Designed for new academies, this session will focus on ways to meet critical deadlines and use data to inform your academy improvement plan. Academies will share their timelines and strategies for collecting data, meeting with leaders to score the academy assessment and how they use results to create action plans for improvement. The session promises to be informative for new academies looking for help in developing good habits for involving others and creating a plan for their academy development efforts.
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Sharks" from West Seneca East placed second in the Stock Market Challenge
9. Imagine an afternoon when a teacher can sit down at a
computer desktop and quickly sort through reams of data
she’ll use to plan lessons for the next day….
She’ll compare every student’s achievement against state
standards to decide which students need review and which
ones are ready to move on….
That technological capability can only be found in the
rare classroom today, but some experts say that such a data-
rich approach to instruction will soon be common place (Hoff,
2006, p. 12).
Are We There Yet?
10. Focus on Data Center:
• Academy Development and Structure
• Advisory Boards
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Work-Based Learning
Obstacles/Challenges
• Senior information must be obtained in the spring
• Obtain information on paid internships
• District data hardest to find in fall by NAF timelines
• Maintain examples of everything
Advisory Board responsibilities
• Educate your board
• Provide continuous input
• Involve all stakeholders early
Pinellas Counties Continuous Improvement
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11. Academy Assessment Four Steps
1. Academy Director
2. Advisory board members
3. Principal, guidance and district input
4. Share the documentation to live binder by director,
teachers, and board members
Remember, when one person leaves, the program should be able to carry
on without them.
Pinellas Counties Continuous Improvement Plan
12. Academic Preparation
• Test scores (proficiency in reading and math
• Grades
• Attendance
• End of Course Exams
College and Career Readiness
• ACT and SAT Scores
• Students plans after graduation
• Extracurricular/Leadership participation
• Work based learning activities
• Classroom integration
Analyzing Students
• Ethnicity
• Social (Free or reduced lunch)
• Extra help (tutoring, remediation, etc)
Pinellas; Evidence Collection
14. Drives brainstorming and strategic plan development
conversations between groups to decide what we do and how
we can improve
Great tool for veteran advisory board members and staff to
revitalize commitment Sometimes they need to be rejuvenated
and this process reenergizes them
West Seneca: Continuous Improvement
15. Can you speak a bit about Action Plan in a few bullets
TIM
16. Hitch hikers- find one of your new buddies and discuss one
important tip you learned and a question you still have
Notas do Editor
To get the session moving lets get folks moving and meeting each other especially since this session is for newer academies. Have compass points around the room so folks can meet a new person. Post-its available.
Second chance to meet someone, from the theme. Post it again to save email.
Final meeting: have core content, administrator, career teacher, business partner- take a third post it
Now that you have 3 names/email- write these down in a place where you can find them. Consider contacting these folks in October to remind them to start the Academy Assessment process. You are each others support teams.
10 minutes total, get to know each other develop natwork friends
Intro to continuous improvement cycle and how Aa fits. Data center entries occur first, before you can open online AA. Gather a review and collect evidence throughout the year. The purpose of the Assess component is to gather various forms of information for analysis that can inform planning and actions for improvement
Today
Patti 5-7 minutes
Debbie Fischer, has 36 years teaching experience and 11 years in the NAF network as an academy director. The Northeast High School Academy of Finance has been recognized in her district as a Center of Excellence, a model program for the National Career Academy Coalition and is one of our Distinguished academies for the past three years. Students who complete the AOF program leave with certifications, real world experiences, job shadowing each grade level, paid internships, student and business mentors, scholarship opportunities, field trips, integrated curriculum, and college and career plans. Approximately 96% of AOF students continue their education after high school.
Being a member of the National Academy Foundation has provided a network of individuals and programs to share common experiences. Working with individuals who share their own experiences and needs leads to better results not only for our students, but also for the individuals involved.
As you involve individuals from the business community through classroom instruction, mentoring, advisory boards, providing financial support, or paid internships, you will see that the use of data will be extremely important. Using data to improve instruction and hence to improve student outcomes will be essential in maintaining your program. 5 minutes
Feel free to select another photo. A bit about yourself and your academies a story for these new academies about why a schedule for data collection is important good advice to new academies
5 minutes
It takes time to obtain data. Communicating, documenting, and comparing will be part of your daily tasks.
Director obtains input from members of Advisory Board, teachers, parents, students, administration, guidance, and district supervisor.
Teacher obtains information from graduating seniors in May prior to graduation.
Director sets up a meeting off campus with a business partner to develop 5 year Strategic Plan and inputs data on internships placed in the summer. Advisory Board reviews results from NAF review. During a day long workshop, Advisory Board reviews results and determines areas for improvement into their new Strategic Plan for the next 5 years. Members of the team were assigned various parts of the plan. As they shared their strategies, we reviewed the NAF results, Model School Criteria and Center of Excellence criteria to make sure we were still meeting all the elements.
In the fall additional school and academy data is obtain and put into the NAF data system.
Board Results are shared with Advisory Board team. This summer our Advisory Board had a day long workshop to create our new Strategic Plan for the next 5 years. Members of the team were assigned various parts of the plan. As they shared their strategies, we reviewed the NAF results, Model School Criteria and Center of Excellence criteria to make sure we were still meeting all the elements.
Director initiates the types of data that must be obtained
Reaches out to appropriate sources
Involves the Advisory Board throughout the year through reports and updates
Board provides input and understands the process
Keeps communication open with principal, guidance and district staff
Obtaining data is sometimes a very difficult task. Some of the types of data you will collect include:
You got this down, I would like you to discuss s action planning also
15 minutes total
Hitch Hikers, travel together on the open academy road- find a buddy and discuss questions and share those one of you cannot answer for the other.
10 min ice breaker
5 min patti intro
10 min deb and Tim intro
15 min deb process- including evidence
15 min tim process- including actin planning
10 min find one of your new buddies- talk about what you learned and what is still not clear-we will collect your questions
10 minute close, answering questions.
