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Title: Leadership to Stimulate School Improvement


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Leadership to Stimulate School Improvement
  • Cindy Koss, Assistant State Superintendent
  • Mary Pearson, Executive Director, Title I School
    Support
  • Office of Standards and Curriculum
  • State Department of Education
  • Cindy_Koss_at_sde.state.ok.us

2
Goals of Presentation
  • Provide information about using ARRA funds to
    drive school reform and improvement
  • Identify ways to use one-time resources
    effectively

3
Consider if as a Decision Maker you can Say Yes
to These Questions
  • Drive results for students?
  • Increase capacity?
  • Accelerate reform?
  • Avoid the cliff and improve productivity?
  • Foster continuous improvement?

4
Focus on Small Number of Related and Reinforcing
Strategies
5
Adopt Rigorous Standards and High-quality
Assessments
  • Increase student participation in rigorous
    advanced courses such as Advanced Placement
  • For two years of ARRA funding, intensively train
    all teachers in effectively using the curriculum
    with their students

6
Adopt Rigorous Standards
7
Adopt Rigorous Standards and High-Quality
Assessments
8
High School Standards
9
Rigorous Content Standards
10
Building Academic Vocabulary
11
Establish data systems and use data for
improvement
  • Develop or enhance existing data systems
  • Train principals, teachers and counselors to use
    data to identify specific help students need to
    succeed

12
The Full Year Cycle of Improvement
Reflection Retreat
LT
Improvement Planning Cycle CESA 7, Wisconsin,
Data Retreat
13
Establish data systems and use data for
improvement
  • Track the number and percentage of students by
    school who graduate high school and go on to
    complete at least one years worth of college
    credit

14
Increase teacher effectiveness and equitable
distribution of effective teachers
  • Establish and implement a fair and reliable
    teacher evaluation system that provides ongoing
    feedback

15
Increase teacher effectiveness and equitable
distribution of effective teachers
  • Ensure teacher learning opportunities are
    sustained, job-embedded, collaborative,
    data-driven, and focused on student instructional
    needs.

16
Increase teacher effectiveness and equitable
distribution of effective teachers
17
Increase teacher effectiveness and equitable
distribution of effective teachers
  • Support new teachers in their first two years
    with structured mentoring, teacher networks, and
    extensive professional development

18
Turn around the lowest-performing schools
  • Restructure lowest performing schools
  • Add time to the school day and year
  • Create 9th grade academies

19
Turn around the lowest-performing schools
  • Launch a comprehensive literacy program
  • Create intensive summer institutes

20
Turn around the lowest-performing schools
21
Turn around the lowest-performing schools
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Improve results for all students
  • Extend learning time for students
  • Strengthen preparation for college and careers
  • Use technology to improve teaching and learning

23
Improve results for all students
24
Improve results for all students
  • Conduct reviews, demonstrations, and evaluations
    that enhance effectiveness.

25
Oklahoma Nine Essential Elements
  • Academic Performance
  • Learning Environment
  • Efficiency

26
Suggested Uses of Funds
  • Increase Administrator and
  • Teacher Capacity
  • Extend Learning Time
  • Provide Professional Development
  • Provide Technology Integration
  • Support Parental Involvement
  • Provide Research-based Programs

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3 Big Ideas To Remember
  • Learning is the fundamental purpose-
  • Academic Performance
  • A collaborative culture creates high-
  • performing teams Learning Environment
  • Results grounded in evidence -
  • places a focus on results rather
  • than intentions - Efficiency

28
Leadership
  • Developing the structure and culture that engages
    people in learning is the primary task of
    leadership and perhaps the only way a leader can
    genuinely influence or inspire others.
  • -Peter Senge

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Contact Information
  • Cindy Koss. Ed.D.
  • Assistant State Superintendent
  • (405) 521-4514
  • Cindy_Koss_at_sde.state.ok.us
  • Mary Pearson
  • Executive Director, Title I, School Support
  • (405) 522-3253
  • Mary _Pearson_at_sde.state.ok.us
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