Tides of Transformation: Riding the Waves with Coordination and Collaboration

1. Tides of Transformation: Riding the Waves with Coordination and Collaboration National Title I Conference, San Diego – February 3, 2014 Presented by: The Lake Hills Elementary School Improvement Team For additional information regarding this presentation contact: LeAnn Tuupo– Supervisor Title I and LAP Email: tuupol@bsd405.org Phone: (425)456-4175 • The Lake Hills Elementary School Mission: • At Lake Hills, we share responsibility for ALL students to be successful in college, career, and life.

2. Agenda • Overview of How the Work Began • Improvement Initiatives • Culture of Universal Achievement • Professional Development • School Schedule • Reaching All Students • Current Reality and Next Steps • Questions At Lake Hills, we share responsibility for ALL students to be successful in college, career, and life.

3. Overview of How the Work Began

4. Overview of How the Work Began SIT Structure • School Principal • Teacher Representation: • Instructional Technology Curriculum Leader (ITCL) • ELL • Specialist • Special Education • Grade Level Teams • Title I Facilitator • Family Connections Center Staff • Wrap Around Liaison • District Leadership • Director of School Support Elementary • Supervisor Title I and LAP • Director of Research and Accountability • Family Outreach Coordinator • Consulting representatives from Curriculum, ELL, and Special Education

5. Overview of How the Work Began

6. Grounding our Work in Effective Turn Around Principles • Provide Strong Leadership • Dean of Students position to free principal for instructional leadership • Ensure Effective Instruction • Adopt Danielson as an overarching instructional framework • Two 90 min blocks of collaborative planning time each week (subject to BEA waiver) • Instructional facilitators to work with teachers • Professional development based on needs identified by teachers • Increase Learning Time • Included enrichment/intervention blocks & longer blocks of instructional time • De-fragmented delivery of special services for students

7. Improve Instructional Program • Redesign delivery of small-group instruction for struggling students • Implement a Spanish dual language program • Use Data to Improve Instruction • BERC Group review with STAR Protocol • Intervention and Enrichment • Family Survey • Organizational Health • Establish a Safe Learning Environment • PBIS • Playworks • Engage Families and Communities • Enhance our Family Connections Center Model, including bi-lingual staff • Create a School Action Team for Partnerships to guide family engagement programs/efforts

8. Improvement Initiatives: Culture of Universal Achievement After careful monitoring, we now continue to monitor 12 initiatives of the original 18. Our SIT team checks the progress of these initiatives every month.

9. Family Connections Center:Our Mission The mission of the Family Connections Centers is to support all families in the Bellevue School District by providing access to district and community services and resources so that they may build a strong foundation for students to succeed in college, career and life. Bellevue School District Initiatives

10. Helping…Connecting…Succeeding… To provide resources, information and referral for the following services To connect families to the school and community To work with families so they can help their children be successful in school and life by staying engaged in their education

11. Family Involvement Liaison Link families to academic programs and provide a link for communication between families and the school Human Services Specialist Link families to services for basic needs and community resources Wrap Around Coordinator Link families to community support and focus on school readiness and family involvement

12. Family Outreach and Resources • Welcoming Wednesdays • PTA partnership • Community Organization partnerships • Medical and Dental Van • Before and After School Programs • Interpreted Conferences • No-Tardy Parties • Feeding Programs for any child 2-18 years old • Daily Dinner at 3:30 • Summer Breakfast and Lunch

13. Improvement Initiatives: Professional Development: Purpose • Build and foster a culture of collaborative learning through responsive and reflective, differentiated professional development opportunities by facilitators co-constructing PD interview questions/groups, topics derived from staff input, outside evaluator, and needs noticed from Learning Partner Walk-Throughs and coaching conversations • Co-construct an over-arching focus aligned with SIP and CCSS, involving all school stakeholders in order to establish a common understanding of our promising practice (Accountable Talk) • Instructional Design/Decision-Making with layered differentiated PD: Content, Pedagogy, Venue, Timeframes, and Sustained Professional Learning Ownership

14. Improvement Initiatives: Professional Development: Doing The Work • Offered Differentiated PD – Choose 1, 2, or 3 options • Layered Professional Learning: “Not Your Grandma’s PD!” • Ongoing, imbedded PD with Facilitators, District resource persons, and teacher leaders as an outgrowth • Recognizing/Validating “full plate” • and time to try things on • Offer a menu of differentiated PD opportunities, embracing choice in content, pedagogy, learning style, resources, timeframe, and venue

15. Improvement Initiatives: Professional Development: Outcomes/Next Steps

16. Improvement Initiatives: Professional Development: Outcomes/Next Steps • Broadening/Bridging lens this year – Instructional Design/Decision-Making with: • Professional/Personal Learning Plan • Layered, Differentiated PD: • Content • Pedagogy • PD Venues/Learning Structures/Learning Styles • Sustained professional learning ownership/Teacher Leaders/Facilitators • Timeframes

17. Improvement Initiatives: School Schedule • Focus on the student day • 90 minutes of collaboration time for teachers • Logistics of the collaboration time • Waiver from Teacher’s Union • Full time specialists • Back to back specialist blocks to maximize • teacher collaboration time 

18. Improvement Initiatives: Reaching All Students • Full Day Kindergarten • De-fragmented delivery of special services for students • Intervention and Enrichment Blocks

19. Improvement Initiatives: Reaching All Students • Dual Language: • Identified Spanish Speaking subgroup at persistently low performing • Investigated research based program options • Implemented Two-Way Dual Language Program • 90/10 in Kindergarten and First Grade • 70/30 in Second Grade • 50/50 in Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade • Spanish for Spanish Speakers: • For students beyond kindergarten, needed an intervention for Spanish speakers • Build on Spanish as an asset • Provided to students in 4th and 5th grade for whom Spanish is their first language

20. Current Reality

21. Current Reality BERC Data (External Data Review)

22. Current Reality and Next Steps • Focus on defragmenting the student day • Work towards better serving our special education and ELL population by changing our service model • Focus on Collaboration Time • Work to develop skills for all staff to further the Collaborative Planning Process • Focus on Dual Language Program • Work to build the perception of the program from having a Dual Language program in our school to being a Dual Language School • Focus on Instruction and Curriculum • Work to make instructional and curriculum decisions to meet the needs of ALL students, including our ELL population

23. Questions