school improvement facilitators network

School Improvement Facilitators Network

November 13, 2013

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• Session Objectives:

•Review Implementation process

•Instructional Learning Cycle—what is it?

•Progress Monitoring

•Updating SIP

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Agenda

• 8:30-9:30 Introductions and reviewing process• 9:30-9:45 Instructional Learning Cycles (ILC’s)• 9:45-10:00 Break• 10:00-10:45 Progress Monitoring• 10:45-11:30 Facilitated Work time• 11:30-12:00 Lunch• 12:00-12:30 Updating SIP • 12:30-3:00 Facilitated Work Time• 3:00-3:30 Evaluation, Feedback and Next

Steps

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Working Agreements

• Participate Fully• Press for Clarification• Collaborate• Share your Thinking

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Quick Survey on PollEv.com

Purpose:

Where are we now in Implementation?

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How To Vote via PollEv.com

Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling doTIP

EXAMPLE

Overview of the School

Improvement Process

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Continuous District Improvement Facilitators Network Meetings

Vision/Mission of CSIF/CDIF Network –

It is the mission of the Jackson County School

Improvement Consortium to support a community of

collaboration using a Continuous School Improvement Process in

order to increase student achievement.

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Continuous School Improvement Facilitators Network Meetings

School Improvement Support

September 25 – Planning for Implementation

November 13 – Got SIP now what?

January 22 – School Process Rubrics

March 26 – School Data Profile / Analysis

May 7 – School Improvement Plan

The Big Picture

Drivers of Effective Implementation

Drivers of Effective Implementation

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Mission Vision Beliefs

Student Achievement

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TechnicalDoes the leadership have the knowledge and skills to effectively monitor and evaluate implementation?

AdaptiveDoes the leadership have the ability to minimize resistance and to create support for high quality implementation?

CompetencyC

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Who are the right people to implement the strategy?

Training

What learning opportunities and PD is needed?

Coaching

What ongoing support will be provided?

Performance Assessment

What will be done to monitor fidelity?

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are in place to collect implementation

and impact data?

Data-Driven Decision Making

How will leadership support successful implementation

of the strategy/activity?

Leadership Support

System Support

What internal systems are in place to support the

successful implementation of the strategy/

activity?

Performance Assessment

What processes are in place to evaluate if systems are fully functioning to support

implementation?

Team self-check: Work Time

• How does your Action Plan Template from September 25th include all 3 Drivers?

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Instructional Learning Cycle (ILC)

What is an ILC?

The Instructional Learning Cycle process is a defined structure that promotes collaboration and collective responsibility within a teacher team by setting up structures for short term cycles of improvement.

*This will be a requirement for Focus and Priority schools during the implementation phase.

Instructional Learning Cycle (ILC)

• Collaborative short term process of instructional improvement

• Reflect on the quality of classroom instruction

• Focus teacher teams on implementation of instructional strategies from the School Improvement Plan and linked to a school-wide instructional priority

• Within an ILC, teacher teams focus on a single instructional strategy related to standards

• Continuous ILCs signals purposeful and focused instructional improvements

• Provides teachers teams a process to monitor student achievement

Instructional Learning Cycle (ILC)

• Short cycles of improvement are meant to last 2-4 weeks

• Includes 3 collaborative meetings held by content area or grade level

• Each meeting provides an opportunity to– Reflect on the quality of instruction– Analyze implementation and impact

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Instructional Learning Cycle (ILC)

Instructional Learning Cycles are linkable to…

• A school improvement plan:• An instructional priority; and• Content expectations or Common

Core Standards

• Common pre and post assessments (along with data analysis)

• Purposeful identification and implementation of research-based instructional strategy

• Collaborative instructional dialogue and reflection

Key features of ILCs

Instructional Learning Cycle

Instructional Learning Cycle is guided by the following questions

• What do we want students to know and be able to do?

• How will students demonstrate that they have acquired the essential knowledge and skills?

• How will we agree on the criteria that we will use in judging the quality of student work, and can we apply the criteria consistently?

• How will we intervene for students who struggle and enrich the learning for students who are proficient?

• How will we use the evidence of student learning to improve our individual and collective professional practice?

Theory of Action

If teacher teams engage in regular instructional dialogues around a data-informed instructional strategy, then the quality of classroom instruction will improve, and student learning will increase.

Break

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Progress Monitoring

Strategies and Activities

DETERMINE

How and What you will

MONITOR

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What will we do if they do learn it?

What will we do if students don't learn?

How will we know if students have learned it?

What do we want students to learn?

Based on Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement by Eaker and Dufour

What do we monitor?

Adults are implementing the strategy with fidelity

Impact implementation is having on students

Leadership and Learning Center 2010

Implementation and Impact

Adult Activities

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXMR2THtHcg

Student Impact

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkaUhBj6hOg&list=PLCB718B345BE1E309

Readiness to Implement

Have a shared vision? Understand the need? Concerns have been

addressed? Staff and

administrators are able to integrate this new work with existing work?

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School Improvement Plan

Steps When?

Timeline

Who?

Person Responsible

Evidence of Data

(artifacts)?

 1. Attend PD August Math Department Materials from PD

2. Implement geometric shapes hands on

October Math Teachers Recording Sheet

3. Administer and Analyze Assessment

December Math Teachers Will administer an oral geometric check for understanding, using a previously created rubric to define mastery, teachers will meet in their PLC/Department Meeting to discuss results. Teachers will record evidence in an excel spreadsheet.

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Action Plans

Sample Elementary SchoolWHAT WOULD THIS SCHOOL PROGRESS MONITOR OR

MEASURE?

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Math• Measurable Objectives-

– MEAP, NWEA, common unit exams

• Strategy– All teachers will teach the 8 math practices using

manipulatives.

• Activities-– Friday combined math activities– ISD Math Academy Professional Development 

Monitoring Implementation

Demographics

Student Outcomes

Perceptions

School Processes

Progress Monitoring Templates

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Lunch

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Help us tell the story:Tweet one success so far to #JCISDNov13

Welcome Back!

• Write a two-minute speech about the importance of progress monitoring strategies and activities from your plan

• Find someone from a different district and share your thinking

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Revisions to SIP

• Key Questions:– Are there pieces of your plan you are not

implementing?– Are there key activities/steps that you forgot

to include?

• ASSIST is an open tool– Revise as needed– No need to make minor revisions

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Additional Online Training is available:

• Free MI-CSI on Michigan Virtual University– https://mi.learnport.org/Kview/CustomCo

deBehind/Customization/Login/MILPLogin.aspx

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Facilitated Work Time

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Questions

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Evaluation, Next Steps, and Feedback

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Questions/Comments?Please contact:

Susan Townsend (Susan.Townsend@jcisd.org) Maeghan McCormick (Maeghan.McCormick@jcisd.org) Sandy White (Sandra.White@jcisd.org) Steve Doerr (Stephen.Doerr@jcisd.org) Jennifer Fox (Jennifer.Fox@jcisd.org)

Or visit the MDE - School Improvement website