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Student-Centered Schools, Future-Ready Students

Northwest ISD Strategic Summit

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March ch 2-3, 2018

Welc lcome

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• Dr. Ryder

Warren, Superintendent of Schools and

• Mr. Mark Schluter, Board of Trustees President

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Str trat ategic egic Summ mmit t Par Partici ticipants pants

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Constituencies Represented Students Parents Community Business/Industry Government District Governance District Administration Campus Administrators Teachers Facilitator: Denise Collier, TASA Consultant

Str trat ategic egic Summ mmit t Ou Outcomes tcomes

Taking Stock– Where are we now?

• Revisit and determine consensus for the district’s educational direction—mission, vision, core

beliefs, and graduate profile

• Become aware of the district’s 4-year strategic goals and plan
• Examine research on future-ready school transformation

Looking Forward – Where do we want to go?

• Inform the district’s strategic direction for the next four years in accord with the district’s

mission, vision, and graduate profile focusing on college/career readiness efforts

• Provide guidance regarding advocacy and communication of strategic plan goals

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Tak aking ing Stock ck

Where are we now?

Aspirations & Direction:

• Mission
• Vision
• Beliefs
• Graduate Profile

District Updates:

• Strategic Plan
• Community-Based Accountability

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Mission, sion, Vision, ion, Belief efs

Our Core Beliefs

• 1. Kids come first
• 2. Continuous improvement is essential for future success
• 3. The success of each student is the shared responsibility of students, families,

schools, and communities

• 4. Environment influences learning

Our Vision The best and most sought-after school district where every student is future ready:

• Ready for college
• Ready for the global workplace
• Ready for personal success

Our Mission Northwest ISD, in partnership with parents and community, will engage all students in a premier education, preparing them to be successful, productive citizens.

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Pr Profile ile of a G a Grad aduat uate

Ready for College Ready for the Global Workplace Ready for Personal Success

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Stra Strategic egic Goals ls

Goal 1 Northwest ISD will design dynamic learning experiences to ensure that all students are future-ready learners. Goal 2 Northwest ISD will recruit, develop, retain and recognize an exceptional, highly motivated staff to optimize student engagement, and learning. Goal 3 Northwest ISD will communicate in a timely, open manner and engage parents and community members in positive partnership opportunities in our schools. Goal 4 Northwest ISD will provide premier facilities and support systems that enhance a positive learning environment and foster student and community pride. Goal 5 Northwest ISD will invest resources to ensure that students, parents, and the community receive optimal educational services.

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Tas ask k Shee eet t 1—Taking aking Stock ck of Current rent Ef Effor

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Relative to the strategic plan goals and progress…of what are you most proud/pleased? Which of the current initiatives should be sustained?

Goal I: Design dynamic learning experiences to ensure that all students are future-ready learners. Goal II: Recruit, develop, retain, and recognize an exceptional, highly motivated staff to optimize student engagement and learning. Goal III: Communicate in a timely, open manner and engage parents and community members in positive partnership opportunities in our schools. Goal IV: Provide premier facilities and support systems that enhance a positive learning environment and foster student and community pride. Goal V: Invest resources to ensure that students, parents, and the community receive optimal educational services. Chart tablet 1. Facilitator will list current efforts on chart 1 and summarize the group’s reflections.

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BREAK

(15 minutes, please)

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Tas ask k Shee eet t 1—Taking aking Stock ck Examining the Vision Documents

 Creating a New

Vision for Public Education in Texas (TASA, 2008)

 A Transformational

Vision for Education in the U.S. (Convergence, 2015) Where the work began in Texas and how it has expanded….

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Creating a New Vision

This question about what we should be doing differently to better prepare students has been the focus of a school leaders across the state and nation for some time, resulting in the vision documents published in 2008 and 2015.

Visions that Describe

the nature of school experiences needed to prepare future- ready learners, the type and level of learning needed to succeed in the 21st century context, and a more balanced partnership, functioning more as community schools and less like state-run bureaucracies.

“We envision schools where all children succeed, feel safe and their curiosity is cultivated. We see schools that foster a sense of belonging and community and that inspire collaboration. We see learning standards that challenge, and intentionally designed experiences that delight students, develop their confidence and competence, and cause every child to value tasks that result in learning. Ultimately, we see schools and related venues that prepare all children for many choices and that give them the tools and attitudes to contribute to

• ur democratic way of life and live successfully in a rapidly changing

world.”

TASA Vision Document, Page 4

TASA Vision Statement

Convergence Vision Statement

Convergence Vision Document, Page 2

Scan the content of one of the two vision documents, making sure both are read by members of your group. Select one or two areas/sections for deeper examination. Read for about 20-25 minutes. After reading, discuss the following…

 In what ways do the district’s current efforts reflect the vision

concepts and ideas?

 How have you seen these efforts transform the education

experiences of students?

