Making a Difference Jasper City Schools 2014-2015

1. Making a Difference Jasper City Schools 2014-2015

2. MAKING A DIFFERENCE • Dr. Jean Lollar Assistant Superintendent

3. Overview Curriculum and Instruction • Academic Philosophy • Continuous Improvement Plans (ACIP) • COS/CCRS • Curriculum Integration & Mapping, Alignment • Textbook Program • Professional Development • Best Practices • Compliance Monitoring

4. Academic Philosophy • High Expectations • Leadership • Teachers • Students • Staff • Success for All

5. Standards-Based Instruction • Courses of Study • College and Career Ready Standards • Educational standards help teachers ensure their students have the skills and knowledge they need to be successful by providing clear goals for student learning. • alex.state.al.us alex.state.al.us\insight

6. Standards-Based Instruction • Standards do not tell teachers how to teach, but they do help teachers figure out the knowledge and skills their students should have so that teachers can build the best lessons and environments for their classrooms.

7. Continuous Improvement Plans (ACIP) • Data-Driven School Improvement Plans • Development Process • Leadership Teams • ASSIST • Analyze Data • Determine Strengths • Determine Limitations • Develop Goals • Develop Measurable Objectives • Monitor Progress

8. Curriculum Integration and Mapping • Curriculum and Instruction Link • One of the most important power tools for writing and implementing content is a curriculum map • The map is the big picture that provides a clear guide for important concepts and assessments that need to be taught throughout the year.

9. Other Resources: Viewing and Reading • Harry Wong Videos and Publications • The MASTER Teacher Videos • Other Central Office Resources • School Resources • Elementary and Secondary Suggested Resource List

10. Professional Development Program • National, State and Local Emphasis • Local Expectations and Requirements • STI/PD • Teacher Support and Resources • JCS Professional Development: 25 Hours Required

11. Do you realize how important YOU are to the success of your students? • Student scores are affected, either positively or negatively, by the influence of a single teacher. • Average gains of students taught by the most effective and most ineffective teachers are substantially different. • Students assigned three ineffective teachers in a row never recover.

12. Students Assigned to Effective Teachers Dramatically Outperformed Students Assigned to Ineffective Teachers Source: William L. Sanders and June C. Rivers, Cumulative and Residual Effects of Teachers on Future Students Academic Achievement, University of Tennessee Value-Added Research and Assessment Center, 1996.

13. Importance of Quality PD The realization that students learn morewhen their teachers knowmore is supported by hundreds of studies complied by the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (1996).

14. Importance of Quality PD If all students are to learn and perform at high levels, teachers must continually engage in the rigorous study of what they teach and how they teach it. (Sparks, 1997 p.3).

15. The Reality of Teaching “I didn’t learn this in college!” (but it’s not too late)

16. Classroom Management

17. Will you be ready?

18. FINAL THOUGHT “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” Somerset Maughn

19. Questions and Discussion