boces superintendent services
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Putnam/Northern Westchester
BOCES – Superintendent Resources
Pursuing CoherenceFocus & Connect
Jonathan P. Costa, Sr.November 19th, 2015
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Contact Information
Jonathan P. Costa, Sr.
[email protected] (cell or text) 860-484-9109
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Overwhelmed
Underprepared
CHALLENGE
Listen to Curly….
Jonathan P. Costa
Focus &Connect R
ESPONSE
1.The district has identified, defined and committed to supporting a focused set of appropriate student learning goals that will ensure student success in life, learning and work beyond school.
2.The district has committed to supporting instructional and adult learning strategies that ensure rigorous, digitally supported pedagogical experiences aligned with the district’s student goals.
3.The district uses and reports on appropriate and balanced measures of student and adult success that are aligned with its student learning goals.
4.The district aligns its supporting organizational systems to support the acquisition of its student learning goals.
COHERENCE
Costa - Strategic Coherence Planning Focus - Connect
Four Outcomes Required for Strategic Coherence:
Student DataDriving
InstructionalPractices &
DecisionMaking
InstructionDriving
ImprovedMeasures
ProfessionalPracticeDriving
ImprovedMeasures
SystemsDriving
ImprovedMeasures
Student
ImprovementProfessional
ImprovementBuilding/District
Improvement
StudentGoals
Student Measures
Instructional Practices
Leadership
Adult DataDriving
ProfessionalLearning &
DecisionMaking
AdultGoals
Adult Measures
Professional Learning Practices
Leadership
OrganizationalData
DrivingSystemsDecisionMaking
OrganizationalGoals
OrganizationalMeasures
Organizational Practices
Leadership
What are your improvement “Leverage Points?”
Student ImprovementProfessional Improvement
Leadership
Student Goals
- Common Core/21st
Century Skills & Content
Professional Goals
Evaluation & support goals, SLOs, focus
goals & other
Organizational Goals
Improvement targets related to DPI,
SPI or other goals
Instructional Strategies
CC/21CS goal aligned teaching methods
& strategies
Assessing LearningPARCC &
other valued summative, formative,
standardized and non-
standardized measures
Professional Growth
Aligned withhigh leverage student goals
andPL Standards
Professional Measurement
Student and related
professionaldata
Organizational Plans
District or building
level plans or strategies
aligned with PL Standards
Organizational Measures
District andBuilding level
dataOther…
Building/District ImprovementCoherence
Leadership
Leadership
What are your improvement “Leverage Points?”
COHERENCE
PROCESS
Costa /BOCES - Strategic Coherence Planning Support Focus - Connect
1. Leadership/Mission Focus Support
A. Facilitating Strategic Coherence Planning processes and implementation support.B. Understanding and anticipating barriers to change.C. Building capacity for implementing High Quality Feedback and Collegial Calibrations
of administrator, teacher (Claim, Connect, Act) and student performance (ReVision Learning) for instructional and leadership improvement.
D. Access/implementation of Skills21 blended course curricula and implementation support.
E. Visual Access Data Aggregation and Analysis Tool – a live feed that provides teachers, administrators and central office personnel access to district and public data at every level enabling comparisons and analysis for improvement processes across the system.
2. Policy & Regulation – Support for Board’s crafting and applying policies that support the district’s pursuit of its Mission and priority student learning goals and appropriate digital learning environments.
3. Community Engagement – Strategies for supporting the meaningful involvement and engagement of parents and community in support of student learning in the district.
4. Resource Deployment – Guidance for resource redeployment in support of articulated goals for learning and demonstrated Mission-based needs.
SERVICES
Costa /BOCES - Strategic Coherence Planning Support Focus - Connect
Systems Wide Planning and Support:
1. Helping to build a rationale for making high leverage choices.a) Review of literature on Vital Few/Pareto Principleb) Presentations on change, impact of digital world and information age,
highlighting current systems challenges.c) Building consensus on the need for balance and focus
2. Designing and facilitating processes for making high leverage choices – defining the attributes of a successful graduate.
3. Retreat/Advance planning and support for goal setting at all levels.4. Curriculum audits and revision processes to create the room needed
to align and integrate critical skills and attributes.
SERVICES
Goals for Learning:The district has identified, defined and committed to supporting a focused set of appropriate student learning goals that will ensure student success in life, learning and work beyond school.
Costa /BOCES - Strategic Coherence Planning Support Focus - Connect
1. Helping to build a rationale for making high leverage instructional choices.a) Identification of high leverage indicators in instructional observational
processes.b) Building instructional observation rubrics that mirror rigorous digital
learning environments.c) Presentations on change, impact of digital world and information age,
highlighting rationale for moving from “Just in Case” to “Just in Time.”2. Designing and facilitating processes for designing meaningful,
rigorous instructional experiences for all students.3. Support for teachers using on-line, blended learning course content in
a variety of STEM and digital learning areas.
SERVICES
Teaching for Learning:The district has committed to supporting instructional and adult learning strategies that ensure rigorous, digitally supported pedagogical experiences aligned with the district’s student goals.
Costa /BOCES - Strategic Coherence Planning Support Focus - Connect
1. Helping to build a rationale for making high leverage assessment choices.
2. Building technical assessment capacity to create a balanced system of formative and summative assessment in support of district’s critical goals for learning.a) Constructing effective rubrics – measuring what you valueb) Designing rubric aligned tasks – connecting it to practicec) Scoring protocols – build capacity to judge student workd) Data collection and analysis tools – how to use the results
3. Implementation of assessment audits and acting of results.4. Facilitating alignment of assessment results data from level to level.
SERVICES
Measures of LearningThe district uses and reports on appropriate and balanced measures of student and adult success that are aligned with its student learning goals.
Costa /BOCES - Strategic Coherence Planning Support Focus - Connect