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An Inside look at District and An Inside look at District and School TransformationSchool Transformation
GREENE COUNTY’s GREENE COUNTY’s Transformation PlanTransformation Plan
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
The primary aim of education is not only to enable students to do well in school, but to help them do well in the lives they lead outside of school.
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Desired Outcome: To view Desired Outcome: To view change as Systems Thinkingchange as Systems Thinking With views from:
District Level School Level Classroom Level Student Voices
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Is this us?Is this us?Schools with a record of failure typically exhibit signs of dysfunction such as: discipline problems, tardiness and absenteeism, a lack of collaboration, low morale, and strained relations with staff are some common features of failing schools.
These schools usually serve the most-disadvantaged students, who come to school with a variety of unmet social needs. Turning them around requires an ability to respond to some of these needs and to transform the school culture.
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Importance of “Relationships” in learning and deeply understanding the students who struggle in our systems.
(Hattie 20122 Wiggins 2004)
Third Key Trend
K-12 Literacy Plan
Strategic Leadership District Level
Superintendent’sGoals
CCS/ES
GC Strategic Plan
NC and USED Transformation
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
The SIP Process:The SIP Process:
We believe:We believe:
Successful transformation cannot be accomplished by a mandate.
Rather, positive learning environments develop through internal accountability, shared vision, buy-in around clear goals and procedures, and the development of community.
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NC Transformation:NC Transformation:
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NC Framework for Action: Transformation
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Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
““Develop our peopleDevelop our people:: Build capacityBuild capacity””
Broaden the definition of learning in our schools and districts to include adults.
The Teaching Profession…The Teaching Profession…
“By definition, a profession is the work of persons who possess a body of knowledge, skills and practices that must be continually tested and upgraded with colleagues. A professional field, as opposed to a technical one, is one that prizes constant dissatisfaction with one’s own practice.” (Carl Glickman, 2002)
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Our focus must be on the way Our focus must be on the way we teach and learn: we teach and learn: CollegialityCollegiality
Concrete and precise talk about teaching
Planning and making materials together Observing one another Teaching one another about the practice
of teaching Asking for and providing one another
with assistance
Little and Rosenholtz
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ThemesThemes
Classroom Instruction must be outstanding and align Relationships, Rigor, Relevance (3R’s) with 21st Century Learning (4 C’s)
You Need a Strategic Systems Approach:
Instructional leadership
Skillful Teaching
Stra
tegic
Lead
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ipInstructional
Leadership
Student Achievement
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Rigor and relevance
Relationships
Content
SkillfulTeaching
How
stu
dent
s le
arn
Inst
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l stra
tegi
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Asses
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guid
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inst
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What accounts for student learning?
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Hattie’s Observable Learning: Hattie’s Observable Learning: Effect SizeEffect Size
1.0 indicates one standard deviation typically associated with advancing children’s achievement by two or more years (improving the rate of learning by 50%)
Hattie set a bench mark of .40 as the minimal desired effect
Hattie 2011
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Student FeedbackStudent Feedback"Academic feedback is more strongly and
consistently related to achievement than any other teaching behavior. This relationship is consistent regardless of grade, socioeconomic status, race or school setting.” Grant Wiggins 2004
"When feedback and corrective procedures are used, most students can attain the same level of achievement as the top 20% of students”
Grant Wiggins. 1998Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Some Key dataSome Key data
Student expectations of self 1.44Providing formative evaluation .90Teacher Clarity .75
Class size .21Retention .16
(HATTIE 2011)
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Embrace rigorous and
relevant expectations
for all students (+.75)
Cultivate
Caring
relationship with students (+.72)
Make content m
eaningful to llearners (+
.69)
Skillful Teaching
Use
Var
ied,
ong
oing
Ass
essm
ents
to In
form
and
diffe
rent
iate
Inst
ruct
ion
(+.9
0)
Engag
e in
Targe
ted
and
Susta
ined
Profe
ssion
al Gro
wth
(+.6
2)
1. Embrace rigorous and relevant expectations for all students (+.75)
2. Build strong relationship with students (+.72)
3. Possess depth of content knowledge and make it relevant to students (+.69)
4. Facilitate rigorous and relevant instruction based on how students learn (+1.28)
5. Use assessments to guide and differentiate instruction (+.90)
6. Demonstrate expertise in use of instructional strategies, technology, and best practices (+.60)
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High expectationsC
CS
Curriculum
Literacy Instruction
Dat
a-dr
iven
SIP
& P
LTs
Teach
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y:
Provid
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prof
essio
nal g
rowth
Instructional Leadership
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Use Data to set High
Expectations
Align C
urriculum to
Standards
Integrate Literacy and Math
across Curriculum
Use
Dat
a to
Gui
de
Inst
ruct
ion
Cre
ate
Teac
her S
elec
tion,
Sup
port
and
Eva
luat
ion
Sys
tem
Instructional Leadership
Provide opportunities for focused professional collaboration and growth
Facilitate data-driven decision making to inform instruction
Use research to establish urgency for higher expectations
Align curriculum to standards Integrate literacy and math across all
content areas
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Greene County Transformation Team 2012
Strategic Leadership is Systems Thinking!
Third Key Trend
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Implementing the CCS/ES
Third Key Trend
Culture
Vision
Mission
Structure and
systems
Sel
ectio
n, s
uppo
rt,
eval
uatio
n
Strategic Leadership
Data
syste
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lead
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Adj
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Syste
ms
Strategic Leadership
1. Create a culture 2. Establish a shared vision 3. Align organizational structures and
systems to vision4. Build leadership capacity 5. Align teacher / administrator selection,
support, and evaluation 6. Support decision making with data
systems
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STUDENT LEARNING
-----STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT
STUDENT LEARNING
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ACHIEVEMENT
Knowledge Base on Teaching
Knowledge Base on Teaching
CCS/ES and Performance
Standards
SKILLFUL TEACHINGSKILLFUL TEACHING
District GoalsDistrict GoalsNorth Carolina
Evaluation System
North Carolina Evaluation
System
CoachingSkills
CoachingSkills
INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIPINSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIPSTRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
SharedLeadership
SharedLeadership CollaborationCollaboration CollegialityCollegiality
SIPAccountability
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Skillful Teaching
Stra
tegic
Lead
ersh
ipInstructional
Leadership
Student Achievement
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Characteristics of 90 90 90 Characteristics of 90 90 90 schoolsschools
Laser-like focus on student achievement
Collaborative scoring of real student work
Nonfiction writing—restoring the balance
Multiple opportunities for success: Feedback!
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What does the research say?What does the research say?Doug Reeves (2012)
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A K-12 Literacy Plan
Third Key Trend
VISION VISION
graduate all students with literacy skills
ensure success for college and career readiness
global society
MISSION MISSION
ensure high quality, balanced literacy instruction
every Pre-K through 12 classroom
students can access a literacy rich society
MEASURABLEMEASURABLE GOALSGOALS
understand purpose of district frameworkevaluate status of literacy instructionmake recommendations for best practicescreate district outline of literacy expectationsestablish timeline and action steps for implementation
DELIVERABLESDELIVERABLES
implementation review rubrics
goal committee data balanced literacy framework implementation plan
Skillful Teaching
Stra
tegic
Lead
ersh
ipInstructional
Leadership
Student Achievement
Greene County Transformation Team 2012