NH SINI 4 Restructuring Schools Moving from Assessing to Planning

1. NH SINI 4 Restructuring Schools Moving from Assessing to Planning February 16, 2011 Online Meeting *So far so good! You're seeing this slide, so you've logged on! Now, check your audio: Go to "Tools » Audio » Audio setup wizard" & follow the steps. * For additional help, call Debbie Krajcik: 603 271 2273.

2. Welcome! • Purpose of the meeting • Desired outcomes • Agenda overview • Introductions NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

3. Elluminate Pointers • If you have speakers only with no microphone, you will hear the webinar and will need to use the chat box to the left of this slide to ask any questions or make comments. • You will be muted during the session unless otherwise indicated. • If you have a question or a request, type it into the CHAT box in the left panel of the screen • select the recipient (dropdown box) and • click SEND (Note– you can chat privately with the host or publicly with EVERYONE using the dropdown list) PRACTICE using the CHAT box: Type your name, school, and a greeting. • We will be recording this webinar and will inform you when the recording starts. • If you can’t resolve the problem, call Debbie Krajcik at (603 271 2273) to help get you reconnected. NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

4. Step 4: Assess Current Practices • What? • Compare your practices to indicators of effective practice • Why? • Identify strengths and gaps Q: What did you find was an area of strength? Q: What area(s) revealed the greatest gaps between current and ideal practice? NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

5. What now? • Typical list = 20 - 30 indicators to be included in the plan, BUT YOU CAN’T DO IT ALL!!! NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

6. Making Sense of Assess ‘Data’ • Step 4 results = ‘data’ to inform restructuring plan • Remember: restructuring plan represents “fundamental reforms to improve student achievement” with “substantial promise” of making AYP (http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg2.html#sec1116) NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

7. Recommended Strategies • Check Your Work • Cluster Similar Indicators • Write Goal Statements • Develop Action Plans NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

8. I. Check your work! ASK YOURSELVES: Have we identified the instructional and organizational practices that are the realbarriers to our students’ success? • Print “List of indicators in plan” in order of index value. • Do a “gut check” – does the list really match the practices we know in our “gut” (and from our data analysis!) are keeping our students from achieving their best? • Take notes and consider this input in choosing which indicators to include in plan. NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

9. Questions about Checking your Work? You have two options for asking a question: • type your question into the CHAT box to the left and SEND to the the room • Click the RAISE HAND icon below the list of participants in the left column; you will be unmuted and invited to voice your question in the order received; click the hand icon again to lower it NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

10. II. Cluster similar indicators • Why? • YOU CAN’T DO IT ALL! • You’re already working on some of these indicators (objectives) • Key to successful improvement= FOCUS on a few essentials (see Schmoker, FOCUS: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning. ASCD, Feb 2011) NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

11. II. Cluster similar indicators • HOW? • Affinity Diagram/ Map Suggested approach: • Print priority indicators in large font. • Cut apart, distribute. • Invite team to post with similar others. • Allow “Other” group. NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

12. Example of a cluster Objectives (Indicators) – IIIA01: All teachers are guided by a document that aligns standards, curriculum, instruction and assessment. IIB04: Teachers individualize instruction based on pre-test results to provide support for some students and enhanced learning opportunities for others. IIIA07: All teachers differentiate assignments (individualize instruction) in response to individual student performance on pre-tests and other methods of assessment. IIIA09: All teachers clearly state the lesson’s topic, theme, and objectives. IIIA31: All teachers interact instructionally with students (explaining, checking, giving feedback). IIIA26: All teachers encourage students to check their own comprehension. NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

13. Another Cluster Example-- Questions about Clustering? • Objectives (Indicators) – • ID03: All teams operate with work plans for the year and specific work products to produce. • ID01: A team structure is officially incorporated into the school improvement plan and school governance policy. • ID13: Instructional Teams meet for blocks of time (4-6 hour blocks, once a month; whole days before and after the school year) sufficient to develop and refine units of instruction and review student learning data. • IF08: Profession al development for the whole faculty includes assessment of strengths and areas in need of improvement from classroom observations of indicators of effective teaching. • IF03 (04, 05): Professional development for teachers includes observations by the principal/ by peers/ self-assessment related to indicators of effective teaching and classroom management. (IF10) • IID09: Instructional Teams use student learning data to plan instruction. • IID10: Instructional Teams use student learning data to identify students in need of instructional support and enhancement. • Type your question into the CHAT box; click SEND • Click the RAISE HAND icon; you will be unmuted and invited to voice your question in the order received; click the hand icon again to lower it NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

14. III. Write goal statements • No more than three clusters • Decide on the primary indicator in each cluster • Draft a goal statement for each cluster that includes at least – Desired outcome – i.e., gains in student achievement General statement of the means/ method of getting to the outcome *Advice: SMART goal format can be helpful – or not *Advice2: Avoid the pain of writing in committee NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

15. Example of a goal statement GOAL: To improve student achievement by adopting a response to intervention approach for grades 4 through 8 in mathematics which will provide high quality core instruction and targeted intervention and/or enrichment based on student data. NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

16. Goal Linked to Objectives GOAL: To improve student achievement by adopting a response to intervention approach for grades 4 through 8 in mathematics which will provide high quality core instruction and targeted intervention and/or enrichment based on student data. Objectives (Indicators) – IIIA01: All teachers are guided by a document that aligns standards, curriculum, instruction and assessment. IIB04: Teachers individualize instruction based on pre-test results to provide support for some students and enhanced learning opportunities for others. IIIA07: All teachers differentiate assignments (individualize instruction) in response to individual student performance on pre-tests and other methods of assessment. IIIA09: All teachers clearly state the lesson’s topic, theme, and objectives. IIIA31: All teachers interact instructionally with students (explaining, checking, giving feedback). IIIA26: All teachers encourage students to check their own comprehension. NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

17. NEXT STEP: Writing a Restructuring Plan • Restructuring Plan components: • Cover page, assurances – • within STS (for example, see Idaho sample school – • login = idschool; pw= idschool) • Goals, objectives pages – • within STS • pilot version being revised • Plans (Step 5) for primary objectives/ indicators NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

18. Step 5: Create the Plan • Select primary objectives within clusters -- aim for 2 or 3 • Identify secondary or subsidiary objectives • Go to Step 5: Create the Plan for each primary objective NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

19. Parts of each Plan • Assign a Team Member • Describe how will look when fully met • Date when description will be realized • TASKS – at least 4 tasks • ACTIVITIES • RESOURCES • MONITORING IMPLEMENTATION • MONITORING EFFECTIVENESS NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

20. Step 5: Create School Plan-- Part 1 NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

21. Step 5: Add Tasks NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

22. Sample Plan for Objective IIB04 Check sample school site (on Steps to Success/ Indistar) for more examples – Login = nhschool Password = nhschool NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

23. Sample Plan for IIB04: NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

24. Questions on Creating a Plan • For questions after today’s meeting, contact Karen or your DOE Title I Project Manager Submit questions by typing in the chat box or clicking the RAISE HAND icon NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

25. Feedback and Next Steps • Please provide your feedback on today’s meeting by responding to the email survey • Plan to send reps to PSU/COGS in Concord on Monday, March 7 • Tentative agenda: • Give and get feedback on clusters, goal statements • Continue Create Plan (Step 5) • Review final format for Cover page(s) NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting

26. Thanks for your participation today. For more ideas on using Steps to Success as tool for restructuring planning or continuous improvement, log on to the Indistar blog: http://indistar.blogspot.com/ NH SINI 4 Schools Online Meeting