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DOUGLASSCHOOL IMPROVEMENT TEAM
REWIND AND UNWIND
August 11, 2008
Rewind and Unwind
Assessment ToolMarker Board
50’s/60’s Quiz
Review of Topics 2007-08
Outcomes
Continue to develop knowledge of professional learning communities.
Understand how color personalities and circle of concern/influence impact learning communities.
Understand formative and summative assessment similarities and differences.
Accumulate formative assessment tools to inform instruction.
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SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT TEAM PROCESS
Who are we?
Why are we doing this?
Why are we doing this THIS way?
School Improvement Team Process
Who Are We?
Why Are We Doing This Why Are We Doing This This
Way?
Training
I Do ItWe Do ItYou Do It
When Are We Doing This?
FEEDBACKYEAR-END SURVEY
Question: School
Choice Count Percentage of Sample
Answering
Carrousel 11 6.0%
Badger Clark
35 19.0%
Francis Case
35 19.0%
Vandenberg
26 14.1%
Middle School
35 19.0%
High School
42 22.8%
Other 0 0.0%
(184 responses)
Question: Position
Choice Count Percentage of Sample
Answering
School Administrator
4 2.2%
Classroom Teacher
105 57.1%
Special Education Teacher
16 8.7%
Paraprofessional
31 16.8%
Area Teacher 13 7.1%
Other: 15 8.2%
Library aide Speech IA Support staff Counselor Aide Speech therapist School
psychologist Secretary Library(184 responses)
Question: Building Level Goals
Topic Strongly Agree
Agree Disagree
Strongly
Disagree
N/A
Our school has identified goals in reading and math that align with our district goals
112 63 2 1 6
We have identified the specific standards all students must achieve to reach the reading and math goals.
99 71 6 0 8
For each goal, we have identified instructional strategies to achieve the goal.
86 83 6 1 8
(184 responses)
Question: Goal Progress
0
10
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30
40
50
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Little or noprogress
Some progress Considerableprogress
Percent
Question: PLC
Topic Strongly
Agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly
Disagree
N/A
We are organized into collaborative teams in which members work together interdependently to achieve common goals.
84 82 10 3 5
We are provided time during the contractual day and school year to meet as a team.
84 78 10 5 7
We use team time to engage in conversations specifically linked to gains in student achievement.
83 77 9 3 12
We have developed and adhere to team norms.
66 95 9 1 13
We work with colleagues in our team/school to build shared knowledge regarding state standards, district curriculum, trends in student achievement and expectations.
82 84 7 5 6
(184 responses)
Question: PLC Progress
0
10
20
30
40
50
Little or noprogress
Some progress Considerableprogress
Percent
Question: Data-Driven Dialogue
Topic Strongly Agree
Agree Disagree Strongly Disagre
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N/A
I understand the DakotaSTEP data in regard to adequate yearly progress (AYP) and how it impacts school improvement.
45 109 8 1 21
I understand the DakotaSTEP data in regard to grade-level strong and weak reading/math standards.
48 105 10 1 20
I understand the DakotaSTEP data in regard to individual student achievement.
47 105 10 2 20
(184 responses)
Comments - GeneralN/A, None, or No Comment (60)
This has been time well spent, extremely well-planned and valuable, interesting and useful, informative for everybody – enjoyed the training
I appreciate what the team has done for us this year. They have made us more aware of the needs of the students and how we can better ourselves - Thank you for all of your hard work that you have put in to helping us reach our goals.
Our leadership team was outstanding in providing quality activities to use in our classroom. We were allowed time to collaborate....... Very important to all of us!
I really enjoyed the hands-on activities to get us moving and as a way to "remember" what our meetings were about. I have definitely come away with a range of activities to use and I look at assessment in a new way. Thanks ladies!!!!
The school improvement team has worked hard. The activities that were chosen, were excellent examples of what we need to do in the classroom.
Thank you so much for all of your hard work organizing our district days. I really appreciate everything you do and all little extras to make these days enjoyable.
We rocked this year!
Comments - PLC This last year seemed to be the first steps towards a true professional
learning community in our school. The activities aided our team as a learning community. The activities we engaged in this year to strengthen our professional
learning communities were very beneficial. I would like to see more of this team building next year.
