Opening Day for Catholic School Leaders Thursday, August 1, 2019

1. Opening Day for Catholic School LeadersThursday, August 1, 2019

2. National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Schools NSBECS

3. Accreditation • Engagement and Participation • Visiting Team Co-Chairs • Visiting Team Members • Annual Reports

4. Accreditation

5. Visiting Team Co-Chairs • 3 leaders still needed • 1 Co-chair October 29-30 • 2 Co-chairs October 16-17

6. Visiting Team Members • Annually • 1 or more from each school • Hands-on experience with NSBECS • Professional development and growth

7. Principal’s Role Visiting Team Members • Encourage Participation • Sign-up

8. Annual Reports • Due September 30th • WRISA Accredited Schools • Must include Domain Plans/SIPs • Personnel Report Survey

9. Annual Report Review • Tuesday or Wednesday, October 15 or 16 • Sign-up • Required Participation 1 session • 9am – 12pm

10. Leadership Mentors • 2020 – 2021 School Year • Candidate Pool • Support and Development

11. Principal Effectiveness Framework

12. Principal Effectiveness Framework • Pastors / Presidents • Documents: • PEF Implementation Process • PEF Framework • PEF Summary Sheet • PEF Goal Sheet

13. Principal Effectiveness Framework • Describe the expected leadership behaviors of effective principals. • Provide a framework for the principal to reflect on performance and set a course for professional growth. • Provide a framework for the pastor/president to generate a summative evaluation of the principal.

14. Principal Effectiveness Framework • Six Domains • Principal self-assesses and reflects on a domain • Discussion • Pastor/President assesses for purposes of summative evaluation • Principal develops professional learning goal

15. Principal Effectiveness Framework • August 1 – 15: Upcoming year and goal check-in • October 1 – 30: Check-in and performance concerns • February 1 – May 15: Domain reflection and discussion • May 15 – June 15: Summative evaluation and goal development

16. Standards-Based Assessment, Grading, and Reporting: Planning and Implementation

17. SBAG Summer Workshops 52 Schools 93 Teachers 23 Administrators

18. SBAG Summer Workshops Tasks Completed: • Scoring Guides for all ELA, Mathematics, and Science priority standards are completed and can be found on the Curriculum page. Link to Priority Standards Scoring Guides • Some sample assessment documents were created to guide that work during the year • SBAG Planning Process and Timeline DocumentLink to Standards-Based Assessment and Grading Planning Guide

19. SBAG Summer Workshops • Success Indicators

20. SBAG Summer Workshops • Standards-Based Assessment, Grading, and Reporting Teacher’s Manual

21. SBAG Summer Workshops • SIS System Transition

22. SBAG Summer Workshops • Access to materials: • Teachers need to access all documents on the schools.archmil.orgwebsite • This requires a user name and password that must be generated through the names database • Access is determined by the proper information being updated at the school level • ACCESS IS CRITICAL Link to Creating / Editing Educator Names on Archmil Website

23. School Advisory Commissions/Committees

24. School Advisory Commissions • Exists as a permanent commission / committee of the Pastoral Council. It should not be called a board. • Bylaws and Member Pledge • To support the viability, sustainability, and growth of the school • To support the school in its efforts to make the parish better

25. School Advisory Commissions • https://forms.gle/cyAxtdu56kVSMdck7 • From your experience, what are characteristics and practices of effective School Advisory Commissions? • What are the major challenges faced by principals in dealing with School Advisory Commissions? • From your experience, what do School Advisory Commission members believe their roles and responsibilities to be?

26. Policy Updates

27. Policy: Surveys • Annual Personnel Report (Elementary Schools) • Annual Personnel Report (High Schools) • WRISA Annual Report (Elementary Schools) • NCEA Databank School Summary Form (All Schools) • School Choice Survey (All Schools Participating in Choice)

28. Policy: Athletics • Parent Meeting • Athletic Director / Sport Coordinator Meetings • August 8: St. John the Evangelist • August 10: St. Charles Borromeo, Milwaukee • August 14: St. Francis Borgia

29. Rights and Responsibility of Parents • The Catholic Church recognizes and acknowledges the role of parents to be the primary educators of their child. As such, schools partner with parents in the formal education of the child. • Schools in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee should demonstrate respect and support for parents in the education of their child.

