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How do we focus all

• f our work?

Bill Kimball

Let’s look at some history (Vermont)

• 2003 – 2010 – High Schools on the Move, Roots of Success,

World Class Education, Blue Ribbon Commission

• Act 77 & 166 – Flexible Pathways - Dual Enrollment and

Personalizing of Education (PLPs) & Universal Pre – Kindergarten

• 2014 Update of Education Quality Standards
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Professional Resources
• Learning Environment
• State and Local Comprehensive Assessment System
• Continuous Improvement Plan

Let’s look at some history (WCSU)

• 2008 – 2013 Strategic Plan with 6 goals and 17 strategic
• bjectives
• 2012 – 2013 Development of Curriculum Council and Steering

Committees, NEASC Review – Core Values and Beliefs

• 2013 – 2014 Math Non-negotiables , U32 Student Learning

Outcomes, WCLT North Star work (Vision)

• 2014 -2015 Writing Non-negotiables, Calais & Doty SLOs
• 2015 – 2016 Social Studies, Reading Non-negotiables,

Rumney & EMES SLO

• 2015 – 2016 WCSU SLO

Content Knowledge

Learning Skills & Techniques Key Cognitive Strategies Social and Personal Responsibility

All students learn and are successful, contributing citizens of our local and global communities

Effective Teaching and Leadership Effective Teaching and Leadership Effective Teaching and Leadership Effective Teaching and Leadership

So we have all these visions

U-32 exists to cultivate in all

students the passion, creativity and power to contribute to their local and global communities. Calais Elementary School will ensure all its students show personal and academic growth, develop a love and commitment to lifelong learning, and have the strongest foundation for making future choices. Doty School Student Learning Outcomes

• Knowledge
• Skills
• Attitudes

Rumney students demonstrate personal excellence meeting or exceeding rigorous standards for academic skills and knowledge and life skills and behaviors necessary for success in the 21st century.

WCSU Student Learning Outcomes

WCSU exists to nurture and inspire in all students the passion, creativity and power to contribute to their local and global communities. More specifically, WCSU students will meet or exceed rigorous standards for: Core knowledge of essential academic subjects, including:

• Literacy
• Mathematical Content and Practices
• Scientific Inquiry and Content Knowledge
• Global Citizenship
• Physical Education and Health
• Artistic Expression
• Financial Literacy

Transferable skills and behaviors that prepare them for lifelong learning and success, including:

• Creative and Practical Problem Solving
• Effective and Expressive Communication
• Engaged Citizenship
• Working Independently and Collaboratively
• Informed, Integrated and Critical Thinking
• Self Awareness and Self Direction

HOW DO WE BUILD A SYSTEM THAT ENSURES ALL STUDENTS MEET THE WCSU STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES? HOW DO WE FOCUS ON THE CORRECT WORK, AT THE CORRECT TIME WITHOUT OVER TASKING THE SYSTEM?

WE NEED A 5 YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN OF THE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

Process for Developing an Implementation Plan

1. Understand Current Work 2. Build a Team to do the Work 3. Data Review - Identify the Problems and Opportunities 4. Vision - Assess 5. Theory of Action 6. Develop an Implementation Plan

Understanding Current Work

• 1. Brainstorm the current initiatives
• 2. For each initiatives assess the following:

1. Impact on learning 2. Current performance 3. Resistance 4. Effort to completely implement

• 3. Sort into categories
• 4. Assess the number of students affected
• 5. Look for signs of strategy

Data Review - Identify the problems and opportunities

• What we count? (Student Data)
• What we see? (Supervision & Evaluation)
• What do we hear? (Climate Data)
• What are the key areas to focus on? p. 81 - 91
• Synthesize
• Generate
• Focus
• Vet

Classroom Performance and Assessment State Assessments Common Local Assessments Student performance - content and skills

Vision

WCSU exists to nurture and inspire in all students the passion, creativity and power to contribute to their local and global communities.

Theory of Action

• Identify Major Strategic Objectives
• Map strategic objectives with a Theory of Action
• Right grain size: in between boulder (too general) and sand (so

detailed you’re lost in the weeds)

• Being explicit can be scary and powerful: connections to

accountability

• Iterative: Theory, hypothesis, living document—gets sharper the

more you discuss it, test it, revise it

• Statement is phrased “If we do [Strategy 1], [Strategy 2], and

[Strategy 3], then [vision]

WCLT’s Theory of Action

If we provide high quality instruction and interventions that are responsive to learners’ needs and interests, based on clear learning targets, and measured by a comprehensive and balanced assessment system which include specific and actionable feedback to all, then we will close the achievement gaps and ensure that all students achieve proficiency in our WCSU student learning outcomes.

Next Steps

• Review the feedback from you
• Determine which initiatives to Start, Stop or Continue that

align with our strategic objectives

• Determine the logic model for each strategic objective
• Activities
• Resources
• Outputs
• Outcomes
• Assumptions
• Develop a work plan for each strategic objective
• Determine roles and owners for actions within work plans
• COMMUNICATE, COMMUNICATE,

COMMUNICATE

Chart Talk Protocol

At each board showing our work, there are two chart papers with the same focus question. We ask that each of you write an answer to our focus questions.