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A look inside… the Ohio Improvement Process at Winton Woods City Schools. Shared Accountability & Setting Expectations for the Effective Use of Data. May 11, 2010. DLT Presentation Team. WWCS By The Numbers. Northwestern Cincinnati 3 Communities
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A look inside… the Ohio Improvement Process at Winton Woods City Schools Shared Accountability & Setting Expectations for the Effective Use of Data May 11, 2010
WWCS By The Numbers • Northwestern Cincinnati • 3 Communities • Forest Park, Greenhills& portions of Springfield Township • Urban-Suburban characteristics – Stratum 6 state classification • Student Mobility high – 96th percentile in the state • Grade-level Schools: • Primary North (PK – 2) • Primary South (K-2) • ES – (3 & 4) • IS – (5 & 6) • MS – (7 & 8) • HS – (9 - 12)
OLAC Work Provides Foundation for OIP Links to OLAC Work
Leadership Development Framework You should pay special attention to a handful of high leverage behaviors. Source: Patterson, K., et. Al. (2008). Influencer: The Power to Change Anything. McGraw-Hill. NY,NY
Implementation & Monitoring CRITICAL: Monitoring mustbeused to assigngrowth ... not blame & punishment. B. McNULTY
Shared Accountability Picturedhere: The WW Varsity Football team beinghonored by the Ohio Senate for their 2009 Div. II State Title ... Accountability must beshared in both good times & bad ... Whenthings go well, we tend to shareaccountabiltyeasily ... Truesharedaccountabilitymeans sharing thissense of togethernesswhenthings do not go sowelltoo ...
Shared Accountability: Culture • Change Culture by changing practice • The role of our Superintendent • The “Big Picture” & the Compelling Need • CCIP Pilot Team’s work – shared experience & distributed leadership • Roll-out & Waiver Days • Individual buildings begin CCIP work
Shared Accountability: Targeted Focus • Laser Focus on a few strategies over time • Go deeper not wider … less IS more • Stop changing horses … • Pay attention to a few high-leverage behaviors • Professional Development must mirror this focus • “Improving practice can only be done by teachers … NOT to teachers.” WURTZEL, 2007
Targeted Focus: Student Achievement Improvement Strategies
Targeted Focus:Common Notetaking Template Sample TemplateAdapted-Cornell method
Targeted Focus:Notetaking Sample Template Teacher-Prepped Notes
Targeted Focused: CUT Strategy C.U.T. Strategy Poster for Classes
Shared Accoutability:Professional Community • Focus on schools & teams as Professional Learning Communities (PLC’s) • Helping people learn to work together: • Change environments • Change structures, procedures & processes • Change schedules • Change structures – teaming & norms & tools • Change processes – decision-making & monitoring • Change leadership involvement • Create new relationships & expectations • Use data & analyze together • Over-structure collaborative time
Shared Accountability: Collaborative Structures “What ultimately bears the weight of sustainable educational change is not an overarching set of government policies and interventions but people working together as partners around shared and compelling purposes.” Andy Hargreaves (2009) Change Wars
Shared Accountability:Collaborative Stucture Collaborative Shared Decision-Making Structure in WWCS
Setting Expectations for the Effective Use of Data In a high-perfoming school, the consequence of poor performance is not a bad grade ... it is more work ... B. McNULTY
Effective Use of Data:Types of Data, Sources & Tools surrounding Foci for Improvement
Professional Feedback Form:Walk-through Observation Procedures
Emphasis on Teamwork, Collaboration & Professional Community in a TBT:
Effective Use of Data:Capitalizing on Already Existing Structures & Processes
Effective Use of Data:Alignment of CCIP Goals & Existing BOE / District Goals
Closing Thought "In Prosperity Our Friends Know Us. In Adversity We Know Our Friends." "If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habitin little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailingattitude.“ COLIN POWELL
Q & A • Thanks to our Board of Education • Thanks to our teachers • Thanks to our community & parents • Thanks to our kids • Thanks for your time!