HOW TO ROLL OUT TKES/LKES AND NOT LOSE YOUR SANITYREALLY! Dan Ray, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

HOW TO ROLL OUT TKES/LKES AND NOT LOSE YOUR SANITY…REALLY! Dan Ray, Ed.S. Director – “Race to the Top” Henry County Schools – McDonough, GA Daniel.Ray@henry.k12.ga.us Summer GAEL Conference July 17, 2013

Who is this guy?

Okay…now “what skin do you have in the game”?

A LITTLE AbouT HENRY CouNTY…“ComfoRTAbLY SouTH of ATLANTA” (AbouT 40 mINuTES fRom THE AIRpoRT oN I -75) • We were one of the original 26 “Race to the Top” pilot districts • We have 40,000 students • We have 50 schools • We have approximately 2700 teachers

Objective: • Focus on the key elements and processes of rolling out TKES and LKES within your district with fidelity and ensuring capacity building components which will include: o the process for developing an implementation team o conducting district webinars and help sessions o building a “living” website o creating a district newsletter o progress monitoring by school and district level administrators o other TKES tidbits- SLOs, Surveys, the Electronic Platform All participants should “walkaway” with an idea of how to develop your district’s implementation plan

“So what is TKES and LKES?….sure sounds like something you would NOT want to happen in public…”

Interactive Activity – move from poster to poster and write your q uestions to the topics on the poster…

172 districts (total) coming aboard with TKES and LKES this year…. Make yours…. • E xperiential • P articipatory • I mage Rich • C onnected (with all types of technology)

Let’s start building YOUR plan…..

The Implementation Team … • It is a subset of Principals and Central Office Administrators (depends on the size of your district) – various temperaments – both “wind and rocks” • Set monthly meetings after school for one hour (4 – 5 p.m.) with this group to discuss/strategize/problem-solve upcoming events associated with TKES • Principal meetings – the Implementation Team plays an active part and does some demonstrations when appropriate

HR Timeline ….this should not be a new “phenomena” for your district • Ensure that all Administrators know which teachers are being evaluated by TKES • Include all of the dates for completion of the walkthroughs, formatives, summative, roster verifications, survey windows, etc. • Include what happens IF/WHEN someone starts after the school year begins Include what needs to be submitted to HR and when they are due (if applicable) • • Reports can be run by district officials to “see” where each school “is”… • Someone must monitor and remind Principals of the events listed • Make sure and begin your observations early…do not wait until late September to begin….

A Pervasive, Systemic & Embedded Professional Learning Plan… It should include: 10 months of familiarization (focus on one standard each month) • • Correlation of interwoven standards 2, 4 and 8 (Henry example) • Use of the Fact Sheets as a resource (they will come with your training) • Flexible training dates – Principal and AP chooses from a set of dates

Your schools will need to have Familiarization activities for each of the 10 TAPS Standards … You need to develop a common language in each building for each standard (“Red Flags and Look Fors” Activity)…what is the administrative team looking for???….Types of documentation??? NOT filing cabinets or containers full of stuff…it is by exception that you need the artifacts…. Link to Familiarization Activities

Build a useful and practical website… Henry RT3 Website

Help Sessions ( optional to attend ) at least 2 per month after school hours (4 – 5 p.m.) more toward the summative… • • Let the Principals/APs set the agenda when they arrive….no attendance sheets… provide help on whichever part they need assistance with…your State Trainer is a great resource for this setting Webinars – this prevents pulling the Principals out of the building and the webinars can be archived and posted to your website for easy viewing If you have Microsoft Office, you probably have Lync for Online meetings • tied in with your calendar…if not you may have GoTo Meeting or some other tool.

Student Learning Objectives – Purpose – •  the student and parent is made aware of the levels of the student (and possibly where they should be)…the teacher needs this data in order to know “where the student is” for DI (TKES Standard 4) purposes  Measures growth over 2 points in time Familiarize staff with what a SLO is and what a SLO is not…. • • The have a pre and post test component (balanced assessments) • Tier setting for goal attainment is involved with the SLO statement and it should be based on historical trend data (if available…if not, your pretest becomes your historical data) • Teachers must be involved in creating and vetting the assessments along with setting the growth targets -Race To The Top (RT3) / Student Learning Objectives Objectives

Surveys – another data point for teacher performance Make sure that your teachers and administrators see them early in the school • year • Have someone in your building trained in providing assistance (a teacher leader or media specialist) • What the survey covers (TAPS Standards 3, 4, 7, 8) and question examples How we administered the surveys….flexibility was the key… • An email from a Luella High teacher about student surveys •

Electronic Platform and SLDS • You can access more data than you ever have had on a teacher Have someone in each building who is comfortable with the platform • Summative reports can be run on each school and the district • • Analysis of each of the 10 TAPS Standards • Growth measures are located in the SLDS (upper right quadrant is the target) – “WIDE RIGHT” • Our schools are using this data to drive master schedule decisions and student placement

Comments and Questions… Did we accomplish the objective of… “ All participants should “walkaway” with an idea of how to develop your district’s implementation plan” Ever “Everything rises and falls on Leadership” – John n Maxwell xwell

My contact information is: Daniel.Ray@henry.k12.ga.us or 678.993.8403