Texas Transformation Project

SeminarSeptember 2010

GOOD MORNING!!!

Team Game“Remember that????”

Team Game“Remember that????”

1. 20 minute teach piece by each group…..YOU CAN TAKE NOTES!!!

2. The groups will be divided by Day 3 session.

3. Each group will complete the clicker quiz game…”Remember that?”

4. We will reconvene and see which teams remembered the most!!!

Be Back at 9:00 AM if you are a principal, district or PSP

Be Back at 9:30 AM if you’re a Teacher Leader

Good Luck

BREAK

Check out

Next Steps and Priorities

Quick Wins

Scheduling and systems

Increasing Learning Time

Teacher Leaders

Incentives and rewards

PBIS

Social Worker

Evaluation systems

District Shepherd

Job-Embedded Professional Development

Establishing Priorities

1. Get out your 4 day agenda

2. On your own, look at each topic and develop the top three priorities and areas that need immediate action and number them on your agenda

3. Designate a scribe

4. Go around the table clockwise and share ONE item from each persons list

5. If a priority is repeated, have the scribe write it on your poster paper (each time the same priority is mentioned, make a tick mark)

6. Continue going around the table until all ideas have been shared

7. Formulate a team list of established priorities for immediate action by numbering the ones with the most marks.

Communication Plan

THE NEXT STEP

P U R P O S E

P U R P O S E

• Reflects mission, vision, and goals as related to TRANSFORMATION

• Integrated into daily operations

• Informs everything

W H O

W H O

Staff membersParents/families

Community members

School Board membersProfessional Service Provider

District Shepherd

ELEMENTS

E L E M E N T S

• Has a strategic direction

• Clear messages tailored to target audiences

• Effective delivery mediums (email, presentations, newsletters, staff meetings, etc.)

T I M E L I N E

T I M E L I N E

First Day

First Week

First Quarter

Frequency

TEMPLATE

• Positioning• Tagline• Elevator Speech• Audiences• Benefits & Attributes• Features

90-Day Strategy

Critical Success Factors

Annual Performance Goals & Improvement Activities

Campus Improvement

Plans

90-dayStrategy

QIRs

Performance Goals (APGs)Improvement Activities• Found in TTIPS

Application

Campus Improvement Plans (CIPs)• Contains APGs and

Improvement Activities

90-day Strategy• Arises out of CIPs• These are the

immediate steps needing to be taken/what has to be done now.

Quarterly Implementation Reports (QIRs)• Pull from APGs,

Activities, 90-day Strategy and CIPs

Critical Success Factors (CSFs)

90-day Strategy

Transformation Requirements (Musts)

Evaluation systems

Reward or remove school personnel

Job-embedded professional development

Strategies to retain staff

Use data to identify and implement research-based instructional programs

Use of student data to differentiate instruction

Increased learning time

Family and community engagement

Operational flexibility

Ongoing technical assistance

Transformation Requirements (Musts)

Response to intervention.

Technology-based supports and interventions

Increase rigor

Increase graduation rates

Early warning systems to identify students at risk of dropping out

Transformation Permissible Activities (Mays)

August October

November January

February April

May July

S M A R T U

Minutes

Types

ScoresRates

Stra

tegi

esPercentages

Numbers

Competencies

Critical Success Factor Specific Milestone Quick Win Strategy

Academic Performance

Leadership Effectiveness

Increase Learning Time

Parental and Community Involvement

Teacher Quality

School Climate

Use of Data Driven Instruction

90-Day Strategy

Demo

In the next 90 school days I will: focus on chronic absenteeism as identified from 2009-2010 attendance data by implementing a faculty mentoring program.

Improve School Climate – Increased Attendance

So that: By the end of the first six weeks of the 2010-11 school year, the number of tardies decreases by 50% as compared to last year’s average, and the attendance rate increases to 90%.

