Statewide System of Support

1. Statewide System of Support Looking for Alaina Sam Redding Center on Innovation & Improvement www.centerii.org

2. This is Alaina

3. Alaina . . . Has brown hair and brown eyes A big brother, big sister, and little brother A dog named Junebug And a kitty named Abby Alaina loves her new doll; she named her Alexis Alaina is in first grade

4. Alaina Is my granddaughter She calls me “Papa Sam”

5. Alaina has a system of her own. Where is Alaina in her system?

6. Looking for Alaina From the Top Down

7. Finding Alaina

8. Flattening Alaina’s System

9. Alaina’s System And The Statewide System of Support

10. Points of Influence

11. What Support Does Alaina Need?From Her . . . • Parents? • Schoolmates? • Teacher? • Teacher’s team? • Principal? • School?

12. What Support Does Alaina Need?From Her . . . • District school-support staff and programs? • Superintendent? • District’s board? • Intermediate education agency? • State education agency?

13. Alaina’s Parents Alaina’s parents’ role is to: • Love her and talk with her every day • Read to her and listen to her read • Teach her to be kind and to behave in school • Aspire for her to succeed • Expect her to do her best • Build her habit of studying at home • Stay in touch with her teacher • Know her friends and their parents

14. Alaina’s Schoolmates Alaina’s schoolmates’ role is to: • Spend their every school day with her • Influence her positively and be influenced by her • Teach her and be taught by her • Never forget her or be forgotten by her One may become her best friend One may become her first date One may . . . I think I’ll stop right there.

15. Alaina’s Teacher Alaina’s teacher’s role is to: • Know Alaina well and care about her • Know the subjects well and how to teach them • Meticulously plan every detail of every day • Set and reinforce clear expectations for students • Know what Alaina already knows and what she needs to learn • Adapt instruction for Alaina and for each student • Inspire Alaina to love learning and do her best • Stay in touch with Alaina’s parents and support them in their role

16. Alaina’s Teacher’s Team Alaina’s teacher’s team’s role is to: • Add flesh to the bones of the aligned curriculum • Develop and share instructional plans, strategies, and activities • Monitor the progress of their students • Adapt their plans, strategies in response to assessments • Mentor new teachers • Observe each other’s teaching and make suggestions • Contribute to each other’s professional growth

17. Alaina’s Principal Alaina’s principal’s role is to: • See that Alaina has the best teachers possible by: • Hiring good teachers • Clearly communicating and reinforcing expectations for teachers • Monitoring teachers’ performance • Evaluating teacher’ performance, especially through classroom observations and student achievement • Providing teachers with opportunities for growth aligned with their evaluated performance • Removing inadequate teachers • Monitor student and school progress and make adjustments • Coordinate the work of teams • Manage the “business” of the school’s operation • Set the tone of attitude toward students and their families

18. Alaina’s School Alaina’s school’s role is to provide: • A clean, well-maintained space • A safe, comfortable, welcoming environment for learning • Equipment and materials for learning • Systems of information • A resource that serves and responds to its community

19. Alaina’s District’s Support for Her School The role of Alaina’s district’s support to her school is to: • Provide a rich, aligned, articulated curriculum • Provide periodic assessment with timely and meaningful reporting to teachers • Maintain regular two-way communication with Alaina’s principal • Monitor the school’s operations and performance • Provide mentoring and professional development for the principal aligned with the principal’s needs • Provide professional development for teachers aligned with their collective and individual needs

20. Alaina’s District’s Superintendent Alaina’s superintendent’s role is to: • See that Alaina’s school has the best principal possible by: • Hiring good principals • Clearly communicating and reinforcing expectations for principals • Monitoring principals’ performance • Evaluating principals’ performance, especially through school operations and student achievement • Providing principals with opportunities for growth aligned with their evaluated performance • Removing inadequate principals • Organize and monitor the delivery of district support for Alaina’s school • Serve as channel of informed communication among district constituencies • Manage the “business” of the district

21. Alaina’s District’s Board Alaina’s district board’s role is to: • Establish policies with Alaina in mind • Negotiate contracts with Alaina in mind • Provide the resources necessary for Alaina’s success • Provide the best superintendent possible by: • Hiring a good superintendent • Clearly communicating and reinforcing expectations for the superintendent • Monitoring the superintendent’s performance • Evaluating the superintendent’s performance, especially in district operations and student achievement • Providing the superintendent with opportunities for growth aligned with their evaluated performance • Removing inadequate superintendents

22. Alaina’s Intermediate Education Agency Alaina’s IEA’s role is to provide: • An efficient conduit of SEA services to districts and schools • Its own services for districts and schools • Opportunities for cross-district collaboration

23. Alaina’sState Education Agency Alaina’s SEA’s role is to: • Provide information • Set standards (credentialing, learning, etc.) • Distribute resources • Monitor compliance • Assist with district and school improvement • Intervene to correct deficiencies

24. SEA Functions, Processes, Levels of Support

25. Focus of the System of Support

26. Metrics to Determine Need The Statewide System of Support needs metrics to: • Assess the status of each level of Alaina’s system • Analyze the gap between an effectiveness standard and the status of each level of Alaina’s system • Align gaps with remedies • Provide services to close gaps • Monitor effectiveness of services • Monitor results of interventions

27. Targeting Support to Needfor each level in Alaina’s system

28. Other ConsiderationsIn Targeting Support to Need • Resources available to System of Support • Most efficacious delivery mode • Most efficacious partner in System of Support • Likelihood of making impact • Immediacy of impact • Sustainability of impact

29. When the statewide system of support Is successful at each level in Alaina’s system

30. Alaina is Happy And Alaina Succeeds