Connector activity

1. Connector activity • Welcome! • As you walk in please take two sticky notes • There are 2 Consens-o-grams in the room. • “How familiar are you with District Accreditation?” • “How familiar are you with PLC?” • On each sticky note, put a factor of 10 and place it on each Consens-o-Gram 100 which means…“I’m an expert” to 0 which means… “I know nothing” PLC & NCA- 6 Letters that go together

2. NCA & PLCSIX LETTERS THAT GO TOGETHER Russ Facione, M. Jon Dean, Jill Ghiardi-Coignet Birmingham Public schools November 2008

3. Connector activity Part II • Now that you’re here you are going to have the World’s Fastest Conversation: “Hi, I’m ___ from ____” “Hi I’m ___ from ____” • When I think of District When I think of District Accreditation, Accreditation, I think of ___” I think of ___” • “When I think of PLC’s “When I think of PLC’s I I think of ___” think of ___” • “Thank you”. “Thank you” Have this conversation with as many people as you can in 4 minutes.

4. PLC- The Power of Professional Learning Communities “The most promising strategy for substantive, sustained school improvement is building the capacity of school personnel to function as a professional learning community. The path of change in the classroom lies within and through professional communities.” Richard Dufour

5. 3 Big Ideas of a PLC • Ensure all Student Learn • Build a Culture of Collaboration • Focus on Results

6. Characteristics of a Professional Learning Community • Shared Mission, Vision, Values and Goals • Collaborative Teams • Collective Inquiry • Action orientation/ experimentation • Commitment to continuous improvement • Results Orientation

7. 1. Ensuring all students learn • Four Critical Questions 1. What do we want students to learn? 2. How will we know if they’ve learned it? 3. What will we do if they don’t? 4. What will we do if they already know it?

8. 2. Building a Culture of Collaboration “Collaborative cultures, which by definition have close relationships are indeed powerful, but unless they are focusing on the right things they may end up being powerfully wrong.” “Improving schools require collaborative cultures….without collaborative skills and relationships, it is not possible to learn and to continue to learn as much as you need to know to improve.” -Michael Fullan

9. 3. Focus on Results • This link best shows how results (and unexpected results at that!)must drive the process. • Careful with assumptions about your Data • PLC’s are results-based: • Here is a clip to show how in order to fully appreciate data objectively prepare for anything and be ready to adjust! • Escalator.wmv

10. Focus on Results Assess Learn Improve Let Proper Assessments drive instruction (Learning) and improvement

11. Improvement Process Elements What future are you pursuing? What have you accomplished? Monitor and Adjust I What is your current reality? What actions will you take to improve? PLAN Similar to PLC

12. BPS Story of PLC’s • BPS Board of Education Goal • Oakland Schools -5 Day training. Teams of 5. • PLC Steering Committees @ Buildings; • LEAD Teams @ Buildings; • Leadership restructured for Instructional Goals • PLC Coordinating Council - County-wide Organization • Schedule to grant daily common planning time for staff. • Want to know more? Attend the elementary scheduling presentation tomorrow!

13. District Accreditation Professional Learning Communities Now it’s time to connect the two!

14. District accreditation process To earn and maintain District Accreditation from NCA CASI school systems must: • Have all system schools accredited by NCA • Engage in ongoing self-assessment and continuous improvement. • Adhere to the AdvancED Accreditation Standards for Quality School Systems. But what are they??????

15. What are the seven standards? • Vision & Purpose • Governance & Leadership • Teaching & Learning • Documenting & using Results • Resources & Support Systems • Stakeholder Communications & Relationships • Commitment to Continuous Improvement

16. District accreditation continued….. • Document results of improvement efforts. • Complete a Standards Assessment Report between six weeks and six months prior to the Quality Assurance Review. • Host a Quality Assurance Review Team once every five years. • Act on the Quality Assurance Review Team's recommendations. • Submit a progress report two years following the Quality Assurance Review.

17. 7 Standards of DA 3 Big Ideas of a PLC • Teaching and Learning • Documenting and Using Results • Resources and Support Systems • Stakeholder Communication and Relationships • Commitment to Continuous Improvement • Ensure all Students Learn • Build a culture of Collaboration • Focus on Results

18. 7 Standards of DA Characteristics of a Learning Community • Shared Mission, Vision, Values and Goals • Collaborative Teams • Collective Inquiry • Action orientation/ experimentation • Commitment to continuous improvement • Results Orientation • Vision & Purpose • Teaching & Learning • Documenting & using Results • Resources & Support Systems • Stakeholder Communications & Relationships • Commitment to Continuous Relationships

19. Follow up Activity • You’ve received a lot of information now it’s time to start processing---- • Get with a clipboard– • Do quick introductions • What are you: • Comfortable with • Baffled about • Need more information • Then we will report out and write Q and A’s on some slides. • We’re thinking green…we will email them to you…

20. Q and A’s

21. Q and A’s

22. Q and A’s

23. Contact us! • Russ Facione – Principal Bingham Farms Elementary rf03bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us • Jill Ghiardi-Coignet- Principal Quarton Elementary jg10bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us • M. Jon Dean- Executive Director for Human Resources jd09bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us