High Expectations for all Students

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High Expectations for all Students Staff
Teachers Are Expected to Teach Pupils Are
Expected to Learn
High Standards Professionalism For Teaching
Staff
All Students Must Master Basic Skills
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Final Thoughts

• An African Proverb
• Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up.
• It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion
  or it will be killed.
• Every morning a lion wakes up.
• It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it
  will starve to death.
• It doesnt matter whether you are a lion or a
  gazelle.
• When the sun comes up, you better start running!

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• IT MAY BE DANGEROUS TO TEACH AS YOU WERE TAUGHT!!!

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Whats happening at school?
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1,500 classrooms visited
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Clear learning objective4of classrooms
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Evidence of teaching to mastery0 classrooms
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Evidence of higher order thinking3 of
classrooms
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Worksheets52 of classrooms
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Evidence of student writing/editing/rubrics0
classrooms
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Non-instructionalactivity35 of classrooms
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Academicdialogue or discussion.5 of
classrooms
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High-yieldinstructional strategies.2 of
classrooms
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Lecture31 of classrooms
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Monitoring/no feedback22 of classrooms
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Students required to speak in complete
sentences0classrooms
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Evidence of assessment FOR learning0classroo
ms
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Evidence ofbell-to-bell instruction0classroo
ms
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Fewer than one-half of students
engaged82of classrooms
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We believethat all children can learn
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and come to schoolmotivated to do so.
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We believethat schools have sufficient
controlof the variables
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to assure that students do learn.
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Closing the knowing/doing gap.
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Teaching Versus Not Teaching
Little Interaction
Information in Isolation
Settling Disputes
Assigning homework
Low Level Questions
Not Teaching
Textbook Driven
Grading Papers
Copying - recopying
Reviewing for Tests

• Student sitting and inactive

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According to aeronautical science, the bumble
bee is too large and heavy to be carried by the
small span and size of its wings------ but
the bumblebee doesnt know this, so he
flies anyway!
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A Teachers Creed
As a student in my class, you can expect me...
To treat you with respect and dignity, to be
honest with you to answer your questions, to
help you when you need me, to show you that
mistakes are part of learning to work hard
planning for you, to have an environment in which
you can learn, to maintain the surroundings where
you feel safe to take risks to encourage you to
try harder, work more, do you best work, to
teach you exciting things you never knew
before, to help you appreciate the joy of
reading, to show you that knowledge is
power and to make the 180 days we spend
together--an exciting adventure! This, I
promise to you.
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Questions to Ask Teaching Staff
What model of instruction are you presently using
in the classroom?
Cite the Researcher
Does your model promote learning????
Does your model increase achievement??
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Elements Recipes
You include or exclude
I. GETTING READY
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II. GIVE INFORMATION
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Checking for Understanding - Are there any
questions?
Check to see if students understand the input.
You need to see something that is perceivable.
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III. KEEPING THE INFORMATION
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Indicators of a Climate of High Expectations for
Success
-Were there students whose academic progress fell
below expectations?

-Were there students whose academic
progress exceeded expectations?

-Were these students and their parents informed?

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Frequent Monitoring of Student Progress
Instructional Alignment
Variety of Assessment
Instructional Model for Teaching
Mastery Learning
Student Knows on a Daily Basis Where (S)He Stands
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WE LEARN

• 10 of what we read
• 20 of what we hear
• 30 of what we see
• 50 of what we both hear and see
• 70 of what is discussed with others
• 80 of what we experience personally
• 95 of what we TEACH to someone else
• - William Glasser-

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What kind of learner are you?

• Do you try to see the word?
• Do you dislike listening for too long? Do you
  favor words such as see, picture, and imagine?
• Do you forget names but remember faces or
  remember where you met?
• Do you become distracted by untidiness
• or movement?

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VISUAL learners learn best from charts, films,
pictures or diagrams. These learners will value
to-do lists and written notes. Many of these
techniques will also help kinesthetic learners.
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What kind of learner are you?

• Do you write the word down to find if it feels
  right?
• Do you gesture and use expressive movements? Do
  you use works such as feel, touch, and hold?
• Do you remember best what you did together?
• Do you become distracted by activity around you?

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KINESTHETIC learners benefit the most from
learning by experiencing things first hand.
Touching, feeling or being visually engaged in
the material help kinesthetic learners.
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What kind of learner are you?

• Do you sound out the word or use a phonetic
  approach?
• Do you enjoy listening but are impatient to talk?
• Do you use words such as hear, tune, and think?
• Do you forget faces but remember names or
  remember what you talked about?
• Do you become distracted by sounds or noises?