1. Review attendance data from the 2010-1011 school year and identify the students with the highest # of absences per grade. 2. Notify chronically absent/tardy students of the school’s start date3. Identify source of funds to provide financial incentive/award to each mentor teacher4. Identify source of funds and provide student recognition awards to students achieving predetermined attendance goals.5. Share initiative with teachers during one of the opening in-service days.6.Identify 5 teachers per grade level to serve as mentors.7. Assign each faculty member 10 students for whom they will serve as mentor to monitor attendance. 8. Meet with mentors to share vision for their role and responsibilities.9. Designate administrative staff to have face-to-face meetings with chronically absent students 10. Conduct face-to-face meetings. 11. Monitor individual and group progress weekly using district/campus attendance reporting program.12. Create attendance committee to identify causes of absenteeism 13. Conduct first attendance committee meeting14. Award students achieving predetermined attendance goals

1. Principal and Attendance Clerk – 8/12/102. Attendance Clerk 8/16/10

3. Principal – 8/16/10

4. Principal – 8/16/10

5. Principal – 8/16-19/10

6. Principal – 8/20/10

7. Lead Counselor – 8/23/108/

8. Principal – 8/23/10

9. Principal - 8/25/10

10. Mentors - 9/1/10 11. Attendance Clerk & Principal - 9/3, 10, 17, 24/10 12. Assistant Principal - 9/10/10 – Assistant Principal]13. Assistant Principal - 9/17/1014. Principal - 10/1/10

Model Selection and Description Report

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=7354&menu_id=798

III. B. Provide ongoing mechanisms for family and community involvement-- Social worker on campus

-- Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS)

IV. B. Ensure school receives ongoing, intensive technical assistance from the LEA and SEA-- Designated district personnel (district shepherd)-- TTIPS District Snapshot-- District Institute-- Case management-- On-Site Technical Assistance by Professional Service Provider (PSP)

LUNCH!!!

90-Day Strategy

YOU ARE HERE

WHY AM I HERE?

“….successful organizational improvement …takes a strong unbending will and a compass set determinedly on children’s learning”

(Hassel, Hassel, & Rhim, 2007).

Action!

In the next 90 school days I will: focus on chronic absenteeism as identified from 2009-2010 attendance data by implementing a faculty mentoring program.

Improve School Climate – Increased Attendance

So that: By the end of the first six weeks of the 2010-11 school year, the number of tardies decreases by 50% as compared to last year’s average, and the attendance rate increases to 90%.

1. Review attendance data from the 2010-1011 school year and identify the students with the highest # of absences per grade. 2. Notify chronically absent/tardy students of the school’s start date3. Identify source of funds to provide financial incentive/award to each mentor teacher4. Identify source of funds and provide student recognition awards to students achieving predetermined attendance goals.5. Share initiative with teachers during one of the opening in-service days.6.Identify 5 teachers per grade level to serve as mentors.7. Assign each faculty member 10 students for whom they will serve as mentor to monitor attendance. 8. Meet with mentors to share vision for their role and responsibilities.9. Designate administrative staff to have face-to-face meetings with chronically absent students 10. Conduct face-to-face meetings. 11. Monitor individual and group progress weekly using district/campus attendance reporting program.12. Create attendance committee to identify causes of absenteeism 13. Conduct first attendance committee meeting14. Award students achieving predetermined attendance goals

1. Principal and Attendance Clerk – 8/12/102. Attendance Clerk 8/16/10

3. Principal – 8/16/10

4. Principal – 8/16/10

5. Principal – 8/16-19/10

6. Principal – 8/20/10

7. Lead Counselor – 8/23/108/

8. Principal – 8/23/10

9. Principal - 8/25/10

10. Mentors - 9/1/10 11. Attendance Clerk & Principal - 9/3, 10, 17, 24/10 12. Assistant Principal - 9/10/10 – Assistant Principal]13. Assistant Principal - 9/17/1014. Principal - 10/1/10

90 Day Action Strategies

Objective: Based on the immediate actions identified while participating in this seminar, work to develop at least two 90 Day Action Strategies.

Activity:1. Gather any needed notes and your two 90-Strategy posters,

and find a location to work.2. On your 90 Day Action Strategy posters create at least two

immediate action goals and plans (one strategy per poster).3. After 45 minutes, gather in our eating room with your

posters.4. When prompted go to the poster hanging to the right of

yours.5. Review the plan and provide feedback on sticky notes6. When prompted move to your right and repeat step 4.