New England Regional Colloquium Series

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New England Regional Colloquium SeriesSystems
of State Support

• B. Keith Speers
• January 24, 2007

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Intended Outcomes

• Become more aware of issues facing states as they
  partner with regional providers / personnel to
  support School Improvement.
• Discover new approaches to School Improvement
  Support work through shared dialogue with
  colleagues.

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Intended Outcomes

• Learn more about Ohios Statewide System of
  School Improvement Support.
• Develop greater networks through which they can
  problem-solve and continuously improve their
  States System of Support.

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Montessori
North Carolina
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Key Element 1 System Overview

• Participants will be more aware of Ohios
  Statewide System of School Improvement Support.
• Participants will develop greater networks
  through which they can problem-solve and
  continuously improve their States System of
  Support.

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Tri-Tier Model of School Improvement Support
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Technical Assistance Model

• Two Views
• Service Delivery
• Tiered Support

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Technical Assistance Model

• Cognitive Coaching Model
• http//www.cognitivecoaching.com/
• Increasing Support Over Time
• Continuum from Technical Assistance toward
  Compliance

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Technical Assistance Model

• Support Aligned to NCLB
• Needs Assessment and Goal Setting
• Planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation and Feedback

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Technical Assistance Model

• High Quality Technical Assistance
• is purposeful, structured and a continuous
  process
• is informed by multiple sources of data
• is collaborative

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Technical Assistance Model

• High Quality Technical Assistance
• includes varied learning experiences that
  accommodate individual educators knowledge and
  skills
• results in acquisition, enhancement of refinement
  of skills and knowledge
• is evaluated by its short and long term impact on
  professional practice and achievement of all
  students

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Technical Assistance Model

• A brief 16 minute video overview of Ohios
  Statewide System of School Improvement Support is
  available on our website.
• Go to www.ode.state.oh.us.
• Type Statewide in the search engine.

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Opportunities for Growth

• Communication of School Improvement Support
  products, programs and services provided by the
  State Agency

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Opportunities for Growth

• Ensure quality of professional development
  provided across the state meets the HQPD
  Standards adopted by the Ohio State Board of
  Education

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Opportunities for Growth

• Better integrate and coordinate State Agency
  initiatives to ensure an aligned system of
  support that is considered value-added by
  District and Building Leaders

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System Components

• Purpose
• Context
• Structures
• Functions
• Processes

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Key Element 2 Scope of Work

• Confessions about our Rubrics
• 1,000 little pieces possible
• Attempt to model the concept of focus
• Recurring references in School Improvement
  research
• You may think some pieces should fall in other
  parts of the rubricGOOD!

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District Partnership Agreement Rubrics

• Curriculum
• Instruction
• Assessment
• Conditions / Climate
• Leadership

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Focus of Our Work

• District and Instructional Leaders
• Teachers acting in roles typically assigned to
  administrators
• Commitment and Capacity
• Research-based District assurances
• Partnership Agreement process

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Focus of Our Work

• Build capacity to plan and implement School
  Improvement processes
• Roles and Responsibilities
• What needs to happen in and what support is
  needed for each role?
• Innovation Configuration Maps
• Services not Funding

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District Partnership Agreement Rubrics

• Four point scale
• Self-scored
• Evidenced-based
• Sets standard while allowing district to
  determine the strategies

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District Partnership Agreement

• Supports existing District Improvement Efforts
• Focused intended outcome aligned to movement on
  the scales
• Logical and sequential action steps yield the
  intended outcome
• Long term focus with short term timelines

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District Partnership Agreement

• Requires evidence of implementation and impact
• Identifies responsible person
• Connects District Systems change efforts to
  formative and summative student achievement data
• Iterative documents that grow and change

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Opportunities for Growth

• Refinement of evidence listed in each box on the
  scales to provide greater clarity and support for
  District self-assessment efforts

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Opportunities for Growth

• Identification of tools, templates and resources
  to support improvement in each system

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Opportunities for Growth

• Compilation of research summary for each system
  that includes milestones and exemplar practices
  to reach those milestones

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Opportunities for Growth

• Prioritization of the systems arranged in a
  building block fashion to assist Districts in
  knowing where to start

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Opportunities for Growth

• Identification of how much time it takes to
  accomplish the work and whether adequate
  resources and time have been set aside to provide
  the necessary support.

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System Components

• Purpose
• Context
• Structures
• Functions
• Processes

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Key Element 3 Performance Measurement

• What gets measured gets done!

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Performance Measurement

• Infrastructure
• Efficiency
• Effectiveness
• Service Delivery
• Implementation
• Impact

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Infrastructure

• Efficiency
• Cost
• Coordination
• Integration
• Alignment
• Collaboration

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Infrastructure

• Effectiveness
• Timeliness
• Responsiveness
• Reaching our Target Customers
• Customer Perceptions of added value

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Service Delivery

• Implementation
• Did we do what we said we would do by the time we
  said we would do it?
• What evidence / artifacts do we have?

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Service Delivery

• Impact
• What difference did it make as measured by
  movement on the Rubrics?
• What does the District do or have now that it did
  not do or have before?
• What evidence / artifacts do we have?

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Performance Measurement

• Impact Measures
• Improvement of student achievement demonstrated
  on formative and summative assessments
• Movement within state designations
• Movement regarding Adequate Yearly Progress rating

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Continuous Improvement Metric

• Systems for data collection
• System to Achieve Results with Students (STARS)
• Comprehensive Continuous Improvement Plan (CCIP)
• Elluminate tracks virtual meetings
• Camtasia tracks recorded video professional
  development

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Continuous Improvement Metric

• District Portfolio Summary
• Artifacts not collected electronically
• Focus on telling the Districts story
• Progress to date
• Barriers to progress
• Potential strategies to address barriers

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Continuous Improvement Metric

• Quarterly Implementation
• Data collection and reporting
• Data validation by Teams
• Cut score for each indicator established
• Corrective Action Plans as required

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Opportunities for Growth

• Identification of measures to assess quality of
  service providers
• Content knowledge
• Process knowledge
• Credentialing

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Opportunities for Growth

• Narrowing the number of measures and determining
  which measures are most critical and will yield
  the greatest improvement

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Opportunities for Growth

• Refinement of evaluation of quality of the
  District Partnership Agreement document
• Debate over whether we should assess the written
  plan or only the implementation of the plan with
  the District
• How much time should we spend revising our
  written agreement with the District?

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System Components

• Purpose
• Context
• Structures
• Functions
• Processes