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AUDITORY learners learn best in lecture-style
environments. This type of learner also benefits
from verbal directions and verbal information is
given
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Curriculum Modification Form
What is everybody doing? ___________________ ____
________________
Can TOM participate just like everyone else?
Yes? Then go have fun!
No? What can we do to include TOM?
Can we give TOM some help from friends?_ From
whom___
Can an adult help TOM? Who?_____
Can TOM use different materials? What
materials?___________ How will they be used? _____
What else can TOM do that is related to what the
class is doing? ___________________________
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INTERVENTION ASSISTANCE PLAN
Your child is not experiencing success in school.
It is necessary for us to develop an
intervention plan to help your child to complete
this grade successfully.


CHILDS NAME_________________ GRADE______
RM.________
PARENTS NAME__________________ BIRTHDATE__/__/__
ADDRESS____________________ PHONE
___________________
TEACHER___________________________________________
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AREAS IN WHICH CHILD IS NOT EXPERIENCING SUCCESS
READING
MATHEMATICS TOM DOES NOT KNOW MULTIPLICATION
FACTS
HANDWRITING
SPELLING
LANGUAGE ARTS
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Intervention Assistance Plan
Student TOM
Dates of Parent/ Teacher Conferences
Held_______________
INTERVENTIONS TO BE IMPLEMENTED
___ Title I Reading
___Title I Math
x___Before School Tutoring
_x__ Home Practice Work
___ Shorten/ Simplify Assignments
___Peer Tutoring
___ Use of Manipulatives
___ Oral Quizzes and Tests
___ Other_________________________________________
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COOPERATIVE PARENT/ TEACHER INTERVENTION PLAN
Reading
Mathematics Toms parent will practice
flashcards for 20 minutes per day.
Handwriting
Spelling
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Do your students have a warm-upactivity to work
on when they enter your classroom?

• WARM-UPS
• Free the teacher to do administrivia
• provide a mental set for learning
• minimize potential discipline problems
• giving students additional practice
• time to recall and retrieve
• 1114LONG TERM MEMORY

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Examples of Warm-Ups

• Write 3 questions about yesterdays lesson on
  __________.
• Brainstorm all you can remember about___________.
• Write a paragraph telling me why it is important
  to learn about ________.
• Make a list of words you dont understand from
  chapter _______.
• Early Primary
• How many things can you find in our room
  beginning with letter _______.
• With clay, make things beginning with (ending
  with) this sound _____.

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Do You Involve All Your Students Constantly (Not
Eventually) in your lessons?
choral response small Group discussion signal
with fingers write answer in air mouth
answer thumbs up, down, sideways write answer on
think pad whisper to the person next to
you discuss with neighbor
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Indicators of Frequent Monitoring of Student
Progress
-Was student mastery of intended
curriculum formally monitored this past week?

-Did the teacher adjust instruction when and
where needed?
-Are there any students making less than
satisfactory progress on essential learnings?

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Positive Learning Climate
Orderly - but Not Rigid
Conducive to the Instructional Mission
Warm Responsive - 21St Century Look Technology,
Multi-Age, Cooperative Learning Plants, Flowers,
Aquariums
Student Support System The Dropout Committee
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Lee Cantor - Assertive Discipline
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CHILDREN IN AMERICAS SCHOOLS
THEYRE A BUNCH OF FLOWERS GROWING IN A
GARBAGE CAN
INEQUALITIES FOR AT-RISK SCHOOLS
UNDERHEATED SCHOOLS TORN-UP TEXTBOOKS CONDEMNED
BUILDINGS LACK OF TECHNOLOGY LACK OF
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES UNEQUAL EDUCATIONAL
ENVIRONMENT
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Indicators of a Positive School Climate/ Safe
Orderly Environment
-What are the incidents of routine
discipline problems?

-What are the incidents of severe
discipline problems?

