QUALITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: AISI 5
MAY 2012 PLANNING
While you are waiting… Go to the following site:
http://bit.ly/cesdaisi5
Enter your school data
Before we begin…
Turn and Talk with your table group What do you hope to get
from us today?
What do you hope your team gets accomplished today?
Our Day:
1. Understand provincial AISI requirements
2. Collaborate
3. Determine measures
4. Complete school plan
NUTS AND BOLTS: THE DETAILS FROM THE PROVINCEQLE~AISI 5
Priorities for Cycle 5
1. RESEARCH CAPACITY/LEADERSHIP
Site-based research taken to the next level
Examine current theories of teaching and learning
Read and evaluate published findings
Priorities for Cycle 5
Analyze findings Incorporate findings into
practice 10% minimum
expenditure {district} Annual Progress report vs
APAR
RESEARCH CAPACITY/LEADERSHIP
Priorities for Cycle 5
2. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
All projects will be required to demonstrate active and meaningful engagement of key stakeholders:
Administrators Teachers Students Parents Elected officials Businesses,
organizations and institutions
Community Engagement Rubric – on AISI 5 wiki
Priorities for Cycle 5
3. Collaborative Cross-School Authority Projects
Additional funding available for 2 or more school authorities to submit one collaborative project
Zone 4 collaboration ~ Adolescent Literacy (grades 7, 8, 9)
WHAT IS IMPORTANT FOR CESD?
AISI 5 AISI 5 Projects will focus
on all or some of the following: Student engagement Student learning Student performance
Clarity - Special EducationMoving from Moving to
• Student Services takes on responsibility of Special Education
• Student Services aligns with other CO services to support EVERY student – focus on Mission/Vision/QLE
• Special Education Liaisons – coordinate specialized services, support work of IPPs, work with individual students, Level B assessments
• Learning Support teacher– assist teachers with IEPTs, paperwork, coordination of services and when needed, Level B assessments
• Learning Support Team – provide and facilitate instructional coaching, co-teaching and/or co- planning• Coordinate/facilitate professional development
as part of a team
• Focus on students identified with a special education code – common practice to pull out and provide separate specialized programs
• Support for ALL students in classrooms – main focus on supporting/working in the classroom environment with targeted and/or specialized support when needed
Clarity around AISIMoving From Moving To
• AISI as a separate Learning Services initiative
• QLE drives district and school focus
• AISI leaders coordinate/facilitate professional development
Learning Support Teams:• Provide and facilitate instructional
coaching, co-teaching and/or co-planning• Coordinate/facilitate professional
development as part of a team
• AISI leaders engage in research around areas of focus
• Teams engage and apply research in classrooms
• Focus on students • Deliberate focus on ALL students
• AISI individual school improvement
• CESD community improvement
Learning Support Team:
CESD overarching question: To what extent and in what ways will our CESD Quality Learning Environment framework improve student learning?
Elevator Speech…What is your strategy?
1. How will you address Key Outcomes (QLE) with this strategy?
2. How will you address Balanced Assessment (QLE) with this strategy?
3. How will you address Instructional Strategies (QLE) with this strategy?
4. How will you address Personalization (QLE) with this strategy?
Meet and Greet: Large Group4 Questions Instructions will be on the screen When lights are turned off:
Thank your partner Find a new partner Read NEW question on PowerPoint
Question 1: Find someone who was not at your table
Introduce yourself What school are you from? What you are you going to be teaching?
What is your strategy? How will you address Key Outcomes (QLE)
with this strategy?
Switch partners
Question 2: New Partner Introduce yourself
What school are you from? What you are you going to be teaching?
What is your strategy? How will you address Balanced Assessment
(QLE) with this strategy?
Switch partners
Question 3: New Partner Introduce yourself
What school are you from? What you are you going to be teaching?
• What is your strategy?• How will you address Purposeful
Instructional Strategies (QLE) with this strategy?
Switch partners
Question 4: New Partner Introduce yourself
What school are you from? What you are you going to be teaching?
• What is your strategy?• How will you address
Personalization (QLE) with this strategy?
Return to your table ~ What did you learn?
BREAK
Return to your
table in 15 min.
Measures
Measures: 2012-2015 Meaningful to your school Appropriate to the strategy Focused on student learning and progress Part of your 3 year plan…not an add-on
Thinking about your measures… Purposeful Sampling: Tracking a group of students
e.g. grade 6 students year 1; same group of students now in grade 7 – year 2; same group of students now in grade 8 – year 3
Random Sampling (e.g. 30 students across grades 10-12)
All Students
School Measure How will you regularly
measure student progress based on the strategy you have chosen?
Examples:• running records; • reading
comprehension assessment;
• student focus groups;
• observation checklist;
• classroom feedback loop;
etc.
School Measure
15 minutes: Discuss– what are you
considering?
Record each type of measure on an individual post it note
Post your thoughts:
YOUR PLANNING Template
Provide as much detail as possible Talk with other schools Project plan reviewed by one of us Follow up visit in June to review status of your plan Plans submitted to Lorraine Ewashen by June 15th
Talk with one of us before you leave today…