Making Reform Real for Students

YES, We Can!!Yes, We Will!!

Juan R. Baughn, Ed.D.June 19, 2008

Focus!!

PVAAS 6

CIRCLES

PSSA 4 SIGHT

SCHOOLS

bestevidence.org CDDRE CCSSO (access)

WHAT WORKS

Aligned School Improvement System

Fair Assessments

Curriculum

Instruction

Resources & Materials

Interventions

Clear Standards

Strong Results

for Students

The content behind the standards

How you teach the content behind the

standards

What students should know and do

How you help struggling kids

understand the content

The stuff you use to teach the

content

How you measure what students should know

and be to do.

A Foreign Place Called School

Being “the other”

RESILIENCY• THE CAPACITY TO OVERCOME

RISK FACTORS TO MOVE TOWARD POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT (BONNIE BERNARD 2004)

• TO SPRING BACK REBOUND (AND) SUCCESSFULLY ADAPT IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY (HENDERSON & MILSTEIN 2003)

Clear & Consistent Boundaries

School Code of Conduct Truancy Intervention Plan/Tool Kit

School-wide Positive Behavior Supports Training

High ExpectationsPDE Standards/PSSAGovernor’s Institutes

Accountability Block Grants Project 720/CFF/Dual enrollment

Governor’s Special Education Performance Grants

Meaningful StudentEngagement

Student Council Service Learning

Youth Surveys

Connectiveness & Bonding

Mentoring & Drop-out grants Parent Involvement Conference After school/summer programs Homeless, Migrant & Refugee

student programs

Skills for LifeAnti-bullying programsCharacter education

Social/Emotional learning Resiliency training

Anti-tobacco/drug programs Career Counseling Grants

Unconditional Support Alternative Education

Student Assistance Program Youth Suicide Prevention

Pregnant/Parent/Teen ELECT Program

Special Education

Strong Results for

Students

Linkages Between Student Achievement and …

Quality Teaching Quality Leadership

Artful Use of Infrastructure Continuous Learning Ethic

Trailblazers: willing to go where no person has gone before

Pioneers: willing to take considerable risks.

Settlers: need to know what they are expected to do and where they are going.

Stay-at-Homes: may never go along and if so, only for a visit.

Saboteurs: are actively committed to stopping change.

Five Types of Change Participants:

Phillip Schlechty

Safe Schools•Academically•Socially•Emotionally•Physically

No one can make you angry without your permission.

Window/Mirror

Seek First to Understand,

Then to Be Understood.

Stephen R. Covey

Right/Wrongvs.Appropriate/Inappropriate

“You cannot talk yourself

out of a situation

you have behaved

yourself into.”

Juan R. Baughn, Ed.D.Lehigh University

September, 1997

“Fair is not always equal”

Juan R. Baughn, Ed.D.Lehigh UniversitySeptember, 1997

Multiple Perspectives

The Past Plus the Present Is Not Equal to the Future

Unless We

Choose for it to!