Slide 1

Administrators Supporting Teacher Leaders to Increase Student Achievement Steve Barkley October 2014

Slide 2

Slide 3

Teaching in a Learning Community Teaching is a Team Sport Teaching is a Public Act

Slide 4

School Change Source: Model developed by Stephen Barkley

Slide 5

Student Achievement What is your definition of student achievement?

Slide 6

21 st Century Skills Framework Core Subjects -Economics -English -Government -Arts -History -Geography -Reading or Language -Arts -Mathematics -Science -World Languages -Civics 21 st Century Themes - Global Awareness - Financial, Economic, Business & Entrepreneurship Literacy - Civic Literacy - Health Literacy

Slide 7

21 st Century Partnership

Slide 8

Learning and Innovation Skills Learning and innovation skills increasingly are being recognized as those that separate students who are prepared for more and more complex life and work environments in the 21 st century, and those who are not. A focus on creativity and critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future.

Slide 9

Slide 10

Slide 11

Slide 12

Slide 13

Slide 14

But once the task called for even rudimentary cognitive skill, a larger reward led to poorer performance.

Slide 15

Slide 16

Tough Choices or Tough Times This is a world in which a very high level of preparation in reading, writing, speaking, mathematics, science, literature, history, and the arts will be an indispensable foundation . comfort with ideas and abstractions is the passport to the good life, in which high levels of education a very different kind of education than most of us have had are going to be the only security there is.

Slide 17

Tough Choices or Tough Times comfort with ideas and abstractions is the passport to the good life, in which high levels of education a very different kind of education than most of us have had are going to be the only security there is.

Slide 18

Are we ready for this student?

Slide 19

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GOALS ACADEMICS - knowledge and skills to be successful in school and life. LIFE SKILLS - aptitude, attitude and skills to lead responsible, fulfilling and respectful lives. RESPONSIBILITY TO THE COMMUNITY - attributes that contribute to an effective and productive community and the common good of all.

Slide 20

School Change Source: Model developed by Stephen Barkley

Slide 21

Student Behaviors What student behaviors need to be initiated or increased to gain the desired student achievement?

Slide 22

Student Behaviors Reading as choice Writing Finding problem to solve Researching Asking questions Following a passion Persevering/Effort Working independently and collaboratively Taking risks in learning Using technology to research and produce Adapting to change

Slide 23

Teacher Behaviors What teacher behaviors are most likely to generate these student behaviors?

Slide 24

Providing WOW Emotional Engagement

Slide 25

Dan Meyer--Perplex Not Bored Dont know-dont care. Not Confused Want to know the answer; don't believe they are capable.

Slide 26

Dan Meyer Perplexed Dont know the answer. Want to know and believe they are capable of figuring it out.

Slide 27

Slide 28

Slide 29

Slide 30

Dan Meyer Perplexed Dont know the answer. Want to know and believe they are capable of figuring it out.

Slide 31

Teacher Behaviors Teach the desired student behavior. Model the desired student behavior.

Slide 32

Effort x Ability Manageable Task = Success The Formula

Slide 33

Teacher Relationships What changes need to occur in how teachers work with each other to support the needed teacher behaviors?

Slide 34

Teacher Relationships Parallel Play Adversarial Relationships Congenial Relationships Collegial Relationships Roland S. Barth Relationships Within the Schoolhouse ASCD 2006

Slide 35

My Work My Time Design together Implement individually Shared responsibility for student achievement Helping each other Modify Individual Behavior, Consensus on implementation Individual FranchiseTeam

Slide 36

School Change Source: Model developed by Stephen Barkley

Slide 37

Leader Behaviors What leadership behaviors are needed to support the desired staff, teacher, parent, and student behaviors?

