Billy Snow District Transformation and Innovation

Officer

Lamar Goree, Ph.D., SuperintendentKeith Burton, Chief Academic Officer

REIMAGINE and

Transform

It’s Good to be IN THE ZONE!

Our UVA PartnershipO Summer Training for District and Zone

LeadersO Fall Site Visit and Extensive ReportO On Site PD in the areas of Maximizing

Zone Team Supports and PARCC Ready Instruction

O Winter Retreat and PDO Spring Site Visit and Extensive ReportO Summer Training for District and Zone

Staff

Our 4 Big Rocks

OClimate and CultureOTeaching EffectivenessORTI/InterventionOData Based Collaboration

Climate and Culture

Climate and Culture

ORon Clark Academy PDOCampus BeautificationO Implementation of a set of

expectations and social skills norms across ten campuses

ORecognizing and rewarding the good

OCommunity Service

CA

CADDOKIDSCAN!

Teaching EffectivenessO Lesson Planning/DeliveryO Rigorous and Aligned AssessmentsO Focus Quizzes Every Two WeeksO TILT TrainingO Instructional Audits conducted by Zone TeamO Classroom walks, feedback, and support

MonthlyZoneProfessional Learning Community

IPADS in the Classroom!

1st graders explaining their answers in complete sentences.

Concrete, Representational, Abstract Instruction and Movement at all levels!

Response to Intervention

OEveryone gets what they need

OIntervention time is built into the K-8 schedules

OReduce pullouts from core instruction

OData based interventionsOData tracking

Intervention Time is Small Group Instruction

Based on Data

Data Based Collaboration

OData is used to guide instruction and intervention.

OWeekly PD and follow up allows teachers time for weekly planning and professional learning centered around data based instruction, as well as follow up coaching.

Our Work is Hard! We must use data and give teachers time to grow.

TRANSFORMATION ZONE

How Do we know the

transformation is working?

Some Highlights

OAt this time last year there had been 91 arrests at Fair Park and Woodlawn High Schools. This year there have been 7.

Highlights

OAt this time last year we were using 100 additional spots at Ombudsman for Expulsion. Most of the decrease can be attributed to the Transformation Zone

Highlights

OLast year, Fair Park only had 6 students score a “Good” on the EOC exam in Algebra. This year there are 70 students enrolled in enriched Algebra classes

HighlightsOAttendance is up at every school

in the zone, as high as 96-99% in the elementary schools.

ODiscipline referrals and out of school suspensions are down.

“These campuses are schools again.” Clay Walker, Juveline Justice

HighlightsO Midway- ZERO discipline referrals all year!O Atkins Elementary – Discipline referrals

down 50%O Mooretown Elementary- 2 suspensions all

year!O Westwood- Referrals down over 70 percent

in the last two years, with a current 1.7 percent suspension rate

O CMCT- Discipline Referrals down 40 %O Lakeshore- 6.6 % OSS rate (Goal is 15%)

HighlightsO Woodlawn- The number of days

spent out of school due to discipline is down 147%.

O 4 ACT Prep courses with enrollment of 89 students.

O 148 Students enrolled in credit recovery.

HighlightsO Every school is doing biweekly focus

quizzes and tracking data to improve academic progress.

O This includes reading and math fluency, as well as performance on curriculum based focus quizzes and assessments.

Community Bus Tour

O and The Amazing Shake

Community Involvement and Service

O Every school participates in community service and involvement activities.

O Lakeshore made and delivered scarves.O Westwood is a Live United schools with

United Way and partnered with the Simple Church to Provide Christmas

O The Entire Zone got together to provide a Christmas Do-Over to a family from Werner Park that lost everything in a Christmas morning fire

How is Our Work Spilling Over into the District?

O Teacher Instructional Leadership Training (TILT) is being expanded to more schools.

O Ron Clark Trip and its effects are expanding to other schools in district.

O RTI/Intervention is a district wide effort.O UVA processes for Campus 90 Day Plans

has expanded to other schools as “semester plans”

O PARCC professional development provided to Zone included other directors and schools.

O Transformation Officer leads PD in district with other directors and schools.

Our Challenges…O Uncertainty with state testingO The majority of our students have come

in behind, having spent the majority of their lives in struggling schools

O The number of overage and 9T students O The number of special education

students is high in the ZoneO Difficulty in attracting and retaining

certified teachers, especially in critical areas

The Zoneis truly savingLives!

HOPE…In action