The presentation for Senior High staff from 24 October 2012.

2.  We accept learning as the fundamental purpose of
our school and are willing to examine all practices
in light of their impact on learning.
 We are committed to working together to fulfill
our fundamental purpose. We cultivate a
collaborative culture through development of
high-performing teams
 We assess our effectiveness based on results rather
than intentions

3.  What is it we expect students to learn?
 How will we know when they learn?
 How will we respond when they don’t learn?
 How will we respond when they already know
it?

4.  Educators work collaboratively and take collective
responsibility for student learning.
 Teams implement a guaranteed and viable
curriculum, unit by unit
 Teams monitor student learning through ongoing
common formative assessments.
 Educators use the results of common assessments

5.  One of the most significant factors that impacts
student achievement is that teachers commit to
implementing a guaranteed and viable
curriculum to ensure that no matter who
teaches a given class, the curriculum will
address certain essential content
(Marzano,2003) **

6.  Taking the seductive shortcut
and merely handing out
documents to individual
teachers, pretending that
documents create a guarantee
and viable curriculum.

7.  1. gives students access to the same essential
learnings regardless of who is teaching the
class and
 2. can be taught in the time allotted…

8.  Teachers have to teach from the same page on
the same day
 Teachers need to use the same instructional
strategies or same materials.

9.  During a unit presented within a specific
window of time established by the team
( for example, three weeks)
Each member of the team will work to ensure
every student acquires the knowledge and
skills the team has agreed are the most
essential

10.  The question is not “How can I cover all the
material in this textbook?”
 The question becomes, “ What materials should
I use and instructional opportunities must I
provide to make sure that ALL students reach
the benchmarks set for this course…..

11.  Identifying essential learnings- “the critical
skills, knowledge, and dispositions each
student must acquire as a result of each course,
grade level, and unit of instruction(
Dufour,2010)
 Reeves calls these Power Standards—
identify these from current state standards or
common core **
Interesting fact------

12. Endurance
standard that students will need to
know for a longer period of time.

13. Leverage
Standard is taught and used in
more than one subject

14. Readiness
For the next level of learning

15.  If a standard has one or more of these
characteristics it is considered a power
standard
 Research suggests that teams look for about
1/3 of their standards to fit one or more of
these criteria

16.  Teachers individually review the list of
standards for a subject area.
 Meet together, but work independently
 Shouldn’t take to long
 Gut reaction
 Check the standards you believe to be
power standards based on the criteria

17.  Teacher teams need to come to agreement and
build a consensus about which standards are
power standards,
 Compare common checks
 Come to agreement vs just voting
This step might take some time
Note: Important that everyone has a voice

18. Alignment-
 Check with other teams- grade level or cross-
curricular
 With what will likely be on state tests- look
over released items or test blueprint
 Common Core-**Read Dufour response

19.  Teams can obtain a collective focus on what
students must learn and then what learning
will be monitored with common formative
assessments
 Next large group session in two weeks will
center around
 Interpretation and intent of standards
(unwrapping and assessments.)
Common Formative Assessment

20.  OPI website:
 Home page
 Tab across top Curriculum & Assessment
Drop down menu Content Standards Click
Find Content Standards on left hand side- Click
Will show list of all subjects-

21.  Montana Analysis and Reporting System
Can find:
 CRT release items
 Item Analysis
 Montana Common core field test items
grade 10-11-12
 I will email the link with the user name &
password for this site: