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December 1, 2011

Education Services

Board Orientation

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Organizational Structure

• Pre K – 12 Curriculum and

Instruction

• Pre K – 12 Support Services

• Exceptional Children

• Zone Superintendents

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Director Leadership

Strategy

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Director, Humanities Director, After School

Enrichment Program

Study Abroad Specialist

World Language Specialist

Global Studies Specialist

High School Global Studies

Resource Teacher

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Key Goals

• Increase the number of students who graduate in four years from 66 percent to 90 percent by 2014.

• CMS technology infrastructure will be capable of supporting 98 percent of all academic and business demands for service by the 2014-2015 school year.

• Increase the number of family members who participate in Parent University courses to 30,000 by 2014. A district family survey will indicate that 85 percent of parents believe that family involvement is valued in their child’s school. District partners will be surveyed annually and indicate a 75 percent or higher satisfaction rate on partnership effectiveness.

• One hundred percent of students will achieve more than a year’s worth of growth in a year’s time. Teachers and leaders will narrow the achievement gap between the lowest-performing students and highest-performing students.

• Ninety percent of all employees will meet or exceed expectations by 2014.

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Key Goals

• CMS will meet or exceed the national average on Advanced Placement exams (combined scores) with scores of 3, 4 or 5

• 75% of students will meet or exceed the national average on the SAT, while the percentage of students who take the test will increase

• CMS will meet or exceed the national average on nationally normed tests in math, reading and writing

• Increase the percentage of schools with effective teaching staff

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• Maintain and expand professional

alliances for Advanced Placement and

International Baccalaureate

• Expand differentiated training of

teachers, coordinators, administrators

and learning community leaders in the

AVID program

• Refine the Pre K-8 reading model

• Expand use of Writer’s Workshop in

schools grades 3 – 8.

Objectives

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• Review and monitor magnet programs to strengthen, improve or change them

• Explore new opportunities for authentic application of knowledge and skills learned in magnet programs

• Expand access to more rigorous courses through increased virtual learning opportunities

Objectives

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• Continue professional development that focuses on the integration of math, science, literacy and social studies to music and arts education

• Implement high quality professional development for the instructional staff in NC PK and Bright Beginnings Pre-Kindergarten classes

• Monitor instruction and achievement for pre-kindergarten students to ensure the program is effective in preparing students for success in kindergarten

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• Provide professional development for Pre K-12 math and science teachers on differentiation strategies and integration of technology

• Establish business partnerships to provide learning opportunities for teachers to show students the relevance of science and math in everyday living

• Provide technology integration programs for CTE teachers and students grades 6-8

Objectivess

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• Implement a new teacher induction program to provide training for all first-year teachers

• Provide English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher certification courses

• Integrate community-based programs to supplement and reinforce content in Global Studies

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Key Performance Indicators

• Pre K-8 comprehensive reading model

• Comprehensive math model

• Writing across the curriculum

• Expansion of access to rigorous courses (IB,

AP and Early College courses)

• Expanded Pre K-8 comprehensive science

model

• Establish a partnership with Discovery

Education

• Common Core Training modules and

implementation timeline

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Key Performance Indicators

• Expanded use of technology in grades

Pre k – 12

• Increased participation in study abroad

programs

• Implement Teacher and Principal

Induction programs

• Develop a district wide succession plan

for linchpin leadership positions

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Arts Education

• Advanced Placement (AP) Alliances

• Arts and Science Council Partnership

• District-wide Exhibition and

Performance Opportunities

• Professional Development

• Spectrum of the Arts

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Career and Technical

Education

• Classroom Instruction that Works

Strategies

• College Experience

• Project Lead the Way

• National Academy Foundations

• Introduction of Biotechnology

Courses

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Curriculum Support

Programs

• Healthy Active Children Policy –

Energizers

• No Easy Walk

• Health Education Curriculum

Review

• Character Education

• Every Monday Counts

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Improving readership

English as a Second

Language (ESL)

• Avenues

• Discovery Education Partnership

• eAssessment “Making Progress

Visible”

• Rosetta-Stone Software

• Sheltered Instruction Observation

Protocol (SIOP)

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Global Studies, World

Languages and Travel Abroad

• Formative Assessments

• Geography Alive! Regions and People

• History Alive! America’s Past

• Junior Achievement Biztown

• Kids Voting

• Maps 101

• Exchange Partnerships

• Study Abroad Fair-Career Expo

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Literacy and Writing

• Imagine It! (Open Court)

• K-3 Intensive Reading Program

• Writer’s Workshop

• Corrective Reading

• Accelerated Reader

• Reading Foundations

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STEM Instruction

• Investigations (K-5)

• Math Forward

• Elementary Science Laboratory

Teachers’ Alliance

• Secondary Science Alliance

Meetings

• Galaxy Classroom Pilot Program

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Center for Teaching and

Learning

• Leadership Development of Principals and Assistant Principals (Leaders for Tomorrow)

• Principal Coaches and Coordinated Support Plan

• CMS National Board Support Program

• Instructional Assistant Institute

• New Teacher Induction Program

• Professional Development Master Teacher Initiative

• Summer Teacher Conference

• Title I Professional Development Coordinators

• Yale National Initiative – Charlotte Teachers’ Institute

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Pre-Kindergarten

• Oral Language Development

• Bright Beginnings

• North Carolina PreK (NCPK)

• Smart Start

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Talent Development and

Advanced Studies

• Advanced Placement (AP)/International

Baccalaureate (IB) Alliances

• AVID – Advancement Via Individual

Determination

• Frasier Fellows

• Pre-K, ESL, TD Initiative

• Learning Immersion & Talent

Development (LI/TD) Magnet Institute

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Exceptional Children

• Professional Development

• Extended Content Standards for

Students with Significant Cognitive

Disabilities

• Inclusive Practices

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School Psychological

Services

• Comprehensive Service Delivery Model

• Crisis Intervention Model for School-based Mental Health Providers

• Bully Prevention & Intervention Program

• Professional Development

• Use of Technology

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Coordinated School Health

• Healthy Active Students

• Asthma Education Program

• Give Kids a Smile

• Charlotte Get Your Move On

• Youth Risk Behavior Survey

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Family and Community

Services & Parent University

• Parent University

• Partnership Office

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School Counseling Services

• Implementation of the American

School Counselor National Model

of Counseling

• Elementary Counseling Model

• Partnership with Communities in

Schools

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School Social Work

• Dropout Prevention and

Intervention Services

• Graduation Rate

• Truancy Court