2013-14 !Georgia – new state this year: approved School Improvement provider !Northeast – Common Core Literacy and Math; Middle School Quality Initiative (90 schools this year)!
The Process !
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Goals: !!
• Increase expectations (implementation precedes belief)!• Build capacity; improve practice (leadership and teacher)
resulting in increased student achievement!• Build collaborative culture !!
Methods: (45-45-10 estimated)!!
• Assess current state, set goals, create a plan!• I do, we do, you do (modeling the work of principal, admin
team, classroom teachers)!• Professional development one-on-one and through
collaborative learning teams!• Shift laser focus to instruction and support: !
• Administrators – with teachers and utilizing admin teams; focus on effective instruction and support needed for teachers and students!
• Teachers – focus on engagement, effective strategies, who’s making it and what to do about it!
The Shift in Thinking !
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Focus Through Six Essential Practices – Practice of Adults !!
• Culture and Climate that Promotes Learning !
• Student becomes center of decisions!
• A Rigorous Standards Based Curriculum!
• Shift from textbook or program to standards!
• A School-wide Assessment Framework !• Who’s making it, who’s not; what will we do about it!
• Effective Instruction in Every Classroom !
• Differentiated supervision and support; all teachers!
• Organizational Structures that Promote Learning!
• Time, schedule, calendars, policies, processes!• Strong Home, School, and Community Partnerships !
• From excuses or blame to communicating and including!
Implementation Rollout !
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Diagnose: Assess current baseline state of professional practice!!
Plan: Create a plan of action with goals and strategies !!
Set up instructional structures!1. Leadership structures !2. Rigorous curriculum resources and
processes !3. Instructional Focus Calendar !4. EP focus area requirements!!
Implement: !Continually observe practice, providing support (modeling and feedback), assessing progress, determining next steps; learning one-to-one and in teams!!Monitor: Utilize rubrics, tools, and PD goals to assess progress and plan next steps!!
Resources and Tools Used !
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Framework:Six Essential Practices
Descriptions:Underneath Indicators
Indicators:Underneath Essential
Practices
Skills:Underneath Descriptions
Generation Ready’s Practice to Evidence Continuum
Evidence:Underneath Skills
Essential Practice Rubrics!Teacher Effectiveness Rubrics !
Leadership Effectiveness Rubrics !
Observation Rounds Forms and Targeted
Rubrics !
Learn Library!• CCSS
Instructional Guides!
• Conversation Guides!
• Discussion Protocols !
• Video Examples !What should I see criteria!
The Automaticity !
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• Who’s making it, and how do you know? !• Who’s not making it? !
• How do you know? !• What are we going to do about it? !
The Process: Typical Day !
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Time ! Activity!
7:00! Monitor student arrival and start up!
7:45 ! Discuss progress since last visit and plan day’s work !
8:15 ! School-wide walkthrough to complete data on engagement and instruction !
9:00 ! Review of school-wide walkthrough with principal and admin; review and discuss data and progress; update goals on plan !
9:30 ! Classroom visit Teacher A; complete observation; debrief; compare results; determine teacher support next steps; schedule feedback !
10:15 ! Classroom visit Teacher B; complete observation; debrief; compare results; plan teacher support next steps; schedule feedback!
10:45 ! Joint feedback conference with Teacher A; model for admin team; principal reviews next support steps with Teacher A !
11:30 ! Modeling of Reciprocal Reading with small groups for Teacher C; Principal and Literacy Coach support and shadow; debrief with teacher; debrief as admin team; plan time with Literacy Coach will model in additional teacher rooms !
1:00 ! Collaborative planning session with grade 6 teachers; review student work and progress and plan strategies or next unit; focus on engagement strategies !
2:00 ! Review work of Response to Intervention Team and student progress; adjust plan !
3:00 ! Feedback conference with Teacher B and C; principal conducts with consultant support; provide feedback to principal following and plan next steps !
4:00 ! Assess progress on school plan and on teacher plans and relate to progress on Essential Practice rubric; based on progress adjust next steps; determine consultant’s next steps to support !
Research Base – Actual and Action !
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The framework of improvement uses the Six Essential Practices based (in part) on the research of:!!• Dr. Ron Edmonds and Dr. Larry Lezotte (Lezotte, 1991);
Effective Schools research!• Job-embedded coaching (Joyce, 2002) !• The change process using data and reflective inquiry
(Langer, 1994) !• The gradual release of responsibility model (Fisher, 2008)
(Csikszentmihalyi, 1997)!