Sailing the “Cs” to Vision 2020Agenda Review & Desired Outcomes

Begin with WHY?

Continuing our Journey…..Staying On Course

Core CurriculumCore InstructionCollaborative TeamsCore Assessment/Evaluation

Core Curriculum• 4 “Cs”• Tight Alignment of standards,

teaching and assessment• Exploring the importance of Power

Standards/Learning Progressions • C-Mapp

Core Instruction• ETF Community• MTSS• 4 “Cs”• Research based, high leverage instructional

practices/strategies• Attacking “mediocre teaching”• Bringing in resources like:

– 17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong– The Skillful Leader– CITW 2nd edition– The Core Six– Learning in the Fast Lane

4 Cs1.Critical Thinking

2.Communication

3.Collaboration4.Creativity

Captain’s Reception

Currituck Cape Lookout Bodie Island Bald Head Island

Price’s Creek Oak Island Ocracoke Cape Hatteras

Find Your Trio!

Reflective questions for our next meeting1. What intentional work will you facilitate in

building teachers’ capacity for implementing the 4Cs in the written, taught, and assessed curriculum?

2. How do you foster a learning culture that is reflective of and supportive of the 4Cs?

3. Identify your next steps for the “beginning stages” of aligning your school’s work with the 4Cs to the Strategic Plan?

Guiding Thoughts for Our Journey

Record your triad’s reflections on your matching lighthouse chart.

1.

2.

3.

Trimming the Sails….Pulling the Lines

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the best navigator

Begin with WHY?

Collaborative Teams• Our work with our “crews” in our schools.• Adaptive Schools Training-the how of

professional communities• Western Area PLTs/PLNs

– Focus on the common threads– Hybrid of a PLT/PLN– Common problem of practice– Learning from each other here… through school

visits….participating in learning rounds and/or walkthroughs ect…

Currituck Cape Lookout Bodie Island Bald Head Island

Price’s Creek Oak Island Ocracoke Cape Hatteras

Make a New Trio!Three Different Lighthouses

A Spirit of Inquiry

Letter trio as A, B and C

Each person reads the first section Promoting a Spirit of Inquiry

A and B generate examples of this idea in action

C paraphrases and summarizes

Rotate roles for remaining two sections

A Spirit of Inquiry

How is the Spirit of Inquiry being promoted within the context of your school’s collaborative culture?

School ImprovementAdministrative Teams Leadership Teams

PLT’s Department Teams Committees Classroom

Whole Group Share Out

BREAK

Underneath it all is our “KEEL”

Our School Improvement Plan and work keeps our “ship” moving forward in a strategic and purposeful direction towards our final “port” or goal!

Data ?s from Below Deck• Disaggregated ABC’s Charts - HO

• EVAAS New and Review - HO

• 3rd Grade – mClass EOY and EOG 2015 - HO

Keeping our Keel off the Rocks!

Predicted Effects of School & Teacher on Student Achievement

5th Grade Math Standardized Test

Percentile Entering Percentile Leaving

Average schoolAverage teacher

50th

Highly ineffective schoolHighly ineffective teacher

50th

Highly effective schoolHighly ineffective teacher

50th

Highly ineffective schoolHighly effective teacher

50th

Highly effective schoolHighly effective teacher

50th

Highly effective schoolAverage teacher

50th

Robert Marzono “New Era of School Reform” presentation, NSDC, Denver 2001

Predicted Effects of School & Teacher on Student Achievement

5th Grade Math Standardized Test

Percentile Entering Percentile Leaving

Average schoolAverage teacher

50th 50th

Highly ineffective schoolHighly ineffective teacher

50th 3rd

Highly effective schoolHighly ineffective teacher

50th 37th

Highly ineffective schoolHighly effective teacher

50th 63rd

Highly effective schoolHighly effective teacher

50th 96th

Highly effective schoolAverage teacher

50th 78th

Robert Marzono “New Era of School Reform” presentation, NSDC, Denver 2001

Which song best describes your school?

• Grateful Dead – Ship of Fools• T G Sheppard – Smooth Sailin’• Beach Boys – Catch a Wave• Blondie – The Tide Is High• Bobby Darin – Beyond the Sea• Dave Matthews – Captain of My Ship• Ella Fitzgerald – A Ship Without a Sail• U2 – Under Full Sail• Jimmy Buffet – Lovely Cruise

4 Pitfalls to Implementation

Number off 1-4 1-Blaming the Kids2-Blaming the Program3-Casual Selection of Strategies4- Fragmentation

Read assigned section

Summarize section and discuss ways to prevent falling into pitfall. Using chart paper, determine the Most Important Points (MIP) from the discussion to share with larger group.

5 Best Practices for Implementation

1. Master Plan Design

2. Targeted Research-Based Strategies

3. Professional Development

4. Professional Development Implementation

5. Parental Engagement

5 Best Practices for Implementation

Spend-A-Buck

How would you spend your pennies?

- Master Plan Design

- Targeted Strategies

- Professional Development

- Parental Engagement

5 Best Practices for Implementation

What is the current state and implications for Master Plan Design and Targeted Research

Based Strategies at your school?

LUNCH-On Your Own 12:00-1:30

ENJOY!

Charting Our Course

Sailing the Cs to Vision 2020

Captain’s Reception Chalk Talk

agree

enthusiastically agree

not sure what you mean

disagree and why

Choose the closest lighthouse. Read the thoughts and ideas on the chart paper. Respond with one or more of the following:

Chalk Talk

• Move to another lighthouse and complete the same process.

• Repeat the process until you have visited each lighthouse.

• Return to your lighthouse trio and read the responses.

• Discuss findings with trio. • Summarize the ideas to share with the whole

group.

Continuing our Journey…..Staying On Course

Core CurriculumCore InstructionCollaborative TeamsCore Assessment/Evaluation

Crew Collaboration-Principal Talk

-Norm Building

-Reflections on the Norms of Collaboration

-Data Dialogue & Common Problem of Practice

-Next Steps

Checking our Gear…Coming Back to Dock…

• Summer Camp Programs• Board Policy Updates• Education Week Article• Google Master Calendar for

District• Holiday Greeting Card• Technology/Digital Resource Form• AP Spring Cohort for Adaptive

Schools• AP Leadership Development

Meetings

CELEBRATIONS• AP of the Year

• Green Hope High School

• Panther Creek PBiS

Watching the Sunset….Captain’s Log Reflection

3-ideas/concepts/thoughts that pushed your learning

2-ideas/strategies/protocols that you will go back and share

1-next step

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