Strategic Coherence Planning

Focus & Connecthttp://digitallearningforallnow.com

jpcostasr@gmail.com

http:// www.slideshare.net/jpcostasr

Coherence BOCES Summer Share Costa BOCES Summer Content Companion

Content Companion - Participant Notes and Reflections

CCR1 - Given what you have been told about the day and the content of the above graphic – what are you hoping or expecting to learn – what do you want to get out of the day?

CCR2 - Have you seen evidence of these generational changes in your school/district/life? Can you think of others?

CCR3 – What are your three most important skills?

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Check out these resources on Slideshare –

Common Core Venn Diagram 21st Century Skills Crosswalk Four Highest Leverage Student Skills

Three areas for focus….

CCR4 -

Assessment AnalysisCCR5 - What data do you have to support growth in your three most important skills (CCR3)?

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CCR6 -

- If you were to add up all of the time devoted to assessment in your school/district – what percentage of it IS CURRENTLY dedicated to formative and how much for summative?

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- In an IDEAL scenario, (if you could personally determine it) how much what percentage of time would be dedicated to formative and how much for summative?

-Form / Sum -

Connect the Layers: - Student/Professional/Organizational

Putting it all together…

CCR7 -

Warm Feedback Cool Feedback

Three ways to get there….

Goals Measures of Success

Practices/Strategies

Leadership/Focus

What are the most important high leverage skills I am going to focus on?

What are our success criteria for high leverage skills and what assessments we will use to determine how well our students are performing?

How will I use the results of these assessments to adjust my own teaching to increase engagement and student success?

Are there success conditions within my own classroom that I need to change to support this work?

What are the growth targets for my students for our high leverage skills and what is my professional practice focus/goal related to mastering high leverage teaching behaviors?

What are the growth target measurements and professional practice target measurements I will use to gauge my success in reaching my goals?

What professional learning strategies would be most helpful to build my own capacity to build student success as indicated by my student’s results?

How am I supporting professional practice and contributing to success conditions to support student acquisition of our high leverage skills?

As a district, what are we doing to focus the entire learning community on the importance and necessity of our most important high leverage skills?

What are our most important critical student success indicators and how do we report them at the building and district level to all our stakeholders.

What professional learning plans and strategies will create the best opportunity for building the professional capacity to support student success as indicated by our building/district level data?

How am I changing conditions as a building district leader to ensure success, focus and coherence for student success at the building and district level?

CCR8 - Reflection on the 3 Rs…

• Given three possible pathways to coherence (realign, reframe, redesign), which do you think works best for your district or school?

• On the basic ideas of Focus and Connections – where you do you see your district or school’s strengths and weaknesses?

Supporting Resources:

1. Email Jonathan – jpcostasr@gmail.com

2. Other Content from Jonathan Costa - (look for – among other things)

http :// www.slideshare.net/jpcostasr

• One Goal Article

• Leverage Gap Analysis

3. My book about the end of books - http :// digitallearningforallnow.com

4. Other book content resources related to this process….

• The Goal : A Process of Ongoing Improvement , by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_%28novel%29

• Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement , by Mike Schmoker

http://www.ascd.org/Publications/ascd-authors/mike-schmoker.aspx

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don’t , by Jim Collins

http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/good-to-great.html

5. Pareto Principal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto

6. Ted Talk on the importance of focus – it not only works, it is almost always present among those that are successful…

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-importance-of-focus-richard-st-john

7. From Compliance to Coherence – a statewide Connecticut conference based on this planning model sponsored by the Connecticut State Department of Education

http://www.connecticutseed.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Educator_Evaluation_and_Professional_Learning_Conference_Save_the_Date.pdf

8. An article from me about BYOD and Digital Learning from EdTech Magazine…

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/author/jonathan-p-costa-sr

9. A self-directed LiveBinder content site that explains a process from moving from textbooks to digital content in the support of courses in your schools –

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1266627