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Breakthrough: redesigning classroom instruction to transform learningSummer 2013 Administrative RetreatJune 17-19, 20136/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 11I would add the name of the module, maybe the date - depending on how specific she wants to be.Against all odds you create breakthrough.Reflection/Interaction (A tale of two cultures)Todays Meet(Curriculum Depot)Day 1Day 2Day 3Twitter

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ObjectivesLinking Breakthrough thinking to your goalsChallenge our Beliefs and Understandings through the lens of Moral Purpose Explore the Triple P Core ComponentsExplore the BREAKTHROUGH FrameworkTHE NEXT STEP: Critical Learning Instructional Paths (CLIPs)

6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 14Leading Student AchievementProfessional learning communities:

raising the bar for student achievement and closing the learning gapOpening Activity

1) Take 5 minutes as a table to brainstorm the crucial components, ideas and values or puzzle pieces to a breakthrough in education!2) Come to a consensus on 18 puzzle pieces and use the markers at the table to fill in the slots. Leave the center slot open. 3) If you have time, someone at the table take a picture of the poster and send a tweet using #psrcadmin2013 Breakthrough is about linking all the core pieces of the puzzle-without our framework, educators often have many of the pieces , but they come from different puzzles. No wonder people cannot make a picture!Breakthrough page 20 Breakthrough LeadershipUnderstanding of PLCs and their impact on student achievement

Increasing use of meaningful data

Moving from surface collegiality to a more intense culture focused on student outcomes

Understanding of the role of the principal as an instructional leader

Applying S.M.A.R.T goalsBreakthrough thinking

Transformation of thinking about classroom instructionRequires change of thinking about the educational research enterpriseRequires a tri-level approach to transforming classroom instruction6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 18Making Connections

BREAKTHROUGH QUESTIONWhat are the critical components for aBreakthrough system to take off in yourschool?

lets explore that together6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 110Mistakes. are the portals of discovery.James Joyce Chapter 1 A New Mission for School Systems#psrcadmin2013In-between Stories A System StalledJoseph Campbell in a discussion with Bill Moyers in The Power of Myth talks about the tipping point or breakthrough struggles societies have when they are in-between stories. The old story sustained us for a long time-it shaped our emotional attitudes, it provided us with lifes purpose, it energized our actions, it consecrated suffering, it guided education. We awoke in the morning and knew who we were, we could answer the questions of our children. Everything was taken care of because the story was there. Now the old story is not functioning. And we have not yet learned a new

What are the struggles we are facing today to create our story in which we accomplish the following:

The breakthrough we are seeking involves the education community as a whole establishing a system of expert data-driven instruction that will result in daily continuous improvement for all students in all classrooms. breakthrough page 2 ; lines 6-9

Use the border of your puzzle to list struggles that impact or stall a breakthrough.

Are some of the identified struggles the same terms used as the essential pieces of the puzzle?Share your thoughts with Twitter using #psrcadmin2013The Power of Failure Can we use our mistakes and failures as a guide in writing a new story?Although Breakthrough was written BCC (Before Common Core) the reference to a needed national reform is uncannily close to what has come to fruition!

Lets look at the following points and check for current relevance regarding key problem areas in education today:

Failure to establish classroom routines and practices that representPersonalized, Ongoing, Data-Driven, Focused Instruction.

2. Instructional goals were more often articulated in terms of student outcomes or achievement levels .

There is nothing more difficult to address than the case where people think that they are doing something when in reality they are not. breakthrough page 6 ; lines 10-12Very few conversations connect changes in the standards with changes in instruction. As an instructional leader what has been your most difficult challenge in sparking this conversation? Think across all levels.World, Nation, StateDistrict, Community School, Home

After a moment of personal reflection, place a dot in one or more of the identified puzzle pieces that is directly connected/related to that difficult conversation!

What informs or drives our Feedback?"The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach ... accordingly."(David Ausubel, 1968)

Do you agree with this quote...? Why does this bold statement hold water? If you do not agree, what is the most important factor influencing learning ?

Share your thoughts with Twitter using #psrcadmin2013

Breakthrough basic beliefs are founded onthe moral purpose of education, not just for students but for teachers as well. Nonnegotiable beliefsAll students can achieve high standards, given sufficient time and support. All teachers can teach to high standards, given the right conditions and assistance. High expectations and early intervention are essential. Teachers need to learn all the time, and they need to be able to articulate both what they do and why they do it.

