GATE Equity Webinar Series

The Power of School Improvement

Planning: What helps make school

improvement goals reality?

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Chris Reykdal – MS/HS - Teacher

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Vision All students prepared for post-secondary pathways, careers, and civic engagement.

Mission Transform K–12 education to a system that is centered on closing opportunity gaps and is characterized by high expectations for all students and educators. We achieve this by developing equity-based policies and supports that empower educators, families, and communities.

Values • Ensuring Equity• Collaboration and Service• Achieving Excellence through Continuous Improvement• Focus on the Whole Child

Equity Statement Each student, family, and community possesses strengths and cultural knowledge that benefits their peers, educators, and schools.Ensuring educational equity:• Goes beyond equality; it requires education leaders to examine

the ways current policies and practices result in disparate outcomes for our students of color, students living in poverty, students receiving special education and English Learner services, students who identify as LGBTQ+, and highly mobile student populations.

• Requires education leaders to develop an understanding of historical contexts; engage students, families, and community representatives as partners in decision-making; and actively dismantle systemic barriers, replacing them with policies and practices that ensure all students have access to the instruction and support they need to succeed in our schools.

Welcome!

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BLMAs we transition from honoring the people and lands Native to

America; we also want to acknowledge the pain and trauma resulting from 400 years of systemic racism within the United States against

people of the African diaspora.

We stand with our communities of color during these unprecedented times of civil unrest, especially those who identify as

and/or are categorized as Black and/or African American. We will continue to center our work in leading with racial equity.

We want to offer a moment of silence, and afterwards, honor the space for people from communities of color to respond to this

acknowledgement first. Then, we invite allies and others to communicate their comments after. Please use the chat box.

We invite accountability and partnership.

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Objectives• Identify who and what you need to implement high leverage

activities that will help you reach your SMARTIE goals

• Identify how you are going to measure the success of yourimprovement activities (formative and summative)

• Learn from Mt. Adams how they have been implementingactivities to reach their SMARTIE goals at Harrah Elementary(the evolutionary process)

• Discuss with peers the real challenges and successes andopportunities with implementing improvement activities.

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Presenters

Bonnie ZimmermanProgram Specialist, Tiered

SupportsOSSI/OSPI

Liza HartlynAssistant Director

Continuous ImprovementOSSI/OSPIOSSI/OSPI

Rob McCrackenPrincipal, Harrah ElementaryMt. Adams School District

Gloria WidenerAssistant Principal, Harrah

ElementaryMt. Adams School District

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Questions & Polling 1Who’s here?

• Very• Somewhat• It’s new!

• Elementary • Secondary • Both • None/NA• Other

• Administrator • Counselor/

Counselor/Psych/Community Liaison/Attendance Liaison / Grad Specialist

• Teacher• Para-educator• Parent/Community

Member/Community Based Organization

• District Office/ESD Staff• Continuous Improvement Partner or

Teaching Coach• Other

What grade band do you work with the most?

How familiar are you with our topic?

What helps make school improvement goals reality?

SMARTIE Goals

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• Specific• Measurable• Attainable• Realistic• Timebound• Inclusive• Equitable

What are you trying to accomplish?

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What will be improved? By how much?

By when? And, for who/whom?

Guiding Questions: Inclusion & EquityWill achieving this goal build success and/or shrink disparity gaps for specific student groups in our learning community?

Does the goal ensure that traditionally marginalized students have equal access and is there an element of fairness and justice inherent in the goal?

If the outcome specified in this goal isn’t specifically promoting equity and inclusion, is the process of achieving this goal going to improve equity and inclusion for all students? How?

Who have we consulted to check for unintended negative consequences? Who needs to be consulted?

High Leverage Activities

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System

• Processes• Procedures• Protocols

Best Practice

• Evidence Based

• Culturally Relevant

• Equitable• Anti-racist

People

• Leadership• Teachers• Students• Family• Community

Data

• Local• Qualitative• Formative• Summative

Implications for COVID-19

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• Adjust or Update Goals?• Differentiate data sources• Opportunity to implement BIG change• Creative• Tighten focus

What Advice Would You Give To Schools Starting This Work?

