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Loudon County Schools

Loudon County Schools. “ Uncommon” Approach to Leadership: The Core of Academic Success. 2013 Rural Education National Forum . Presenters. Jason Vance, Director of Schools vancej@loudoncounty.org @ JasonWVance Mike Garren, Assistant Director of Schools

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Loudon County Schools

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  1. Loudon County Schools “Uncommon” Approach to Leadership: The Core of Academic Success 2013 Rural Education National Forum

  2. Presenters Jason Vance, Director of Schools vancej@loudoncounty.org @JasonWVance Mike Garren, Assistant Director of Schools garrenm@loudoncountyschools @MikeLGarren Melanie Amburn, Elementary Supervisor amburnm@loudoncounty.org @amburnmelanie Jennifer Malone, Technology/Middle School Supervisor jm@loudoncounty.org @JenMaloneTN

  3. SCORE Video

  4. Snapshot of Loudon County Schools • Located in East TN • 5,000 students • 350 Teachers • 9 Schools • Various Grade Configurations • 56% Economically Disadvantaged • 10% Hispanic • 14% Students with Disabilities

  5. Achievement

  6. Value Added

  7. The HPES Story

  8. Principal Selection/Placement EES FLMS GBS HPESLES LHS NMS PES SES

  9. Beginning Conversation • Data discussion with Principals in May based upon disaggregation of quick scores • Focus on areas of improvement utilizing staff strengths, scheduling and resources • Identify goals for upcoming year and establish benchmarks for principal’s evaluation • Preliminary determination of AMO achievement and Gap closure

  10. Data Driven Instruction • Data teams established at every school • Data teams meet every six weeks a week after grading periods end • Analyze fresh academic and non-academic data • Discovery Education formative assessment program utilized in grades 1-8, Algebra I and English I & II

  11. Benchmark Testing • Three benchmarks are given throughout year • Data is analyzed and discussed at principals’ meeting showing trends and comparisons • Data Teams analyze at school level and discuss by grade level in meetings • Teachers analyze class data to drive instruction

  12. Data Boards • Teachers create data boards for their class • TCAP data and formative assessment data along with demographic information is included on board • Teachers use data to set goals with students • Students track their own progress relative to their goals from benchmark to benchmark

  13. Teacher Data Boards

  14. Student Perspective

  15. Student Perspective

  16. Pearson Access • State data can be utilized to help focus instructional priorities for the year. • Re-rostering function can be used to roster students that are in your current class utilizing their previous year’s state test results. • Reporting category performance report can be used to provide strands with greatest opportunity for improvement.

  17. Professional Development Common Core Roll-Out to Teachers

  18. Selected teachers and coaches received 2 days a month training through Pearson involving CCSS-ELA. Training began Jan. 2012 and ended in June 2012. PEARSON TRAINING CCSS-ELA Winter – Spring 2012 +

  19. All Math and ELA teachers from Loudon County were given an overview of the upcoming Common Core/PARCC Implementation Overview of MATH and ELA CCSS Spring 2012

  20. All teachers from Loudon County were trained in the CCSS –ELA and Math K-12 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT August 2, 2012August 3, 2012 ALL teachers from Loudon County were trained in the CCSS implementation in conjunction with the new teacher evaluation model

  21. All ELA teachers in Loudon County received Common Core READING training. K-12 Professional Development-ELA 2012 August 27-31, 2012Sept. 4-7, 2012Sept.10-14, 2012 All ELA teachers in Loudon County received Common Core WRITING Training. All ELA teachers in Loudon County received Common Core SPEAKING / LISTENING AND LANGUAGE training.

  22. All ELA teachers in Loudon County received Common Core PERFORMANCE BASED ASSESSMENT training. K-12 Professional Development-ELA Sept. 17-21, 2012May 6-10, 2013 All ELA teachers in Loudon County received Six Trait Writing training.

  23. All new ELA teachers from Loudon County were trained in the CCSS –READING and WRITING NEW TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CCSS - ELA August 21 & 22, 2013September 4 & 11, 2013 ALL new ELA teachers from Loudon County were trained in the CCSS SPEAKING/LISTENING, LANGUAGE AND PERFORMANCE BASED ASSESSMENTS

  24. 2 Day training with Principals & Assistant Principals CCSS ELA Strategies. Administrator Professional Development July 24 & 25, 2013August 2013 Development of Lead Teacher & Assistant Principal Program to implement CCSS ELA for peer led mentoring at each Loudon County School.

  25. Selected teachers from each of the 9 schools in Loudon County attended a 1 day collaboration on TNCORE CCSS ELA training administering state provided ELA units. Lead Teacher Professional Development September 9, 2013October 3, 2013January & April 2014 Debriefing of implementation of ELA units. Collaboration on TNCORE CCSS ELA CLOSE READS provided by the state. Teachers will implement in classrooms and debrief at next meeting. Teachers will lead discussion of the administering of CLOSE READS. Teachers will begin to support teammates in implementing UNITS and CLOSE READS in K-12 classrooms.

