1 st Quarter Press Conference

1. 1st Quarter Press Conference Dr. Timothy Mitchell Rapid City Area Schools 8-20-13

2. Systems That Learn “Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.” Ken Blanchard

4. RCAS Mission Building a community of life long learners, one student at a time.

5. RCAS Vision All Rapid City Area School students will achieve to their full potential.

6. RCAS Priorities • Guaranteed, Viable, Relevant Curriculum • Life and Career skills • Technology Literacy (21st century skills) • Staff Effectiveness and Organizational Capacity-Building • Comprehensive System of Assessment • Diverse Opportunities for students to learn and be academically successful

7. Systems That Learn Step 1-Recognize that schools were designed in a different era and for different goals Step 2-Start a dialogue on how to restructure schools in ways that will foster all students learning at high levels

8. Priority Tasks 2013-2014 Priority Task #1 All Students Learning at High Levels Priority Task #2 2013-2014 Fiscal Responsibility Priority Task #3 Infrastructure Development

9. Priority Tasks 2013-2014 Priority Task #4 Personnel Priority Task #5 Policy Development and Revision Priority Task #6 Miscellaneous Legislative Session and School Safety

10. Priority Task #1-Learning • Professional Learning Communities Implementation • Early Release Schedule • All Day Everyday Kindergarten

11. Priority Task #1-Learning Priorities/Non-Negotiables: 1. Build district-wide shared understanding of PLC concepts 2. Develop high-performing collaborative teams focused on high levels of learning for all students 3. Clarify essential learning outcomes/power standards 4. Develop and deploy common formative assessments

12. Priority Task #1-Learning The Big Idea The learning dynamics that a teacher establishes in his/her classroom is similar to the learning dynamics a principal/instructional leader establishes in his/her school, and is similar to what a superintendent does to promote learning within the district leadership team.

13. Priority Task #1-Learning Overarching Theory When a school systems learns, continuous improvement enables educators to close achievement gaps and ensures that all students grow and develop as learners.

14. Priority Task #1-Learning Strengthening the adult learning will benefit students: *When School Boards learn *When Central Administrators learn *When Building Administrators learn *When Schools and departments learn *When individual teachers learn

15. Priority Task #1-Learning When a school system learns, continuous improvement enables educators to close achievement gaps and ensures that all students grow and develop as learners

16. Priority Task #1-Learning Creating the time for collaboration does not guarantee improvements. Structural change is not cultural change. Simply altering the schedule to provide the time to meet does not create conditions for learning.

17. Priority Task #1-Learning 2013-2014 • Communication Task Force • Questions 3 & 4 • Career and Technical Education • Dropout Prevention • Professional Learning Communities-More Clarity and Coherence

18. Priority Task #2-Fiscal Responsibility 2013-2014 Budget Includes: -$3.8 Mill in Fund Balance -No Capital Outlay Flexibility -$1.9 Mill Expenditure Reduction Estimated Expenditures from GF $82.3 Mill

19. Priority Task #2-Fiscal Responsibility • Salary Schedule Task Force • Health Insurance Committee • Review and Analysis of Negotiated Agreements

20. Priority Task #2-Fiscal Responsibility 2013-2014 Budget Process-Similar to 2013-2014 Salary Schedule-On-going Salary Dollars Health Insurance Wellness Disease Management

21. Priority Task #3-Infrastructure Development • Policy Revision-Facility Use (KG) • Five Year Capital Outlay Plan (Review and Revision) South-Stevens-Elementary • Finalize Lease w/Rapid City Performing Arts Coalition • Rapid City High School (Alternative Programs) • Jefferson/Lincoln (District Staff) • Kibbon Kuster (Elementary Classroom Space) • Technology Refresh

22. Priority Task #3-Infrastructure Development 2013-2014 • Policy Implementation-Facility Use (KG) • Five Year Capital Outlay Plan (Review and Revision) • Finalize Lease w/Rapid City Performing Arts Coalition • Long-Term Elementary Classroom Space Plan • Enrollment Projections

23. Priority Task #4-Personnel Teacher and Leader quality are the most powerful variable affecting student achievement Schools districts have to commit to populating our schools with the highest quality teacher and leaders possible How does RCAS best attract, develop and retain the most highly qualified workforce?

24. Priority Task #4-Personnel • Teacher/Principal Effectiveness Pilot • Teachscape Implementation • Activities Staffing • Salary Placement Issues

25. Priority Task #4-Personnel How do we increase educator capacity in order to provide a more effective education for all students in all schools?

26. Priority Task #5-Policy Review and Revise specific Board Policies as identified by the administration and School Board Policy Committee Identify and Review all Board Policies that have not been revised for 10 years are longer

27. Priority Task #5-Policy 2013-2014 • AA School District Legal Status • BDA Electronic Communication with Board • CCA Organizational Chart • KMI Relations with Political Organizations • KDD Media Relations

28. Priority Task #6-Miscellanous 2013-2014 Monitor Legislative Session Build on efforts to form sustainable relationships School Safety Entrances-Mitigation Crisis Plan Updates Internal Communication

29. Why is CHANGE so Hard? “There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things…Whenever his enemies have the ability to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly, so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable” Niccolo Machiavelli