Polk County Schools

School Improvement Seminars July

2012-2013

Principal Focus Group Results

Begin with small teams Hands on (bring it to life) Walk out with the major tenets in place A lot to digest: Assimilate when possible Meet and share with their Peers during the process

Rough draft is built on last year’s plan

Revised draft of your SIP is in hand

Meet with the Sr. Coordinator’s, Sr.

Manager, TRST’s of each goal/ subject area to fine tune (8 - 10 goals) School Teams may choose to

stay all day Lunch on your own time frame

Expectations

Overview; Title I; Best Practices * (Repeated before each Breakout 1.20 ‘) Breakout Session I: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Breakout Session II: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Breakout Session III: 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. School Leadership teams will rotate every 15minutes

School Improvement Seminar Process

BreakOut Sessions

Start with: Reading/Writing: move to Math Math: move to Science/STEAM Science/STEAM: move to Attend. Attendance: move to Suspension Suspension: move to Goal Setting Goal Setting: move to Read/Write

Breakout Sessions

CELLA Problem Solving Optional Information : Title I Final Checkout:

Sr. Director Review Complete SurveyTitle I Evaluation if applicable Principal turn in Checklist

Additional Checklist Requirements Elementary

Civics CELLA Problem Solving Optional Information : Title I Final Checkout:

Sr. Director Review Complete SurveyTitle I Evaluation if applicable Principal turn in Checklist

Additional Checklist Requirements Middle School

U.S. History CELLA Problem Solving Optional Information : Title I Final Checkout:

Sr. Director Review Complete SurveyTitle I Evaluation if applicable Principal turn in Checklist

Additional Checklist Requirements High Schools

Changes

School Improvement Website in Google doc’shttps

://sites.google.com/a/mypolkschools.net/polk-fl-district-accountability-school-improvement/

Items we will NOT be reviewing: Florida Alternate Assessment

(FAA) EOC’s (Alg., Geometry, Biology) Family Involvement

Changes

• Directions for accessing data to be used

• Complete if you have ten (10) or more students in the cell

• FAA Barriers and Strategies in Google Doc’s site

• ESE sites will advise feeder schools of student enrollment

Florida Alternative Assessment FAA

12

New DA Classifications

School Grade ESEA Category

A Reward

Schools that increase their

grade

Reward

B

C Prevent

D Focus

F Priority

Criteria Requirements“A” schools andSchools that improve a letter grade.

Schools assigned a grade of “A” and schools that improve one or more letter grade•Eligible to receive Florida School Recognition Program.

Reward Schools

Criteria

Requirements

“C” schools

•Submit, as part of the (SIP), specific research-based intervention strategies to increase student performance in reading and/or math•If a school is increasing within the AMO’s but not making gains to meet the projected annual and six-year targets for three consecutive years, •the formulation of specific research-based strategies by the district to meet annual targets in reading and/or mathematics is required.

Prevent Schools

Criteria Requirements

“D” Schools

QuarterlySept. 20Nov. 26Jan. 25March

29

• DOE provides monitoring through regional teams .• District directs interventions, monitors progress and support• The school submits quarterly updates of the SIP Brief by uploading to Goggle Doc’s website. • Baseline and mid-year performance data and mid year narrative.

Focus Schools

Criteria Requirements

“F” Schools

• FDOE Department provides embedded support through regional teams

• Priority Schools School Compliance Checklist

Priority Schools

Annual Measurable Goals (AMO)

Use SIP Resource Guides for School Improvement information Only choose two (2) Barriers and

Strategies State and District determines: Persons or Position Responsible for Monitoring Process used to Determine Effectiveness Evaluation Tools One doc for School’s graded, another for School’s Rated

District Template Guidelines

Person or PositionResponsible for Monitoring

Process Used to DetermineEffectiveness of Strategy

Evaluation Tool/Deliverables

1. Principal, AP/C/A, Instructional Facilitators/Teachers

2. Principal, AP/C/A, Instructional Facilitators ,Teachers/PLC’s

3. Academic Instructional Facilitators, Teachers/ bi-weekly PLC’s

4. Principal, AP/C/A, Instructional Facilitators ,Teachers/PLC’s

Simultaneous:5. Principal, AP/C/A Optional:

6. School Leadership Team

 

1. Administer Formative assessments2. Data Day Chats3. Data Chats to make curricular/instructional decisions based on review of student data and artifacts4. Data Chats to make curricular/instructional decisions based on review of student data and artifacts Simultaneous:5. a. Daily classroom walk-throughs (3 -5’) b. Informal observations 10 -25’) c. Formal Observations (30’ or more) Optional: 6.Two (2) Live Meetings (First Progress Monitoring and Mid-Year)

1. Discovery Assessments2. Initial creation of MTSS Tier matrix of grade level scores by subject (Reading, Math, Science, Writing, EOC’s)3. Common Assessments (Teacher made by grade level and subject) 4. Adjusted barriers and strategies by MTSS Tier matrix of grade level and subject three (3) x within a school year Simultaneous: 5. Aggregated data by teacher, grade level, and

subject area

Optional:

6.Questions for Progress Monitoring

 

Polk County Protocols Reward, Prevent, Focus & Priority

SIP Brief

Purposes of the BriefInitial request of the School Board

last yearAn abbreviated version for Progress

Monitoring (PM) All can update goals on Polk’s SIP

BriefDeliverable for C, D, F schools Uploaded to Goggle Doc’s SIP

website after every Progress Monitoring

Dates will be forthcoming

Polk SIP Brief

All teachers have an copy of the SIP on their computer DESKTOPThis entails the full length SIP The SIP BriefAll Teachers know your site’s goals Data Chats refer back to the goalsUpdate the BriefHow far away are you from obtaining

your goals? By Subject? By Grade?

School Improvement Integrity Practices

Due Dates

All school’s initial SIP in place first day of school (Goal’s)

All schools upload two(2) docs to Polk County’s SIP Google Doc’s website by October 12

SIP Brief and the Trad. PlanPriority and Focus Schools

Upload to DOE also on October 12

Due Dates

Confined to Administrators only Just like an attachment Add File In your folders Upload your Full Template Upload your Brief Historically, your goals will be tracked here For your constituency (Teachers, SAC, Parents)

Upload Processes

Live Meetings for Focus and Priority Schools –possibly others:

September 17 – 21 Peer Reviews: September 24 – 28 DAC/SAC Requirements are same Note: Majority of SAC is community

and parents DA Checklists will not be released till August

More Dates

School TechPrincipal on AssignmentCurriculum DepartmentTitle IProfessional DevelopmentSupport Services

AttendanceSuspensionSchool PsychologistsESOL

AAE: Goals

Thank You!

Principal on AssignmentEileen Castle

Sr. CoordinatorDonna Buckner

Accountability / School Improvement