a systematic approach for school wide sustained growth mark cerutti – director of secondary...
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A Systematic Approach for School Wide Sustained Growth
Mark Cerutti – Director of Secondary Education –
Elk Grove Unified School District
What are you doing right now and how did you decide to do it?
How do you determine –– What to do?– Who should do it?– When should it be done?– What are the risks of doing it?– What are the risks of not doing it?
No Options and Necessities
Wasting time, material or human resources is not an option
Employing inefficient action is not an option
Measuring efficiency and accuracy of actions is a necessity
Characteristics of a proven model
All decisions emanate from the school’s Mission and Core Values
Four integrated key elements of leadership focus
A balance of process/system with people power in the school
The flexibility of the model is key
Fitting a school’s unique environmental and organizational characteristics into the model
Not losing sight of the four key elements Evaluating the school’s present
condition and the level of leadership required for each key element
Key Elements of Leadership for Key Elements of Leadership for Sustained GrowthSustained Growth
Teaching &Learning EssentialQuestions
Teaching &Learning EssentialQuestions
EffectiveMonitoring
AndProject
Management
EffectiveMonitoring
AndProject
Management
Effective Team/PLC
Traits
Effective Team/PLC
Traits
TargetedAnnual Focus
TargetedAnnual Focus
Mission and
Core Values
Mission and
Core Values
An example of the Sustained Growth Model in action Florin High School
– As each slide is reviewed, keep your school in mind and begin to apply the information to your specific situation
Florin High School
Mission and Core Values
Essential Teaching and Learning Questions
Professional Learning Communities
2009-2010 School Wide Focus“Effectively support the ongoing development of our collective teaching & learning practices, resulting in every student meaningfully connected to
school and experiencing academic success”
Steering Committee
Technology
Action Team
Professional Learning
Action team
Parent/Community
Action Team
School Climate
Action team
Use of Effective Monitoring and Project Management Strategies
Our Mission :“Inspiring and Educating Our Diverse Community to
Achieve Excellence”
FHS Core ValuesFHS Core Values PROFESSIONALISMPROFESSIONALISM
– Florin High School Staff Values:Florin High School Staff Values: Professional behaviors and qualities we instill in our students.Professional behaviors and qualities we instill in our students. Autonomy and innovation while encouraging and supporting Autonomy and innovation while encouraging and supporting
collaboration. collaboration. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTSTUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
– Florin High School Staff Values:Florin High School Staff Values: High expectations for academic achievement and personal growth.High expectations for academic achievement and personal growth. Meeting individual student needs and offering varied paths for student Meeting individual student needs and offering varied paths for student
success.success. FLORIN HIGH COMMUNITYFLORIN HIGH COMMUNITY
– Florin High School Staff Values:Florin High School Staff Values: Parents, community members and local businesses as partners in the Parents, community members and local businesses as partners in the
education of their children.education of their children. A safe and inviting campus. A safe and inviting campus.
INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICEINSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE– Florin High School Staff Values:Florin High School Staff Values:
Critical thinking and problem solving as the focus of instruction.Critical thinking and problem solving as the focus of instruction. The use of engaging instructional practices.The use of engaging instructional practices.
School Wide FocusSchool Wide Focus
Describe what you are doing for Describe what you are doing for studentsstudents
Be succinctBe succinct Make it understandable to allMake it understandable to all Highlight key words/phrasesHighlight key words/phrases Reference it oftenReference it often
2009-2010 2009-2010 Florin High School FocusFlorin High School Focus
““Effectively support the ongoing Effectively support the ongoing development of our collective development of our collective teaching and learning practices, teaching and learning practices, resulting in every student resulting in every student meaningfully connected to school meaningfully connected to school and experiencing academic and experiencing academic success.”success.”
