Middletown Public Schools:

Decision-Making for Results-The Role of leadership in building sustainability

1. Curriculum and lesson planning: (The what and the How)

2. Assessment: accountability3. Data Teams: fitting the pieces together4. Climate: next steps5. Questions

Curriculum: a way to create consistency throughout the district

Progression:1. Used state document with priority standards to

create curriculum and pacing guides (see handouts)

2. We discovered we need to keep revisiting the curriculum and pacing guides. Each iteration improved on the product but also helped us better understand the process

3. Now we have groups meetings at each grade level with their principals and their task till the end of the year is to finish the curriculum maps

4. The final products will be: team created

Lesson plans: The How we Implement the curriculum

• Initial Purpose was to get people to use the GLEs (to teach what they needed to teach and the same thing)

• Once we got everyone to use the GLEs we moved to other aspects of the lesson plan. We kept moving to a new aspect of the lesson plan as we mastered a section.

• Aspects that we mastered became “business as usual”. We moved from compliance to adherence.

Assessment System…•“Homegrown”, Web-based System…•Secure (authentication required). •Access to district, school, class roster &

individual student reports•Multi-year functionality•Incorporates State & Local assessments into

one ‘snapshot’•Data team resources, i.e. “Data Depot”•Ability to share CFAs, lesson plans & other

resources between schools…

TIER I TEMPLATES FOR PROGRESS MONITORING AT DISTRICT LEVEL…

TIER II TEMPLATE FOR PROGRESS MONITORING AT DISTRICT LEVEL…

(CONTINUED…)

Data teams…

• Data teams are all about understanding the data and knowing where you need to go (asking the right questions)

• We Refined the process through leadership support (as the leadership understood better what the data was telling them, they were able to model and mentor the teaching staff)

• The quality of the leadership and the ability of the leader to understand the data is a key determinant of the success of implementation. Leaders need to understand the data and know where they need to go.

Climate: Our next challenge…

Initially climate arose out of discipline data, however we are addressing climate in more holistic fashion

We need to follow the same process that we followed for curriculum: recreating, reflecting and revising

Climate cont.

•Currently we are engaged in an “audit” of our schools.▫Central office staff doing site visits to all

schools to assess positive behavior supports and discipline procedures*

•Professional development for 10/11 will focus on climate issues

• Using modified School-wide Evaluation Tool version 2.0, Sugai et al.2001

In Summary…

•We needed to recreate “business as usual”▫We recreated the curriculum and lesson plans

and assessment data (You can’t have data teams unless you have common data)

▫When you have to move quickly, you have to get compliance before you can move forward next steps. Once we achieved compliance we we able to enter a period of stabilization

▫Now that we have built capcity to understand we are working in the same directon, we are now going to recreate the climate

Thanks you!

•Barbara Senges, Associate Superintendent

sengesb@mps1.org •Laurie Slade, Supervisor of Special Ed

sladel@mps1.org •Dr. Mindy Otis, Supervisor of Special Ed

otism@mps1.org •Jared Morin, Director of Technology

morinj@mps1.org