  26. ELA Standards in the Classroom: Phoneme Articulation and Text Dependent Questions. Intervention – The Challenge of Reading TNCORE READING TRAINING Sept. 16-19, 2013October 7-11, 2013November 12-15,2013 ELA Standards in the Classroom: The Outcomes-Driven Model and Data Analysis. Intervention – Assessing and Developing Word Recognition Ability ELA Standards in the Classroom: Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping and Vocabulary. Intervention – Teaching Advanced Decoding and Fluency

  27. ELA Standards in the Classroom: Planning the Comprehension Lesson. Intervention – Developing Fluency and Vocabulary TNCORE READING TRAINING January 13-17, 2014February 24-28, 2014March 18-21 2014 ELA Standards in the Classroom: High-Frequency Words and Comprehension. Intervention – A Framework for Teaching Reading Comprehension, Part 1 ELA Standards in the Classroom: Reading Fluency and Writing. Intervention – A Framework for Teaching Reading Comprehension, Part 2

  28. ELA Standards in the Classroom: Integration and Putting It All Together. Intervention – Teaching Spelling and Writing TNCORE READING TRAINING April 1-4, 2014May 23, 2014 ELA Standards in the Classroom: Review classes 1-7. Discuss what steps are next. Intervention – Review classes 1-7. Discuss how these classes will have benefited those students that are in TIER II and TIER III.

  29. Loudon County Instructional Coach will train all Loudon County K-3 teachers and K-12 RTI and Special Education teachers. Other districts are invited to attend training. TNCORE READING TRAINING BY LOUDON COUNTY INSTRUCTIONAL COACH Fall 2013Winter 2014Spring 2014 TNCORE READING training continues for K-3 teachers and K-12 RTI and Special Education teachers. Training will end in May 2014 Training for Loudon County and other districts continue for K-3 teachers and K-12 RTI and Special Education teachers.

  30. Selected teachers attended a two day summer state training provided by TNCORE to implement CCSSM. K-8 Professional Development CCSS -Math Summer 2013August 19 & 20, 2013Fall 2013Summary 100% of Loudon County teachers trained in implementing CCSSM, development of tasks, and sample videos. Remaining teachers of Loudon County received two day training by TNCORE Coach to implement CCSSM. Development of math tasks and sample teacher videos to further CCSSM implementation.

  31. Selected teachers attended a four day summer state training provided by TNCORE to implement CCSSM. High School Professional Development Summer 2013Fall 2013Fall 2013Summary Remaining teachers of Loudon County received 4 day training by TNCORE Coach to implement CCSSM Development of math tasks and sample teacher videos to further CCSSM implementation. 100% of Loudon County teachers trained in implementing CCSSM, development of tasks, and sample videos.

  32. 2 Day training with Principal & Assistant Principals CCSSM Strategies. Administrator Professional Development Summer 2013August 2013Fall 2013 Development of Lead Teacher & Assistant Principal Program to implement CCSSM for peer lead mentoring at each Loudon County School. 4 day collaboration to development peer lead mentoring on CCSSM by Assistant Principals and Lead Teachers.

  33. Selected teachers from each of the 9 schools in Loudon County attended a 1 day collaboration on TNCORE CCSSM training & development of trial math tasks to implement in classrooms. Lead Teacher Professional Development September 2013October 2013January & April 2014 Discussion, Collaboration, & Revision of trial tasks to post on Loudon County CCSSM website for teacher resources. Teacher led coaching PLCs on facilitation of math tasks to implement CCSSM.

  34. TN TEAM Model TEAM Teacher Evaluation Model Overview

  35. Connecting Student Data to Teacher Evaluations • Teachers take a hard look at student growth scores • Administrators at the school and district level meet with individual teachers to review student growth scores and teacher evaluation scores and how they relate to each other

  36. School Administrator training • Understanding Common Core standards • How does Common Core instruction differ from previous instructional models • How does Common Core assessment differ from previous models • What does student mastery look like in a single evaluation observation?

  37. Teacher’s Perspective

  38. Uncommon Approach using data to plan for differentiation • The teacher works to ensure that all students have “respectful” work. Define the areas for work through item analysis and topic disaggregation. • The teacher emphasizes individual growth as central to the success of the classroom. • The teacher makes sure differentiation is always “a way up”, never “ a way out”. • The teacher seeks specialists’ active partnership in the classroom (RTI, SPED, ELL, etc.) • The teacher’s differentiation is largely proactive, rather than reactive. In other words, it takes PLANNING.

  39. Teacher’s Perspective

  40. Vanderbilt Study • 3 Principals Participate in Tennessee-Shanghai Leadership Collaborative • Implementation of Teacher Peer Excellence Groups • Traveled to China to observe peer review process • Loudon County classroom teachers participating in study

  41. What is peer collaboration?

  42. Benefits of Peer Review

  43. Impact of Technology “We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher’s hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.” – David Warlick

  44. Common Core Requires Technology Skills • “Teachers need to stop saying, ‘Hand it in,’ and start saying ‘Publish It,’ instead” - Alan November • “Digital media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves.” – Marco Torres

  45. Technology Integration • Effective Use of INTERACTIVE Whiteboards based on Marzano research • Embedded lessons (Stds., Pacing, and Questioning) • Visual Learning • Formative Assessment (Using Response Systems)

  46. Technology Integration • Content Creation/Publishing • Student Blogging • Video Creation • Distance Learning • Learning platforms for differentiation • Project Based Learning • Gamification

  47. PARCC Readiness • Readiness Assessment & Goals • Use of E-Rate and State Funding to upgrade infrastructure in schools – wireless • Increase bandwidth each year • Adding 500 Lenovo laptops on mobile carts that are used in schools all year for instruction but moved to facilitate testing. • Utilizing labs for tech instruction and keyboarding

  48. Provide Resources • Web Site with all Professional Development Resources • Common Core Page to share • Opening of Network – Unblocking Web Content • Tech Training for Lead Teachers/APs • Using Teacher Evaluation Data for PD Classes

  49. QUESTIONS

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