Local District 2 Principals Professional Development

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Local District 2Principals Professional
Development
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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Reflecting on 2009-10

• In our March Principals Professional
  Development you were given the following
  Reflection to complete
• Identify the most critical challenge that
  you think you will have at your school site as
  you plan the organization of the next school year
  
• to meet the needs of your students and ensure
  their academic success.

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Preparing for 2009-10

• The Purpose was to help the local district to
  prepare an Agenda for the April Principals
  Professional Development that would assist you to
  more effectively plan and prepare the work for
  2009-10.
• This work would include the following
• Development of the School Budget
• Identification of School Academic Goals
• Analysis of Student Data Results
• Identification of Measureable Benchmarks and
  
• Assessment to measure the student progress

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Your Challenges for 2009-10

• You told us that your Challenges were
• In the Elementary Schools
• Lack of personnel other than principal to
  support classroom teacher instruction
• Lack of adequate funding, including
  supervision
• Loss of the APEIS or loss of generic AP
• Meeting the IEP Needs of Inclusion students
  and IWENs and their parents

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Your Challenges for 2009-10

• In the Middle Schools
• Loss of teachers, counselors (including DPA),
• APs, coaches, deans, advisors and coordinators
• How the changes (teacher replacements) will
  affect my students and staff
• How to maintain the current schedule
• How to keep consistency, morale, instructional
  practices, and support for multiple programs
• AVID, GEAR-UP, PEARSON, CADRES, etc.

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Your Challenges for 2009-10

• In the High Schools
• Maintaining staff morale biggest challenge
• Providing both remediation classes for students
  at risk and time for enrichment courses for
  higher scoring students
• Teacher relationships and overall dynamics will
  be different

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Your Challenges for 2009-10

• Building/maintaining instructional focus when
  key personnel may not be employed on site
• Putting together a brand new staff will be
  difficult with the RIF
• Losing the new teachers to budget cuts
• Need to purchase back the resources that are
  currently being provided

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Purpose Today Time to Prepare and Plan

• Today we have brought together the Resources
• so that we may assist you to
• Answer your Questions
• Provide the latest Information
• Identify common Concerns
• Provide Time to share with other Principals
• Work together to plan for the Budgets and
  the Instructional Year

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The Critical Budget Impact

• The Impact to Schools has been a dismantling of
  the foundation and core mission
• Budget changes have changed school structures
• How does one Rebuild?
• Where are we with District Budget Proposals?
• What has the School Board finalized and approved?
  

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Reflections to Help Us Prepare

• What do I need to think about now in order to
  continue to support my school community?
• What are the things, areas, actions, etc. that I
  need to think about to work smart and be
  strategic as a result of the Critical Budget
  changes?

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Reflect with your School Community

• Identify the things that you need to Preserve
• Identify the things that you need to Modify or
• Let Go
• III. Identify the things that you need to
  Strengthen or Fine Tune

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Reflect with your School Community
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Strengthen Communication

• In the Strengthen/Fine tune Column Schools will
  need to Strengthen School Parent and Community
  Communications
• The School Monthly Newsletter is key to
  communicating and educating parents
• The May and June school Newsletters need to
  share and explain the school budget changes
• All Parents must be offered the opportunity to
  understand the school budget information

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Strengthen Communication

• Informed School Site Councils will meet to decide
  how to budget the school Funds for 2009-10
• The SSCs will consider the Single Plan for
  Student Achievement with identified student needs
  and data results
• A school Budget which is aligned with the student
  data will be finalized at each school
• Whether the parents are present at a meeting or
  not it is the expectation that parents will be
  informed about the budget through the School
  Newsletter

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Reflect with your School Community

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Reflect with your School Community
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Reflections with School Site Councils

• When you meet with your School Site Council
  (SSC)
• Frontload the School Site Council Budget Meeting
• Share the School Single Plan (Goals) and
• School Budget Needs Assessment Survey results
  
• Share State Assessment Data results, Periodic
  
• Assessment Data, Classroom Observation data
  and
• special student needs information (English
  Learners, Students
• with Disabilities)
• Meeting Reminders
• Send SSC meeting Notice 10 days before the
  date
• Have an Agenda and a Sign-In for members
• Take explicit Minutes and include CEAC/ELAC
• recommendations in the minutes when
  applicable

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Reflecting with your School Community

• Ultimately the Schools Budget must be Coherent
• The School Site Council needs to approve it
• In the case of selected schools such as the PI 3,
  4, and 5 plus Schools, the Local District must
  also review and approve
• It is also possible that these will be reviewed
  by
• the Chief Instructional Officer and
  Superintendent Cortines

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Making it Respectful

• Be transparent with the Community about the
  implications and changes that will be necessary
• The Personnel Cuts
• The Compliance as a result of Categorical Funds
• The Seniority issues and the bumping of staff
• Be sure to be Honest and Sensitive
• You must have Community collaboration and actions
  on the side of the School Staff working for
  Students

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Keep the Focus

• It is still about the Students and what is best
  for them
• It is still about preparing them to meet their
  potential so that they will have the opportunity
  to become productive citizens
• It is still about your Schools Vision for your
  Students
• Share the Vision with the school community
• Begin every school meeting by reviewing it

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Managing the Transition Ahead

• Superintendent Cortines memo of April 8, 2009
  has a Supervisors Transition Plan Checklist
• Support your Team
• Share the Knowledge and
• Prepare for Success
• I need you to lead your teams through this
  transition with care. Your staff counts on you to
  present a realistic, but positive outlook, and I
  believe that taking the above steps will help you
  demonstrate that you are being thoughtful about
  planning for the future.

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Leading through Change

• LAUSD is in the midst of a major reorganization.
  We will decentralize and simultaneously maintain
  a focus on making students our highest priority.
  I conclude by sharing that these are very
  difficult times for all of us. I recognize we are
  losing some phenomenal talents in our
  certificated and classified ranks, from both our
  schools and our central offices. The only way I
  know to honor these losses is to ensure that we
  take the necessary steps to re-shape our
  practices, culture, and work environment, so that
  post-layoffs - LAUSD is able to build on the
  student gains from last year.
• Ramon Cortines - April 8th Memo