The Prescription Trapwe need to go from broad strokes to specific action without falling into the trap of prescriptionAn Easy Solution....

What is one educational program prescription you have given or received and stopped due to adverse side effects? Share at your table

When we prescribe we are treating the symptom not the cause. Prescription may seem like a viable solution; for we are sharing what worked for me with the notion that if replicated the same results should be achieved!Triple P Core ComponentsChapter 2 - Breakthrough6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 119BREAKTHROUGH In a nutshellMost educational reform has resulted in modest gains in student learning and little or no impact on daily teaching

We need to transform instruction through a focus on personalization, precision and professionalism (TRIPLE P CORE COMPONENTS)

This means giving teachers the assessment and analysis tools, the organizational structures and the expert systems that link data on each student to daily decisions about what to teach, how and when

It also means changes to how we conceptualize the research enterprise, how systems align their work and the kind of leadership exerted at all levels.

6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 120Triple P Core Components

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6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 121TRIPLE P CORE COMPONENTSFor innovation to flourish:all three components, not any two, will be required;the cost must be practical;and the benefits must be experienced on a wide scale BREAKTHROUGH criteria

The GLUE that binds the three is

MORAL PURPOSE

The three Ps must be synergistically interconnected

6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 122TRIPLE P CORE COMPONENTSFor innovation to flourish:all three components, not any two, will be required;the cost must be practical;and the benefits must be experienced on a wide scale BREAKTHROUGH criteria

The GLUE that binds the three is

MORAL PURPOSE

The three Ps must be synergistically interconnected

6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 123MORAL PURPOSE : BELIEFS and UNDERSTANDINGSAll students can achieve high standards given sufficient time and supportAll teachers can teach to high standards given the right conditions and assistanceHigh expectations and early intervention are essentialTeachers need to be able to articulate what they do and why they do it (theory based rather than trade based)

Hill & Crvola,19976/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 124HOPE Hope is not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but certainly that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. It is hope, above all, that gives us strength to live and to continually try new things, even in conditions that seem hopeless. V. Havel, 1990

6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 125SHARE What were some of the barriers?

What were some of the suggestions for actions?PERSONALIZATIONPersonalization is the least developed of the three components

Caroline Tomlison (1998) personalization puts the learner at the center

Engagement with schooling declines as students go up the gradesinadequate linkages of the other two Psprecision and professional learning6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 127PERSONALIZATIONPersonalization is about individuals

6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 128PERSONALIZATIONPersonalization must be for ALL

6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 129 In the absence of pervasive personalization, the opposite will happen - mass production, one-size-fits-all mentality that fits those who benefit from the status quo.

Fullan, Hill & Crvola, 2006 (pp 17)

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PRECISIONTo be precise is to get something right

To prescribe is to lay down rigid rules

Precision is in the service of personalization: being precise to the learning needs of the individual

assessment for learning has helped

6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 132PRECISIONThe fatal weakness remains:going from assessment to instruction

Fullan, Hill & Crvola, 2006

6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 133PRECISION Taking the analyzed data and using it to inform instruction is easy to say but evidence shows that it is very rarely done effectively within the classroom context.

6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 134 Schools need to get assessment for learning out of the basement, clean it up, and creatively recombine it with personalization and continuous professional learning.

Fullan, Hill & Crvola, 2006

6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 135PRECISIONEducators have assessments, but they are often selected from bits of this and that, small pieces of the whole.

Increasingly teachers are being helped to analyze the data.

The missing step and next piece is to make sense of the whole thing as one unified picture of where each student lies in terms of where to go next6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 136ReflectionChanging the Conversation

Fullan, Hill & Crvola, 2006BREAKTHROUGH FRAMEWORK6/16/2013Carmel Crevola - Module 138Areas of Focus

LeadershipQuality TeachersInstructional Support

In SummaryTable Talk

Refer to pages 88-89During the next 15 minutes to reflect on your assigned topic to discuss.Post highlights of your conversation on either Todays Meet or Twitter (dont for get to put #psrcadmin2013 at the end of your tweet)

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