School Means Success

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2010 2011Back to School Inservice

• School Means Success

August 18, 2010
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The Year of the Teacher

• Who has the single greatest affect on student
  achievement in the school?

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Dr. Haim Ginott

• I've come to the frightening
• conclusion that I am the decisive
• element in the classroom.
• It's my daily mood that makes the weather.
• As a teacher, I possess a
• tremendous power to make a child's life miserable
  or joyous.

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• I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of
• inspiration.
• I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
• In all situations, it is my response that
• decides whether a crisis will be escalated
• or de-escalated and a child humanized or
  de-humanized.

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Barbara Coloroso

• If kids come to us from strong, healthy
  functioning families, it makes our job easier.
• If they do not come to us from strong, healthy,
  functioning families, it makes our job more
  important.

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We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
Dakota Proverb
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Organizations only improve where the truth is
told and the brutal facts confronted. -Jim
Collins

• Having an above average teacher for five years
  running can completely close the average gap
  between low-income students and others. John
  Kain and Eric Hanushek
• The questions is not, Is it possible to educate
  all children well? But rather, Do we want to do
  it badly enough? Deborah Meier

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How important is the teacher?

• Multiple studies found that teaching had 6 to 10
  times as much impact on achievement as all other
  factors combined.
• One recent study shows that the best teachers in
  a school have six times as much impact as the
  bottom third teachers. (Haycock Huang, 2001)
• Improved classroom instruction is the prime
  factor to produce student achievement gains.

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How to Be an Effective Teacher

• Classroom Management
• Teaching for Mastery
• High Expectations for Students
• -Harry Wong

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As we begin the new year

• The things that help children succeed require no
  money or training and very little of your time.
• AGREE OR DISAGREE?

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MY Vision for a Perfect School

• All staff, every day come to work and look into
  the eyes of each of our students and say
• How are you?
• Glad you are here!
• Glad youre in our school!
• We have a very good school here.
• We care about you here.
• We want you to succeed.
• I want to help you.

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Could we all do this?

• Does that cost money?
• Require a special training?
• Take up too much of your time?

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Heres what I think we should do

• Love these kids, love them enough to provide the
  structure they need with lots of love and
  empathy that will foster them as individuals.
• When they make mistakes we should be SAD and at
  the same time hold them accountable.
• That provides structure, safety, consistency
• Something many do not have

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• Will you love them enough to set limits?
• We you allow them to grow from their mistakes?
• Will you celebrate their successes with them and
  their parents?
• We you be their teacher, their mentor, their
  support system?
• We you be a responsible, loving, emotionally
  mature role model?

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Procedures Provide Structure

• Many of our students do not have structure at
  home, they live in chaos.
• Procedures provide structure.
• Procedures provide a safe and secure learning
  environment.
• Students learn best in a safe and secure learning
  environment.
• Schoolwide procedures will provide structure for
  all of our students Leveling the learning field
  for students who have no structure at home.

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Harry and Rosemary Wong

• Suggest for classroom teachers having a script
  for the First Days of School.
• Schoolwide Script (Lesson Plan) for the first few
  days of school.
• Consistency in following the script is critical
  to its success.
• Non-negotiable ways of doing business in our
  school.
• Entering a classroom
• Bellwork Assignment
• Setting up Assignments
• Classroom Materials (Paper, Pencil, Independent
  Reading Book)
• What to do when assignments complete Reading!
• Walking in the Halls
• Exiting the classroom

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The Schoolwide Lesson Plan

• Please follow the First Days Lesson Plan/Script
  for our school the first week of school.
• Please make sure to Practice the Procedures in
  the Script.
• Please introduce a few new procedures each day.
• Practice the procedures until they are
  automatic--routine.
• Consistency in every classroom will provide
  structure.
• Students with structure in their learning
  environments achieve at higher levels.
• We are in Level 4 School Improvement Facing
  Restructuring All of our students need to
  achieve at higher levels.

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Teacher Expectations

• ALL TEACHERS at their doors before and after
  class greeting students
• Paras and support staff in the hallways
• All adults talking to students not each other
  during supervision times
• Students are to be supervised at all times
• Students not to be signed out during class unless
  emergency with escort or call office

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Teacher Expectations

• Bellwork is posted everyday in the same location.
  Students are expected to start bellwork
  immediately.
• Daily Lesson Objective is posted every day in the
  same location. (Before beginning the daily
  lesson teacher tells the students what they will
  be learning today and how they will be
  demonstrating that learning.)
• A daily agenda is posted every day in the same
  location.
• The Content Standard is also posted in the same
  location. (Please note the difference between
  the Content Standard and the Daily Lesson
  Objective..

