Tahquitz 2.0

Come Ready or Never StartMichael John Roe, Ed. D.

Beginnings

• December 2005 The “Originals”

• District Portables to Acacia Portables

• The “War Room”– Late Night Santa Fe– A Team Emerges (Poolside)

• Year One – Transition to WVHS

Strategic Vision

• Excellence in Every Classroom

• Shared Leadership Opportunity for Teachers, Students and Parents

• Systems and Infrastructure to Promote Continuous Improvement

Our Focus• Increase Site Capacity

– Shared Decision Making and Communication

– War Room PLC– PTSA– Student Voice (Kitchen

Cabinet)

• Innovation and Creation– Student Centric Technology– Cross Curricular Experiential

Learning– Planning for 2011-2012

• What’s possible?

• Further Develop our PLC’s– Tied to Formative Data

• Timely• Driven by Instruction

– Outcomes and Goal Setting• Targeted Instruction

• Empower Teachers– Common Focus (TPO’s)– Responsible Risk Taking– A Voice at the Table!

Expectations

• Authenticity

• Significance

• Excitement

• Community

The LineMichael Roe says Tahquitz High School, which opened in 2007, should become the model in a district where Hemet High carries its name and has 119 years of history behind it.

Roe, 36, who begins his first school year as principal on Monday, believes strongly in his staff, his students and himself.

"One thing I will say to you is that we don't look to Hemet High to be the standard," Roe said. "It's Tahquitz High School. And that may be a paradigm shift.”

"And I make no qualms about it -- we will be the flagship high school in Hemet Unified, and that will be done with healthy competition. But I do believe we have the best teachers, I do believe we have the best kids, we have the best programs on this campus, and we have a principal who knows enough that he knows very little, and hence he leans on the people around him, and the human capital on this site is outstanding. We have teachers here who are ready to break the mold. We're ready.“

They appear to have some work to do.

In 2008-09, Tahquitz was 2 points from being last among the district's four comprehensive high schools in the Academic Performance Index, which is compiled using the results of the state high school exit exam and state standardized tests. Hemet was first at 758, followed by West Valley at 728, Tahquitz at 701 and Hamilton at 700.

Wednesday August 18, 2010

Program Improvement

• Increase CAHSEE Proficiency– Math and English (AYP)– Targeted Interventions

• Support from Science and Social Science

• Focus Standards and Assessments aligned to CAHSEE

• Increase Pass Rates (Grad Rate)– Multiple Opportunities to

Demonstrate Mastery of Standards

Call to ActionExit Program Improvement

Web 2.0Student Centric Learning

1. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

"The idea that a company's senior leaders have all the answers and can solve problems by themselves has gone completely by the wayside...The person who's close to the work has to have strong analytic skills.  You have to be rigorous: test your assumptions, don't take things at face value, don't go in with preconceived ideas that you're trying to prove." - Ellen Kumata, consultant to Fortune 200 companies

 

2. Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence

"The biggest problem we have in the company as a whole is finding people capable of exerting leadership across the board...Our mantra is that you lead by influence, rather than authority." - Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Cisco

 

3. Agility and Adaptability

"I've been here four years, and we've done fundamental reorganization every year because of changes in the business...I can guarantee the job I hire someone to do will change or may not exist in the future, so this is why adaptability and learning skills are more important than technical skills." - Clay Parker, President of Chemical Management Division of BOC Edwards

4. Initiative and Entrepreneurship

"For our production and crafts staff, the hourly workers, we need self-directed people...who can find creative solutions to some very tough, challenging problems."- Mark Maddox, Human Resources Manager at Unilever Foods North America

5. Effective Oral and Written Communication

"The biggest skill people are missing is the ability to communicate: both written and oral presentations.  It's a huge problem for us." - Annmarie Neal, Vice President for Talent Management at Cisco Systems

 

6. Accessing and Analyzing Information

"There is so much information available that it is almost too much, and if people aren't prepared to process the information effectively, it almost freezes them in their steps." - Mike Summers, Vice President for Global Talent Management at Dell

7. Curiosity and Imagination

"Our old idea is that work is defined by employers and that employees have to do whatever the employer wants...but actually, you would like him to come up with an interpretation that you like-he's adding something personal-a creative element." -Michael Jung, Senior Consultant at McKinsey

Rigor, Relevance and Relationship

Inspiration