Facilitators of School Improvement Lisa Guzzardo Asaro Deane Spencer October 2013.

Facilitators of School Improvement

Lisa Guzzardo AsaroDeane Spencer

October 2013

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Continuous School Improvement Process

Gather

Study

Plan

Do

Get ReadyCollect DataBuild Profile School Data Profile Analysis (SDA) School Process Profile (SPP)

Analyze Data School Data Analysis (SDA) School Process Profile Analysis (SPP)Set GoalsSet Measurable ObjectivesResearch Best Practice

Develop School Improvement Plan

Implement PlanMonitor PlanEvaluate Plan

Comprehensive Needs

Assessment

School Improvement

Plan

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Connector ActivityEffective Use of the Gradual Release

of Responsibility Model

By Dr. Douglas FisherProfessor of Language and Literacy Education

at San Diego State University

• Share the 6 Thinking Lenses• Each participant reads the entire

article• Each participant jots down

thoughts provoked for each lens• Focusing on one ‘Thinking Lens’

at a time, contribute your responses.

• Assign a spokesperson to share three highlights or main ideas about this textSource: Gregory, G.H. & Kuzmich, L. (2007). Teacher teams that get results: 61 strategies for sustaining and renewing

professional learning communities (p. 75). Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin. For more information or to purchase this book, please visit www.corwinpress.com.

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Today’s Outcomes•Read Effective Use of the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model by Doug Fisher using the Thinking Lenses Tool

•Receive updates from MDE

•Heighten awareness regarding MI’s Scorecard system

•Deconstruct your 2013 SIP

•Gain Connections between SI and Professional Learning Communities

•Raise awareness of new data reports available on MI School Data

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Today’s Roadmap• Welcome and Review• Connector: Effective Use of the Gradual Release of Responsibility

Model

• Updates: What is New? • Accountability Scorecard• SI meets Professional Learning Communities• Summative Interim and Formative

Assessments• MI School Data• Assessment Calendars• Network and Next Steps

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Key Working Agreements A Facilitation Tool

• Respect all Points of View

• Be Present and Engaged

• Honor Time Agreements

• Get All Voices in the Room

These breathe life into our Core Values

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Parking LotA Facilitation Tool

• Rest questions that do not benefit the whole group

• Place questions that do not pertain to content at this time

• Place questions that pertain, but participants do not want to ask at this time

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Action Required Chart

• Any request by you that I need to respond to must be placed on the Action Required Chart

• You need to PRINT your complete name, school, and email address

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FSI Materials• SI Placemats• Two Books

– Never Underestimate Your teachers Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom by Robyn R. Jackson

• A new model for understanding teaching as a combination of skill and will and explains the best ways to support individual teachers’ ongoing professional learning.

– Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs by Donald Kachur, Judith A. Stout, and Claudia L. Edwards

• Practical guide to the planning and implementation of brief, but focused classroom observations that involve teachers in every step of the process.

• Data Reference Points Manual• FSI website will hold all templates and resources

for this series

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FSI Websitewww.macombfsi.net

Facilitators of School Improvement– Calendars– Logistics– Series Handouts by Stage and Step– Agendas and Power Points– MDE websites– Data: MI School Data and Data

Director– MDE URLs

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NOTEWORTHY

• Common Core Update• Professional Learning Opportunities• Priority, Focus, and Reward Schools• MAISA Consortium Initiatives• Michigan Interim Assessment Pilot• Smarter Balanced Practice Test Phase 2

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MISD Overview

TALKING POINTS and STATUS• Common Core State Standards/Smarter Balanced

– The budget action taken does not repeal the adoption of the CCSS

– The language in PA 59 will pause MDE implementation efforts only until such affirmative action is taken.

• Understanding the K-12 CCSS in Mathematics• Understanding the K-12 CCSS in English Language

Arts and Literacy in History, Social Studies, Science an Technical Subjects

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Priority, Focus &Reward• 339 schools were identified as Focus, same number as last year:

185 were repeats and 154 were new• 8 schools that were labeled ‘Reward’ last year, are now identified

as Focus. • 37 schools that were identified as Focus last year are now

identified as Reward.• Macomb gained 17 new Focus schools and maintained 12.• Macomb removed 11 Focus schools from the 2013 list and gained

5 new Priority schools at the elementary level.• Macomb maintained one Priority high school.• Macomb had 9 SIG/PLA schools not on the 2013 Priority list. • Macomb regained 1 Priority middle school that was on the 2010

PLA list.• Macomb has 17 Reward Schools on the 2013, one SIG school

remained for a 2nd year. REWARD SCHOOLSHigh Performing

High Improvement

Beating the Odds (2 types)

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Accountability ScorecardPresenter Dr. Jim Gullen

RESOURCES:

•2013 MI Schools Accountability Scorecards Guide•MISD County-wide Talking Points•2013 Accountability Facts and Tough Questions developed by Doug Greer at Ottawa ISD

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Stage Four: DOSteps 9-11

DOImplement PlanMonitor Plan Evaluate Plan

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Presenters Lisa Guzzardo Asaro and Tesha Thomas

Where School Improvement Meets Professional Learning Communities

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2013-2014 MINDSETCarol S. Dweck

• Did the students learn it?• How do you know what they have

learned weekly?• How do students know they have

learned it?• If they did not learn it, what will you do

about it?

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Stage One: GATHERStep 1: Getting Ready

GATHERGet Ready

Collect Data Build Profile

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Smarter Balanced

• Smarter Balanced recently released Practice Test Phase 2

• SBAC states that Phase 2 updates include expanded accommodations to cover all grades and the addition of mathematics performance tasks and associated scoring rubrics.

http://sbac.portal.airast.org/practice-test/

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Michigan Interim Assessment Project (MIAP)

• 2nd opportunity to participate in the MIAP for Science and Social Studies

• 1st opportunity to participate in the MIAP for grades K-2 in the subjects of ELA and Mathematics.

• This pilot window is October and November.• There will be another opportunity this Spring.

Assessment questions: [email protected]

Accountability questions: [email protected]

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Summative—Interim—Formative

Activity

• Using assessment descriptions, dialogue with your team which anchor assessment it aligns with:

• Summative• Interim• Formative

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Assessment Calendar

• Highlight key attributes

• Choose to complete a timeline for perception, locally developed common assessments, or formative assessments

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Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Parker-Moore

MISchooldata.org Data Director

GATHERGet Ready

Collect Data Build Profile

STUDYAnalyze Data

Set GoalsSet Measurable Objectives

Research Best Practice

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Team Work Time

• Network with Colleagues

• Plan what to bring back to share with SI team

• Visit the Smarter Balance Consortium websitewww.smarterbalanced.org