Communication is an area that we need to continue to work on. This year was better than previous years in team building and goal
setting. Our in-services have become more consistent with the goals
and mission of the district and buildings. The strategies presented were great. We need more in-services like
that -- utilizing the techniques teachers use regularly and sharing them with colleagues.
Great job to our SIP team!
Comments - Assessment
I have taken several assessment tools back to my classroom and used them successfully. Thank you for giving us time to meet professionally!
It is important to take things slowly as we move through the assessment process.
Comments – Concerns (Time)
We still need time to work in small collaborative groups that allow for cross team and grade level discussion.
I would like to see more time to collaborate with our teams on grade level curriculum rather than building issues.
I feel that we have had training but have not had sufficient time to meet with our "teams" to develop specific planning. It is always in a large group.
Comments – Concerns (Talkers)
There are some staff here who want to learn new things and improve all of the time. So often it seems that the staff that are fine with being complacent are the ones who dictate how much time is taken up for our meetings. Also, it would be nice if the administrator would step up and make the "talkers" stop as they are extremely disruptive to those who are really trying to learn.
Comments – Concerns (Inclusion)
I would like to be included in collaboration time. I am interested in learning and improving my skills so I can assist students better. It is difficult to feel part of a "team" if you are not included in team meetings. It is disappointing and discouraging to not feel included somewhere.
I would like more opportunities for professional growth in my area. I don't feel there are those opportunities provided that the classroom teacher has.
Some of these questions I don't understand or I'm not involved in specific processes like collaborative team meetings. I feel like some of these questions don't pertain to me or what I know about the students because I am not the teacher.
Comments - Questions
Are our new principal and assistant principal going to be able to "continue to get everyone on the same page?" We made significant progress this year, I hope it can continue in a positive direction.
Is there any opportunity to reinstate our reading and literacy teachers? I really feel they helped our test scores rise and helped many kids to catch up in their reading skills?
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIES
NORMSNORMS
During our time together, we need a safe and open learning climate in which we can…
think deeply about important learning and teaching ideas
work and talk together to build shared understandings
Norms
Honor private think time Be mindful of those still working or reading
Own the responsibility of putting ideas on the table Say what you need to here, not in the parking lot
Share air time Come back together as large group quickly Use “round robin” approach to seek all perspectives Listen to understand first, respond second
Norms: Examples
So how will we stay on track and on time in large group?
Norms
Norms 2007-08
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIES
DUFOUR ARTICLEDUFOUR ARTICLE““WHAT IS A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING WHAT IS A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
COMMUNITY?”COMMUNITY?”
Professional Learning Communities
“A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is educators committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.
PLCs operate under the assumption that the key to improved learning for students is continuous, job-embedded learning for educators.”
—adapted from Learning by Doing
Douglas SchoolsInstructional Strategies
What is a PLC?
Skim and scan the highlighted parts of the article“What is a Professional Learning Community” to extend your knowledge of the Millionaire Game PLC research.
3 Big Ideas of a PLC
#1 Focus on Learning
The fundamental purpose of the school is to ensure high levels of learning for all students. This focus on learning translates into four critical questions that drive the daily work of the school. In PLCs, educators demonstrate their commitment to helping all students learn by working collaboratively to address the following critical questions:
1) What do we want students to learn? 2) How will we know if they have learned? 3) What will we do if they don’t learn? 4) What will we do if they already know it?
#2 Build a Collaborative Culture
• No school can help all students achieve at high levels if teachers work in isolation.
• Schools improve when teachers are given the time and support to work together to clarify essential student learning, develop common assessments for learning, analyze evidence of student learning, and use that evidence to learn from one another.
3 Big Ideas of a PLC
#3 Focus on Results
• PLCs measure their effectiveness on the basis of results rather than intentions.
• All programs, policies, and practices are continually assessed on the basis of their impact on student learning.
• All staff members receive relevant and timely information on their effectiveness in achieving intended results.
3 Big Ideas of a PLC
“A group of individuals who have committed to meet regularly for an agreed amount of time guided by a common purpose.”
