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Leadership Cohort Meeting December 14, 2010. Agenda. Lunch/Welcome? Introduction of a new IA Principal 11:30 Shorts 12:15 Thanks for Forum-Aventa Renewal-Atlas Rubicon December 11 th , Outcomes 12:30 AP Administrator’s Toolkit 12:45 Webb Mason 1:30
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Agenda • Lunch/Welcome? Introduction of a new IA Principal 11:30 • Shorts 12:15 Thanks for Forum-Aventa Renewal-Atlas Rubicon • December 11th, Outcomes 12:30 • AP Administrator’s Toolkit 12:45 • Webb Mason 1:30 • EPIC School Based Diagnostic 2:00 • Assessing Academic Rigor Principle 5 Conley 2:30 • Academic Rigor and a Leadership Dilemma • Final Graduation Rates, 2008, 2009 • Persistence Study Data Collection & Revised Senior Data Template 3:15 • Closure and Travel to Pigalle! 4:00
THANKS for Forum 2010 to: • Ellen Flanagan • Cynthia Schneider • Crystal Simmons • Toyia Wilson
Short Subjects • Aventa Renewal • Atlas Rubicon • December 11th
EPIC Diagnostics for CBSchools • Review the Participant Information Sheet. • Why would this be a helpful tool ? • What worries you about administering? • What questions do you still have? • Can you make it happen? Free this year for CBSchools February target
Revisit Conley’s Principle # 5 from College & Career Ready, 2010 • Create assignments & grading policies that more closely approximate college expectations each successive year of high school.
Setting the Context forAssessing Academic Rigor in a CBSchools • We will examine selected documents on display in a CBSchool that are: • representative of a 10th Grade Earth Science assignment • designed by a teacher new to the school with 3 or 4 years of experience
Assessing Academic Rigor in a CBSchool • Review: • the task titled “The Continent Project” & the rubric • the student’s response • Working in pairs: • How would you rate the student’s response to this assignment? • Determine why or why not the task is rigorous. • What would it take to make this assignment rigorous? • Report Out
What would you say to the Principal about this assignment as an artifact of rigor? • Individually identify 2 thoughts you’d like to convey. • Work with a partner and present your thoughts to each other • Group up with another pair, share and come up with a description of how you would approach this Principal as a critical friend. • Deconstruct the conversation & Debrief
CB Schools Graduation Data • Metis Associates assisted us with calculating 2008 and 2009 graduation rates for our schools • Three different graduation rates were calculated: • Status Graduation Rate • School Cohort Graduation Rate • Four-Year Cohort Graduation Rate
CB Schools Graduation Data (cont.) 1 Graduates include those who receive a local, regents or advance regents diploma, including August graduates. 2 Graduates include all of those in note 1, as well as those students receiving an IEP diploma.
Holiday Dinner At 5:30PM Pigalle790 8th Avenue 48th & 8thNew York, NY http://www.pigallenyc.com