Community Consolidated School District 62 Collaborative District & Building Planning Aligning Title I Plans and Practices (It’s all about teaching & learning!)

Community Consolidated School District 62

Collaborative District & Building Planning Aligning Title I Plans and Practices(It’s all about teaching & learning!)Jan Rashid, [email protected] Fall Conference10/6/15

Community Consolidated School District 62

Des Plaines CCSD 62• Located outside of Chicago near

O’Hare Airport• Just over 5200 students Pre-K to 8th

grade• 12 buildings including 2 middle

schools, 8 elementary schools, 1 year round K-8th school and 1 ELC

• Demographics: 57% Low Income, 31% Limited English, Largest Second Language is Spanish with 41% Hispanic

• 9 schoolwide Title I schools (7 elementary, 2 middle)

Community Consolidated School District 62

District Improvement Focus• Yearly, or multi-year

determination of Improvement focus for District

• Monthly meeting with Instructional Services Department and all principals to align district and building efforts toward improvement focus

• Departments (Second Lang, SpEd) and buildings determine specific needs

Aligned Instructional Planning Framework

Decision-Making Balance (DuFour) Tight Expectations

Effective districts establish clear parameters and priorities that enable individuals to work within boundaries in a creative and autonomous way. Some procedures and expectations are “tight”, such as what is to be taught, ie. Non-negotiables.

Loose ExpectationsWithin the district

system, schools, teams and teachers have flexibility in meeting expectations. For example, determining how to teach based on teacher strengths and student needs, thus decisions are “loose.”

Community Consolidated School District 62

Title I Collaboration ProcessesD62 Systems• Monthly meetings--Director and

Principals• Rising Star process is used for

Title I planning-Instructional Services member assigned as liaison

• Weekly IS meeting-Debrief between Director and IS team members regarding building Rising Star meetings/actions

Community Consolidated School District 62

Decisions Together—”Tight”• Title I Goals• Budget allowances and

spending guidelines• Instructional Associates• Summer School• Professional Development• Parent Engagement

Community Consolidated School District 62

Building Flexibility—”Loose”• Additional Staff• Before/After School• Saturday School• Transportation• Supplemental Resources• Materials/Supplies• Unique Needs

Community Consolidated School District 62

Accountability:Checks and Balances

• Monthly meetings• Common forms for budget,

transportation• All spending through Director• Admin Assistant keeps record of

accounting to back up Business Office

Community Consolidated School District 62

A Little More About….Budgeting/Spending• Spending at District level,

collaboratively determined, ie. Summer school

• Spending at buildings determined by building leadership team

• Common budget planning doc used, submitted to Director for content and Admin Asst for accounting

• Aligned to goals

Community Consolidated School District 62

A Little More About….Parent Engagement

• Use common Compact documents

• Co-plan Parent Engagement evenings

• Survey parents for topics• This year—speaker on 21st

century skills development—including SIS parent portal and tech support—all info translated

Community Consolidated School District 62

A Little More About….Professional Development• Group planning for large events,

ie. Book study on Freedom Writers, Rick Stiggins for standards based grading

• Building flexibility for specific needs, ie. Specific sub-groups, unique situations

• Requests run by Director and must be aligned to goals

“If everyone is moving forward together,

then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford

Thank you!