Welcome Back MAPS Staff

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• Welcome Back MAPS Staff!
• 2009-10
• Nothing more than education advances the
  prosperity, the power, and the happiness of a
  nation.
• Thomas Jefferson

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What you can expect from my leadership..

• Management by Fact
• Management by Innovation
• Visionary-Focus on the Future-goal oriented
• Responsible to the Public
• Team-Oriented
• Honor and value all stakeholders
• Student-Centered
• Focused on Organizational and personal learning
• Valuing faculty, staff and partners
• Systems-thinker
• Focused on results and creating value

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• We know what works in schools
• Having a shared vision/mission and goals and
  strong leaders
• Having quality teachers and instructional
  practices
• Having a student-centered school culture
• Allowing time and systems for Collaboration,
  consensus building and data driven
  decision-making
• Providing Quality Feedback to our students
• Ensuring the Emotional well-being satisfaction
  of our staff and students
• Promoting Inclusive practices
• Promoting Parent and Community Involvement and
  Reciprocal Dialogue

The ultimate goal of change is when people see
themselves as shareholders with a stake in the
success of the system as a whole with the pursuit
of meaning as the elusive key Michael Fullen
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• We would argue that it is impossible to develop a
  results orientation unless we are clear about the
  core of the enterprise (mission), about the kind
  of district were seeking to become (vision), and
  the attitudes, behaviors and commitments we need
  to promote, protect and defend (values). DuFour
  and Eaker

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• Improve effectiveness (achieve the vision,
  mission, strategic goals) and efficiency (faster,
  eliminate problems and with fewer resources) by
  moving our school district from where it is to a
  position of excellence through visionary
  leadership, systems-thinking and stakeholder
  participation

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High Cost of Non-Quality

• Typical career criminal causes 1.3-1.5 million
  in external costs
• Heavy drug user-370,000-970,000
• High School Drop-out-243,00-388,000
• Overall estimate of saving one high risk youth is
  1.7 to 2.3 million
• (Byrnes Baxter, 2006)

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Compelling reasons to continuously improve our
schools

• Dropouts make up half the heads of households on
  welfare (ETS, 2003)
• Dropouts make up half of the prison population
  (ETS, 2003)
• 85 of juvenile offenders are illiterate
• 1/3 of public school students drop out nationally
• A male high school drop-out contributes 30,000
  less in taxes over his lifetime

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School Work ReadinessWorld Ready 2005-06
Lexile Framework for Reading Study Summary of
Text Lexile Measures
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
Text Lexile Measure (L)
600
High School Literature
College Literature
High School Textbooks
College Textbooks
Military
Personal Use
Entry-Level Occupations
SAT 1, ACT, AP
Interquartile Ranges Shown (25 - 75)
Source of National Test Data MetaMetrics
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On-the Job Lexile Requirements
National Adult Literacy Study 1992
1,500 1,400 1,300 1,200 1,100 1,000 900 800
International Center for Leadership in Education
2006
Lexile
Construction
Craftsman
Nurse
Sales
Secretary
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Support, Encourage, Celebrate!
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• Our message to community members, one I hope you
  will help me carry is this
• We want your opinions
• We want your suggestions
• We want your continued involvement in our
  schools.
• We want you to be proud of MAPS

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NCLB UPDATE

• Johnny No Child
• The Left Behinds