Hawthorn Schools AT HPC Planning

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Hawthorn SchoolsAT / HPC Planning

• R. Benjamin
• September, 2003

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Learning For ALL..Whatever it Takes

• Hawthorn Schools

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Coming EventsTentative Schedule

• September Hawthorn Learning System
• Annual Review / Case Study
• Roles, possible task forces topics, planned
  abandonment
• References Collins (Breakthrough)
• Protocol Leading Indicators A Case Study
• Action Discuss and survey staff on key leading,
  intermediate trailing indicators, and report
  back
• October All Means All
• A close look at Rick DuFour, led by Sandra Ervin
• New Eyes How to insure all means all
• Protocol
• Action -
• November Teacher Leadership
• Artful Learning Cadre / Peer Review
• Leadership
• Protocol -
• Action -

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How we got to this point - 1

• During 2002 the Hawthorn Board of Education
  declared its intention strengthen the focus on
  student learning
• The Board set a goal of 100 of students meeting
  or exceeding Illinois Standards within 5 years,
  and pledged. to provide the time, staff, and
  resources needed
• The Board supported appropriate steps by staff
• The mapping of the curriculum,
• The alignment of the curriculum with instruction
  and assessment
• The planning and implementation of high levels of
  quality professional development

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Issues

• How to keep the focus on student learning
• Hawthorn Learning System.Leading Intermediate
  - Trailing
• 100 meeting or exceeding the State Standards -
  Breakthrough
• Broadening the goals creative problem solving,
  character
• Planned Abandonment
• How to insure that the educational benefits of
  the reconfiguration are fully realized (next
  slide)
• How to keep the distractions to a minimum

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Educational Benefits of the proposed plan

• Fewer moves as a student moves through grades K
  8 in Hawthorn schools, and Kindergarten students
  can be flexibly grouped with their current
  reading levels in other grades and classrooms
• The extension of opportunities of Hawthorn
  parents to take more responsibility and have more
  control of the educational opportunities for
  their children

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Breakthrough !

• Concepts Balance, Effectiveness, Sustainability
• Experience pointer Masterwork - Raphael
• Inquire What are, or should be, the Leading
  Indicators in the Hawthorn Learning System
• Create a Case Study around the leading
  indicators
• Reflect What is next? What must go? What is my
  role? What action should I take? When? Where?

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RaphaelThe School at Athens
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• .colleagues in a timeless academy. Those that
  have been positively identified using accurate
  historical evidence are Plato, Aristotle,
  Socrates, Pythagoras, Euclid, Alcibiades,
  Diogenes, Ptolemy, Zoroaster and Raphael. Plato
  is in the center pointing his finger to the
  heavens while holding the Timaeus, his treatise
  on the origin of the world. Next to him, his
  younger pupil Aristotle holds a copy of his
  Ethics while describing the earth and the wide
  realm of moral teaching with his extended hand in
  an elegant horizontal gesture. 1510

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The Mean

• Here are some examples of the golden mean taken
  from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Book II)  
  VICE (Defect) VIRTUE (Mean) VICE (Excess)
• Cowardice (too little confidence)CourageRashness
  (too much confidence)
• Foolhardiness (too little fear)CourageCowardice
  (too much fear)
• Insensibility (too little pleasure)TemperanceSelf-
  indulgence (too much pleasure)
• Meanness or Stinginess (too little
  giving)LiberalityProdigality or Wastefulness (too
  much giving)
• Niggardliness (in giving out large sums of
  money)MagnificenceTastlessness and Vulgarity
  (giving out large sums)
• Undue Humility (too little honor)Proper
  PrideEmpty Vanity (too much honor)
• Inirascibility (too little anger)Good
  TemperIrascible (too much anger)
• Shamelessness (too little shame)ModestyBashfulness
  (too much shame)
• SurlinessFriendlinessFlattery

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The First School Reform Debate

• Learning Community
• 1 - Personal Mastery
• Current Reality - Aristotle
• Vision Plato
• 2 Mental Models
• 3 Shared Vision
• 4 Team Learning
• 5 Systems Thinking

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The Board set a goal of 100 of students meeting
or exceeding Illinois Standards within 5 years,
and pledged. to provide the time, staff, and
resources needed.
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100
Frequent High Level Performance Tasks Measures
of Academic Performance
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(Breakthrough)
(Buildup)
2002 2003 2004
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Leading Indicators

• Classroom
• Rigorous Curriculum Standards
• Engaging Instruction
• Frequent Authentic Performance Assessment
• Writing as an Intermediate indicator
• School
• Curriculum Map (next step? Atlas?)
• Curriculum Instruction Assessment alignment
  (through Artful Learning Cadres)

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Managing ChangeContinuous Improvement, Planned
Abandonment, Decision-Making, Teacher Leadership

• Continuous Improvement
• C.I. Tools
• Planned Abandonment
• What comes off the plate, and how does it happen?
• Decision-Making
• How do decisions get made and communicated
• Basic Math - Hawthorn
• Use of Paraprofessionals Harmony Leland
• Teacher Leadership
• Artful Learning Cadres Peer Review

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Protocol

• Small Groups each take one or two Indicators
• Where are we? give examples
• From the HLS charts
• From a review of System Initiatives
• What is the next step toward a Breakthrough,
  related to that Indicater?
• Across all activities what two initiatives should
  be considered for planned abandonment
• What can be done to innoculate stakeholders
  against feeling dis-empowered as decisions are
  made and communicated?

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Possible Task Forces

• Assembly Required Learning For All
• ESR Learning Community / Systems Thinking
  Coutinuous Improvement
• Bowsher First Fix The Schools
• Action Research How might we verify or dismiss
  the various hypotheses about the writing
  achievement gain in third grade