COSA SISEP PRESENTATIONDAVID DOUGLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT

APRIL 2010

In Transition & Limited ResourcesTransitions• 2008-2009

– Reading First Cohort A ended – Leadership

• Added Assistant Superintendent Secondary• Added Assistant Superintendent Elem• New Curriculum Director• New PBS Coordinator

– Began Exploration/ Installation EBISS• PBS Leadership – EBISS –EBISS Mtg. – EBISS

Executive Team – EBISS Mtg.• 2009-2010

– Middle Schools starting School Wide Title I process

• 2010-2011– Retiring Superintendent and Deputy

Superintendent– New Superintendent

Limited Resources• 2008-2009

– Reserve spending to maintain infrastructure

• 2009-2010– Reserve spending to maintain

infrastructure– Eliminated Elem Literacy Coaches– Shifted School Improvement

Coordinators to ARRA funds• 2010-2011

– Reserve fund exhausted– ARRA funds exhausted– School Improvement Coordinators

back in general fund and in proposed budget

Stages of Implementation:

• Exploration

• Installation

• Initial Implementation

• Full Implementation

• Innovation

• Sustainability

• EBISS• PBS Elem• PBS MS• PBS HS• IPBS Elem• IPBS MS• IPBS HS• FBA/BSP (Elem & MS)• Core Reading Elem• Core Reading/LA MS/HS• Strategic: Reading Elem• Strategic: Reading/LA MS/HS• Intensive: Reading Elem• Intensive: Reading/LA MS/HS

Adapted from: Fixsen, Naoom, Blase, Friedman, & Wallace, 2005

What We Have Learned From SISEP

• Providing district support is challenging if we don’t all have the same target

• It is okay to slow down and be selective about the professional development we will provide and the outcomes we want to see

• The importance of having all the implementation drivers (especially coaching and performance assessment) in place before taking on a new innovation or phase of implementation

• The importance of providing support to schools based on their phase of implementation, not a predetermined timeline for an ideal roll-out

Commonalities Amongst Initiatives

• Making evidence-based practices a priority (do it right, then do it better)

• Ensuring implementation drivers exist• Selection• Training• Coaching• Performance Evaluation

• Effective and efficient teaming practices• Using data for decision making• Strategic planning - thinking outside the box

Looking Forward with Budget Constraints

• Using data to determine the effectiveness of practices and systems that the district can/will support

• Determining sustainability for the next five years and building systems while anticipating a reduction in resources

• Simplifying and integrating teams, tools, training, processes, and evaluation