 What might be areas for “next steps” exploration by the district?

Prepare to share your group’s reflections in 40 minutes.

Task Sheet 1:

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Determini ermining ng co consensus nsensus

Reflecting on the strategic plan goals and progress and in light of the vision document principles, what is your commitment to sustaining current efforts? On separate post-it notes (one post-it per initiative), write the number corresponding to your level of agreement for sustaining current efforts:

• 4- fully agree
• 3- mostly agree
• 2-somewhat agree
• 1-mostly disagree
• 0-fully disagree and cannot support

Chart tablet 1. Place post-its (with number) next to each effort. Facilitator will write total next to each effort.

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Lunch nch Br Break ak

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Tak aking ing Stock ck: : Lear arning ning from m th the Resear search ch

What can we learn from the research on future-ready learning and success?

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Tas ask k 2. Ready ady for r College lege Future ture-Read ady Ed Educationa ucational l Resear search ch

Select one text from the list below to read with a partner in your group, ensuring that all texts are read within your table group for comparison and discussion.

 Preparing Our Student for Their Futures:

Why Innovative Practice are Needed (Daggett, ICLE, 2017)

 The Future of Learning 1:

Why Must Learning Content and Methods Change in the 21st Century? (UNESCO, 2015)

 Transforming Education for the Next Generation (Intel Education, 2014)  Equipping Every Learner for the 21st Century (Cisco Report, 2008)

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Resear search ch Qu Questions stions (T (Tas ask k Shee eet t 2)

• What are the key ideas of the research?
• How do these ideas reinforce the NISD direction and

efforts?

• What other ideas/concepts in the research might add

value to the district’s work?

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15 minutes, please.

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Thoughts from today’s discussion & learning

District direction Vision document Research Group dialogue about aspirations for students and how they might evolve Share questions & insights (table facilitator will record on chart tablet)

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Clos losure, ure, Ne Next xt Steps, ps, an and Adjournment

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• Dr. Warren and

Board President Schluter

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Welc lcome

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back ck! Thoughts and reflections from day one….

What are your reflections on the discussions and work yesterday? What are your hopes for the efforts of your work today?

• Dr. Ryder

Warren, Superintendent of Schools and

• Mr. Mark Schluter, Board of Trustees President

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Looking

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Ready for the Global Workplace Ready for Personal Success What can we learn from research?

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Task Sheet eet 3A. Rea eady dy for r the e Global bal Workp rkplace lace Work/Ca rk/Caree reer r Edu duca cati tiona

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Select one text of the two texts listed below to read with a partner in your group, ensuring that both texts are read within your table group for comparison and discussion.

 Work Readiness Standards and Benchmarks (ACT, 2013)  Critical Skills Survey (American Management Association, 2012)

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Task Sheet eet 3B. Rea eady dy for Per ersonal l Succ ccess ess Soci cial Emoti tiona

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l Lea earnin ing R g Res esea earch ch

Select one text from the list below to read with a partner in your group, ensuring that both texts are read within your table group for comparison and discussion.

• “From Practice to Policy: Social Emotional Learning” (NASBE, 2013)
• “How Social Emotional Learning Helps Students Succeed” (Committee

for Children)

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Resear search ch Qu Questions stions (T (Tas ask k Shee eet t 3)

What are the key ideas of the research? Plus-Delta Chart + In what ways do these ideas align with the NISD direction and efforts? Δ What other ideas/concepts in the research might add value to the district’s work?

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Lunch nch

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Looking

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Hearing from our own experts NISD Students and Teachers

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Looking

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Given your experiences and our shared learning and discussions, let’s move to identifying possible next steps/new efforts. Affinity Diagram Process and Gallery Walk

• Individually brainstorm ideas for possible new efforts (only most important)
• One idea per post-it; write large with marker
• Post-its placed on chart paper
• Group will move post-its to “affinity” groups on chart and label each group
• Table facilitator will briefly share the proposed new efforts with whole group
• Table facilitator will remain with group’s poster during gallery walk

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15 minutes, please. During break, we (table facilitators and staff) will coalesce these ideas into a list of possible new efforts.

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Possible sible Ne New w Ef Effor

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Time to reflect on the coalesced list of possible new efforts. Your thoughts? Observations? Wonderings?

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Discuss these questions and be prepared to shared in 30 minutes.

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What advocacy and communications efforts are needed to continue to make progress toward graduate profile attainment for all students and to successfully integrate proposed new efforts into the district’s work?

Advocacy (support, backing, sponsorship) Communication (information, outreach, feedback)

Ne Next xt Steps s an and Adjournment

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Discuss “next steps” in the work….. Dr. Warren and Mr. Schluter

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Thank you!

With appreciation to the leadership of Northwest ISD.

Denise Collier, Ed.D. Consultant to the Texas Association of School Administrators collieredu@gmail.com 512-455-3566

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