Effective TeamsEffective TeamsProfessional Learning CommunitiesProfessional Learning Communities
– A focus on student learning A focus on student learning – A collaborative cultureA collaborative culture– Collective inquiry into research-based best Collective inquiry into research-based best
practice practice – Action orientation – professional learning by Action orientation – professional learning by
doingdoing– All members mutually accountable for All members mutually accountable for
targeted resultstargeted results Dufour – Professional Learning Communities at WorkDufour – Professional Learning Communities at Work
Effective Project ManagementEffective Project ManagementEnsuring talk is moved to measured and evaluated Ensuring talk is moved to measured and evaluated
actionaction
Date Source – Knowing what to look forDate Source – Knowing what to look for Data Analysis Results – Converting data to Data Analysis Results – Converting data to
meaningful informationmeaningful information Design, Development and Implementation – Design, Development and Implementation –
Knowing what to do and why you’re doing itKnowing what to do and why you’re doing it Program/Initiative Evaluation – Knowing how Program/Initiative Evaluation – Knowing how
you’re doing you’re doing (Logic Model of Program Evaluation)(Logic Model of Program Evaluation) Professional Learning Needs – Making sure we Professional Learning Needs – Making sure we
have what it takes to get the job donehave what it takes to get the job done– Human Performance Technology – International Society Human Performance Technology – International Society
for Performance Improvementfor Performance Improvement
A Focus on Essential Teaching A Focus on Essential Teaching and Learning Questionsand Learning Questions
What are we supposed to teach?What are we supposed to teach?– Standards- based contentStandards- based content
How do we prioritize, sequence and How do we prioritize, sequence and deliver our instruction?deliver our instruction?– Curriculum mapping and instructional designCurriculum mapping and instructional design
How do we know they’re learning?How do we know they’re learning?– Formative and summative assessment/progress Formative and summative assessment/progress
monitoringmonitoring
What do we do when they’re not learning?What do we do when they’re not learning?– Academic intervention and supportAcademic intervention and support
Florin High School – Integration of the Sustained Growth Model
Steering Committee Action Teams Departments, Specialized Academic
Programs (CA Partnership Academies, NJROTC, AVID)
Grade Level/Course Specific Teams– All are assessed in terms of the five
characteristics of a PLC
Steering CommitteeSteering Committee
School-Wide GovernanceSchool-Wide Governance Collaborative LeadershipCollaborative Leadership Essential Communication LinkEssential Communication Link Open MembershipOpen Membership
Action TeamsAction Teams
Technology, School Climate, Technology, School Climate, Professional Learning, Professional Learning, Parent/Community PartnershipParent/Community Partnership– Teacher led; Administratively supportedTeacher led; Administratively supported– Data basedData based– Gap/cause identified Gap/cause identified – Progress monitoredProgress monitored– Results communicatedResults communicated
Technology Action TeamTechnology Action Team
Purpose StatementPurpose Statement: : To effectively manage the To effectively manage the procurement and utilization of technologies and procurement and utilization of technologies and to support all stakeholders to ensure an to support all stakeholders to ensure an efficient flow of accurate communication.efficient flow of accurate communication.
2009-2010 Areas of Focus2009-2010 Areas of Focus::– School Loop management and evaluationSchool Loop management and evaluation– Web Site Management and updatingWeb Site Management and updating– Education Technology Professional LearningEducation Technology Professional Learning– Panther Access Card SupportPanther Access Card Support
Professional LearningProfessional Learning Action Team Action Team
Purpose StatementPurpose Statement: : Support PLC development in Support PLC development in their work to ensure every student is meaningfully their work to ensure every student is meaningfully connected to school and experiences academic connected to school and experiences academic success.success.