Goal“. . . to help all members through collaboration, during team meetings and individual study, and through our actions between meetings.”
Professional Learning Communities
Comments – Concerns (Inclusion)
I would like to be included in collaboration time. I am interested in learning and improving my skills so I can assist students better. It is difficult to feel part of a "team" if you are not included in team meetings. It is disappointing and discouraging to not feel included somewhere.
I would like more opportunities for professional growth in my area. I don't feel there are those opportunities provided that the classroom teacher has.
Some of these questions I don't understand or I'm not involved in specific processes like collaborative team meetings. I feel like some of these questions don't pertain to me or what I know about the students because I am not the teacher.
Professional Learning Communities
Brainstorm and Discuss
What are some ways we can get ALL staff to feel that they are part of our school’s PLC?
Coastal Plains RESA
Janie Baxter
PLCs Take Time
Collaborate with one another. Support one another. Care for one another. Encourage one another.
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIES
CIRCLE OF CIRCLE OF CONCERN/INFLUENCECONCERN/INFLUENCE
THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLETHE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE
Steven R. Covey
“The problems all of us face fall in one of three areas:
direct control (problems involving our own behavior);
indirect control (problems involving other people’s behavior); or
no control (problems we can do nothing about, such as our past, or situational realities).”
Stephen Covey
Circle of Concern/Circle of Influence
Douglas SchoolsInstructional Strategies
The Way We See the Problem…Is the Problem
If you have a problem, the actual problem is that you are looking at it as a problem.
It could be something else, such as an opportunity. When it rains lemons, make lemonade.
You just need a paradigm shift.
Circle of Concern/Circle of Influence
Circle of Concern/Circle of Influence
Circle of Concern/Circle of InfluenceCircle of Concern/Circle of Influence
Even briefer…
Instead of…“What’s wrong?”
Indulge in… “What can we do
about it?”
Comments – Concerns (Talkers)
There are some staff here who want to learn new things and improve all of the time. So often it seems that the staff that are fine with being complacent are the ones who dictate how much time is taken up for our meetings. Also, it would be nice if the administrator would step up and make the "talkers" stop as they are extremely disruptive to those who are really trying to learn.
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3.
4. Side conversations
2.
Circle of Concern/Circle of Influence
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIES
COLORSCOLORS
Do you know or remember which personality color is your primary color?
Take the color self-assessment and find out!!!
Remember When???
Douglas SchoolsInstructional Strategies
Green’s make up 6% of the population.They bring innovation to society.
Orange makes up 40% of population.They bring excitement to society.
Gold makes up 44% of population.They bring stability to society.
Interesting Facts
Blue makes up 10% of population.They bring unity to society.
Unique Facts
Blue’s represent 14% of the criminal population.
Orange’s represent 85% of high school dropouts.
Orange’s represent the majority of kids diagnosed with ADHD.
Orange’s represent 72% of the criminal population.
Unique Facts
Gold’sGold’s represent 40% of the educator population (teachers).
Blue’s represent 32% of the educator population.
Orange’s represent 70% of the CEOs, VIPs and high achievers in our society.
Stand if you are a Green. Blue. Gold. Orange.Wave at your “color” friends when you stand.
Look at the colors that comprise your team.
Have a discussion with your team about how all these colors might work together.
Use the handout to help.
Colors of Your Team
ASSESSMENTASSESSMENT
SUMMATIVE/FORMATIVESUMMATIVE/FORMATIVEOF/FOROF/FOR
Intelligence Test
The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and will tell you whether you are qualified to be a professional.
The questions are NOT that difficult.
Intelligence Test
1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door.
This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.
Intelligence Test
2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator? Wrong!!!
Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door.
This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions.
Intelligence Test
3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend...except one. Which animal does not attend?Correct Answer: The Elephant.
The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there.
This tests your memory.
Intelligence Test
4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it? Correct Answer: You jump into the river and
swim across.Have you not been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting!!!
This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.
Intelligence Test
According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the professionals they tested got all questions wrong, but many preschoolers got several correct answers.
Anderson Consulting says this conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains of a four-year-old.
Source: John McPherson. For Whom the Late Bell Tolls. Available from Kagan Publishing.
