Leadership Institute

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• Leadership Institute
• for School Improvement
• March 24, 2005

Region XIII Education Service Center
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Purpose and Goals for Today

• Provide a conceptual overview of the Leadership
  Institute for School Improvement (LISI)
• Provide an overview of the LISI curriculum
• Provide an opportunity for question and answers
  and to determine campus interest/commitment and
  next steps

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Leadership Institute Goals

• Develop the leadership capacity of the campus to
  initiate and sustain meaningful school
  improvement
• Support districts and campuses to meet the higher
  achievement standards for all students required
  under NCLB and the new state accountability system

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The Concept

• Cohorts of school leadership teams working
  together over time
• Research-based professional development
  curriculum that supports the work of the campus
• Research-based professional development design
• Results based evaluation system

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Program Cost

• 700.00 per campus team per year
• Includes
• Textbooks and support materials
• Trainer materials
• Coaching and technical assistance
• Network meetings

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Introduction to LISI Professional Development
Modules
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Using Datato Lead Change
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Rationale

• School Leaders
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• Use data to make decisions about school and
  classroom practices and to provide curriculum
  intervention.
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• Go beyond student achievement data what
  students are taught, how they are taught and what
  is expected of them.

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Module Design

• Prework reading and
• three short assignments
• Three days in the summer
• One follow up day late September

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Prioritzing, Mapping and Monitoring the Curriculum
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Essential Question

• Why do we need a prioritized curriculum?

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What Are the Priority Standards?

• EEssential Most Critical 50 of Objectives
• IImportant Next 30
• CCondensed Last 20 Teacher Can Reduce or
  Possibly Eliminate

• Plan for the essential first, never compromise on
  time with essentials
• The more students are at risk, the more time
  allocated to essentials
• Focus on essentials for remediation and
  acceleration

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Mapping the Curriculum
Monitoring
Prioritizing
Mapping
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Timeline

• Pre-work readings
• 2 days
• Follow-up 2 days
• Nine week intervals

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Leading Assessment and Instruction
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What is the main purpose that should drive
classroom assessment?

• To
• improve
• learning for all students

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Module Goals

• Understand the relationships between assessment
  and instruction.
• Recognize the power of formative classroom
  assessments.
• Utilize research on instructional best practices
  to improve classroom teaching

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In low performing schools, students
were given fewer opportunities to deepen their
understanding through application.
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Leading Assessment and Instruction

• Prework readings
• Two day training
• Two days follow up at approximate six week
  intervals

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Meeting the Standards Looking at Teacher
Assignments and Student Work
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What is Meeting the Standards?

• A professional development module designed to
  help participants analyze student work to
  determine if teacher assignments really ask
  students to do high quality work.

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What is SIP?

• SIP Standards in Practice
• SIP is a six step, team-based quality control
  process that can be used to align any assignment
  or program with national, state, or local content
  standards.

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How does this module support the work of my
school?

• Job-embedded professional development
• Improve teacher practice
• Improve collaboration among teachers
• Increase teacher ownership for student achievement

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What is the timeline for this module?

• This is a three day workshop with a brief
  pre-work assignment.
• Introduction
• Demonstration of the SIP Process
• Practicing the SIP Process
• Leadership and the SIP Process
• Summary and Portfolio Assignments

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Creating a High Performance Learning Culture
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Purpose of the Module

• To develop knowledge, skills, and commitment
  among participating school leaders that will
  enable them to create and sustain
  high-performance learning cultures in their
  schools.

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Training Timelines

• Prework Selected readings appropriate to teams
  need
• Days 1-3
• Creating a High-Performance Learning Culture
  Begin with the End in Mind
• Cultivating Beliefs that Produce High-Performance
  Learning
• Using Strategic Structures to Support
  High-Performance Learning
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• Day 4(4 6 weeks after initial 3 days)
• The Roles of School Leaders in Shaping Culture
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• Two weeks after final day of training
• Portfolio review

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Literacy Leadership
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Literacy Leadership

• For all levels elementary, middle or high school
• Literacy is everyones job
• NOT focused on teaching students how to read
• Focused on providing a school structure for using
  reading to learn

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Participant will

• Be introduced to strategies to support reading to
  learn across content areas
• Reflect upon how those strategies can be
  incorporated into their practice
• Work as a team to bridge these strategies to
  their faculties

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Literacy Leadership Timeline

• Prework readings
• Two days summer training
• Homework
• One day follow up in Fall

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Who should be on the LISI leadership team?
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Membership

• Principal
• Curriculum leaders
• Teacher Leaders
• General education
• Special education
• Other representative teachers
• No more than 6 members are recommended for each
  leadership team.

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Teacher Leaders are

• Those whose dreams of making a difference have
  either been kept alive or have been reawakened by
  engaging with colleagues and working within a
  professional culture.

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Effectiveness Coaching

• An opportunity to assist Principals to achieve
  goals and aspirations well beyond the norm

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What does it look like?

• Conversations weekly or bi-weekly
• Phone or in-person
• Identify a specific focus
• Report work in progress
• Set goals
• Make commitments for action

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A coach might

• Recommend action oriented or reflective exercises
• Promote creative thinking
• Generate multiple options and solutions
• Help develop positive habits
• Reform counterproductive habits

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Please contact

• Lauralee Pankonien
• 512-919-5433
• lauralee.pankonien_at_esc13.txed.net
• Trinidad San Miguel
• 512-919-5459
• trine_at_esc13.txed.net