Career and College Readiness

1. Career and College Readiness It’s OUR Job.

2. Leadership Academy 2013 Dale Ellis

3. Moving towards High Expectations “High expectations are the key to everything.” - Sam Walton Why do you think this is true?

4. And then…. “I don’t have high expectations anymore. Maybe they’ve just been beaten out of me.” -Actress Elisabeth Shue Why do you think this is true? How does that happen?

5. What it Means to Us • Without an education, where can our kids go? • With only a high school education, where can they go? • Why is college important? • Why is career ready equally as important? We ALL own K-12 education for OUR students We ALL own OUR achievement gaps We ALL own poor performance in OUR ____ grade We ALL own poor performance on OUR ACT scores • Do your faculties truly believe these statements?

6. A 10,000 Foot View of Our Schools • We have “bless your heart” schools. • That is not necessarily a bad thing. It shows compassion. • It’s ok to pat our kids on the back, but let’s push them while our hand is back there too! • We don’t want to love them into stupidity and mediocrity.

7. Our Model • What’s working? • What’s not? • Are IFs involved and active in classrooms? • Are IFs providing district and school mandated staff development? • Are we doing CWTs consistently and using data to improve instruction? • Are we carrying out the model with high fidelity? • Or, are parts of it failing because we have low expectations for staff and students?

8. The Victim Mentality • Educators have a victim mentality, especially right now. • I agree that this feeling is not totally misplaced. • But, we can not make victims of our children because of what is happening in Raleigh. • We can not make victims of our children because WE don’t think they can do the work to be exceptional. • The adults are victimizing kids when we set low expectations! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWXwziQEa8w

9. The Apple Advantage – Disruptive Innovation "Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.“ – Steve Jobs Can your people do the work that is needed? Can you lead them in accomplishing this work? Do they get “it”?

10. Apple - Continued "My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.“ – Steve Jobs • A real-world high expectations example.

11. No More Status Quo • Happy Students

12. From that, to this… What happens to kids from kindergarten to that time they start not liking school? We do.

13. The Change We Need • The change we need starts with setting high expectations. • It starts with all of us being engaged and serious about this process. I’m sure glad the hole isn’t in our end.

14. The Problem with Market Leaders • Market leaders are the last to transform. • They do not keep up, pay attention, and realize there is a problem until it is often too late.

15. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” - Socrates

16. Rita Pierson Part of You Video “You say it long enough, it starts to be a part of you.”

17. Summary • Let’s build those relationships and set high expectations for ALL students. • Let’s do the work with high fidelity so THEY can accomplish amazing results. • Growth is great, but we are better than below the state average! • Every kid deserves a champion! • Questions, comments, concerns?

18. Common Core Minute The Task In 1 minute, recall as many of the 8 mathematical practices as possible. Record your thoughts on the notecard provided. Compare your list to the one provided. The person with the highest number of correct responses wins! It’s that simple. GO! 8 Mathematical Practices

19. Standards forMathematical Practice 1. Make sense of complex problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. (CCSS, 2010)

21. Functional Categories – The BasicsHome Base tools are designed to help you manage information and improve instruction. Information Instruction In the novel, what motivated Sarah’s behavior? Support your claim with evidence from the text. Educator Effectiveness: Evaluation and Professional Development Student Information and Learner Profile Data Analysis and Reporting Instructional Design, Practice & Resources Assessment • Major Functions • Develop aligned assessments for formative, interim or summative purposes • Deliver assessments • Highlights • Major Functions • Find high-quality resources based on standards or search criteria • Contribute to a shared repository of North Carolina-made resources • Highlights • Major Functions • Compile and analyze data • Share progress with students and colleagues • Analyze data to take informed action • Highlights • Integrate with assessment tools and student information to deliver data on student progress to teachers, parents and students in an easy-to-understand, actionable way • Easy access to your data and a direct, fast way to pull it • Major Functions • Record and organize NC Educator Evaluation System observation and evaluation data (replacing the current online tool) • Select resources aligned to meet professional development needs • Highlights • Professional Development resources aligned to the North Carolina Educator Evaluation Rubric • Major Functions • Attendance • Scheduling • Grading • Transcripts • Parent, Student and Educator Portals • Highlights • Portals so students, parents and educators can access information • Data validation tools to make managing student information easier and improve data quality • Security to make sure only the right people can access data Classroom & Interim A rich bank of items to build your own rigorous, standards-aligned assessments Tools for Teaching Vettedand standards-aligned resources Summative Learning Management System Delivery of summative assessments online including computer adaptive testing Built to help educators teach, organize, communicate and collaborate online with their students

