Administrative Team Meeting All TogetherBetter

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Administrative Team MeetingAll Together-Better!!

• December 13, 2006
• 830a.m.- 230p.m.

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Mission StatementAll students will graduate
with a vision for their futures, motivated to
learn continually and prepared to succeed in
their choice of college or career.
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Administrative Meeting Format

• 800am- Continental Breakfast
• 830am- Opening Moves
• 845- Curriculum, Instruction
  Assessment/Leadership Professional Development
• 1120am- Reflection\Evaluation Form
• 1130am-Lunch
• 1230pm- Administrative Professional Development
• 200pm-Administrative Announcements
• 230pm- Evaluation Form

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Todays Agenda

• 830am- Opening Moves
• 850am-Concurrent Sessions
• 1005-1025am- Break
• 1025am- Concurrent Sessions
• 1130am-1215pm- Lunch
• 1215pm- SOARS
• 100pm- Emergency Response Presentation
• 215pm- Holiday Surprise
• 300pm- Happy Holidays

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Concurrent Sessions

• 900am-1005am
• Group A- Erasing the Achievement Gap(Board
  Auditorium)
• Group B Analyze your Schools Student
  Data(CyberSpace)
• 1025am-1130am
• Group A- Analyze your Schools Student
  Data(CyberSpace)
• Group B Erasing the Achievement Gap(Board
  Auditorium)

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Today's Objectives

• Every administrator will know the districts and
  their schools student academic achievement
  targets.
• Every administrator will understand and implement
  the 8 step process in their school to erase the
  student achievement gap.
• Every administrator will understand the purpose
  of the SOARS Project.

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Opening Moves

• Welcome
• Norms\Working Agreements
• Reflections
• Connections

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Norms\Working Agreements

• Turn all cell phones off
• 24 Hour Rule
• RESPECT
• People
• Time
• Issues

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REFLECTIONS
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CONNECTIONS

• Check in Circle Protocol
• 10 minutes

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Trenton School DistrictStudent Achievement
Targets

• Goal to increase student achievement by reducing
  the failure rate by a minimum of 20 or higher.

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Trenton School DistrictElementary School
TargetsStudents in Grade 3, 4, 5

• LAL 66 proficient 1749 students
• Math 65 proficient 1794 students

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Trenton School DistrictMiddle School
TargetsStudents in Grade 6, 7, 8

• LAL 50 proficient 1233 students
• Math 40 proficient 974 students

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Trenton School DistrictHigh School
TargetsStudents in Grade 11

• LAL 53 proficient 329 students
• Math 42 proficient 261 students

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What are the student achievement targets for
your school?
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Cadwalader SchoolJeanette Harris, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 80 (75 students) and Math 87 (82 students)

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Columbus SchoolB. Lynn Robinson, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 70 (44 students) and Math 67 (63 students)
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 46 (63 students) and Math 35 (49 students)

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Franklin SchoolMarc Maurice, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 78 (169 students) and Math 76 (164
  students)

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Grant SchoolChristopher DeJesus, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 65 (155 students) and Math 54 (132
  students)
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 53 (40 students) and Math 39 (29 students)

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Gregory SchoolMarzene Bennett, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 61 (192 students) and Math 58 (88
  students)
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 47 (57 students) and Math 40 (48 students)

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Harrison SchoolHarriette Bass, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 64 (58 students) and Math 63 (58 students)

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Hedgepeth/WilliamsChanning Conway, Interim
Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 66 (137 students) and Math 66 (126
  students)
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 44 (183 students) and Math 33 (136
  students)

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J. P. HillAddie Lane, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 52 (100 students) and Math 47 (91
  students)
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 39 (60 students) and Math 44 (67 students)

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Jefferson SchoolHarriet Richardson, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 62 (67 students) and Math 66 (71 students)

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Kilmer SchoolPriscilla Dawson, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 71 (107 students) and Math 71 (107
  students)
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 58 (194 students) and Math 42 (139
  students)

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Monument SchoolGail Cropper, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 58 (57 students) and Math 59 (58 students)
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 38 (48 students) and Math 34 (43 students)

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Mott SchoolElizabeth Ramirez, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 72 (106 students) and Math 72 (106
  students)
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 78 (115 students) and Math 74 (109
  students)

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Parker SchoolWillie Solomon, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 76 (147 students) and Math 73 (141
  students)
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 58 (194 students) and Math 42 (139
  students)

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Rivera SchoolJoseph Marazzo, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 60 (85 students) and Math 68 (96 students)
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 50 (114 students) and Math 37 (84
  students)

