Board of Education Update: Tiered Support Framework April 16, 2015

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Topics

• Turnaround Recommendations

• Turnaround Planning Year Zero

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Denver Plan 2020 goal: By 2020, 80% of students from every region within DPS will attend a high performing school

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Mapping Tiers to Differentiated Supports for Schools

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Turnaround Identification Steps

• Use academic and non-academic flags to create initial tiers for school

Step 1: Initial Tiering

October

• Third party diagnostics

• Analysis of body of evidence and progress of current interventions and improvements plans

Step 2: Additional Analysis

October-November

• Development of turnaround recommendations with instructional superintendents and senior leadership team

Step 3: Recommendations

December

• Call for quality schools for quality providers, or

• Placement of quality leaders to develop School Turnaround Plans

Step 4: Call for Quality Schools or Placement

December and beyond

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Turnaround Recommendations – Initial Tiering

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Valverde Elementary School 50% 35% 43% 35% 16% 7 12

Harrington Elementary School 47% 46% 62% 40% 33% 3 8

Schmitt Elementary School 42% 42% 51% 49% 28% 4 9

Goldrick Elementary School 61% 46% 39% 46% 34% 3 12 Henry Middle School 28% 36% 45% 35% 36% 4 15

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District Staff Recommendations

• Redesign status recommended at the following schools:

– Valverde – Harrington – Schmitt – Goldrick

• Phase in/Phase out at Henry Middle School:

– Phase out Henry’s current program one grade at a time, beginning in 2016-17.

– Approve a new program to be phased in one year at a time beginning in 2016-17.

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Call for New Quality Schools and Leader Hiring

• Call for New Quality Schools- December 2014

– The December CNQS requested quality elementary turnaround schools for the Near Northeast and Southwest; however, no providers submitted applications.

– Therefore, new leaders have been hired for the following: • Goldrick • Harrington • Schmitt

• Call for New Quality Schools Supplement – April 2015 • Henry Middle School Phase In program will be included in the

April CNQS supplement; • DPS has hired a principal to create an application for a

district-run school for consideration in the CNQS along with other school applicants.

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Turnaround Year Zero Cohort

School Interim Principal Year Zero Principal

Henry Don Roy Will be identified through the CNQS

Goldrick Dan Villescas Jessica Ridgway

Harrington Charmaine Keeton Karin Johnson

Schmitt Cindy Miller Jesse Tang

Valverde Drew Schutz No interim *

NOTES: • Valverde was identified for turnaround before the Year Zero strategy was

developed, but will receive extra supports for Year Zero work. • After the school program for Henry is selected, it will also be supported with a Year

Zero planning process.

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Year Zero School Leader Roles

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Turnaround Planning Year (Year Zero)

Benefits

Interim Principal Future Principal • Leads and supports

school success during transition year

• School continues to receive support to improve

• Builds relationships with students, parents, staff and community

• Designs turnaround plan • Engages with community • Assumes full leadership of school

in 2016-17

• Process involves the community • Allows enough time to ensure thoughtful decision-making • Long-term principal able to build relationships with school community

and be part of creating positive change • Year Zero model replicates proven strategy from other schools

Turnaround Year 0 Support Team

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Ivan Duran, Greta Martinez, Susana Cordova

CSO, Assistant Superintendents

Erin McMahon, Cristina Bansch-Schott, Dori Claunch

Instructional Superintendents

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Amy Keltner/ Brittany Erickson Tiered Supports / Core team coordinator

Joe Amundsen OSRI/ Quality Review process

Landon Mascarenaz Family & Community Engagement

Mark Poshak Communications

John Albright Chief of Staff office

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Carol Mehesy HR Partners for Turnaround

Chuck Carpenter Finance

Shannon Hagerman Principal Development

Chung Pham Data Analysis

Pam Tanner Culture and Equity office

TBD ELA; Student Services

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Turnaround Planning Year Zero Timeline

Spring Summer Fall Spring Summer Fall

Meet the community

Develop School Redesign Plan

June 2015: Board Update on early

Community engagement and Potential Redesign

Decisions

November 2015: Board Approval of Turnaround Plan

Implementation Readiness

2016 2015

August 2016 Open Redesigned

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Next Steps- Professional Development for Turnaround Leaders

• Learning from Promising Practices

– School Visits to high performing local and national schools serving a similar demographic

• Learning in a Cohort

– Releasing a competitive bid to select a partner who will provide cohort services to turnaround leaders focused on developing turnaround leader competencies

• Learning from Past Practice

– Studying previous turnaround successes, failures, and focusing on continuous improvement for support services

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Next Steps: Turnaround Year Zero Spring Community Engagement Activities:

Engagement Activity

Description and Purpose

Meet & Greets Informal conversations to build relationships.

Culture Equity and Leadership Team (CELT) trainings

Trainings for staff in managing change and grief, and also skills-based trainings (e.g. facilitation) to support the creation of positive school culture during the transition and year zero and beyond.

Family and Community Engagement (FACE) trainings

Parenting Partners, Parent Leadership Training Program, LEAP Training, and The Parent Engagement Pipeline—all designed to help parents be academic partners with their student(s).

School visioning exercises

Formal discussions designed to build collective school vision (will be both small-group 1-3 hours sessions as well as large-group and full day).

Grow/support school committees

Collaborative School Committee, Parent Teacher Association/Organization, ELA-PAC/DAC to create forums for effective parent leadership and engagement.

Parent Teacher Leadership Team

A group of parent/guardian and staff representatives that work to engage, educate and empower families. This is a large group with representation from each grade level and classroom.

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