22. Information Instruction Educator Effectiveness: Evaluation and Professional Development Student Information and Learner Profile Data Analysis and Reporting Instructional Design, Practice & Resources Assessment Integrated Instructional Solution a new standards-aligned tool for instruction (e.g. lesson plans, unit plans), assessment and data analysis Information a simpler, better information system to replace NC WISE Effectiveness a simpler, better online evaluation system and new professional development system Schoolnet Instructional Tools and Assessment OpenClass Collaboration Test Nav SummativeAssessment Truenorthlogic Evaluation and PD PowerSchool Student Information

23. R = Required Products being integrated to create Home Base R PowerSchoolStudentInformation UserPortal via PowerSchool R Core Instructional Improvement System Test Nav SummativeAssessment OpenClass Collaboration Schoolnet Instructional Tools and Assessment R Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation Truenorthlogic Professional Development • Initial Content • Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies Assessment Items for Benchmarking and Classroom Assessment • Instructional Content (e.g. lesson plans and unit plans) housed in the NC Learning Object Repository

24. During the 2013-2014 kick-off year, districts will be able to use the optional functions of Home Base at their own discretion. By March of 2014, districts will be able to choose to cost-share for the optional tools in Home Base in 2014-15 at $4 per student.

25. Time Line July/August 2013 R R PowerSchoolStudentInformation Schoolnet Instructional Tools and Assessment Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation Content in SystemTools for Teaching • Assessment Creation Teacher only October 2013 OpenClass Collaboration Truenorthlogic Educator Evaluation + Principals March 2014 2014-2015 R Truenorthlogic Professional Development Test Nav SummativeAssessment

26. Training and Support • PowerSchool Training is well under way • Classroom Instruction and Assessment: Schoolnet Training • Training for districts this summer (June 20 – July 3, 2013) • Ongoing technical training and support webinars starting in July/August. • Certification training for districts that opt-in spring of 2014 • Planning in development for technical support, logistics and implementation support • Start Learning Now! • PowerSource is available to you at https://powersource.pearsonschoolsystems.com/home/main.action • Online learning modules and videos that will help educators learn to use the tools in Home Base. • Request your log-in (ask your LEA PowerSchool contact lead or your NC WISE Coordinator)

27. Training and Support • Educator Effectiveness: Truenorthlogic Evaluation Training • Educator Effectiveness Training for the Teacher Evaluation that will take place from June 20 - July 3 • Ongoing Technical Training and Support Webinars starting in July/August • Principal Evaluation Training in September 2013 and Professional Development Tool Training in February 2014

28. Home Base Website and Updates • Home Base website is http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/ • To sign up for Home Base Biweekly Newsletter, please email home_base_ready@dpi.nc.gov as ask to be placed on the newsletter listserv. • We will continue to email the biweekly updates, but you can also find them archived on the Home Base website at http://www.ncpublicschools.org/homebase/updates/

29. North CarolinaEducator Effectiveness SystemTraining Script

30. Welcome & Goals • Home Base Overview • Training process • Evaluator Assignments • Professional Development Plan • Teacher Evaluation • Reporting

31. Training Process: Overall • Regional Train the trainer (representatives from all districts) • Districts – Train district administrators and teachers • The method I use to train today is a good way to show your staff. • Wade and Phillip will be glad to help with that process.

32. Training Process: Today • Each participant will be working with a partner today. Select someone in the room (in your district if possible) to be your Buddy and sit next to that person. • Each team will be assigned two logins: • One Evaluator login • One Teacher login • Each person will perform tasks of one role (evaluator or teacher)

33. Let’s Begin • Training URL: https://ncdpitrain.truenorthlogic.com/ia/ adminLogin.jsp • Sheet at seat provides your user name and log in(teacher or principal) • Password: ncdpi2013

34. Portal Overview

35. Evaluation Process • There are Four Plans – Every teacher will be assigned two plans • PDP – For all teachers • Evaluation: One of the following: • Probationary Evaluation • Career Full Evaluation • Career Abbreviated Evaluation

36. My Staff Overview School Staff Assigned Roles

37. Teacher Plan Type Assignment C

38. PDP Assignment

39. Administrative RightsAssigning Observers & Evaluators

40. Administrative RightsAssigning Observers & Evaluators

41. Administrative RightsAssigning Observers & Evaluators What displays after clicking Add Will default to school (likely no need to adjust) Prob, Career, Abbrev., PDP All or individual names Evaluator, Observer, View Only

42. Administrative RightsAssigning Observers & Evaluators

43. PDP Process (Teacher)

44. Self Assessment (Teacher) C

45. Start, Share, Finalize, Complete, Send 7.18.2013 Version

46. PDP Details (Teacher) C

47. Evaluator Signature C

48. Mentor Signature

49. Teacher Signature C

50. PDP Mid-Year Review