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Robbins SchoolJudy Steele, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 70 (142 students) and Math 72 (145
  students)
• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 75 (64 students) and Math 59 (50 students)

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Stokes SchoolHarriet Murray, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 54 (75 students) and Math 52 (72 students)

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Washington SchoolGloria Tunstall, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 78 (119 students) and Math 77 (118
  students)

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Wilson SchoolGwen Jennings, Principal

• Grades 3, 4, 5
• LAL- 62 (80 students) and Math 59 (76 students)

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Dunn Middle SchoolMaryann Klaus, Principal

• Grades 6, 7, 8
• LAL- 44 (295 students) and Math 33 (220
  students)

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Trenton Central High SchoolJames Earl, Principal

• Grades 11
• LAL- 55 (276 students) and Math 46 (220
  students)

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Daylight/TwilightBill Tracy, Principal

• Grades 11
• LAL- 41 (53students) and Math 32 (41 students)

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Best Practicesfor Teaching and Learning
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Best Practice for Teaching and Learning

• Aligning teaching and learning to the NJCCCS
  using the Cumulative Progress Indicators.
• Example 8.1.4.A.8- Use a graphic organizer

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Best Practice - CPIs

• Empowering teachers to understand the Cumulative
  Progress Indicators (CPI), aligned w/the NJCCCS
• Evidence
• Through the lesson planning the CPIs become the
  objectives
• Example 8.1.4.A.8- Use a graphic organizer
• Assist teachers w/differentiating instruction
• Assist administrator and teachers to determine
  what skills need to be taught in order to be
  successful on standardized tests.
• Model
• During grade level meetings, teachers are
  identifying CPIs aligning them to the curriculum
  and developing lesson plans.
• Commonality developing amongst classes
  vertical/horizontal articulation of skills
  observations will show teachers teaching the
  CPIs/skills

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Were in the business of saving lives !!!
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one student at a time
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Concurrent Sessions

• 900am-1005am
• Group A- Erasing the Achievement Gap(Board
  Auditorium)
• Group B Analyze your Schools Student
  Data(CyberSpace)
• 1025am-1130am
• Group A- Analyze your Schools Student
  Data(CyberSpace)
• Group B Erasing the Achievement Gap(Board
  Auditorium)

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Erasing the Achievement Gap

• The Results Field book Chapter 5
• Carousel Activity

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Today's Objectives

• Every administrator will know the districts and
  their schools student academic achievement
  targets.
• Every administrator will understand and implement
  the 8 step process in their school to erase the
  student achievement gap.
• Every administrator will understand the purpose
  of the SOARS Project.

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Results Field BookChapter 5
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The Eight Step Process

• Test Score Disaggregation- PLAN
• Time Line Development-PLAN
• Instructional Focus- DO
• Assessment-CHECK
• Tutorials-ACT
• Enrichment-ACT
• Maintenance-CHECK
• Monitoring-CHECK

Results Fieldbook Chapter 5
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1. Test Score Disaggregation -Plan

• Get the data (facts, facts and nothing but the
  facts)
• Review data (Current Students Previous
  Students )
• Strengths and weakness (cluster areas, trends,
  etc.)
• Train new staff on analysis procedures
• Establish priorities for yearly measurable goals

This data awareness is based strictly on data
analysis, is an essential beginning. But it is
only a beginning. Pg. 109
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2. Time Line Development --Plan

• Create a schedule for instruction and assessments
• Strengths and weakness share instructional
  emphasis and review
• Create common instructional focus of teams (grade
  level and content areas)
• Cross Content and Cross Curricular reinforce
  practical use and application of target areas

Explicit aim is to avoid leaving alignment,
improvement and quality instruction to chance.
Pg. 110
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3. Instructional Focus --- Do

• Time on task
• Raising assessment results in priority one during
  instructional focus
• Align areas of weakness with calendar of intended
  instruction
• District support (pacing chart, instructional
  support and guidance)
• See Figure 5.7 and Box pg.114 on Lesson Bank
• Clear Consistent instructional Method ex. SQ3R
  Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Review
• Instructional focus is MANDATORY, but teaching
  materials are OPTIONAL
• Daily additions to lesson bank by instructional
  staff

Stan Pogrows (1996) real-life realities of
teaching that expecting teachers to do all their
own instructional planning, to gather and vet and
refine their own materials entirely on their own
is akin to expecting actors to not just act, but
write all their own scripts. Pg. 112
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4. Assessment --- Check

