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School Improvement

School Improvement. The Spirit of the Law. Your mission … if you choose to accept it …. "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.“ – Niccolo Machiavelli.

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School Improvement

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  1. School Improvement The Spirit of the Law

  2. Your mission … if you choose to accept it … "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.“ – Niccolo Machiavelli

  3. The Spirit of the § 115C‑105.27. • … the school shall constitute a school improvement teamto develop a school improvement plan to improve student performance. • … if the school serves students in kindergarten or first grade, include a plan for preparing students to read at grade level by the time they enter second grade • … it is the intent of the General Assembly that parents, along with teachers, have a substantial role in developing school improvement plans … To this end, school improvement team meetings shall be held at a convenient time to assure substantial parent participation. • …the school improvement team may amend the plan as often as is necessary or appropriate. • …shall include a plan that specifies the effective instructional practices and methods to be used to improve the academic performance of students identified as at risk of academic failure or at risk of dropping out of school;

  4. The Sprit of the Law: Build a meaningful and powerful SIP • Our beliefs and values define and drive our vision • Our goals take us purposefully and directly toward to our vision. • Our strategies and actions produce quality learning results for our students. • We keep working until we get it right.

  5. #2Confront the Brutal Facts #1. Visualize the Future Meaningful Organizational Improvement #5. Continuously Monitor and Adjust #4. Plan and Execute the Mission Making the SIP Meaningful … MOI = [(VtF - CtBF) + (P+E)] + (CM+A) #3. Create the Missionby analyzing and bridging the gap between the preferred future (VtF) and current reality (CtBF) … and Powerful

  6. (CtBF) Confront the Brutal Facts: …include a plan that specifies the effective instructional practices and methods to be used to improve the academic performance of students identified as at risk of academic failure or at risk of dropping out of school;

  7. What are the consequences if this is our staff’s mental model of the SIP process? How do we change the mental model? By changing the conversation.

  8. (VtF): Visualize the Future … if the school serves students in kindergarten or first grade, include a plan for preparing students to read at grade level by the time they enter second grade

  9. Create the Mission … it is the intent of the General Assembly that parents, along with teachers, have a substantial role in developing school improvement plans. … the school shall constitute a school improvement team to develop a school improvement plan to improve student performance.

  10. (P+E) Plan and Execute the Mission: …the school improvement team may amend the plan as often as is necessary or appropriate. “Get the wrong people off the bus Get the right people on the bus Get the people in the right seats on the bus” Collins, J. (2001). Good to great: why some companies make the leap...and others don't. New York: Harper-Collins.

  11. (CM+A) Continuously Monitor and Adjust: #1 Practice PDSA What things are going wrong? Come up with ideas for solving problems Plan Design changes to solve the problems on a small scale first Implement changes on a larger scale REPEAT Act Do Study Did small scale changes achieve the desired result?

  12. (CM+A): #2 Practice Planned Abandonment If an activity does not have a direct, positive, measurable effect on student achievement, STOP wasting resources on it.

  13. Walk the Talk • Keep the focus on the SIP • Begin every staff meeting here • School Improvement begins with Individual Improvement • Do not marginalize IGPs, Observations, Evaluations or PD activities • What gets measured … • Accept, embrace, and communicate that this is a new role for ALL educators. • It is not an add-on taking time away from the “real” job. • Celebrate small victories often. • Remember: beliefs change as a result of new experiences not the other way around.

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