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EQUITY

• Specific student groups• Voice• Student/family/community• External partnerships

Measure

• Multiple data• Quantitative & Qualitative• Formative & Summative

Systems

• People• Processes• Procedures• Protocols

Poll

What Does it Look Like in Real Life?Foundations of Our Practices

Who Are We?

Gloria Widener –Assistant Principal @ Harrah Elementary

Rob McCracken –Principal @ Harrah Elementary

Harrah, Washington

• Population: 640 (2019 estimated)• Located within the Yakama Indian Reservation• Approximately 20 miles South of Yakima, WA.• White Swan is approximately 12 miles West• Rural and agricultural.

Harrah Elementary School Demographics

Mt. Adams School District Demographics

Fun Fact:

• The Mt. Adams School District serves a geographical area of 1,325 square miles. This puts us in the top 3 in the state.

• The MS/HS share a campus and is 15 miles West of Harrah.

Harrah Elementary Our First Year• Observing and Listening• Relationship building

• Moved PLC to the Cafeteria• Added small group instruction to the

master schedule

Things that were evaluated:• Tier 1 Core instruction in Reading

and Math• Tier 1 small group instruction• Tier II Intervention program• Social Emotional Curriculum/Calm

Room• PLC• Coaches and outside experts• Establish a formal ILT• Student discipline/PBIS• Assessment Platform

Harrah Elementary School Our Second Year:

•PD on PLC's to move from light to right using our new ILT members•Rolled up to RAD status.•Implemented small group expectations and added reading specialists•Mission and Vision•Added a 30 min block of time in the master schedule for SEL across the building•Added new SEL curriculum and developed a•Conducted a needs assessment with OSPI and developed our Plan for Improvement•Intentional and Strategic: Staffing

Year 3: RAD and Covid19Curriculum and Instruction:

• Made intentional staffing changes that focused on ensuring grade level teams had experience, ELL endorsed members, and team dynamics

• Started a math intervention program• Course correction and changes to the RAD Plan

• Started guided PLC's• PD weekly on Math and Inclusionary practices

Shared Leadership:• Weekly leadership meetings focused on covid logistics, standards, PLC's supports, data

and SIP• Building leadership capacity through PD and coaching• Implemented Leadership Evaluation using the AWSP Leadership Framework

MTSS:• Developing Tier II protocols and structures• Systems Development Coaching• Continued funding/support for SEL Specialist and SEL agenda (ex. Calm Room, PBIS

Rewards, etc.)Attendance:

• Daily, weekly, and monthy newsletters sent to staff and community regarding attendance %

• Developed a tiered system to track attendance.• Increased home visits with a follow-up system for staff.• Attendance added to Tier 2 (MDT) agenda.• District Attendance Liason• Re-Engagement Meetings

Directional Documents

Harrah School Improvement Plan

Key Take-A

ways:

• Intentionalculture and climate

willingness to challenge

support system

shared leadership"authentic" SIP plan

collaborationfocus on data

In Closing...

Reading - Fall 2019

Reading - Winter 2021

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GATE Evaluation

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change my practice in the

future.

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relevant to my work and topics I

want to know about right now.

The presenters were content

experts

The presentation met the stated

learning objectives.

I would recommend

participating to a colleague.

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next steps.

Considerations

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Breakout Rooms

Guiding Questions for Breakout Rooms

What great work are you doing

already?

What parts of this model can you take back to your work?

What are you still wondering about?

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Welcome Back – Let’s Share

Reflect on Your DiscussionWhat does everyone in this

meeting need to know to take us to the next level?

We’ll Call On Groups • Raise Hand to Volunteer

Share Out • Unmute• 1 minute share out

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Resources

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Contact Us

Bonnie ZimmermanProgram Specialist

OSSI/OSPIBonnie.Zimmerman@k12.wa.us

Liza HartlynAssistant Director

Continuous ImprovementOSSI/OSPI

Liza.Hartlyn@k12.wa.us

Rob McCrackenPrincipal, Harrah ElementaryMt. Adams School Districtrmccracken@masd209.org

Gloria WidenerAssistant Principal, Harrah

ElementaryMt. Adams School Districtgwidener@masd209.org

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Next MonthApril 14, 2021

Academic Press Rigor 101:A Practical Approach from Practicing

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