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