An Inside look at District and School Transformation GREENE COUNTYs Transformation Plan Greene County Transformation Team 2012.

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.


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


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.



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



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.


NC Transformation:NC Transformation:


NC Framework for Action: Transformation








““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)



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


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

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Student Achievement


Rigor and relevance

Relationships

Content

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What accounts for student learning?


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


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)


Embrace rigorous and

relevant expectations

for all students (+.75)

Cultivate

Caring

relationship with students (+.72)

Make content m

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.69)

Skillful Teaching

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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)


High expectationsC

CS

Curriculum

Literacy Instruction

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Use Data to set High

Expectations

Align C

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Integrate Literacy and Math

across Curriculum

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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



Strategic Leadership is Systems Thinking!

Third Key Trend


Implementing the CCS/ES

Third Key Trend

Culture

Vision

Mission

Structure and

systems

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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


STUDENT LEARNING

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ACHIEVEMENT

STUDENT LEARNING

-----STUDENT

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


Skillful Teaching

Stra

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Lead

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Leadership

Student Achievement


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!


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

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ipInstructional

Leadership

Student Achievement


An Inside look at District and School Transformation GREENE COUNTYs Transformation Plan Greene County Transformation Team 2012.

Documents

rosenholtz slide

nc transformation

successful transformation

instructional leadership

key trend slide

disadvantaged students

student learning

students grant wiggins