The Iowa CBE Collaborative February 18, 2014 # IACompED

1. The Iowa CBE Collaborative • February 18, 2014 • #IACompED IOWA Department of Education

2. More Children • Iowa CBE Collaborative • Housekeeping: • Coffee/Water • RR • Lunch • Internet • #IACompED • www.IACompEd.com • Video from January • Evaluation from January • Today’s agenda and ppt • Homework for March 12 IOWA Department of Education

3. Today’s Outcomes • Collaborative members will: • Build community • Take shared ownership of the Collaborative   • Enact multiple feedback loops • between District Teams and Work • Teams IOWA Department of Education

4. Today’s Outcomes • District Teams will: • Understand why systems analysis is necessary in order to build CBE pathways • Begin analysis of current district reality in relation to desired state • Identify connections with work team charges • Prioritize next steps for our district IOWA Department of Education

5. Today’s Outcomes • Work Teams will: • Build relationships among members of the work teams • Define interconnectedness among teams and charges • Eliminate redundancy through identifying shared purpose • Clarify our work • Identify next steps for moving forward with our charge IOWA Department of Education

6. \ • Iowa CBE Collaborative Collaborative Processes Collaborative Outcomes State Outcomes A framework for transitioning to a personalized, competency-based system, which will guide statewide implementation Students who are prepared with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for post secondary success Iowa districts and schools implement CBE according to the State Guidelines Demonstration sites successfully implementing the framework and demonstrating improved college and career ready outcomes IOWA Department of Education

7. Design Team District Representatives CR: Trace Pickering CM: Jason Ellingson EU: Pam Vogel HW: Tim Felderman Ma: Susan Pecinovsky MC: TJ Jumper Mu: Andrea Stewart N: Justin Gross SL: Angela Olsen VM: Jen Sigrist Higher Ed Representatives Ron Fielder, Univ of Iowa Al Rowe, Kirkwood AEA Representatives Julie Graber, AEA 8 Lisa Wilson, AEA 10 IOWA Department of Education

8. Engaging Community Today, Tomorrow and at Home More Children • Facilitators: • Trace Pickering, Cedar Rapids • Al Rowe, Kirkwood • In the business world, the term burning platform has long been used to indicate a crisis of such magnitude that it forces change. • Delivering on the Promise, page 28 • Design Team Planning Team: • ● Trace Pickering ● Al Rowe IOWA Department of Education

9. BREAK IOWA Department of Education

10. Where are we in relation to where we want to be? District Teams Facilitator: Andrea Stewart, Muscatine Design Team Planning Team: ● Jason Ellingson ● Jen Sigrist ● Julie Graber ● Andrea Stewart IOWA Department of Education

11. Purpose of this time: • Build relationships among members of the work teams • Define interconnectedness among teams and charges • Eliminate redundancy through identifying shared purpose • Clarify our work • Identify next steps for moving forward with our charge IOWA Department of Education

12. CBE District Self-Assessment Tool: • Use the sheet you filled out individually to come to consensus as a district about where your district is in relation to an idealized design • Where are we in relation to where we want to be? • Use Fist-to-Fiveto come to consensus about the district • Include evidence of implementation (processes, structures, functions) • Fill out the document in the Google doc folder • 10:25-11:35 IOWA Department of Education

13. Connections to Work Teams: • What insights did you gain from this work regarding the self-assessment tools? • What implications does that have for our work teams? • What questions should district members take to work teams during the afternoon session? • 11:35-11:55 IOWA Department of Education

14. Homework for April: • RISC Organizational Self-Assessment Tool • Construct a plan to work onthe following: • Dig deeper into the CBE District Self-Assessment district analysis • Determine the location on the continuum your district’s “In Process” and “In Place” elements by using the RISC tool together as a district between now and the April meeting • Synthesize what you learned with the connections to work teams and to your next steps as a district • Prioritize next steps for the district (action-planning) • 11:55-12:15 IOWA Department of Education

15. LUNCH After lunch, sit with your Work Teams . IOWA Department of Education

16. Interconnectedness of the Work Teams Work Teams Facilitators: Tim Felderman, Howard-Winn Andrea Stewart, Muscatine Design Team Planning Team: ● Jason Ellingson ● Andrea Stewart ● Tim Felderman IOWA Department of Education

17. Purpose of this time: • Understand why systems analysis is necessary in order to build CBE pathways • Begin analysis of current district reality in relation to desired state • Identify connections with work team charges • Prioritize next steps for our district IOWA Department of Education

18. Relationships with Other Work Teams: • Identify the other work teams you want to visit: Complete Work Team Organizational Protocol #2 • List a couple questions you have for them then copy and paste in the consolidated document: http://tinyurl.com/Wk-Tm-Q-for-other-Wk-Tms • Decide who will stay to represent your group and who will go to each of the teams you chose • If you are finished with this, then work on other parts of your work (the protocol, the questions for H-W to take to NH, other . . . ) • 1:05-1:25 IOWA Department of Education

19. Connections to Work Teams: • Connect and Discuss: • If your group does not need to go to another group, you may all stay to work, but you need to be accessible for other groups to come to your group. • Conversation notes http://tiny.cc/CollaborativeGoogleFolder • 1:25-2:15 IOWA Department of Education

20. Back in Your Work Team: • Discuss what you learned and prioritize next steps • Continue with your team’s protocol or the work you are doing toward your goals • Make assignments to do before March • List (or assign that someone does by March 1) possible questions your team has for H-W to ask in NH copy and paste them in the consolidated document: http://tinyurl.com/Wk-Tm-Q-for-Site-Visits • Fill out the Work Team Feedback sheet http://tinyurl.com/WorkTeamReflecitionFeedback • 2:15-3:00 IOWA Department of Education

21. BREAK IOWA Department of Education

22. DISTRICT Team Reflection and Feedback 30 minutes • How does what we did today inform your work? • After the work today, what do you now realize you can offer the collaborative? • Discuss your ideas for messaging today • 3:15-3:45 IOWA Department of Education

23. Commitment to the Work • Facilitators: • Trace Pickering, Cedar Rapids • Al Rowe, Kirkland • In the business world, the term burning platform has long been used to indicate a crisis of such magnitude that it forces change. • Delivering on the Promise, page 28 • Design Team Planning Team: • ● Trace Pickering ● Al Rowe IOWA Department of Education

24. Exit Ticket • Nametag and anything you want to keep in the envelope • Leave it on the table • Evaluation: • leave them on the table IOWA Department of Education

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