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Teacher Expectations

• Teach, review and practice the procedures
  regularly.
• Dont be the weak link. This will cause hard
  feelings among the staff and I will have to talk
  to you about it.
• All teachers are expected to teach students that
  the bell does not dismiss class.
• Teachers should dismiss class from the door and
  speak to each student as they exit the room.
• This could be a time to collect a Ticket out of
  Class formative assessment of the daily
  objective.

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Teacher Evaluation

• New Teacher Evaluation Policy This Year
• Minimum of 4 Classroom Observations
• Observations will be drop in visits.
• I will probably drop in at least once a week,
  more if necessary.
• First observation will be to assess the use of
  procedures. (Rubric is provided).
• Procedures will be observed using the rubric
  quarterly.
• We will be Creating a Culture of Consistency.

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Are you up for this challenge?Do you want to
make an impact?

• I challenge you to deeply consider how you can
  get to know them, gain their trust, build a
  positive relationship, build a team, a family,
  develop camaraderie.
• Will you take the time and care enough to develop
  a positive relationship with each student?
• Will you love them enough to provide structure
  and the most effective learning environment
  possible?
• OUR KIDS DESERVE NOTHING LESS!

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Team Effort

• We have to work together
• We have to get along
• We have to be nice to each other
• We cant be critical of each other
• We cant be critical of our school
• There will be no place for negativity and
  criticism in our school
• We need to be Builders not Destroyers

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Words of Discipline Wisdom (expected staff
behavior)

• Do not raise your voice, yell or scream at
  students model respectful behavior at all
  times.
• Do not use sarcasm or insults.
• Always remain calm, respectful and in control.
• Do not get in a students space/face.
• Do not overreact.
• Do not embarrass a student in front of others.
• Do not let them see you get angry.

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Instruction (Monitoring)

• Lesson Plans using template
• Classroom Observations and feedback
• Monitoring PLCs
• Faculty Meeting every Wednesday focused on
  instruction (not events)
• 330-430 with K-8 once a month
• 330-415 all other weeks

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Assessment

• Summative Assessments
• Daily Formative Assessments
• Work on Assessments during PLCs
• Need to improve Assessments

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School Improvement Status

• Level 4 for Reading
• Level 2 for Math
• Must submit Restructuring Plan in May
• Goes beyond last years Corrective Action Plan
• Immediacy

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Ready, Set, Go

• Back to School Night
• Agenda
• Procedure
• First Day of School Lesson Plan/Script
• First Week of School PROCEDURES!
• ENRICH Go over the changes in the handbook with
  students
• Get to Know You Activities

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• Student agendas are in the office.
• Use Sharpie to write name on the inside cover.
• Use Highlighter for hall pass pages
• More student handbooks will be printed after Back
  to School Night for students to have a copy.
• All students who registered already have their
  locker assignment.
• A list will be sent to staff. (Amy)
• All others will get their locker during ENRICH on
  the first day of school.

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The First Week of School for Staff

• First PLC meetings on Wednesday
• K-8 Faculty Meeting in the PAC at 330 (Dr.
  Harry Wong Video Series)
• Developing Positive Relationships with Students
  and Parents
• Teaching Procedures

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Dos

• Arrive each day on time.
• Notify Mrs. Whitney in advance and always sign
  out if leaving early.
• Speak positively to each other, about each other
  and about our school.
• Bring concerns directly to the principal.
• Teach procedures.
• Turn in lesson plans by noon on Friday.

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Dos

• Show up for your assigned supervisory duties on
  time. Paras clock in at 755.
• Submit all vouchers to Mrs. Whitney for a
  signature after your team leader has signed off
  on your hours.
• Do get approval for time submitted on all
  vouchers prior to doing the work.
• Be considerate and communicate with each other
  (using the library, computer lab).

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Dos

• Build Positive Relationship with Students.
• Communicate positively with parents.
• Remember why we are here STUDENTS.
• Compliment each other and recognize successes
  every day!
• Remember why you became a teacher.

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Donts

• Gossip and complain NOT Acceptable, NOT
  Professional.
• Have conversations in the office
  Confidentiality.
• Children in the middle school after school
• Use the WASP program
• Free to school employees

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Heres to the best year yet_at_SMS whereSchool
Means Success