Good

Morning

! Please nd your table. You will be sitting by

building grade level teams or specialist area
teams.

! For your school grade level team

! OR your specialist area team
" Choose a recorder
" Choose a facilitator
10/25/2016
November PLC Time

November 10 AM November 11 AM
! Aligning the System for ! Autism PD(Special
Student Improvement Education teachers and
literacy teachers)
! Grade Level Teams rening
Trimester II assessment
schedule, assessments,
and student data folders
Elementary Digital Resources

! Enhance Student
Learning
! Easy Access
! Provide Flexibility and
Improve Eciencies

Adult Learning
Framework for Digital
Tools
AgendaNovember 10, AM

! Presentation
" Service Excellence
" Start with the Why
" Intentions
" Principles of Improvement
" CI Frameworknon negotiables
" Assessment Theory
" Focused Reection on the Current System
Compliance does not foster innovation, trust
does. You cant sustain long-term
innovation, for example, in a climate of
distrust.
--Stephen Covey

The best way to know if you can trust

someone is to trust them.
--Ernest Hemingway
Start with the Why

! What does a commitment to every

student mean?

! How do you know every student is

progressing?

! How can we assure that

every student progresses?

! What if we fail?
Pursuing Excellence
One Student at a Time
! Mission
! Strong relationships with students
! Strong teams and collaborative practices
! Consistent student opportunities in all
classrooms
! Specic understanding of individual student
progress
! Disciplined inquiry
Understanding Our Intentions
Deming 14 Points System Principles
Application to Education

! Focus on Improvement (Constancy of Purpose)

! Stop dependence on inspection to achieve quality
! Improve constantly and forever
! Training on the job
! Leadership is not a title
! Drive out fear
! Break down barriers
! Eliminate slogans
! Remove barriers to pride
! Everyone works to reach the transformation
Principles of Improvement

! Make the work problem specic

and user centered
! Variation in performance is the core
problem
! See the system that produces the
results
! We cannot improve what we cannot
measure
! Anchor improvement in disciplined
inquiry
! Accelerate improvements through
networked communities
 Evidence-Based LeadershipBreSM akthrough
Foundation
Execution Framework
STUDER GROUP:

Measurable
Development ALWAYS Performance
Evaluation Standardization Accelerators
System Actions Management

Aligned Goals Aligned Behavior Aligned Process

Scorecards Professional Agreed upon Re-recruit high Processes that Software
tactics and and middle/ are consistent
Principle 1, 2, & 7 Development Curriculum
and Coaching behaviors to solid and standardized
achieve goals performers Textbooks
Principle Process
4&8 Principle 3, 5, Develop those Improvement Programs
6, & 9 who are not yet Lean
there Six Sigma
Baldrige
Problem
Solving Framework
Principle
Principle 4 1&2
Rev 4.8.11
 Reading from the book
of Hattie
Teacher Impact
30%
School and District
10%
Is the system working for us our are
we working for the system?
! Report Cards ! Does all of this clearly
! Data Walls indicate how our students are
! SLOs performing?
! Does the system work for you
! Classroom Goals
or do you work for it? More
! Quarterly Reports importantly does it work for
kids?
! How can we work together to
eliminate muda and bring
clarity?
Line of Sight

Big Aims
District Scorecard

Building Scorecard PLC Goals PLC Goals

Department Goals PLC Goals PLC Goals

SLO

Classroom Goal

Student Goal
Predictive Assessments

ACT
This is our work

State Test

Running
Records

Will our work in the

classroom accurately
predict the outcomes of
our goal?
Adaptive Culture

! Name the Elephant in the room

! Share responsibility for the organization's
future
! Exercise independent judgment
! Develop leadership capacity
! Institutionalize reection and continuous
learning
Name The Elephant

We have technical solutions but still

aspire for adaptive change.

We believe and trust that you can

lead us to the improvement.
Corollary Questions

1. What do we want students to know and be

able to do?Viable Curriculum--Complete

2. How will we know if they can do it? What is in

place that will help us predict our students
results?Aligned assessments

3. How will we respond to get better results?

Improvement framework
We need to do this on three
interdependent levels

! Classroom teachers
with students

! Building

! District
How do we get from here... to here?

Standards ALL students

specify K-12 leave high
expectations for school college
college and and career and
career readiness life ready

...and how can OUR assessment

system contribute to this eort?
What are common assessments?

Not standardized tests, but rather

teacher created, teacher-owned
assessments that are collaboratively
scored and that provide immediate
feedback to students and teachers.
-Douglas Reeves, CEO and
founder The Leadership
Learning Center
What are common assessments?
Any assessment given by two or more
instructors with the intention of
collaboratively examining the results for:
" shared learning
" instructional planning for individual students
" curriculum, instruction, and/or assessment
modifications
- Cassandra Erkens
What is the purpose of our
November 11 th

work Focus

! Assure that our ! This is done.

standards and
curriculum are relevant
for our students
! Your time together
! Guide teams through
should focus on recent
the improvement
framework to assure results
success for all students
! Align assessments and ! Renements here will
instruction to come as you track
accomplish our what is in place
respective goals
! Stay engaged

! Use professional discourse

! Seek solutions

! Add other norms that work for your team

Whats on the Classroom
Teachers Table?

! Three 11x17 sheets of paper

Two titled
District Assessment/Tools
One titled
Formative Assessment
! One turquoise Question sheet (8.5x11)
Whats on Specials Table?

! Three 11x17 sheets of paper

Two titled
District Common Assessment-
Specials
One titled
Formative Assessment
! One Question sheet (8.5x11)
The Thinking
1) Start with the District/tools chart
As a team, discuss the chart indicators. Record your team
understanding and the current REALITY at your school.

2) Move to the Formative assessment chart

Use the same process as in number 1.

3) Using the information from the above work discuss

and answer the Questions (turquoise sheet).
Record your answers on chart paper.

4) Post your chart paper answers by your group.

! Be honest and professional while doing the work. It

will help frame the next steps.
Grade Level PLC Questions

! Share the results that you presently have that are

predictive of the goal. Narrow them by sub skills.
! Discuss the sub groups
! Plus/Delta on the results available
! Based on the current results do you predict you will
achieve your goal?
! What strategies have you used that have had the
most positive impact on student growth?
! What changes might you make in instruction that
will positively impact student growth?
! What can we do to improve the dialogue when we
meet again in mid year?
 Gallery Walk

! Look at each grade level/content area answers.

! Keeping your team work in mind, notice and discuss:
" What do you see that is similar?
" What is dierent?
" What is working throughout the district?
" What are common challenges?
" Do you see action steps that could be part of your team
work?

! Big Picture: Lets make the system work for us!

TEAM Action Planning
for tomorrow