Transcript JPS Holistic Accountability

Jackson Public School District
Holistic Accountability
in Action
JPS Contract with Our Community
The Seven Goals For Greatness
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Improve Academic Performance for All Students
Improve State and Federal Standing of Each School
Ensure Safe and Healthy Schools
Increase Average Daily Attendance
Attract and Retain High Quality Teachers and Staff
Improve Parental and Community Involvement
Implement and Maintain Strategic Planning
Goal #1: Achievement
• Improve Academic Achievement for all
Students
– Implemented Holistic Accountability as an
ongoing process to monitor student achievement
– Established Performance Bold Targets for each
and every school
– Developed District Wide Instructional Model
(communicated in content area/assessment roadmaps)
– Implemented Aligned, Sequential Curriculum
– Increased Consistency of Instruction District-Wide
– More than Doubled Enrollment in College Prep
Classes
– Provided full time literacy, mathematics and
exceptional education coaches with on-going
professional support
Goal #2: School Performance
• Improve State and Federal Standing of
Each School
– Implemented intervention plans in struggling
schools
– Use data analysis to improve instruction
– Actively monitor school spending
– Allocate district resources so that “money
follows need…”
The Key to Effective Instruction:
TO HARNESS
The power of
what we know
from research,
with
with the
wisdom of
what we learn
from practice.
The Purpose and Impact of Holistic Accountability
in JPS
Holistic Accountability systems increase the quality of
teaching and learning for each and every student by:
Maintaining a laser like focus on student learning, the
actions that caused it and the changes needed to improve it.
Setting high expectations that motivate adults and
students
Creating a high degree of clarity
Ensuring all levels of public education systems are
accountable
Providing educators with integrated standards,
curriculum, assessment data and the support/training
needed
Holistic Accountability
makes the work real
and gets results
through courageous
conversation and
action.
The Data Inquiry Process
Steps to Insure
Academic Prosperity
for all JPS Students
Step One
Summative
Data
Review of MCT/SATP data and other
data sources (9-week tests) at
grade/student level to identify student
level and teacher level strengths &
weaknesses
(By 1st week of August & at conclusion of each 9
weeks)
Step Two
Teachers identify specific
strategies to remediate and
advance students. Track
through lesson plans, classroom
observations, learning walks
Intensive/strategic
students pulled out
for specific
programs
(Language!, Read
180, Tutorial
Services)
Step Three
Formative
Data
Ongoing
Progress
Monitoring
Common Weekly Assessments
designed against curricula objectives
– SPMS and/or Teacher constructed
at elementary level ;
Middle &High Schools: design
content – area common assessments
by course to be administered every
two weeks.
Step Four
Required Administrative/Coaches/Team Leader Meeting
to discuss results of weekly assessments using the
following questions:
1. Using the available MCT & SATP data, the pacing
guide, and 9 weeks testing blue prints, how are teachers
selecting the appropriate teaching strategies and what is
the teacher’s reference point for selecting the
strategy?
Step Four continued
Required Administrative/Coaches/Team Leader Meeting
to discuss results of weekly assessments using the
following questions:
2. How does the teacher know that a particular strategy
worked?
3.
How will teachers’ assessment results be used at the
classroom level?
Step Four continued
Required Administrative/Coaches/Team Leader Meeting
to discuss results of weekly assessments using the
following questions:
4. Are these results being used to determine:
-which teachers are getting better results; which
strategies are they using?
-what work is being given?
-which students need more?
-what is the responsibility for teachers to learn from one
another?
-which students need intervention?
Step Four, continued
Required Administrative/Coaches/Team Leader Meeting
to discuss results of weekly assessments using the
following questions:
5. What supports are in place for students? How do
schools make sure that students get access to the
supports?
Step Five
Required Grade-Level Data Team Meetings to study
results and plan next week’s instruction & interventions
using Data Inquiry Implementation Form
Step Six
MONITORING
A Relentless Focus on
Teaching and Learning
JPS is driving toward Results for All
From
To
Varying degrees of
academic rigor across
schools and classrooms
District-wide standards of
instruction adopted by
all JPS teachers
Inconsistent adult
accountability for
student performance
Tight system of
accountability
monitoring student and
school performance
Inconsistent allocation of
teaching & learning
resources
Strategic use of resources
to support district
priorities
Student outcomes that
vary widely by school,
grade level, and student
population
Every student by name
meets or exceeds
academic standards
A Two-fold Mission for our Office of
Instruction:
Curriculum/
Assessment
design
(high demand)
• Develop a core curriculum/assessments
in literacy, mathematics, science, and
social studies
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Professional
support
Publish and provide on going curriculum support (Curriculum
CDs)
Provide high leverage objectives for each content area and
homework packets to schools to support teaching and learning
Quality supporting materials/anchor writing items
Common assessments for tracking progress and informing
practice
• Increase the capacity of teachers &
administrators through administrative monitoring
(Asst. Supts/Executive Directors) and
professional development
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District-wide trainings supporting the curriculum
School-site capacity-building through the effective use of
literacy, math and exceptional education coaches
Targeted support for schools that are struggling or in
transition (Observation Support Teams/ Demonstration
Schools)
Holistic Accountability Creates the Conditions
in Which
Quality Teaching Thrives in JPS by Keeping
Everyone Focused on being Resourceful in the Use of Time,
Staff, Technology, and Resources.
Examples
JPS Teacher and Administrator Portals for E-filing and storage purposes
Hiring of 30 Academic Tutors across the district to:
Plan a program of study that will meet the needs, interests, and abilities of the assigned students
Assist in creating a classroom environment conducive and appropriate to the maturity and
interests of the students
Cooperate with the classroom teacher in guiding the students’ learning process toward the
achievement of curriculum goals, in establishing clear objectives, and in communicating these
objectives to students
Provide ongoing assessment and progress reports for assigned students.
Hiring of an Assistant Principal for Curriculum and Instruction at
every High School
Demand +
Support
=
Results!
IT’S ABOUT THEM…