-Is there student engagement (social or
academic)?
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Password Game for Math - Geometry Shapes
1. Rectangle 2. Triangle 3. Line 4. Point 5.
Square 6. Trapezoid 7. Parallel 8.
Perpendicular 9. Circle
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Password Game for Math - Problem Solving for B
1. 9-b4 2. 5b6 3. 6xb-42 4. 3xb81 5.
2xb111 6. 5xb30 7. 5xb5
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Password Game for Social Studies - Civil war
1. Robert E. Lee 2. Battle of Gettysburg 3.
Ulysses S. Grant 4. Emancipation Proclamation 5.
Mathew Brady 6. Appomattox 7. Slavery 8.
Monitor Merrimac
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Time On Task
Proper use of time and school day
Cooperative learning methods
Direct teacher instruction
Proper use of worksheets
Peer Learning
Learning styles/ Modalities
Special Student Needs -- If a child
fails reteach it in a different way
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Harry Wong - First Days of School
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Time and the School Day
Available Time
Allocated Time
Engaged Time
Academic Learning Time
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Instructional Time on Task
Contributes to
Instructional Momentum
reduces student misbehavior increases student
motivation achievement
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QUESTION MATRIX
SITUATION
REASON
CHOICE
PERSON
MEANS
EVENT
PRESENT PAST POSSIBILITY PROBABILITY PRED
ICTION IMAGINATION
The Question Matrix Chick Wiederhold, Published
by Kagan Cooperative Learning, 27134 Paseo
Espada, Suite 303, San Juan Capistrano, CA
92675.
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Indicators of Opportunity to Learn Student Time
on Task
-How much time was lost due to other interruptions
?
-Were there interruptions that impacted some, but
not all, of the students?
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Parent/Community Involvement
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Promising Pals Program
Lesa Collins
123 E. Lane
Cleveland, OH 44118
Dear Mayor Campbell,
My teacher told me that you were going to be my
PPP pal this year. What is it like to be the
mayor of Cleveland? Do you get to meet a lot of
the Cleveland Indians? How do you like the
Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame? -- I like it. Maybe you
and I could go to a Hall of Fame together. I
could find some books on music and singing
artists . Please write soon! -- your PPP, Lesa
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Certificate of Appreciation
This certificate is hereby awarded to
In grateful appreciation for service rendered as a
Celebrity Reader
for
CHAMBERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Right to read year observance
Teacher
J. Joseph Whelan, Principal
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Savings Bonds for Good Work
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Savings Bonds to College Awards
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ATTITUDES/ EFFECTIVENESS SURVEY
Dear ________Parents (school name)
We are seeking parental input as to your
impression/ perception/ evaluation of our school.
Many of the question asked in this survey have
been taken from the Gallop Poll of the
Publics Attitude Toward the Public Schools.
Your attitudes about our school are
important to us. Please take the time to provide
us with your assessment of our educational
facility. Students are
often given the grades A, B, C, D, or F to denote
the quality of their work. What grade would you
give to our school in the following areas?
Please circle one
1. The overall quality of education?
A B C D F
2. The quality of teachers?
A B C D F
3. Discipline in the schools?
A B C D F
4. Teaching of reading?
A B C D F
5. School/ Parent communication?
A B C D F
6. Quality of texts and materials?
A B C D F
7. Present class size?
A B C D F
A B C D F
8. Community attitude toward school?
9. Your childs attitude toward school?
A B C D F
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(survey cond)
II. As you look back at your elementary
education, is it your impression that the
children at our school get a better or worse
education?
III. As you look at our school performance in
past years, is it your impression that the
children now get a better or worse education?

What do you like most about our school?
What do you like least about our school?
Please list any additional comments on a separate
sheet of paper. Grade(s) your children are
in_________.
Please do not sign this survey. Simply complete
and return to our school at your earliest
convenience.
Thanks for you cooperation! Working together -
we can create an excellent atmosphere for your
childs educational endeavors.
Sincerely,
J.Joseph Whelan
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Dear Parents
Thank you so much for your response to our
questionnaire/ evaluation of our school. The
results of the 384 replies were as follows
The areas with the Most A grades
275 - Maintenance of the school building and
grounds
266 - Principals overall leadership
214 - Teaching of reading
The areas with the Lowest Grades (C, D, or
F)
73 - Present class size
71 - Community attitude toward our school
What do you like Most about our school
1.) rapport between students and teachers/ caring
attitude
2.) Quality of education
3.)Principals leadership
What do you like Least about our school
1.) Quality of hot lunches
2.) No playground
We were pleased that the majority of our parents
felt that our school was providing quality
education for the children. 95 of those
responding felt that our children have a
better education now than in the past. The areas
of weakness will be looked at and every
effort will be made to improve them. Thanks
again for completing the evaluation!
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Indicators of Positive Home-School Relations
-Are there teacher initiated parent-teacher confer
ences?

-Are there parent initiated parent-teacher confere
nces?
-Were parents asked to provide explicit
assistance to their children?

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Improvement PlanTailored to the Needs of the
Students and Teachers
Staff Development Inservice Days
Intervention Strategies That Will Raise Scores
and Lower Dropout Rates
Joint Planning Time
Peer Coaching
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Increased Academic Achievement
a must!
School needs benchmarks to prove progress
No improvement -- change the model
Site Based Management Leadership
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Buck stops at the building
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Indicators of Success

• Student Achievement - PLUS
• Volunteers
• Less Discipline Referrals
• Attendance
• Decrease Dropout Rate
• Involvement
• Telephone to Email to Parenting Class

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When We Go Back To School
All Children can learn
Viper
Insanity Worksheets
Aptitude
Compulsory Learning
My Model of Teaching
Reteaching if the Child Fails
21th Century Learner
Can it be the Same???--1114LTM
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What are you going to do DIFFERENTLY in your
school tomorrow?
WRITE
THINK
SHARE
PAIR
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National Association for Schools of
Excellence Members Creed
The possible is done!
The difficult will be finished today!
The impossible will be done Friday!
The insurmountable will take a little longer!!!!
God Bless, Joe Whelan
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• Hey Superintendents, Principals Teachers, its
  2015
• Are you running?