School Leadership Team Conference: HQS 3
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School Leadership Team Conference: HQS 3
Nancy Cline and Leatha Williams
October 1, 2013
Why the West Virginia Standards for High Quality Schools?
These standards describe the seven common standards expected of schools to ensure a high quality education, in an engaging learning environment.
The policy represents a coherent and aligned set of expectations necessary to transform schools into outcome focused, innovative, accountable learning organizations that can prepare all students to be contributing citizens for the global, digital age of the 21st century.
Standard 3: Provides a Standards-Focused Curriculum with Engaging Instruction and a Balanced System
of AssessmentEach school team will develop a non-content specific
school improvement goal and plan specifically for instruction based on the 3rd WV Standard for High Quality Schools, diagnostic observations and recommendations that they will take back to their school to implement as
measured by their school wide plan.
Objectives
1. All SLTs will reflect and rate their school on highly effective practices in HQS 3.
2. All SLTs will compare and contrast their school’s diagnostic with the high quality practices in HQS 3.
3. All SLTs will prioritize the needs as identified from the SLT discussions on HQS 3 and the school diagnostic.
4. All SLTs will write goals for their Strategic Plan.5. All SLTs will specify what evidence will be used to
measure successful completion of their school improvement goals.
Discussions and Protocols
Visible Thinking Strategies
Think-Pair-Square-ShareThis is an active reasoningroutine that promotes understanding of multiple perspectives and evidence. Strategy Highlights:1. Posing a question, idea or topic 2. Asking student to come to an
individual understanding3. Allow thinking time to form an
opinion/answer 4. Discussion and consensus at all
levels 5. Congress or reporting out
Connect Extend ChallengeThis is a visible thinkingroutine, which allowsstudents to connect newideas to prior knowledge. Strategy Highlights:• Encourages high order thinking for
students• It acts as a formative assessment
(informative assessment) for the teacher
• It encourages the students to have ownership of their learning because the take stock in ongoing questions, concepts that are puzzling or difficult as they reflect on their own thinking.
Activity 1
Utilizing the HQS and the
Diagnostic
Activity 1: Connect Extend Challenge School Diagnostic Report
15-minutes Think Pair Share
Activity 2: Vision
It is one year from right now and you are lookingback at the school year,HQS 3, the Diagnostic andthe challenges. Describe what ways your
school is different and what is the evidence based on the HQS 3 and the Diagnostic recommendations?
Question: Where do we want to be?
School Wide Improvement: Goal
As a school leadership teamgo back throughthe HQS Rubric andDiagnostic and identify2 to 3 items that will addressthe barriers as well as help theschool accomplish the visionfor a year from now. Each team should come toconsensus on the items.
Question: How will we get there?
Diagnostic Observation
• There was no process school wide for opening and closing class procedures.
• There is no protocol school wide for student conversations such as think-pair-square-share. The majority of the classrooms were traditional in nature and mostly teacher centered.
• Teachers were observed utilizing a variety of teaching strategies in limited capacity. However most of the strategies were reported as lower level thinking strategies and not learner-centered.
Example 1: Putting It Together
HQS3• 3.B. 1: All teachers align
curriculum, instruction, and assessment to Next Generation Standards.
• 3.C.3: All teachers plan lessons that actively engage students, involve varied grouping patterns and promote student interaction.
Observations• Teachers reported that several
had been trained on the Instructional Practices Inventory; however the process has yet to be utilized at the school.
• Both administrator when asked about the greatest challenge facing their school responded instructional leadership and changing instructional practices.
School Goal Example 1
• During the 2013-2014 school year, Team USA School will increase the time students are engaged in “active” learning by 10%.
Example 2: Putting It Together
HQS3 Observations
School Goal Example 2
Goal Writing Framing Statement
During the 2013-2014 school year, __________ School will increase
____________ by ______%