Creating a Plan

• Commitment 3-5 Years
• Designate a Learning-Focused Coordinator
• Non-negotiable issues
• Curriculum clarification
• Create budget
• Limit additional programs

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

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

Monitoring the Plan

• Reports from principals
• Support administrators

Monitoring the Plan

• 5X5 Walk-Through Training
• Formal observations
• Benchmarks for LFS
• Academic benchmarks
• Coaching/support for principals
• Lesson plans/unit plans

Monitoring the Plan

• Formative & summative assessment
• Looking at student work/assignments
• Benchmarks for Learning-Focused
• Academic benchmarks
• Collaboration/Study groups
• Coaching/support for Teachers

Planning the Work

• Planning with principals
• Study groups with principals

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

Planning the Work

• Curriculum Organization:
  • Prioritization
  • Course Mapping
  • Curriculum Maps
  • Unit Planning
• Acquisition lessons
• Extending Thinking lessons
• Instructional strategies (exemplary practice)
• Determine assessments

Implementing the Plan:

• Communicating to Board of Education
• Create budge for implementation of Professional Learning Coaches
• Develop benchmark and timeline for principal(s) feedback.

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

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