Please sit with your team'

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Please sit with your team. ?
Trio 1 Susan Mills Chuck Hiroto Antonio
Garcia Trio 2 Dave Hansen Trish Grice Sean
Curtin

• Trio 3
• Wade Coe
• Coleman Kells
• David Haglund
• Trio 4
• Dale Kinnear
• Cheryl Simmons
• Dan Brooks
• Trio 5
• Elton Ross
• Lou Mason
• Dale Moore
• Ron Weston

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Program Improvement Program Improvement Program
Improvement PART 6

• 7-12 Principals Meeting
• March 13, 2008

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NCLB Mandates LEA Program Improvement -Year 1

• Notify all parents in the district of program
  improvement status done.
• Contract with an external entity done.
• Complete state mandated Academic Program Survey
  (APS) done.
• Analyze school surveys done.
• Complete District Assistance Survey done.
• Complete English Learner Self Assessment (ELSSA)
  done.
• Complete Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
  done.
• Identify district priorities done.
• Create district PI action plan to address
  priorities done.
• Develop LEA addenda to align with PI priorities
  done.
• Secure Board approval of LEA addenda done.
• Implement/monitor PI Action Plan in progress.

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Principals Meeting Objectives

• By the end of todays meeting, principals will be
  able to articulate to their staffs the overall PI
  process, including a review of the components of
  the PI Action Plan and will demonstrate their
  understanding by explaining it to one of their
  colleagues.
• By the end of todays meeting, principals will be
  able to articulate to their staffs the districts
  top three student achievement priorities that
  must be accomplished between now and June 2008.
  Principals will demonstrate their understanding
  by completing a formative assessment.
• By the end of todays meeting, principals will
  understand how to use each section of the revised
  CWT form to monitor the districts top three
  priorities. Principals will engage in activities
  focused on learning objectives, mandatory student
  engagement, and differentiation, and demonstrate
  their understanding by completing a virtual
  classroom teacher observation.
• By the end of todays meeting, principals will
  review and discuss the district wide agreements
  and demonstrate their understanding by signing a
  commitment to implement and monitor.

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Principals Meeting

• 2/21 Homework Assignment
• Using the revised CWT form, you are to conduct a
  minimum of 5-6 classroom visitations with a
  colleague at their school before our March 6
  principals meeting.
• Please bring your results to our 3/16 meeting
  which should include tallies of your observations
  and the reflective question(s) that you left for
  your peer.
• On the back of your CWT form, please record the
  learning objective in each of the classrooms
  observed.
• Please come to our 3/16 meeting prepared to share
  your observations, learning objectives, and
  reflective questions.

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Homework Follow-up

• Purpose
• elaborate on what you have learned
• and
• prepare for new/additional information.

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Helping Trios Protocol

• Purpose
• Helping Trios is a structured protocol to guide
  discussion. Participants share information and
  then collaboratively construct suggestions to
  refine practice.
• Participants will share information and then
  brainstorm to help their colleague guide staffs
  to next steps with the CWT.

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Steps

• Form groups of three.
• Follow directions for each of the three rounds
  provided below.
• Debrief the protocol.

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Before you begin
B
C
A

• As a team of three, determine the order of your
  sharing process. Assign the person who will
  share first the of A. Assign the person who
  will share second the role of B. Assign the
  person who will share third the role of C.
• Take the corresponding role card as a reminder.

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Overview

• A,B, and C will share, listen, and provide
  feedback regarding their experiences and
  observations reflected with the homework.
• Strategies and suggestions can be offered to
  guide implementation.
• Teams reflect on and record ideas for whole group
  discussion.
• Heres how

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ROUND 1 -4 minutes

• Thinking about the CWT process and the homework
  from
• last time, A discusses his/her responses to the
  following questions
• What background information would best help my
  team understand where my site is right now with
  regard to the CWT work (implementing 2 part
  leaning objectives, mandatory engagement, and
  differentiation)?
• What successes or challenges were evident with
  the peer walk through at my site?
• What new perceptions did I gain from my CWT at my
  colleagues site?
• What reflective question(s) did my colleague
  leave with me that has helped guide my next steps
• After listening to my CWT experiences at my site,
  what I would most like help brainstorming is

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2 minutes

• B and C ask clarifying questions.
• for example
• What additional information might be help you
  understand the story?
• What points were not clear when the
  information/reflection was presented?
• A responds

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4 minutes

• B and C have a conversation in order to frame
  and interpret As story.
• A silently listens and does not respond nor
  interrupt B or C.
• A may take notes if he/she wishes.

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4 minutes

• A B and C dialogue or brainstorm
  suggestions or ideas. The object is not to come
  out with the one right answer but to generate
  many possibilities for A to think about.

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Round 2 3

• The process repeats with B and C sharing
  background, observations, and requests for ideas.

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Debrief and Whole Group

• In your teams of three, collectively identify 2-3
  of the top suggestions/strategies your team
  brainstormed that could help move a staff to the
  next level with the components of the CWT.
• Record your top choices and post on the gallery
  wall.

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Principals Meeting

• Update
• Secondary
• Mathematics Textbook
• Adoption

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Principals Meeting

• Break Time
• Please be back in 15 minutes?

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Principals MeetingNuts and Bolts

• Budget Matters
• Staff Workyear
• 2008 Summer School
• CST Prep
• Other

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Homework Assignment

• Before our March 27th principals meeting, you
  will need to select one teacher who is not
  proficient in writing a two part learning
  objective.
• Using any of the techniques shared with your team
  today, you will write an assistance plan designed
  to improve your teachers ability to write a two
  part objective.
• You will implement/monitor assistance plan with
  your teacher.
• You will bring back evidence of the effectiveness
  of the assistance plan to the March 27th
  principals meeting.

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Exit Ticket

• Please complete your ticket out the door before
  you leave

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Principals Meeting

• We are either the unlearned, the learned, or
  learners.