Was this a Formative Assessment or a Summative Assessment?
Neither…it was just for fun!
So….
Assessment is part of everything we do as educators.
To make any kind of decision, we collect and analyze evidence and then act on that evidence.
Assessment OF learningAssessment FOR learning
Why Is Assessment Important?
OF and FOR Assessment - Purpose
Assessment OF Learning (Summative Assessment):How much have students learned as of a at a particular point in time?
Assessment FOR Learning (Formative Assessment):How can we use assessments to help us with instruction so students learn more?
OF and FOR Card Sort
You will need these 2 documents for the assessment card sort activity.
OF and FOR Card SortRound Robin: Choose a label and read it to the group.
Explain whether you think the label describes an assessment OF or FOR learning.
Members give a “thumbs up” or a “thumbs down” to indicate whether they agree/disagree.
If anyone disagrees, discuss until a determination is made.
Then, and only then, can the label be placed on the chart.
Pass the labels to the next person. Repeat the process until all cards have been placed on the T-Chart or time is called.
Compare your answers:
OF and FOR Card Sort
Which is Which?
It isn’t the method that determines
whether the assessment is summative or formative…
it is how the results
are used.
Standards
Curriculum Mapping
Professional Learning Communities (Focus on Learning)
What do we want students to learn? How will we know if they have learned? What will we do if they don’t learn? What will we do if they already know it?
Assessment OF and FOR Learning
All are integrated and work together.
Standard
Learning Target
Learning Target
Learning Target
Learning Target
Learning Target
Learning Target
StudentsStudents
Move Move
UpUp
The The
LadderLadder
ThroughThrough
AA
SequenceSequence
OfOf
LearningLearning
StepsSteps
Assessment OFOF Learning
Assessments FORFOR Learning
Unpacked Standards
Assessment OF LearningStandard: Use decoding and word recognition skills to
develop vocabulary and increase fluency when reading unfamiliar text.
Assessment FOR LearningUnpacked Standards – Student Speak (learning targets):
I can read unfamiliar text by showing what I know about (use)... Correctly sounding out words (decoding) Correctly reading a word without sounding it out (word
recognition skills) Build a list of words I can read (develop vocabulary) Read quickly and correctly (increase fluency)
We must help kids find the gifts they didn’t know they had.
ASSESSMENTASSESSMENT
SUMMATIVE/FORMATIVESUMMATIVE/FORMATIVE2008 - 20092008 - 2009
Assessment Strategies
Human Histogram
Assessment Activity
“Teachers who truly understand what they want their students to accomplish will almost surely be more instructionally successful than teachers whose understanding of ‘hoped-for’ student accomplishments are murky.”
W. James Popham
The Challenge…
How can we use assessments to help the student believe that
the target is within reach?
Assessment Tools
ABC Chart
Histogram
Jigsaw
Questioning
Marker Boards
Outcomes
Continue building knowledge of professional learning communities.
Understand how color personalities and circle of concern/influence impact learning communities.
Understand formative and summative assessment similarities and differences.
Accumulate formative assessment tools to inform instruction.
ESA 7: escWorks
http://www.sdesa7.org/
On-Line escWorks
Team Planning Time
Resources
Assessment FOR Learning-An Action Guide for School Leaders. Chappuis, Stephen, Richard J. Stiggins, Judith Arter, Jan Chappuis. Assessment Training Institute. Portland, OR. 2003.
Classroom Assessment for Student Learning. Stiggins, Richard J., Judith Arter, Jan Chappuis, Stephen Chappuis. Assessment Training Institute: Portland, OR, 2005.
Eaker, R., DuFour, R., & DuFour, R. (2002). Getting Started. Blooomington, IN: National Education Service.
Resources
Assessment FOR Learning-An Action Guide for School Leaders. Chappuis, Stephen, Richard J. Stiggins, Judith Arter, Jan Chappuis. Assessment Training Institute. Portland, OR. 2003.
Classroom Assessment for Student Learning. Stiggins, Richard J., Judith Arter, Jan Chappuis, Stephen Chappuis. Assessment Training Institute: Portland, OR, 2005.