Slide 38

Changes Needed to Improve Student Achievement 5.How do you see your role in the changing behaviors of students, teachers, teacher leaders, and administrator? YOU 4.What are the behaviors/practices of school leadership that are necessary to initiate, motivate, and support these changes? 3.Are there changes that need to occur in the way that staff members work with each other in order for the desired individual staff members changes to occur? 2.What changes must occur in individual staff/teacher practices to generate the changes you seek in students? What changes must occur in parent practices to generate the changes you seek in students? 2.What changes must occur in individual staff/teacher practices to generate the changes you seek in students? What changes must occur in parent practices to generate the changes you seek in students? 1.What are the changes in student behavior, performance, choices, effort, etc., that you believe are precursors to the improvement in student learning that you seek?

Slide 39

Trusting the Roles Teacher Coach Administrator

Slide 40

Trusting the Roles 1.no communication between coach and admin 2.admin talks to coach... No coach to admin 3.Coach shares good news 4.Full open sharing Teacher Coach Administrator

Slide 41

Professional Learning Communities What roles do teacher leaders play?

Slide 42

School Change Source: Model developed by Stephen Barkley

Slide 43

Big Idea A Focus on Results Professional Learning Communities judge their effectiveness on a basis of results. Working together to improve student achievement becomes the routine work of everyone in the school. Every teacher-team participates in an ongoing process of identifying the current level of student achievement, establishing a goal to improve the current level, working together to achieve that goal, and providing periodic evidence of progress. (DuFour)

Slide 44

Looking At Student Work With a colleague or two at your grade level or within your department, .. flip through the student work, point out what you notice about students overall, in groups, individually. ..what questions emerge?

Slide 45

Looking At Student Work Considering your current assessment of the student work/performance and the importance of the learning standard, what goals would you be setting for groups and individual learners? (Shorter term/longer term)

Slide 46

What Assessments Along the Way? OctoberFebruaryApril

Slide 47

Looking at Assessments How did the assessment inform your students? How did the assessment inform you? What questions did the assessment raise for you? What are you going to be doing because of the assessment results?

Slide 48

Big Idea Ensuring That Students Learn The professional learning community model flows from the assumption that the core mission of formal education is not simply to ensure that students are taught but to ensure that they learn. This simple shift from a focus on teaching to a focus on learning has profound implications for schools. (DuFour)

Slide 49

Teaching (Can be) Neat Orderly Sequential Managed Documented

Slide 50

Learning (Often is) Messy Spontaneous Irregular Non Linear Complex

Slide 51

Teaching (Can be) Neat Orderly Sequential Managed Documented Learning (Often is) Messy Spontaneous Irregular Non Linear Complex

Slide 52

Teachers Must Study Learning and Student Work Observe ThinkExperiment Create Standards

Slide 53

School Change Source: Model developed by Stephen Barkley

Slide 54

Planning for Learning From a whole class perspective What is important for students to experience or do to gain the desired student outcomes? What teacher actions will instigate, promote, support, etc. those student behaviors and experiences?

Slide 55

Planning for Learning What student behaviors and experiences are critical for the more advanced students? For the students whose skill level is less developed? How will we as teachers individually and collaboratively provide for these learning opportunities?

Slide 56

Big Idea A Culture of Collaboration Educators who are building a professional learning community recognize that they must work together to achieve their collective purpose of learning for all. Therefore, they create structures to promote a collaborative culture. (DuFour)

Slide 57

My Work My Time Design together Implement individually Shared responsibility for student achievement Helping each other Modify Individual Behavior, Consensus on implementation IndividualFranchiseTeam Vulnerability Trust Vulnerability ACTION Trust

Slide 58

Collaborating Beyond Grade-Level Partner with a teacher who works with students before or after you (up or down a grade-level). Share your thoughts on what you explored today. Seek his/her insights and input.

Slide 59

Collaborating Beyond Grade-Level Now partner with someone from outside your grade group or department. Share your thoughts on what you explored today. Seek his/her insights and input.

Slide 60

Collective Capacity Fullan (2010) The power of collective capacity is that it enables ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things for two reasons: knowledge about effective practice becomes more widely available and accessible on a daily basis working together generates commitment

Slide 61