Dr. Angela Whitelaw DEVELOPMENT with Educational Epiphany Purpose - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• Dr. Angela Whitelaw

Educational Epiphany

DEVELOPMENT with

The training will provide teachers and school leaders with professional learning

• pportunities designed to ensure that all students have consistent access to high-

quality instruction aligned to the expectations of the TN State Standards for reading/English. It will ensure that school instructional leadership teams (ILTs) have the knowledge and skills necessary to provide teachers with meaningful, targeted feedback and coaching reflective of the expectations of the standards. District and school-based personnel will receive on-site professional development, feedback, and targeted coaching each month of the school year.

Purpose Need

Our students deserve to be taught by teachers who possess both expert-level knowledge of the content standards and expert-level ability to plan and deliver instruction aligned to the nuanced expectations of the standards, consistent with how students will be assessed on high stakes exams at the end of the school year and/or at the end of each core content area course. Our teachers and site-based leadership teams need access to high-quality professional learning opportunities to better support the complex needs of their students.

The Instructional Core

• Educational Epiphany strategically provided site-based professional learning for nine (9)

critical and focus schools in collaboration with the Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Instructional Leadership Directors (ILDs), and Principals.

• Teachers and school leaders at each school received job embedded professional learning

designed to improve their knowledge of the content and pedagogy (delivery of the content).

• Each school received professional learning (by department and/or grade band)

strategically scheduled throughout the school year with monthly conferencing with each site-based leadership team.

• The Assistant Superintendent of Schools and ILDs participated in site-based professional

learning provided by Educational Epiphany to ensure consistency of messaging and expectations.

• The Assistant Superintendent of Schools and ILDs participated in strategically scheduled

Calibration Learning Walks with site-based school leadership teams and Educational Epiphany.

How were schools supported last year?

Highlights:

1 2 3 4 5 Alcy Dunbar Evans Knight Road Scenic Hills Sheffield Vollentine Willow Oaks Winchester 2017 TVAAS Composite 2018 TVAAS Composite 2017 TVAAS Literacy 2018 TVAAS Literacy

TVAAS Comparisons Spring 2017 – Spring 2018

0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00% Alcy Dunbar Evans Knight Road Scenic Hills Sheffield Vollentine Willow Oaks Winchester 2018 TNReady Reading 2017 TNReady Reading

Highlights:

TNReady Comparisons Spring 2017 – Spring 2018

• Priority #1: Strengthen Early Literacy
• Priority #2: To Improve Post-Secondary Readiness
• Priority #3: To Develop Teachers, Leaders & Central

Office

Educational Epiphany’s work is aligned with D2025 – Priorities

Connection to the 2018-19 Academic Plan Key Initiatives

High Quality Instruction (HQI): ELA (EL), Math (Eureka), Science (McGraw Hill)

RTI2 Early Literacy

(Literacy Laureates and Senior Reading Advisors)

How will we know?

NWEA and RTI growth Alignment between teacher TEM scores and student performance scores Decrease T2 and T3 cohorts Alignment between student grades and student test scores Increase in teacher content knowledge and increase in foundational skills

• Dr. Dickey’s work will directly engage ILTs effectively

to ensure HQI in every classroom and to reinforce the Instructional Core.

• Dr. Dickey’s work will ensure Tier I

instruction will reduce the number of students needing Tier 2 and 3 interventions.

• Dr. Dickey’s work will support teachers by providing

high-impact and meaningful, site-based learning

• experiences. This will lead to students receiving

enhanced foundational skills instruction.

Our ultimate goal for SCS is to accelerate student achievement and growth – one year’s growth is not enough!

• Provided high-impact services for similar clients in 17 states

including small, midsized and large urban districts, state departments, and professional organizations

• Proven model – Integrated Approach to Student

Achievement

• Promotes double-digit gains among all student groups in
• ne school year
• Published with Scholastics

Educational Epiphany Nationally Recognized

Impact of Educational Epiphany’s Work

A Maryland Public School

Impact of Educational Epiphany’s Work

A Maryland Public School

Impact of Educational Epiphany’s Work

Baltimore City Schools

• To improve teacher, school leader and those who support schools’ knowledge of the

content.

• To improve teacher capacity to plan and deliver standards-based instruction with

attention to the imperative for each of the three tiers of instruction (Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3).

• To improve the capacity of school-based instructional leadership teams to build

systems and structures which promote the effectiveness of professional learning communities/common planning time.

• To improve school leader and district personnel capacity to provide meaningful,

robust feedback relative to the alignment of daily instruction with the curricula and expectations of the standards.

• To improve student outcomes on interim, end-of-grade, and end-of-course

assessments.

• To ensure that students enter the next grade in their normal progression having

demonstrated mastery of the grade level content standards and beyond where possible.

• Reduce need for costly reading intervention programming when students matriculate

from elementary to the middle grades and from the middle grades to high school.

Expected Outcomes

Other Considerations

• Implementation timeline
• September 2018 – January 2019
• Cost
• $298,000 (total
• Training
• On-going, job-embedded professional development will be

provided for teachers, instructional leadership teams, principals, and assistant principals

• Communications plan
• All 3-12 ELA teachers’ schools will be informed through their

Instructional Leadership Directors and principals of the purpose, outcomes, dates, support and participation expectations