SAU #41 2010-2011

1. SAU #412010-2011 WELCOMETO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR

2. Another Exciting Year Ahead • Assuring that our students have a cohesive PreK-12 experience • Purposeful collaboration • Strengthening relationships • Sense of urgency • Celebrate successes, learn from shortcomings

3. A Shift in Emphasis in 2009-10 • A focus onlearning • Teaching as collaborative practice • School improvement a requirement • Responsibility • Distributed leadership

4. SAU 41 - LEADERSHIP TEAMFIVE YEAR PLAN, 2009-2014 • Data– a systemic plan • Curricular alignment in our core content areas • Responsibility for Student Growth, academic and behavioral • A comprehensive plan for Building Capacity at the organizational and individual levels

5. Five Year PlanFirst Year 2009-2010 • Researched, selected data management program – Inform • Began to identify the types of data we collect and use • Began a review of our practices when learners need more support – Response to Intervention (RTI) • Conducted a staff development survey

6. In Addition, We… • Established a strategic planning steering committee, Transforming Our Schools Together, and held a Visioning Day • Submitted two applications for Race to the Top • Established two PreK-12 professional days in this year’s calendar

7. And We Also… • Piloted an online learning management system at HUES, Blackboard • Completed year two of using the Danielson model for teacher evaluation • Launched a new, standards-based Multi-Dimensional School Leader Assessment System for administrators

8. Five Year PlanSecond Year 2010-11 • Launch data management through Inform • Data work through RTI, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) • Map the taught curriculum, PreK-12 • Begin to standardize formative assessment; extend summative assessment

9. Second Year - Continued • Build lateral capacity – vertical and horizontal connections through PLCs • Complete the strategic planning process and finalize an SAU 41 vision of our schools • Extend/expand leadership development

10. STATE LEVEL REFORM • Comprehensive Educational Plan • Common model for teacher evaluation • Adding a 5th Domain to the Danielson model, Student Achievement • Adopted the Common Core Standards in June

11. NH DOE Reform Initiatives • Race to the Top: Four Assurances (data, great teachers/great leaders, assessment, struggling/innovative schools • Smarter Balanced Consortium – 31 states • Equity: graduating all students career- and college-ready

12. Federal ReformThe Shift at the Federal Level • FromHighly Qualified Teacher toHighly Effective Teacher • FromFocus on Teaching toFocus on Learning • Time to complete the curriculum • Time to meet students’ needs • Measure growth over time, not a snapshot in time • Funding directly connected deep, systemic change • Reauthorizing ESEA

13. Reform PrioritiesRewriting ESEA • College- and Career-Ready Students • Great Teachers and Great Leaders in Every School • Equity and Opportunity for All Students • Raise the Bar and Reward Excellence • Promote Innovation and Continuous Improvement

14. What’s At Stake for Continued Educational Funding • Federal level – billions of dollars - but tied to a comprehensive plan for reform • Foundations – Gates, Kellogg, others – creating an “Open Innovation Portal” • Regional Labs – help with writing grants • Consortia • Technical Centers for district, state support with NCLB

15. SAU 41: Positioning Ourselves for Continued Success • Continue our focus using the Five Year Plan as our roadmap • Build our systemic/school/classroom capacity through lateral and vertical Professional Learning Communities • Know and use our data to chart our progress at all levels of the system • Align our curricula in the core content areas and use the data to make adjustments • Increase our ability to respond to the data on student growth – maintain a sense of urgency

16. SAU 41… A Community of Learning Professionals • “Power consists in one’s capacity to link his [her] will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.” - Woodrow Wilson