doing turnaround consensus
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Doing Turnaround Consensus MAK Mitchell, New York Department of Education, ARMAK & Associates, NY Fusion 2012, the NWEA summer conference in Portland, Oregon The model captures instructional ground truth as seen and experienced by lead teachers and their school colleagues bolster it with a process that focuses on consensus hotspots based on student data, research and participatory methods. This model is based on a two-year trial with 160 lead teachers enrolling in a master’s level principal program. It has consistently produced instructional gains that lead to both instruction and organizations learning. Learning outcome: - Learn how to derive targeted action proposals that improve learning results. - Learn to apply the turnaround consensus model to their own school challenges. MAK Mitchell is the director of policy and planning for the Empowerment Schools, a network of 500 public schools in New York City. She leads the systemic change work with network leaders. Previously, MAK served as an organizational change professor, superintendent, and change consultant for the Gates Learning Foundation, and founder of numerous small schools in Alaska. MAK earned both master’s and doctoral degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is a founding member of SoL.TRANSCRIPT
Doing Consensus Turnaround
Dr. MAK Mitchell
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Doing Consensus Turnaround
Turnaround starts with:cracking open buffers and consensus about purpose
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“Schools are protected by buffers. Think of it as a protective barrier that
discourages and even punishes close, constructive scrutiny of
instruction by others.”
Schmoker (2006) on Elmore (2000)
ORIGINS: Buffers
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– Deprives teachers of a common “action” frame of reference, common questions and priorities
– Discourages teachers from learning from each other and building their repertoire together
– Deprives teachers of instructional coherency built to last
Buffer Root Causes
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ACTION: Breaking the Buffers
Breakthrough
• PLC’s
• Instructional Rounds
• Cycles of Inquiry
• Consensus turnaround
How?
• Collaborative reflection (by teamwork)
• Collaborative observation (by walkthrough)
• Collaborative assessment (by data analysis and alignment)
• Ground truth team data followed by consensus learning to grow repetoire
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Consensus Turnaround Storyline
• Describe local context that gives rise to the problem
• Survey colleagues about the context, data and their observations
• Pose a draft question based on ground truth consensus
• What research/best practices illuminates the question?
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• Share summary of new research/best practice data
• Reach consensus on the question and the intervention
• Design the pilot
• Share findings with others, expand the implementation
CT Storyline (con’t)
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Research Research QuestionQuestion
Analyze
Turnaround Turnaround PlanPlan
Analyze Ground Analyze Ground Truth DataTruth Data
Colleague Colleague SurveySurvey
CONSENSUS TURNAROUND CYCLE
CONSENSUS CONSENSUS TURNAROUNDTURNAROUND
CONSENSUS HOTSPOTSData
Question
Root CausePurpose
Local Knowledge (observations plus shared research &best practice lit)
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• Pose a draft question based on ground truth data consensus
• Reach team consensus on the root cause (surveys, interviews, observations)
• Reach consensus on the intervention based on research and best practice findings
Consensus Hotspots
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• Ground truth about the problem is consensual and normed
• Makes data analysis “actionable” by adopting a consensus question
• Informs classroom hunches about how to improve student learning with consensual observations, research and classroom evidence
• Takes a shared local, discovery approach• Expands the collegial base of action to new mental
models
What makes Consensus Turnaround a unique solution to
school improvement?
Critical Friends
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A critical friend group is usually a triad who does the same.
A critical friend is a trusted person who asks provocative questions, provides data to be examined through another lens, and offers critique of a person’s work as a friend.
Critical Friends: Team Activity
• Examine the slide set from the consensus case• Identify likely consensus points in the case. • Record other observations and questions about
the process for the share out.
Contact
MAK Mitchell
Consensus NOW!
www.consensus-now.com