One Morgan and The Power To Act

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One Morgan and The Power To Act
Pioneer RESA 2009 Leadership Conference Brasstown
Valley June 15, 2009

• Dr. Mark Wilson, Principal
• Morgan County High School
• Madison, Georgia

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One Morgan
The Power to Act
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Malcolm GladwellsOutliers and the 10,000 hour
rule
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10,000 Hours to become an expert
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10,000 Hours of Duty!
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Morgan County High School

• Newsweeks Top 1500 American High Schools (545
  Nationally, 19 in Georgia)
• One of 18 schools in Secondary School Showcase,
  Center for Secondary School Reform, National
  Association of Secondary Schools
• Presenting as National Model School,
  International Center for Leadership in Education

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Morgan County High School

• Patricia Leming, State Assistant Principal of the
  Year
• Selected as a stop on the bus tour for the
  Georgia Partnership for Educational Excellence
• Grant Phelps, Region STAR Student

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Morgan County High School

• Preliminary Graduation Rate for 2009 86.3
  (highest in school history)
• Largest Number of Graduates (preliminary figures
  over 210)
• Largest Percentage of Post-Secondary Plans (82)
• Increase in percentage of First-time Test Takers
  (Regular Program) passing GHSGT (Science, Social
  Studies, Language Arts, Writing)

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Morgan County High School

• Mathematics I Successful Implementation (over
  90 of students successfully completed goal is
  100 by August 5)
• Over 600 Advanced Placement (AP) and
  International Baccalaureate (IB) tests
  administered this spring.
• State Runner-up in the Academic Bowl

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NASSP and Met Life
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Morgan County High School

• Graduation Rates 71 in 2004 more recently,
  81, 85, 83, and 86
• Narrowing of Achievement Gap Mathematics- 32
  to 65 passing (AYP threshold) from 2004 to 2008
  English- Achievement Gap less than one
  percent in 2007 (was between 15 and 19 from
  2004-2006)
• Projected, class of 2009

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Morgan County High School

• Advanced Class Work
• 2004 2 AP classes, no IB, 30 students
• 2008 over 400 tests administered
• 2009 545 in Nation, 19 in Georgia, 389/970
  students taking at least one AP/IB class
• Over 600 tests administered in 2009
• 2009-2010 Class Selections over 900 seats
  filled (duplicated) in AP or IB courses
• Success after MCHS
• Students are getting accepted to college
• Report ease of academic transition
• Success in college work, keeping HOPE scholarship
• Students are earning course work for work done at
  MCHS

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Pride in Georgia Education
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Pride in Education in Georgia

• Only 26 states have specific math requirements
  for graduation
• Of these 26, only 12 require Algebra II
• Only 4 states require 4 math courses for
  graduation
• Only 30 states require at least one science for
  graduation from HS.
• Only 17 states require Biology for graduation

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Pride in Education in the United States
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Nobel Prize Winners

• 1United States 270
• 2United Kingdom 101
• 3Germany 76
• 4France 49
• 5Sweden 30
• 6Switzerland 22
• 7Netherlands 15
• 8USSR 14
• 8Italy 14
• 10Denmark 13
• 11Japan 12
• 12Austria 11
• 13Canada 10
• 14Spain 6

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Most Educated Countries- percent of population
age 25-64 with a tertiary education

• 1Canada  44.0
• 2UnitedStates  38.4
• 3Japan  37.4
• 4Sweden  33.4
• 5Finland  33.3
• 6Denmark  31.9
• 7Australia  31.3
• 8Norway  31.0
• 9New Zealand  30.9
• 10Korea, South  29.5
• 11Belgium  29.0
• 12UnitedKingdom  28.0
• 13Switzerland  27.0
• 14Ireland  26.3
• 15Iceland  26.3
• 16Spain  25.2

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University Students

• 1st United States 14,261,778
• 2nd India 6,060,418
• 3rd Japan 3,917,709
• 4th Russia 3,350,715

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ONE MORGAN
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Importance and Influence

• In our buildings, we are part of the FOURTH most
  important group in the school.
• The students are first.
• Teachers are second.
• Staff members are next. (Theyll miss your
  custodian more than you on a daily basis! ?)
• As a principal, youre in the fourth most
  important group.
• BUT, you are the MOST INFLUENTIAL Person on the
  campus.

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Pencils and Principals

• You will be able to do many great things, but
  only by someone elses hand.
• You will experience a painful sharpening from
  time to time, but you'll need it to become a
  better pencil.
• You will be able to correct any mistakes you
  might make.
• The most important part of you will always be
  what's inside.
• On every surface you are used on, you must leave
  your mark. No matter what the condition, you must
  continue to write.

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School Change

• Structural Change
• Affective Change
• Cognitive Change

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Structural Change

• Develop school structures that benefit the
  students.
• Advisory , Academic Assistance, Credit Recovery,
  Teacher Collaboration, Clubs, SAT Preparation,
  GHSGT Review, Fine Arts, Writing emphasis
  imbedded in the schedule.

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Structural Change

• From Competition to Collaboration

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Structural Change
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Structural Change
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Structural Change

• Teaching is a team sport these days.

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Structural Change

• Meeting individually to set goals with students
  can direct energy towards good goals.

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Structural Change

• Administrators dont have to have all the
  answers. You cant do it all on your own. Get
  good people and let them work.

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Smaller can be better
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Smaller can be better
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Affective Change

Personalization
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Affective Change
for many, school is Seven Hours of Paradise
Ruby Payne, Pre-Year Bus Trip, Nurturing
Environment

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Affective Change

Its not enough to have a mission and vision
statement whats more important is to be
passionate and be driven by underlying
principles.
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Affective Change

If you could lead by email, you would never have
to get out of your pajamas.
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Affective Change
Clubs Rodeos Friday Alive Good Dog
Deed Skateboard Park Notes to all
Students School-wide projects Recognition for
excellence in all activities School-wide Advisory
Program Individual attention to students and
their needs

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Affective Change

It is our privilege to work with your
daughter/son.
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Cognitive Change
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment

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Cognitive Change

Teachers must continue to learn job-embedded
professional learning is the most powerful.
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Cognitive Change

must have a deep working knowledge of
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment and how
they are interconnected.
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Cognitive Change

Students will rise or fall to the expectations of
the environment in which they exist.
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Cognitive Change

need to be critical readers, regardless of
their post-secondary goals.
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The Power to Act
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The Power to Act
Chesley B. Sullenburger, III
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The Power to Act
Chris Head
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The Power to Act
Meagan Rynders
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The Power to Act
Avery Williams
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The Power to Act
Emily Malanowski
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The Power to Act
Tim Savelle
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Darius Goes West
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The Power to Act Write America
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Bring people together to become one.Listen to
the needs of your people.Have high expectations
of everyone.Give them to the Power to Act.Help
them. Applaud them. Get obstacles out of their
paths.Lead by painting a picture so amazing that
everyone will run to it as soon as you let
them.Then, let go. And watch them soar.
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Do all the good you can,By all the means you
canIn all the ways you can,In all the places
you can,At all the times you can,To all the
people you can,As long as ever you can.John
Wesley
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One Morgan
The Power to Act