Superintendents
and Central Office | School Administrators | Teachers |
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Creating a Plan
- Commitment 3-5 Years
- Designate a Learning-Focused Coordinator
- Non-negotiable issues
- Curriculum clarification
- Create budget
- Limit additional programs
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Creating a Plan
- Commitment 3-5 years
- Non-negotiable issues
- Curriculum clarification
- Limit additional programs
- Design Team to create School Improvement and Professional Learning Plans - Use data and action research
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Creating a Plan
- Commitment 3-5 years
- Non-negotiable issues
- Curriculum clarification
- School Improvement and Professional
- Learning Plans - staff input - Use data and action research
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Monitoring the Plan
- Reports from principals
- Support administrators
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Monitoring the Plan
- 5X5 Walk-Through Training
- Formal observations
- Benchmarks for LFS
- Academic benchmarks
- Coaching/support for principals
- Lesson plans/unit plans
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Monitoring the Plan
- Formative & summative assessment
- Looking at student work/assignments
- Benchmarks for Learning-Focused
- Academic benchmarks
- Collaboration/Study groups
- Coaching/support for Teachers
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Planning the Work
- Planning with principals
- Study groups with principals
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Planning the Work
- Curriculum Organization:
- Prioritization
- Course Mapping
- Curriculum Maps
- Unit Planning
- Acquisition lessons
- Extending Thinking lessons
- Instructional strategies (exemplary practice)
- Vertical and horizontal alignment
- Math and Reading Coaches
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Planning the Work
- Curriculum Organization:
- Prioritization
- Course Mapping
- Curriculum Maps
- Unit Planning
- Acquisition lessons
- Extending Thinking lessons
- Instructional strategies (exemplary practice)
- Determine assessments
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Implementing the Plan:
- Communicating to Board of Education
- Create budge for implementation of Professional Learning Coaches
- Develop benchmark and timeline for principal(s) feedback.
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Implementing the Plan
- Design Team with administrators to create or revise the
improvement plan
- Focus on 2 or 3 goals
- Monitor plan components
- Analyze benchmark data
- Remove ineffective programs and/or committees
- Provide feedback to teachers
- Safety nets
- Make adjustments
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Implementing the Plan
- Maximize instructional time by implementing the curriculum to support the plan
- Selected staff to be members of the Design Team
- Attend and implement the professional training
- Conduct benchmark assessments
- Develop and use informal and formal
assessments to guide instruction
- Differentiate instruction
- Use data for safety nets and previewing and acceleration labs
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