502. Improve Your AIM on School Improvement
"Different Thinking for Different Results" will share common characteristics / practices found in K12 High Performing, Rapidly Improving, and High Reliability Schools. There are no silver bullets, but this session will help schools reflect on their Culture, Leadership, Rigor, Community practices, and the WHY of needing to increase staff's capacity for the sake of improving student learning. CHANGED People, Change People - Be Intentional.
Presenter(s): Norman McDuffie
Location: Grandover West
3. Who’s In the Room?
• School Level
• District Level
• State Level
• Teachers
4. • If you are looking for
something positive, you
will find it.
• If you are looking for
something negative, you
will find it.
• So, the question is….
What are you looking for?
100% Guarantee
5. 1. Create a sense of educational awareness
and urgency.
2. Inspire educators to seek their next
step(s) towards improvement.
3. Promote Different Thinking for Different
Results.
CHANGED People, Change People!
Intentional IMPACT
8. Culture
Culture for Learning
Safe and Supportive Environment
Culture for Professional Learning
Team Development
Individual Awareness and Urgency
Culture of Reflection
Self-Assessment
• How do we ensure a Culture of growth
and effectiveness within our district and
school staff?
Intentional Question for Deeper Dialogue
• Why do we need to ensure a Culture of
growth and effectiveness within our
district and school staff?
• Why do we need to
9. Leadership
Instructional Leadership
Campaign the Vision
Focus on the Focus
Team Building
Organizational Leadership
Distributive Leadership
Communication Systems
Allocation of Resources
Intentional Questions for Deeper Dialogue
• How do we ensure that all stakeholders
understand their role in our school’s
vision? No Sabotage Agreement.
• Why do we need to ensure that all
stakeholders understand their role in our
school’s vision? No Sabotage Agreement.
• Why do we need to
10. Rigor Curriculum
Power Standards
Goal Summaries
Instruction
District and School Management
Administrative Support
Equality vs. Equity
High Yield Instructional Learning Strategies
Intentional Question for Deeper Dialogue
• How do we define, ensure, and monitor
high quality instruction in all classrooms?
Assessment
Assessment System
Shared Understanding
Data Analysis to Influence Decisions
Student Involved in Assessment Process
• Why do we need to define, ensure, and
monitor high quality instruction in all
classrooms?
• Why do we need to
11. Community
Intentional Question for Deeper Dialogue
• How do we ensure that families and
community partners are invited and
involved in our learning and improvement
process?
Communication
Community Engagement
Connection Avenues and Tools
• Why do we need to ensure that families
and community partners are invited and
involved in our learning and improvement
process?
• Why do we need to
13. “The whole school needs to
understand what culture is and why
it matters. You need to become
aware that it is guiding your actions.
This will help you use your culture
versus being used by it.”
Hay Group Education, 2004
CULTURE
17. Does Not Meet Expected Growth 108 -7.85 -847.8
Does Not Meet Expected Growth 85 -8.11 -689.35
Does Not Meet Expected Growth 116 -5.59 -648.44
Does Not Meet Expected Growth 108 -5.02 -542.16
Does Not Meet Expected Growth 92 -5.22 -480.24
Does Not Meet Expected Growth 99 -4.85 -480.15
Does Not Meet Expected Growth 112 -4.15 -464.8
Does Not Meet Expected Growth 78 -4.5 -351
Does Not Meet Expected Growth 81 -3.94 -319.14
Does Not Meet Expected Growth 82 -3.83 -314.06
Does Not Meet Expected Growth 47 -4.7 -220.9
Does Not Meet Expected Growth 83 -2.27 -188.41
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Every Class, Every Teacher,
Every Student COUNTS!
18. Three teachers with the most negative student growth
almost eliminated the positive growth of 14 teachers.
20. “A great
leader takes
people where
they don’t necessarily
want to go, but ought to
be.” Rosalynn Carter
LEADERSHIP
21. 21
“The single most influential
component of an effective
school are the individual
teachers within the school.”
