HOP ON THE BUS WITH ME AND LET'S GO FROM GOOD TO GREAT! OUR CHILDREN ARE COUNTING ON US!
Real World Changes and the How-To Do It!
After this presentation, I wanted to race home and roll up my sleeves!
Build a Culture of Care first and Build Practices that can sustain over time!
Sanger USD the DuFour Model!!!
· Preparing individuals to be functional individuals of society.
· Literacy, Fluency, Caring
· Need consistency of curriculum across grades across the district. Articulated curriculum throughout.
· They had a long way to go… moved many schools from 500s to 700-900s.
· Character Education Program! Resilience!
· Exited PI in two years and currently none of the school are PI
· Get all kids to believe in themselves
· In the Board room is a wall of all of the data and its updated every year.
How Did We Move This Fast?
• Developed an Organizational Focus
• Changed our view of the world, our culture!
• Developed Structures
• Improved Delivery
• Focused Response and Supports
Kept the focus for the past 7 years!
DPA District Progress Assessment is given three times per year prior to CST testing based on the district determined essential standards. 60 question test.
When you are on fire in trouble you move fast.
Professional Development – Golden Gate – you paint it and re-paint it. Train and re-train.
All trainings – all of the administrators are in these trainings as well.
Move forward, and back track if we miss something. Don’t forget about norms.
Need to develop the developmental process. Take the teachers to DuFour training. 50-60 teachers per year.
Principals receive the COMMON INTENT aligned goals and objectives
Then the Principals write up their common intent for their sites.
Their principals are the best in the state, they say. (SLCUSD can top that, wait and see!
RtI - they cut special ed identification by 50%!
Principal stated that focusing on 5 common elements was the key for him. Model it, do it with any classroom. Principals teach, talk the talk and walk the walk.
Assumptions Regarding Our Work
Teachers Matter
Teachers Care
Schools Matter
If Teachers and schools have a significant impact on student achievement,
they serve a fundamentally moral purpose.
We now know how to create schools that help more kids learn at higher levels
The Power of Professional Learning Communites
The most promising strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement is building the capacity of school personnel to function as a professional learning community.
The path to change in the classroom lies within and through professional learning communities.
‐Milbrey McLaughlin (1995)
Learning, collaborative culture, results!
Team Defined
A team is a group of people working interdependently toward a common goal for
which they are mutually accountable.
Rick DuFour
What do we want them to learn? The essential standards. (Common core)
Criteria for Identifying Essential Common Outcomes
To separate the essential from the peripheral, carefully
apply these three to each standard:
1. Endurance‐ are students expected to retain the skills/knowledge long after the test is complete?
2. Leverage‐ is the skill/knowledge applicable to many academic disciplines?
3. Readiness for the Next Level of Learning‐ is this skill/knowledge preparing the student for success in the next grade/course?
Reeves 2002
Keys to Formative Assessments
To determine if an assessment is formative ask:
1. Is it used to identify students who are experiencing difficulty in their learning?
2. Are students who are having difficulty provided with additional time and support for learning?
3. Are students given an additional opportunity to demonstrate their learning?
Care enough to let kids be re-taught and be able to re-test.
Interventions built on shared core values!
Core values are discussed, agreed upon, and written down by the staff.
All students can learn.
Some students need additional time & support.
It is the action of the ADULTS that make the difference!
We don’t blame the students
Intervention must be in addition to core not in place of core!!!!!
Materials are tools to generate student learning.
Sanger’s middle school is now a “School to Watch”.
Quality of instruction is the most critical component. Explicit Direct Instruction EDI.
I do, we do, you do
M. Hunter –
Teach, ask, pause, pick a random volunteer, (pair-share), listen, echo
Invest in the sustainability.
Change Culture
• Move from focus on adults to focus on kids
• Themes to Build Focus
– Fish
– Care Enough to Make a Difference!
– When you Believe it, You will see it!
– Every Child, Every Day, Whatever it Takes!
– Together we Can
No comments:
Post a Comment