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Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Sam Redding
Center on School Turnaround
Center on Innovations in Learning
North Carolina School Improvement for Student Success ConferenceDecember 7-8, 2016
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Think Small
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1. See each child individually – personalize
2. See school improvement one step at a time
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1. Relational Suasion
2. Learning Technology◦ A. Techniques (Methods)◦ B. Tools
3. Competency-Based Education◦ A. Variation in time, place, or pace◦ B. Student engaged in planning
4. Personal Competencies◦ A. Cognitive◦ B. Metacogntive◦ C. Motivational◦ D. Social/Emotional
Center on Innovations in Learning
www.centeril.org
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“When I was up there, stranded by myself, did I think I was going to die? Yes. Absolutely, and that’s what you need to know going in because it’s going to happen to you. This is space. It does not cooperate. At some point everything is going to go south on you. Everything is going to go south and you’re going to say 'This is it. This is how I end.' Now you can either accept that or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin. You do the math, you solve one problem. Then you solve the next one, and then the next and if you solve enough problems you get to come home.”
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The ultimate goal in school improvement is for the people associated with the school to drive its continuous improvement for the sake of their own children and students.
Establish productive Teams and Time for their work
Establish processes for continuous improvement
Provide access to resources on effective practice
Support, coach, challenge, and recognize the work
Dimension A - Instructional Excellence and Alignment◦ High expectations for all staff and students ◦ Curriculum and instructional alignment ◦ Data analysis and instructional planning ◦ Student support services
Dimension B - Leadership Capacity ◦ Strategic planning, mission, and vision ◦ Distributed leadership and collaboration ◦ Monitoring instruction in school
Dimension C - Professional Capacity ◦ Teacher quality and experience ◦ Quality of professional development ◦ Talent recruitment and retention
Dimension D - Planning and Operational Effectiveness ◦ Resource allocation ◦ Facilities and technology
Dimension E - Families and Community ◦ Family engagement ◦ Community engagement
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Leadership
Instruction
Talent Development
Community
Many leaders pride themselves on setting high-level direction: I’ll set the vision and stay out of the details. It’s true that a compelling vision is critical. But it’s not enough. Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn’t likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change—the paralyzing part—is precisely in the details. (p.53)
Heath, C. & Heath, D. (2010). Switch: How to change things when change is hard. New York, NY: Broadway Books.
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Structure, Process, Discipline, Culture
Leadership Team (District and School)
Instructional Team
School Community Council
Peter Drucker: Sophy and Elsa
Method (professional practice) matters
Planning matters most
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IES-”Building Committed Staff”
Getting Better Together
A Little Help from a Friend--Coaching
1. We are one
2. What is unique about us?
3. What practices do we all share because we know they are powerful?
4. Respect and effort
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1. Strong leadership by principal2. Teacher instructional teams plan instruction3. Instruction is aligned to standards4. Teachers directly teach5. Teachers interact6. Student groups and individual assignments for mastery,
including homework7. “Happy school” ingredients
Activity classes
Faculty advocate for each student
High energy in classes
Think Small
With Big Hearts
Step by step
For each child
In every classroom
Every day
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www.indistar.org
www.centeronschoolturnaround.org
www.centeril.org
www.bscpcenter.org
www.schoolcommunitynetwork.org
Sam Redding