Robert Marzano
“…the single greatest determinant of learning is not
socioeconomic factors or funding levels. It is
instruction.” Mike Schmoker
Effective Instruction Matters
25. The most valuable resource that all teachers
have is each other. Without collaboration our
growth is limited to our own perspectives.
Robert John Meehan
26. “All Educators are
charged with the
mission of creating a learning
environment where every child can
thrive. Given the right supports and
strategies, every child can learn high
standards.”
Priority Schools: Reaching for Excellence 2013
RIGOR
28. • 1 3 s t a t e s t e s t 1 0 0 % o f t h e i r j u n i o r c l a s s .
• N C h a s t h e l o w e s t A C T a v e r a g e o f t h e 1 3 s t a t e s .
ACT State Averages
29. ACT - Intervention Treadmill
• Define College and Career Ready
• Forgotten Middle, ACT 2008
• 3% math, 8th to 12th
• 9% & 10% 4th to 8th
• Curricular
• Instructional
• Individual
39. “Schools have a responsibility to
take the lead and help
stakeholders feel invited and
understand their roles in
improving student learning.”
9 Characteristics of High Performing Schools, 2006
COMMUNITY
41. Skills Gap
• Globally Competitive?
• Retirement?
• Crime?
• Government assistance?
• Unemployment?
Can We Afford Your School’s
Improvement Pace?
42. Effective
Districts
Effective
Schools
E f f e c t i v e
C l a s s r o o m s
District
Schools
Classrooms
Bottom Up Success needs Top Down Support
You Get the Results you are
Designed to Get.
43. Flavor of the
Month
Unpredicted
Improvement
if Any
The Why is
Understood and
Communicated
Continuous
Process for
Improvement
Culture Leadership
Rigor Community
How
How
How
How
Consistent
Focus Area
Little
Improvement
In Focus Area
45. IMPACT Factors
Different Thinking for Different Results
Everyone Needs a Coach
Improve Your Aim, Identify the Why
The Shark in the Building
Keep the Door Open
Building the Building’s Capacity
Needs Assessment
Elephant Training
46. IMPACT Factors
Data Influenced Decisions
Rigor vs. Compliance
Circle of Influence
Talking Walls
Managers vs. Leaders
Focus on Your Focus
Campaign the Vision
Gut-Check Reflection
48. IMPACT Factors
Who’s Failing Who?
Grade Your Grades
Not Easy, But Necessary
Theory into Action Plan
Study School Success
Sift the Junk and Multiply the Great
Excuses or Results
Educator’s Toolkit
49. IMPACT Factors
School wide vs. 100% Buy In
Underfunding, Overexpecting
Challenge “Pretty Good”
CHANGED People, Change People
Data Transparency
Word of Mouth
Hitting the Wall
Proactive Environment
50. IMPACT Factors
Identify Fools Gold
Microteaching
Common Language
Sell the Vision, Not the Resources
Do I Belong?
Identify Your Chicken
Greatest Investment
Difficult to Doable
51. IMPACT Factors
Data Diving, Go Deeper
Community Collaboration
Law and Order in Gotham City
Follow the Leader
Develop the Bench
All In or Don’t Sabotage
Cake Walk Goals
Know Thy IMPACT
52. IMPACT Factors
Everyone is Important, but….
Research the Research
District / School Identity
Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Equality vs. Equity
Culturally Competency
Real Child Behind the Bubble
Hire the Best
53. IMPACT Factors
Who’s Teaching the Neediest Students
Band-Aid Treatment
Visionary Leadership
Handling What’s Not Working
Goals vs. Priorities
Teachers are First Responders
Bottom Up Success, Top Down Support
Action Plan Adaptation
54. IMPACT Factors
Know Your Vital Signs
Daily 10%
Walkthroughs with I.M.P.A.C.T.
Everyone is Important, but…
Irreplaceables
Fidelity or Lip Service
Best Practices to Chance
65. 1. Create a sense of educational awareness
and urgency.
2. Inspire educators to seek their next
step(s) towards improvement.
3. Promote Different Thinking for Different
Results.
CHANGED People, Change People!
Intentional IMPACT