Charting our CourseDestination: Success

Erie ElementaryAugust 2010

Welcome and Welcome Back!

• Newbies• New Positions• New Leader• New Teams!

Two Truths & a Lie

• Write it down• Share with your table

• Let them guess!• Pick one person to share with the

group

New Leader

Inquiring Minds Want to Know!What is your leadership style?

What are your beliefs?In what direction do you see us going this year?

What changes are you going to implement??

Core Values

• Visionary leadership • Learning-centered

education • Organizational and

personal learning • Valuing faculty, staff,

and partners • Agility

• Focus on the future • Managing for

innovation • Management by fact • Social responsibility • Focus on results and

creating value • Systems perspective

Performance Excellence

• Leadership • Strategic Planning • Student and Stakeholder Focus • Measurement Analysis and Knowledge

Management • Faculty and Staff Focus • Process Management • Performance Results

Charlie Brown’s Teacher

When is she just going to tell us what she is

changing!!!!

Change

• Changes in society, in the world, in the economy, in students

• Changes in education policy, educational expectations, educational leadership

• School? Classroom? It will be up to you, but we can’t NOT change!

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The key to change is to let go of fear ~Rosanne Cash

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction ~Winston Churchill

Resilience during times of change

• Who will deal well with the changes?• Who will have a “tolerance for ambiguity”

• We must understand our mission and stay true to our mission

Did you know?

Changes to the world….

• Since you graduated from college, what changes have occurred?

• Choose one and how it has directly impacted you as a person or you as an educator.

Changes with our students

Different

• How are today’s students different?• What changes have you noticed?• What implications does this have for your

classroom?

Teacher

• Take a minute and think of your “best” teacher

• What five adjectives describe them and/or their teaching?

Education Changes

• 100 years ago, factory model: sort kids and put a system in place where we will have the number of college educated students for positions.

• Now all students will need some kind of post-high school education with the bachelors degree being the new norm.

Students Today

• Will work longer and harder with more education in order to maintain the same standard of living as their parents.

Think of their future….

• “the difference between the earnings of those with at least a bachelor's degree and their peers with less education grew during this period. For example, in 1980, males with a bachelor's or higher degree earned 19 percent more than male high school completers, while in 2004 they earned 67 percent more."

What does it mean for Elementary Schools?

• Must have students equipped to be successful in middle and high school – not just in levels of learning, but in how best to learn

• Must address engagement issues since most drop outs can be identified by fifth grade.

21st Century Skills

Education Changes and the unknown for Colorado

• Senate Bill 191 – teacher effectiveness…. tying evaluations to test scores

• Race to the Top…funding??• New standards.• Proposition 60/61/101 if any of the

three pass….

60 - 61-101

• At least 8,000 classroom teachers could get pink slips driving up class sizes everywhere. Nowhere will the damage from these ill-conceived proposals be greater than in our schools. The chief financial officer of D-11 in Colorado Springs said, “We don’t have a way to make payroll.” And the Boulder Daily Camera points out, “The truth is that K-12 education funding will be decimated and schools will have nowhere to turn.”

New Standards

• When you left in June….you knew that new Colorado standards had been adopted for 2011-2012.

• Did you know – August 2nd that changed again?

• Colorado adopted Common Core Standards as part of a national movement and Race to the Top application.

What?

• As educational leaders look to roll out new standards they have had about three weeks to even learn?

• Language Arts is similar – very cyclical in nature

• Math – experts agree it is more rigorous that even the “new” Colorado standards had planned.

Changes in Erie?

• Why does it matter that Black Rock and 26 are here?

• Why does it matter that SVVSD is looking to recruit students back out of charter schools?

• Why should we care??

What do “they” want?

• School Choice: ability to move your child to where they feel it would be best

• AYP: ability to go to a school that is effective• Charters and new schools – popping up

everywhere offering what parents feel they are not getting.

• Erie Elementary to remain an option…to be attractive to families surrounded by CHOICE!

Not about who gets off the bus any more…who are we attracting?

Others deserve “best” too

What does a “great” education look like? Feel like?

What does giving students the best opportunities look like? Feel like?

Are we doing what it takes to help our students be competitive in the future?

They will be competing with others across the globe for jobs.

Focus School

• Isn’t it just a “gimmick” ?• Why can’t we just keep doing

what we have always done?• Why do we need to cater to

the parents and community?

What does it mean to you?

Black Rock and 26

• Cluster Grouping/flexible grouping/GTmeeting kids needs, wherever/whenever,

differentiating, rigor

• Core Knowledgeaddressing a guaranteed and viable

curriculum, rigor, prepared for secondary schools and jobs

Erie Elementary

• Community School• History/Pride• Relationships• What are we lacking that parents are looking

for?• Is there a way to address the rigor and

relevance?• Aging Building…• BSO

Reinvent Ourselves

What are others doing based upon trends in education and world economy?

World Languages/World View/IBHealth & Service Cluster….convert to STEMCore KnowledgeLeadership/people skills/21st century skillsStrengtning science, engineering & math /rigor

Technology….Where you were headed…

We are required to embed technology and increase students technological literacy.

Digging Deeper

Erie Elementary Focus

Resilliance

Resilience during times of change

• Who will deal well with the changes?• Who will have a “tolerance for ambiguity”

• We must understand our mission and stay true to our mission

Shared Knowledge

Same Page

Work Together

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Focus for 2010-2011

New Curriculum

New Assessments

RTI

Effective Operations: More with Less

AYP and Growth Model

District Direction

1. Parental Involvement – What % are actually involved in the work of our mission?2. Resources – scarcity, re-examine how we do work, creative ways to find funds3. Focus on quality of instruction – PLCs, collaboration, HYIS4. Time – maximize what we have, look for ways to extend the learning window

Next Steps…

• Where are we?• Where do we need to go?• How are we going to get there?

• Data, Plan, Implementation• Sept. Late Start…

But Wednesday they come!

One Last Thought…

I Believe in You!

Charting our CourseDestination: Success