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Loudon County Schools
“Uncommon” Approach to Leadership: The Core of Academic Success
2013 Rural Education National Forum
PresentersJason Vance, Director of Schools
vancej@loudoncounty.org @JasonWVance
Mike Garren, Assistant Director of Schoolsgarrenm@loudoncountyschools @MikeLGarren
Melanie Amburn, Elementary Supervisoramburnm@loudoncounty.org @amburnmelanie
Jennifer Malone, Technology/Middle School Supervisorjm@loudoncounty.org @JenMaloneTN
SCORE Video
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
Achievement
Value Added
The HPES Story
Principal Selection/Placement
EES FLMS GBS
HPES LES LHS
NMS PES SES
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
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
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
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
Teacher Data Boards
Student Perspective
Student Perspective
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.
Professional DevelopmentCommon Core Roll-Out to Teachers
PEARSON TRAINING CCSS-ELA
Selected teachers and coaches received 2 days a month training
through Pearson involving CCSS-ELA. Training began Jan. 2012 and ended in June 2012.
Winter – Spring 2012
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Overview of MATH and ELA CCSS
All Math and ELA teachers from Loudon County were given an
overview of the upcoming Common Core/PARCC Implementation
Spring 2012
K-12 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
All teachers from Loudon County were trained in the CCSS –ELA
and Math
August 2, 2012 August 3, 2012
ALL teachers from Loudon County were trained in the CCSS implementation in
conjunction with the new teacher evaluation
model
K-12 Professional Development-ELA 2012
All ELA teachers in
Loudon County received
Common Core READING training.
August 27-31, 2012 Sept. 4-7, 2012 Sept.10-14, 2012
All ELA teachers in Loudon County
received Common Core
WRITINGTraining.
All ELA teachers in Loudon County received Common Core SPEAKING / LISTENING AND
LANGUAGE training.
K-12 Professional Development-ELA
All ELA teachers in Loudon County
received Common Core
PERFORMANCE BASED
ASSESSMENT training.
Sept. 17-21, 2012 May 6-10, 2013
All ELA teachers
in Loudon County received Six Trait Writing
training.
NEW TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CCSS - ELA
All new ELA teachers from
Loudon County were trained in
the CCSS –READING and
WRITING
August 21 & 22, 2013 September 4 & 11, 2013
ALL new ELA teachers from Loudon County were trained in the
CCSS SPEAKING/LISTENING,
LANGUAGE AND PERFORMANCE
BASED ASSESSMENTS
Administrator Professional Development
2 Day training with Principals &
Assistant Principals CCSS ELA Strategies.
July 24 & 25, 2013 August 2013
Development of Lead Teacher &
Assistant Principal Program to
implement CCSS ELA for peer led
mentoring at each Loudon County
School.
Lead Teacher Professional Development
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.
September 9, 2013 October 3, 2013 January & 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.
TNCORE READING TRAINING
ELA Standards in the Classroom:
Phoneme Articulation and Text Dependent
Questions. Intervention –
The Challenge of Reading
Sept. 16-19, 2013 October 7-11, 2013 November 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
TNCORE READING TRAINING
ELA Standards in the Classroom: Planning the Comprehension Lesson. Intervention – Developing Fluency and Vocabulary
January 13-17, 2014 February 24-28, 2014 March 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
TNCORE READING TRAINING
ELA Standards in the Classroom:
Integration and Putting It All Together.
Intervention – Teaching Spelling and
Writing
April 1-4, 2014 May 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.
TNCORE READING TRAINING BY LOUDON COUNTY
INSTRUCTIONAL COACH
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.
Fall 2013 Winter 2014 Spring 2014
Training for Loudon County
and other districts continue for K-3 teachers and K-12 RTI and Special Education teachers.
TNCORE READING
training continues for K-3 teachers andK-12 RTI and
Special Education teachers.
Training will end in May 2014
K-8 Professional Development CCSS -Math
Selected teachers
attended a two day summer state training provided by TNCORE to implement CCSSM.
Summer 2013 August 19 & 20, 2013 Fall 2013 Summary
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.
100% of Loudon County teachers
trained in implementing
CCSSM, development of
tasks, and sample videos.
High School Professional Development
Selected teachers
attended a four day summer state training provided by TNCORE to implement CCSSM.
Summer 2013 Fall 2013 Fall 2013 Summary
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.
Administrator Professional Development
2 Day training with Principal & Assistant Principals CCSSM
Strategies.
Summer 2013 August 2013 Fall 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.
Lead Teacher Professional Development
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.
September 2013 October 2013 January & 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.
TN TEAM Model
TEAM Teacher Evaluation Model
Overview
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
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?
Teacher’s Perspective
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.
Teacher’s Perspective
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
What is peer collaboration?
Benefits of Peer Review
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
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
Technology Integration
• Effective Use of INTERACTIVE Whiteboardsbased on Marzano researchEmbedded lessons (Stds., Pacing, and
Questioning)Visual LearningFormative Assessment (Using Response
Systems)
Technology Integration
Content Creation/PublishingStudent BloggingVideo CreationDistance LearningLearning platforms for differentiationProject Based LearningGamification
PARCC Readiness
Readiness Assessment & GoalsUse of E-Rate and State Funding to upgrade
infrastructure in schools – wireless Increase bandwidth each yearAdding 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
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/APsUsing Teacher Evaluation Data for PD
Classes
QUESTIONS