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The Heart of Improvement: Leadership

The Heart of Improvement: Leadership. The Story of Thomasville City Schools…. We knew our kids were as smart as any other kids, but we also knew we weren’t reaching them. We had to do things differently!. Excellence is the Standard…. because our children deserve it!.

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The Heart of Improvement: Leadership

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  1. The Heart ofImprovement: Leadership

  2. The Story of Thomasville City Schools…

  3. We knew our kids were as smart as any other kids, but we also knew we weren’t reaching them. We had to do things differently!

  4. Excellence is the Standard… because our children deserve it!

  5. What does leading a team look like?

  6. What obstacles do leaders face today?

  7. Observations Parent Conferences Walkthroughs Discipline REALITY! Community Events PLCs Professional Development

  8. At the heart of all effective leaders… • Leaders serve as catalyst for actions and drives the success of the schools • Leaders focus on STUDENTS • Leaders foster a safe, healthy, and supportive learning environment

  9. What does it look like to UNITE ALL stakeholders and ensure that everyone marches in the same direction? Assembling the TROOPS!

  10. Getting started… • Ensure effective district and school leadership • Engage parents, communities and schools to work as partners • Understand and hold high expectations for all students • Align, monitor, and manage the curriculum • Create a culture of data and assessment literacy • Build and sustain instructional capacity • Reorganize time, space and transitions

  11. Transforming Leadership Shifting mindset… Why are some high-poverty schools performing and others not?

  12. “After setting the context by examining poverty and its stunning effects on students, the authors then zero in on what HP/HP schools stopped doing or eliminated and what they started doing or improvedon in three key areas of performance:” • Building leadership capacity; • Fostering a safe, healthy, and supportive learning environment; and • Focusing on student, professional, and system learning.

  13. “We had to get to a point where we were all on board with the belief that every kid was going to learn, that every family mattered, and that regardless of the condition of the home, this child would learn and reach proficiency. WE WOULD DO WHATEVER IT TOOK… ALL OF US”

  14. Planning for Excellence

  15. Leadership Analyzed the Definition of Rigor • NC State Board Policy GCS-F-016 • Foundation for the Instructional Framework in Thomasville City

  16. Common Language: TCS Instructional Framework Mastery of the Standards Communicate Clearly Variety of Assessments Collaboration Reflect for Improvement Critical Thinking Scenarios Positive Relationships to Encourage Risk Taking Professional Learning Communities

  17. Curriculum Alignment Sessions with ALL TEACHERS

  18. Monitoring Excellence • Instructional Excellence Inventories • 4 times per year at each site (All to be completed before May) • Each Inventory includes a data dive, several classroom walkthroughs, a teacher focus group, and a student focus group • Central Office Leaders as observers

  19. Monitoring Excellence • Each inventory focuses on: • High Expectations for Staff and Students • Curriculum and Instructional Alignment • Data Analysis and Instructional Planning • Each inventory is modeled after NC DPIs Comprehensive Needs Assessment, which was based on the Cambridge Education School Quality Review Process

  20. Developing Teacher Leaders • District Professional Development: Mini-conferences • RttT Mini-grant: Teachers Helping Teachers • Math Science Partnership Grant • Summer Professional Development 2014

  21. Identifying Leaders in the Community • Community Members as Leaders • Parents as Leaders • Students as Leaders

  22. Leaders Create a Central Message

  23. Thomasville City Schools’ Past • Priority Schools/RttT Lowest Achieving District • State mandated test performance was below the state average • Graduation rate was below the state average

  24. How do we know our efforts are working? • TCS has been named to the College Board’s 5th Annual AP District Honor Roll for increasing student success on AP exams. TCS is 1 of 4 districts in NC. • TCS has seen increases in state mandated tests and the graduation rate.

  25. How do we know it is working? • All TCS schools met or exceeded growth. • 91% of TCS elementary, middle, and high school teachers met or exceeded growth. • Increased the attendance rate • TCS students increased college scholarships from $2.4 million to over $3.5 million.

  26. Growth from 2013 Levels 3 and 4 to 2014 Levels  3,4,5 (GLP)

  27. “The urgency of the hour calls for leaders of wise judgment and sound integrity-leaders not in love with money, but in love with justice; leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with humanity; leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

  28. Ceretha Mitchell Chief Academic Officer mitchellc@tcs.k12.nc.us

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