Liuone+-+March+26,+2011

Achievement is Not just a test score - Raymond McNutty, President

Themes: Set the stage about transformation Five year study Qualitative data Student feedback

The Boston Globe.....example of a dying industry. We need to look at things differently in order for us to get a different result. 86% of teachers survey state that make learning exciting. 41% of students state that my teacher makes learning fun.

Our work must be transformational. Different not just better. Using research based best practices. 70 -80% of time. Need. A mixture of best and next practices.

Next practice - increase org to capacity to increase it's potential.

5 year study- Models, network, and policies.
 * Flawed perspective of always listening to our best customers...they tell us how good the system is working for them!
 * We behave like standardize test score are an accurate measure of student learning and school success.
 * Our work is complex
 * Need to use qualitative and quantitative data......we need to develop great questions to dive deeper into the quantitative data.
 * Mount Ranier syndrome. Most die coming down, failed to think it through or stay the course. Work becomes more difficult over time.

First practice change, then results, then policy changes. Leading indicator - what's happening in the classrooms Lagging indicator - test score

Learning criteria index Leadered.com

Iknow my class survey - aspiration unlimited international.......
 * Foundation learning** - achievement in the core subjects of English language
 * We learn
 * We teach
 * We lead
 * We support

What it measures. Student perception of oneself in the learning process. 20 q, teachers can add 3 q.

talking with kids...

Change is hard People hate change Example of weddings and new child.... Schizophrenia of change. Analytical vs. Emotional Charioteer vs. Unruly horse Superego vs. I'd Planner vs. Doer

Voice of the elephant... Wouldn't it be cool.... That's wrong.....

Direct the rider. Motivate elephant Shape the path

Direct the rider. The rider loves problems. Find the bright spots. What's working well! Focus on the positive and dive deeper. TBU - true, but useless!

A meetings with mothers. Let's go study the bright spot....

Motivate elephant Fixed vs. Growth mindset carol dwek. Can you teach growth mindset? Find the feeling......setback for failures. Tweak the environment. Focus on people and not the situation. Have we developed a one click button for our organization?

Entry routine.... Do now...3-5 minutes

A,b,c,Ny (not yet)

Know your school's history and culture; its important to understand what is before you can design the future.
 * Guiding Teacher Leadership through the use of critical conversations - Rodney Brumit and Indira Kumar**

Provided information about the schools demographics and challenges, which included student scores, and trends over the last 3 years.

Identified some of the change challenges he faced as the new administrator. Resistance to change for some of the senior faculty. While there werre some who decided to exit it was probably needed in order for the change to occur.

One of the challenges for the new principal was to shift its faculty and staff's perspectives becomes they were "performing" relatively well in comparison to their counterparts. Nevertheless, the new administrator saw that the other schools were not only catching up with them but anticipate that they would pass them if they didn't change.

Listed below were some of the initiatives that they chose to introduce to their school: Referenced handouts but was not able to obtain a copy. Provided email address to Indira so that she could email me the information.
 * Shift from one formal observation a year to also include multiple visits (walk-in, drop ins, etc) during the course of year. On average, they are conducting approximately 60 per week with the focus on core subjects.
 * Professional learning communities designed around content. Recommended we view Doug Reeve's video on PLC on the internet.
 * Shift literature from literary works to textbooks
 * Shifted teacher recommendation curricula to collaboration to include student's in the process.
 * Use of SMART goals and rubrics to aid faculty and staff.
 * 4 acadamic coaches to assist in observations, coaching, mentoring, etc.
 * Types of differentiation learning: Thinking maps, cliker technology, portable white boards, etc.

Teachers interests included:
 * Coaching, mentoring, and Evaluating Teachers in Urban Schoos**
 * Civitas Schools - Chicago Illinois**
 * Journey over the last 20 months.
 * School management organization tht operates three charter schools in the city of chicago founded in 2004.
 * Organization grew quickly adding an elementary school in 2005 and another high school in 2006
 * In April 2009, union card check determined that over 50% of the teachers has signed indicating unionization
 * Negotiated a contract in the fall of 2009.
 * A clear and consistent set of expectations for high quality instruction;
 * a well defined standards-based evaluation process;
 * high quality professional development
 * voice in school decision making