CCSS Facilitators/Director Network Support Team Strategic Planning for Common Core Implementation...

CCSS Facilitators/DirectorNetwork Support Team

Strategic Planning for Common Core Implementation

Katie McGrath, IDJoseph Espinosa & Nikki Grakal, CCSS Facilitators

May 6, 2014

Planning Steps

1. Agree on strategic planning process2. Environmental scan SWOT3. Values and principles; issues to address4. Mission and Vision statements consensus5. Develop our SMART goals6. Agree on strategies related to each goal7. Align strategies with transformational

leadership “right drivers”8. Work Plan for projects, timelines, progress

monitoring

Planning Process

Accountability How well are we doing?

Team Formation

Resource Allocation

Key Action StepsStrategies

Organizational Structure

Results Reward/Feedback

InstructionalCabinet

Action Plan

Strategic Plan Where are we going?

Beliefs Goals/OutcomesWhy

How will we get there?

Environment Scan

• Strengths: 1) CCSS Shifts 2) Supporting Teacher Improvement 3) Professional Learning Communities

Examples, Openness to learning, new teachers, supportive principals, district alignment with initiatives and school initiatives, e.g. CCSS shifts, embracing CCSS, focus on DOK and Bloom’s, understanding and use of TLF, using instructional rounds, lesson study, using data to inform instruction, writers’ workshop structures formally implemented; planning together and sharing ideas, using problem solving cycle, use of action teams and Public Choice Plans

Environment Scan

• Weaknesses 1) School climate 2) Community of stakeholders engagement 3) Culture and mind-set 4) Focused on Zone of Concern vs. Zone of Influence 5) Not using strategic planning to activate full potential of action plans

Examples, a school feels cold, parents are not engaged, some schools are not friendly. Mind-set that is dysfunctional in that some teachers might have given up or are completely over-whelmed. Poverty and not leveraging community resources. Systems of institutionalized poverty and oppression. Time constraints and money constraints that paralyze people act. Deeply engrained ineffective pedagogical practices.

Environmental Scan

• Opportunities: 1) New teachers are impressionable 2) Initiatives like Writers’ Workshop 3) Honest conversations with faculty 4) Teamwork 5) Finding eagerness in teachers and ILT’s 6) Chances to Change Culture 7) Adoption of CCSS and teaching through a problem-solving model, investigation and interactive teaching 8) Embracing 21st Century Skills, characteristics of innovators, and constructivism

Environmental Scan

• Threats: 1) In-fighting 2) Resistance to chance 3) Unhealthy culture of competition or dysfunctional hierarchy 5) Misuse of resources 6) Lack of vision or clear goals (missing strategic planning)

Example, Unwelcoming or avoiding help, leadership may not be comfortable as instructional leader and will focus on operations, no focus on the instructional core; holding some people accountable but not all; assisting some, but not the whole group; inactive PLC’s or fewer opportunities for building capacity; in some cases lacking vision. Putting out fires and reacting; not being proactive. Lacking leadership presence in the classrooms.

Craftsmanship/excellence

Integrity/Equality

Perseverance Progressiveness

Interdependence/teamwork

Equality

Openness Empathy/consciousness/Love

Honesty Warmth Generosity Love

Fairness Encouragement

Peace/Justice

Justice People-oriented

Excellence

Responsibility

Compassion

Transformational leadership

Teamwork Constructivism

Flexibility

Creativity Respect Knowledge Diversity Community

Tolerance

Equity Interconnected

Consciousness

Selfless Trust Collegiality

Our Core Beliefs DRAFT

• Craftsmanship & Excellence = teacher quality, formative assessment on-going growth plans, leadership capacity, viable, engaging curriculum, CCSS

• Integrity & Equality = success paradigm, closing achievement gaps, capacity-building

• Interdependence & Teamwork = culture of learning and growing, collaboration, group quality, shared decision making, PLC’s

• Empathy & Consciousness = our approach to the work, building relationships, how we treat others, nature of delivery

• Peace & Social Justice = civilization is fragile, public education is key to democracy and freedom and social health, CCSS prepares students to solve the complex problems of the future to improve the world for all people to have high standard of living

“Be, belong, become.”

Vision for CCSS Implementation

Our vision for the future of our network of schools is that all are achieving academically, thriving learning communities that produce students who have 21st Century Skills, are college/career ready, possess non-cognitive skills, and are stewards of the environment and contribute to the betterment of humanity.*21st Century skills are creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, proactive, compassionate humans, collaborative, communicators, confident in their ability, growth mind-set, mastery of math practices and anchor standards.

Mission for CCSS Implementation

Our mission as the CCSS Facilitators + Director Network Support Team is to develop the group quality of teachers and leaders to build the capacity to be effective in teaching students to learn, to think critically on higher levels, problem solve, communicate, create, collaborate through mastery of the Common Core State Standards by developing systems that support cognitively challenging curriculum, instruction, and performance tasks.

Goals for our Network of SchoolsCCSS Implementation

“CCSS Institute Goal”By December 2014, 100% of our network schools’ teachers at 3 of 5 sites will have experienced the CCSS Institute, including deepening their understand of CCSS-based curriculum maps, unit/lesson development as measured by CCSS Institute attendance and completion.


“On-Site School-based PLC Goal”By May 2015, 100% of teachers will have planned together in grade level teams a CCSS standards-based unit of rigorous lessons and completed a lesson study via plan/deliver/reflect/revise cycle* in ELA and math as measured by the PD tracker. *Cycle is a series of coherent PD sessions that build upon


“CCSS School Plan Goal”By September 2014, 100% of our network of schools will have submitted a CCSS Strategic Plan* mapping out CCSS implementation as measured by our archive of plans.

*Including the Aspen Institute CCSS Implementation Guide indicators and measures, such as a coherent PD plan, delineating resources, messaging and engaging the community, technology, etc.


“CCSS Based Lessons & Instructional Rounds Goal”*By May 2015, as measured by evidence gathered via instructional rounds, 100% of classroom instruction and lesson delivery will have a CCSS lesson objective and students will be either close-reading complex text or informational text, writing citing evidence, modeling mathematics, making sense of mathematics, or persevering in solving problems based upon quality questions that prompt student rigorous thinking, participation, interaction, and discussion. *The focus of the Instructional Rounds will be based upon this theory of action and communicated to teachers and know that for the rounds they should address these items


“Writers’ Workshop Goal”By December 2014, 90% of teachers will have implemented the structure of writers’ workshop into their classroom schedules as measured by observation, student writing folders, conferencing, editing, and authors’ chair.


“Math Workshop Goal”By May 2015, 80% of teachers are teaching math through a problem solving, student-centered approach called Math Workshop* as measured by observation and evidenced by teachers using a three-phase lesson structure, such as TTLP or Before-During-After.

*Math workshop is interactive, develops concepts along with computation, allows students to make connections between solution paths and fosters student questioning and discussion

Brain StormKey Strategies DRAFT

• Tier and differentiate support• Assist schools with PD plan development• Teachers plan/deliver/reflect/revise a lesson;

including 6 weeks prior to each performance assessment we deconstruct the task and plan

• Lesson study• Implement Menu of Services as a coherence

series of PD on a experience or topic.

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Strategies Timeline Project manager

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