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CURRICULUM COUNCIL

May 2014Looking back to Look Ahead

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Adult and Community Education

Agenda• Revisit Goals and Initiatives for 2013-14 school year

• Supports for Leading Schools Next Year

• AdvanceEd Accreditation visit

• Business to Discuss

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Bannerman Learning Center

•Begin and end on time.

•Stay focused on the work.

•Acknowledge challenges but don’t dwell.

•Everyone participates respectfully.

•Limited sidebar conversations, including electronic ones.

•When making decisions, silence equals consensus

•Others?

Norms

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Clay High School

Today’s Purpose

•Reflect on our first year with the 3 district initiatives.

•Understand the direction for next year in regards to leadership and

implementation of the 3 initiatives refined.

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•Innovate: Using Writing in all content areas in new ways.

•Engage: Strategies that allow students to read, talk and write during the entire school day to further their understanding.

•Empower: Strengthening PLCs and Team/Department Meetings to allow for teacher leadership and job-embedded professional development

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Fleming Island High School

Innovate/Engage/EmpowerIndividually take some time to reflect and write:

What systematic steps did you put into place at your school to move your staff forward with these three initiatives?

How were these steps monitored?

How did you/will you communicate progress to your staff?

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Green Cove Springs Junior High

Three Questions to focus on with simplicity and diligence:

•What is it we want students to know and be able to do?

•Which instructional strategies will ensure that all learn?

•How Will We Know They Learned It?

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Keystone Heights Junior/Senior High School

What is it we want students to know and be able to do?

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Lake Asbury Junior High School

New for 2014-15

•New ELA Curriculum Maps

•Revised Math, Science and Social Studies Maps

•Resources for support

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Lakeside Junior High School

Which instructional strategies will help them get there?

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Middleburg High School

Framework for Intentional Teaching

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Oakleaf Junior High School

Share your thoughts

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Oakleaf High School

How will we know they have learned it?

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Orange Park High School

Assessment for Instruction• Development of assessment tools in PLCs

• District Assessments

• State Assessments

• More info on this in Summer Leadership

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Orange Park Junior High School

Why a common message• Douglas Reeves in his study titled Reframing Teacher Leadership….

“…there was not a significant positive impact on student achievement results in schools nor a district until 90 percent

of teachers participated in the strategies being implemented. “

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Ridgeview High School

Summer PD Opportunities

Temporary Link to Preview:

• http://issuu.com/lindaschriver/docs/_summer_2014_oneclay_u_course_catal

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Wilkinson Junior High School

The word for Standards might be Florida but the word for Clay County is

COMMON! • Common Curriculum -Learn What? Teachers must come together to agree on the “Learn What”

• Common Pacing -Implementing the Common Curriculum collaboratively

• Common Instruction-Implementing a Framework that ensures that students engage in collaborative opportunities to read, write, talk and think.

• Common Assessment -Formative Assessments designed around the common curriculum to monitor student learning

We even have a common template for you!