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Management Oversight Report

February 23, 2010

Management Oversight Report

February 23, 2010

Overview

• Promote a sense of community and cooperation

sense of community and cooperation within schools and among learning communities where research-based practices, innovative teaching models, creative thought and supplemental curriculum are shared

• Increase retention

Increase retention of highly qualified principals and teachers

• Provide options

Provide options to meet the needs of schools capable of moving beyond managed instruction

Overview

• Strategic Plan 2010

Strategic Plan 2010 – V. Freedom and Flexibility with Accountability

– Empower schools with more freedom and flexibility – Initiated 2008 – 2009 School Year – Two Cohorts designated

• Strategic Plan 2014

Strategic Plan 2014 – Area of Focus 1: Effective Teaching and Leadership

– Expand opportunities for principal innovation through Freedom and Flexibility with Accountability

Governance

• Managed Performance Empowerment

– – Shift decision Shift decision-

• making power

making power from central administration to principals who work closely with our students, parents, and local community members – – Redesign instructional efforts Redesign instructional efforts that move beyond the use of traditional managed instructional programs. – Empower principals to implement instructional options using creativity, research and accountability.

PERFORMANCE RESULTS

Cohort I

• Criteria

Criteria

– Principal with two or more years of experience – “At standard” or “above standard” principal evaluation – Two-year average growth on EOGs/EOCs

• elementary school > .04
• middle school > .04
• high school > .03
• Participants

Participants

– Representation from all learning communities – 49 principals

– 25 elementary schools, 10 middle schools, 11 high schools – 3 area executive directors

– 15 Focus School principals – 8 Title I principals

• Focused on instructional practices –
• rganization of teaching and learning, and the

use of assessments to monitor student progress

• North Carolina Standard Course of Study

(Grades K-12)

• Open Court/Imagine IT!
• K-3 Intensive Reading Model
• Minimized “non-negotiables”

PERFORMANCE RESULTS

Cohort I

PERFORMANCE RESULTS

Cohort II

• Criteria

Criteria

– Principal with two or more years of experience – “At standard” or “above standard” principal evaluation – Two-year average growth on EOG/EOCs of > .10

• Participants

Participants

– 14 principals

– 11 elementary schools, one K–8 school, one 6–12 school

– 4 Title I schools with FF&A principals – 6 Focus Schools with FF&A principals

• Expand opportunities within operational

management

Major Initiatives

• Samples of instructional and operational

initiatives :

– – Ashley Park Elementary School* Ashley Park Elementary School* – The Family Model – – Albemarle Road Middle School* Albemarle Road Middle School* – The MAX reading and writing program – – Mallard Creek High School Mallard Creek High School – School-wide grading policy

*Strategic Staffing school

Next Steps

• Area superintendents

Area superintendents have assumed responsibility for working collaboratively with the principals to provide oversight and support as they approve and monitor principals’ instructional initiatives.

• Cohort III

Cohort III will be identified in spring 2010 based on the same criteria used for the Cohort II.

– Principal with two or more years of experience – “At standard” or “above standard” principal evaluation – Two-year average growth on EOGs/EOCs of > .10

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