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Patricia MacNeill, Ed.D.Assistant SuperintendentGreene County Schools
Snow Hill, NCwww.gcsedu.org
By Design Not Chance
Leading SystemicChange:
WHO WE ARE•Five Schools
•3,251 Students
•212 Teachers
•43% African American, 33% White, 22% Latino
• 72% Free & Reduced Lunch
•Both low wealth and small & rural
Our Shared Instructional Vision To create a
community of learners in which administrators, teachers, students and parents are all active participants in the teaching/learning process.
To use technology for the delivery of quality, student-centered instruction.
GREENE COUNTY SCHOOLSTHE HEDGEHOG CONCEPT
L’Esperance, Frey, Gabbard (2002)Adapted from Collins (2001)
PassionThe Learning Environment
Best in the World
Consistency & Continuity of Programs
Economic Engine
Quality of TeachingBalanced with
Standards
Communication
Providinga
Framework
Providing Staff
Development
Building a Learning CommunitySharing LeadershipBuilding Capacity
Critical Balancefor
Cultural Change
Critical Balance
Cultural Change
Infrastructure
“What good is it if it doesn’t work?”
Critical Balance
Cultural Change
Content
“What good is it if it isn’t educational?”
Infrastructure
“What good is it if it doesn’t work?”
Critical Balance
Infrastructure
“What good is it if it doesn’t work?”
Content
“What good is it if it isn’t educational?”
Staff Development“What good is it if
teachers don’t use it?”
Cultural Change
Set Expectations•“Begin with the End in Mind”
•Provide a Framework
•Allow for creativity and consensus-building in accomplishing goals
Benchmarks
Vision
Stephen Covey
Framework
Goals
TIM
ING
The Need
Sustained
On-going
Standards based
Relevant
Timely
Staff developmentthat is . . .
An Instructional Technologist and Literacy Facilitator at each school
A system-wide instructional team led by the Assistant Superintendent for Instruction
A research-based comprehensive staff development plan aligned to system goals
A vanguard group for major initiatives
Design Principles
The Advisory Council A school-based team
focused on instruction
Weekly meetings
Participants Principal and Assistant
Principals
Instructional Technologist
Literacy Facilitator
Media Coordinator
School Counselor
Exceptional Children & ESL representatives
ContentSystem-Wide Initiatives
Literacy
Technology Integration
Comprehensive Counseling/College Access
Numeracy
Creativity
School Improvement Goals
North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Delivery Modeling of best
instructional practices
Blending of content and pedagogy
Evaluation by participants
Smart sheets for reference
Smart Sheets
Sequential steps
Pictures/screen shots
Arrows for emphasis
Specific information
Tiger Features: Spotlight and Smart Folders
iBits Smart Sheet
Spotlight allows you to search your iBook for a file, application, picture, word in a document, etc. The icon is located in the top right corner. Just click it to search. Type in a word.
Example: If you want to find all documents that have the word dinosaur in it, just type in dinosaur.
If you double-click on one of the documents, it will open and the word you searched (dinosaur) will be highlighted.
Note that you can search files created during a certain time span.
You can also search by the other criteria listed. Explore and see which way works best for you.
Now let’s take it one step further. Suppose that the search you did on “dinosaurs” is something you would like to go back to often. Turn to the reverse side of this sheet to learn about “Smart Folders.”
JHP SHP 2/9/06
GREENE EARLY COLLEGE
O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7
s t u d e n t s c o l l e c t s o i l s a m p l e s
Learn and Serve Grant
Renewed for 2007!2008
Upcoming Events
HANDS !ON SCIENCE
ast year"s successful service learning e#orts have resulted
in the renewal of Greene Early College"s Learn and Serve America Grant, Nature Trails and Historic Tales. Ms. Elaine Beaman, Service Learning Director, will go to Raleigh
on October 26 for o$cial receipt of the grant.
In preparation for resuming work on the nature trail at the Greene County
Recreation Complex, GEC freshmen have toured the site. The students are very excited and eager to join the sophomores in working on the trail and in their classes.
Tentative plans for this year"s service learning include clearing more of the
creek trail and building a kayak landing.
As always, learning remains the priority. Students will continue to complete classroom assignments that
bring service learning and the North Carolina Standard Course of Study together.
Parents who have
not yet visited the sire are encouraged to do so!!!and volunteers are always welcome!
Oct. 15
School PicturesStudents should remember to dress for
pictures. Orders will be taken after
proofs are returned.
Oct. 17
PSATAll GEC students will take the PSAT.
Testing will begin at 7:45, so please be
sure students arrive on time.
Oct. 18
Early ReleaseStudents will be released at 12:45. Staff
will be involved in professional
development.
Oct. 19
Teacher WorkdayThere will be no school for students on
Friday, October 16. This is a protected
teacher workday.
Nov. 6
NC Online Test of Computer SkillsStudents who have not yet passed the
North Carolina Online Test of Computer
Skills will be tested at 10:00 a.m.
Students who need to take this test
have been provided with practice
materials that they should work on
during Seminar.
Nature Trails and Historic Tales
L
Monthly instructional newsletters from media, literacy, and technology
School-to-school sharing at instructional meetings
iCal scheduling
Communication
Wikis
Blogs
Discussion Boards
Class Pages
Group Pages
Parent Alerts
Calendar
Surveys
Lesson Planner
Communication
Share
Leadership
“Leadership is the professional work of everyone in the school.”
“Everyone has the right, responsibility, and ability to be a leader.”
“How we define leadership influences how people will participate.”
Building leadership capacity is a necessary component of sustained school improvement.
Linda Lambert
What is my
leadership
role within a
1:1 initiative?
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR
SCHOOL CURRICULUM
CLASSROOM TEACHER
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR
DISTRICT
TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR
DISTRICT CURRICULUM/INSTRUCTION
CHALLENGES•Convincing teachers to share instructional leadership with students
•Coaching students to become active in and responsible for their own learning
•Providing quality staff development and planning time
•Supporting teachers with a sensitivity to comfort level and experience
•Providing benchmarks and guidelines
EVALUATE•“Inspect what you expect”
•Engage in on-going collaborative evaluations of all initiatives
•Refine plans continuously over time
PFM/ 08-14-05
Revised 08-10-06
Assistant
Superintendent
Instruction
Board of
Education and
Superintendent
Administrators
Instructional
Team
Advisory
Council
Leadership
Team Committees
Individual
Teachers
and/or Teams
Students
Parents
Parent
Advisory
Council
Greene County Schools
The Learning Community
Communication in A Culture of Change
Community
Federal and State
Leadership
Collaboration Model
Nurture the Learning
Community•Engage all participants in active inquiry
•Make administrators, teachers, students, and parents active participants in the learning process
•Encourage innovation
•Share and celebrate successes
The goal is not to innovate the most
It is not to have the best ideas
Appreciate the implementation dip
Redefine resistance
Reculturing is the name of the game
Never a checklist, always complexity
Michael Fullan
The Process of Change
Systemic change is a multi-year process
and keeps you engaged
in continuous inquiry for improvement.
- Abel Real, Graduate,Greene Central High School
“Technologyhelped
me to create, learn, explain,
document, and analyze the different
aspects of my life.”
Congressional Testimony
There is a Siletz Indian proverb that captures why so many of us love teaching -
One who learns from one who is learning drinks from a
running stream.
We read and write and stay current on best practices so that our students can “drink
from a running stream.”