A New School Improvement Model

Jan Vesely, Ed.D, Vice President, School Achievement Services, Pearson

Walt Gibson, General Manager, School Achievement Services, Pearson

Building SIM – What the research says about school turnaround:

Turning a school around requires a comprehensive approach (MassInsight Turnaround Report, Calkins et al., 2007; Bryk et al.2010)

Turnaround requires an external Lead Partner who deeply embeds support within the school (MassInsight Report, Calkins et al., 2007)

One size does NOT fit all! – Strategies must be comprehensive, flexible, adaptable, and sustainable (Brookings Institute, 2002; Century, 2009; Center on Education Policy, 2009)

Turnaround requires dramatic academic and non academic change (MassInsight Turnaround Report, Calkins et al., 2007)

Fidelity of Implementation matters (Borman et al., 2003)

Districts must support the change with system-wide commitment, effective professional development, and a plan for sustainability. (Supovitz, 2007)

Pearson SchoolwideImprovementModel (SIM)

Comprehensive

Flexible

Evidence-based

Affordable

Sustainable

SIMply results

Prepare your students to be college and career ready

Help your students achieve the Common Core

Provide high quality instruction for all students

Reach every student, every subject, every year

Implement a data-driven approach

Provide academic support beyond the school day

In literacy, the Common Core State Standards:

Dramatically increase text complexity at every grade level – “The ability to read and comprehend complex text is the best predictor of college success.”

Emphasize informational text at ever-increasing levels across the grades

Require increasingly complex academic vocabulary

Are measured by students’ ability to reason and justify an argument

Will assess students’ literacy in both science and social studies

Are aligned to the expectations for entering college or the workforce without remediation

In math, the Common Core State Standards:

Are organized, K to 12, around key topics in mathematics

Emphasize focus and coherence

• Focus on key topics at each grade level.

• Define coherent progressions across grade levels.

Balance concepts and skills

Require both conceptual understanding and procedural fluency

Foster reasoning and sense-making in mathematics.

Are aligned to the expectations for entering college or the workforce without remediation

Schoolwide Improvement Model (SIM)Why will it work in Hawaii?

The Pearson Schoolwide Improvement Model: • Can stand on its own as an effective and comprehensive solution

• Is custom-designed for each grade span• Can bring a schoolwide focus to disparate programs and initiatives

• Can serve as a single school model — does not depend on a cohort

• Does not depend on having coaches• Is repeatable so it can be researched• Is not dependent on on-site professional development

SIM may be flexed in two ways:• Through optional additions, such as math and literacy interventions

• By varying the intensity of support for implementation

Schoolwide Instructional FocusProfessional Development for all teachersEmphasis onAcademic LanguageReasoning and JustificationCollaborationIndependent Learning

English language artsMathematics

Implementation Elements

Highly focused Leadership Team with distributed responsibilities

Leadership Team responsible for: Driving implementation process, including

workgroup facilitation; building tight linkages among settings

Assuring school organization and support for implementation goals

Systematic monitoring of implementation and adjusting plans and strategies to address improvement needs

Component 3: Data-Driven Culture

Ties Standards-Aligned Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment together with High Performance Leadership, Management, and Organization

Systematic development of foundations for establishing school as data-driven culture, linking leadership, departments, classrooms, counseling & guidance

• Student achievement data

• Non-academic student data

• Schoolwide systems data

• Classroom observation data

Implementation Elements

Component 4: High Achievement and Engagement

Ties Aligned Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment together with High Performance Leadership, Management, and Organization

Focus on:• Engaging community in supporting high expectations• Connecting classroom culture of engagement to school

culture of high expectations and support for achievement

• Instituting early warning system connected to tiered supports for students’ social and emotional development

Student Services staff (including deans, counselors, social workers) form High Achievement and Engagement Workgroup for maintain continuing focus

Implementation Elements

Component 5: Building Capacity for Sustainability

Coherent school-wide approach to curriculum, instruction and assessment

Development of instructional leadership and distributed leadership with tight linkages to Aligned Instruction

Systems development• Data-driven culture• Early warning system with guidance on connected tiered

supports

Connected system of Professional Development and Technical Assistance with support from Learning Teams

Monitoring and feedback protocols and resources coupled with systematic processes for monitoring and adjusting plans

School drives implementation from the beginning with: Scaffolded support provided by the design of the Model On site technical assistance by Pearson Field Specialists

Implementation Elements

Pearson Schoolwide Improvement ModelDeliverables for Hawaii

60 days of on-site leadership, literacy, and mathematics assistance from highly-qualified and certified Pearson field specialists

10 days of Common Core professional development focused on:

Tier 1 instructional practices (Schoolwide Instructional Focus)

Leadership training, Learning Teams training, and CCSS curriculum alignment

Ongoing implementation support from Pearson’s National College for professional development and research

Experienced, Embedded Local Team

Pearson Schoolwide Improvement ModelDeliverables for Hawaii

Galileo K-12 Online Comprehensive Assessment Teacher Compass and Principal Compass Cloud based teacher and principal enlightenment tools

delivered via web or iPad Developed at Johns Hopkins University to collect and

aggregate observation data, track schoolwide trends, and support self assessment and professional learning

Built in feedback systems, social collaboration platform, and extensive library of 3,000+ professional development videos

At-Risk/Drop-out Prevention online monitoring tool SmartThinking 24/7 online tutoring for students Optional Digital and print tools available for

student interventions

Robust tools for teachers, students, and parents

Pearson Schoolwide Improvement ModelDeliverables for Hawaii

Aligns curriculum, instruction, and assessment Prepares teachers and students for transition to the common

core Provides an instructional focus emphasizing academic language

and independent learner competencies Promotes Tier 1 instruction in every classroom through Systematic teacher development, Skilled technical assistance, and Coaching from embedded Pearson staff

Expands classroom engagement to a culture of high expectations Incorporates Learning Teams to establish regular settings for

process-driven instructional collaboration and a data-driven approach to improvement

Includes SIOP support for ELL’s and additional support for special education students

A Solid Research-Based Model

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SIMply results.

www.pearsonschoolimprovement.com

SIMply results.

www.pearsonschoolimprovement.com

Pearson’s Schoolwide Improvement Model (SIM)is an innovative standards-based systemof comprehensive school improvement.

Forged in collaborative partnershipswith more than a thousand schools,

SIM represents the culmination of two decades worth of verifiable third-party research, experience and…simply…

results.

Flexible and affordable, SIM meetsthe unique needs of any individual school or group of schools,helping you help all students become college and career ready.

Through a data-driven, technology-supported, customizable process,

SIM helps you turn the complexities of school improvementinto sustainable results.