• All teachers teach and assess (periodic, common
  and collective assessments)
• Establish and use short term formal feedback
• Adjust instructional focus based on results
• Align assessments with test specifications
• Standards based grading scale Figure 5.8 pg 115
• Continuity of assessment period and data reports

Even a brief, focused assessment of students
mastery of specific skills is far better than
none at all. Pg. 113
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5. Tutorial and 6. Enrichment Second Chances and
Incentives --- Act

• The principal must be aware of the adjustment in
  lessons (lesson plan monitoring)
• 80 proficient required to move forward
• 20 receive extra focused instruction review and
  re-teach
• Bring students to the crossroads Success on both
  annual and periodic assessments
• Distinctions between crossroads and tracking
• The aim is to accelerate learning ensuring
  success during, not after school year
• Real incentive for passing 1st attempt The
  retests are given on Saturdays

Success on both annual and periodic assessments
means choices failure means needed tutoring
during the 30 to 60 minutes elective periods know
as team time. Pg. 116
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7. Maintenance --- Check

• Ensure that learning endures in student retention
  rate
• Review is carefully interwoven and scheduled into
  the calendar
• Intense review conducted during the weeks just
  before testing
• Modeling expected outcome in skills and thought
  processes
• Interactive and direct instruction throughout

Maintenance is not busywork. Pg. 117
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8. Monitoring --- Check

• Leaders focus is to lead the school in the
  direction of success
• Creating and sustaining a more aligned
  instructional system
• Actively involved in the teaching/learning
  process (see box pg. 117)
• The most exciting features of the exciting system
• Classroom observations
• Clear purpose of quality and progress toward
  years goal

The leaders visits drive home the message that
learning is the purpose of school for teachers
and students. Pg. 117
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Carousel Design

• The purpose is to gather information and ideas to
  assist with the implementation of the 8 step
  process in your school.

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Focus Questions

• 1. What are the expectations and responsibilities
  of the students, staff, parents, and community
  members in achieving the academic targets?
• 2. What instructional strategies are you using
  school wide and in the classrooms to address the
  strengths and weaknesses in the LAL and Math
  cluster areas?

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Focus Questions

• How are your teachers using the student data to
  drive instruction for your high, middle and low
  students?
• What are the essential components your schools
  instructional calendar for reaching your student
  achievement targets? (ex common lessons, common
  planning, etc p.116)

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Carousel Activity

• Reflect for a minute on the focus questions.
• Count off by fours and Go to that focus question
  station.
• Directions
• Read and respond to the focus question. (5 min)
• If you agree with a response place a check next
  to it.
• At the end of the 5 min. move to the next focus
  question.
• Repeat until every group has visited all 4
  stations.
• Return to your original focus question station.
• Reread and reflect on the new information.
• Report out. (2 min per group)

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1005a.m.- 1025a.m.Break
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Concurrent Sessions

• 900am-1005am
• Group A- Erasing the Achievement Gap(Board
  Auditorium)
• Group B Analyze your Schools Student
  Data(CyberSpace)
• 1025am-1130am
• Group A- Analyze your Schools Student
  Data(CyberSpace)
• Group B Erasing the Achievement Gap(Board
  Auditorium)

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REFLECTIONS EVALUATION
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Lunch 1130am-1215pm
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Trenton Public School DistrictSupport, Outcomes,
Accountability Responsibility for
SchoolsS.O.A.R.SDecember 13, 20061215-100
p.m.
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S.O.A.R.S Process

• Support
• Provide leadership, technical assistance,
  resources and consultative services to the
  education community in order to improve student
  learning through organizational development and
  professional learning (staff development).

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S.O.A.R.S Process

• Outcomes
• Outcomes assessment is based on a process in
  which staff identified the most appropriate
  objectives for specific students, programs and/or
  departments.

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S.O.A.R.S Process

• Accountability
• Accountability refers to the premise that schools
  are responsible for the learning and academic
  achievement of all their students.

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S.O.A.R.S Process

• Responsibility
• Shared responsibility is something school
  communities build from within. It's what happens
  when all school people accept that what they do
  makes a difference in how all students learn

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S.O.A.R.S. ProcessConcurrent Sessions

• Group A-CAPA Schools
• (Board Room)
• Group B-All Other Schools
• (Board Auditorium)

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All Together we will improve student achievement
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All Together Better!!
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Emergency Response Crisis Management

• Marge Dooley
• Office of School Health Services

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Emergency Response Practice Drills

• John Monahan, CEO
• Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare

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Holiday Surprise

• Rodney Lofton

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Administrative Announcements
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All Together Better!!