2009-2010 Areas of Focus:2009-2010 Areas of Focus:– Support and monitor the development and implementation Support and monitor the development and implementation
of SMART goals for all PLCs.of SMART goals for all PLCs.– Provide needed time and structure for sharing results and Provide needed time and structure for sharing results and
/or recommendations of our PLC work /or recommendations of our PLC work – Support PLC leaders in facilitating these teams by Support PLC leaders in facilitating these teams by
providing:providing: data supportdata support leadership supportleadership support goal-writinggoal-writing
School Climate School Climate Action TeamAction Team
Purpose Statement:Purpose Statement: Support and lead efforts to Support and lead efforts to ensure students, parents, staff and all stakeholders ensure students, parents, staff and all stakeholders are positively connected to Florin High School are positively connected to Florin High School which is:which is:– Safe, Respectful and CleanSafe, Respectful and Clean– Academically RigorousAcademically Rigorous– Culturally DiverseCulturally Diverse
2009-2010 Areas of Focus:2009-2010 Areas of Focus:– Researching master schedule options with a focus on Researching master schedule options with a focus on
small learning communitiessmall learning communities– Pilot Targeted Student ProjectPilot Targeted Student Project– Saturday School Program ImprovementSaturday School Program Improvement– Minute bell case study projectMinute bell case study project– School events and activities promoting cultural awarenessSchool events and activities promoting cultural awareness
Parent/Community Partnership Parent/Community Partnership Action TeamAction Team
Purpose StatementPurpose Statement:: Collaborating with our Collaborating with our essential partners/stakeholders to ensure essential partners/stakeholders to ensure the optimal learning experience of all the optimal learning experience of all students.students.
2009-2010 Areas of Focus2009-2010 Areas of Focus::– Implementation of DeVry and Siemens Implementation of DeVry and Siemens
PartnershipsPartnerships– Expansion of CPAsExpansion of CPAs– ASSETSASSETS– Continued expansion of partnershipsContinued expansion of partnerships
Why consider this model?
The principles of the Sustained Growth Model originated in the biological sciences and have been used by successful businesses for over 30 years
It’s a proven model for sustained growth -
Peace Corps Nature Conservancy AmeriCorp Intel Cisco
The Sustained growth model enables you to:
Accurately predict points of delayed growth
Quickly and accurately identify barriers to continued growth
Replicate or originate to overcome barriers
Minimize the duration of the plateau Maximize the duration of the gain
Understanding Sustained Growth It is not perfectly linear in nature It is series of steps of varying width
and height
Understanding Sustained Growth
Point of Delayed Growth
Minimize duration of plateau by eliminating barriers to growth
Maximize Duration of the Gain
Point of Best Practice Replication or Innovation
Effective Leadership Must:
• Have an explicit “making a difference” sense of purpose
• Use strategies that mobilize many people to tackle touch problems
• Be held accountable by measured indicators of success, and
• Be ultimately assessed by the extent to which it awakens people’s intrinsic commitment, their sense of moral purpose.
- Adapted from Leading in a Culture of Change, Michael Fullan, 2001
“Whatever one’s style, every leader, to be effective, must have and work on his or her moral purpose.
Moral purpose cannot just be stated; it must be accompanied by strategies for realizing it. Those strategies are the leadership action that energize people to pursue a desired goal.
- Adapted from Leading in a Culture of Change,
Michael Fullan, 2001
Distributed Leadership, in which formal leaders widely distribute leadership responsibilities among various groups in the organization, plays a crucial role in generating school reform and instructional improvement.
Richard Elmore
Building a New Structure for School Leadership
Improve your ability to accurately predict success and growth
Determine correlations among actions and results
Reduce reactivity Increased target, pro-activity Eliminate random acts of improvement Increase targeted, measured
interventions
Ready for Learning
Ready for Change
Ready for Resistance
Ready for Frustration
Organization Change Capacity
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Move to the upper right quadrant!
Doug Reeves – – Organizational Change Capacity
Ready for Change
– Learning Leadership Leading – High results and High
Understanding
Learning Leadership - Only by evaluating both cause and effect can educators understand the complexities of student achievement and the efficacy of teaching and learning practices. (Adapted from the work of Doug Reeves)
High Scores
Student Achievemen
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Low Scores
LuckyHigh Results
Low Understanding
LeadingHigh Results
High Understanding
LosingLow Results
Low Understanding
LearningLow Results
High Understanding
Understanding what improved student performance
Low Level High Level
Are you ready to accept the challenge of sustained
growth?