30. Rights and Responsibility of Parents • Inherent in the parents’ choice of a Catholic school for their child is the understanding and expectation that they will support the school’s mission and its commitment to the principles of Catholic values and faith formation. Parents are also expected to support and adhere to the policies and procedures outlined in the school’s handbooks and demonstrate behaviors aligned with good moral and ethical principles. Parents are not permitted to interfere with the operation of the school nor display distrustful, disruptive, or harassing behaviors toward parish/school staff.

31. Rights and Responsibility of Parents • Schools may develop local policies to identify potential corrective actions if parents do not support and adhere to policies and procedures outlined in the school’s handbooks. Such corrective action may include the termination of the enrollment of the parent’s child(ren).

32. Policy • 4116.7: Electronic Resources and Communication – Employee • 6161.2: Acceptable Use of Technology – Student • 5112: Compulsory School Attendance – Local Clarification • 5144: Discipline – Expulsion

33. Teacher Effectiveness

34. Goal Setting

35. New Teacher Orientation • August 7, 2019: Link to New Teachers’ Orientation Registration • For all teachers new to the archdiocese • Safeguarding Training available at 1:00. Teachers need to register on the Safeguarding site in advance. Link to Safeguarding Registration

36. Management • A cloud-based Teacher Effectiveness Framework Management system for scheduling, observing, and managing all elements of the teacher effectiveness process

37. Is directly aligned/designed for our TEF so provides consistency • Is supported by the Archdiocese (updates and training) • The Office for Schools has access, so it has the potential to replace other reporting requirements (documentation, PD, HR policy)

38. Email the following information to Mark Rogers at mrogers@evaluwise.org: • The number of teachers you have.  You can always add licenses • Name and email of the person who will be signing the quote • Evaluation licenses are $19.95 per teacher per year • Your quote, invoice and correspondence regarding billing will take place via email only

39. Supporting Teachers New to the Profession:S.T.E.P.Link to S.T.E.P. Registration

40. Supporting Teachers New to the Profession • 2018-19 Pilot Program • 6 cohorts • 40 participants: attendance varied • High satisfaction rate for those who attended regularly

41. Supporting Teachers New to the Profession • Challenges • Scheduling: attendance needs to be promoted and supported by principals • Zoom vs. in-person meetings format: varied with different group dynamics • Diversity of new teachers in a deanery

42. Supporting Teachers New to the Profession • Common areas of concern • Curriculum: what do I teach? • Standards-Based Grading (grading in general) • Support and a closer relationship with the principal

43. Vision 2019 – 2020 Defining Characteristics of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee:Who Do We Say That We Are? Kathleen A. Cepelka, Ph.D. Superintendent of Catholic Schools

44. Evangelizing with the Church • As Catholic school leaders, teachers, and staff members in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, we will be mindful of our essential role in furthering the teaching mission of the Church and our inter-relatedness with one another in that work. • As members of the Church, we will participate actively in our own parishes / church communities and urge our students and families to do the same.

45. Distinguished by Excellence • As Catholic school educators, we will be tireless in striving for the ideal in every aspect of our ministry. “Good enough—for us—will never be ‘good enough.’” • Our schools will be places that shine with vibrancy, purposefulness, and attention to detail. Our mission statements will not need to be put into words.

46. Educating the Whole Child • Remembering our privileged responsibility to care for the growth of the whole human person—spiritual, intellectual, social, moral, and aesthetic—we will value and seek resources to develop all aspects of the curriculum in our schools. • Every student—in every one of our Catholic schools—should return home each night having been called by name or otherwise personally affirmed at least once that day.

47. Accessible to All Students • Every school in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee will be available, accessible, and welcoming to all who wish to attend. • All schools will set target goals for increasing the enrollment of minority populations in 2020 – 2021.

48. Steeped in a Catholic Worldview • Grounded in Gospel values and Church teachings, we will prepare our students, at every level, to become skilled, engaged, and ethical citizens in a global community. • Catholic Social Teachings will be explicitly taught and integrated into every content area, discipline, and program in our schools.

49. Sustained by Gospel Witness • As Catholic school leaders, teachers, and staff members, we will teach by our lives even more than by our words. Our decisions, habits, and responses will be manifestations of what we believe. • We will “sustain our mission” by daily personal prayer and reflection, remembering that we can only give to others what we first possess and value ourselves.

50. Shaped by Communion and Community • Each school in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee will be known as a community of faith, a community of learning, and a community of care. • “See how they love one another” will be the first observation by every guest in our schools.