Transcript Creating A High-Performance Learning Culture

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Session A
Welcome!
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 Complete the S.W.O.T.
with someone from
another school
 Spend a few moments
reviewing the agenda
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Getting All Subgroups to
Make AYP for NCLB: A Team,
Train the Trainer Approach
February 21 and 22, 2008
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Welcome!
Rules of Operation
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Group Roles
Side-bar
Conversations
Cell Phones
Diving, Not Surfing
Substantive
Conversations
Stephen R. Covey in The Seven
Habits of Highly Effective People
reminds us,
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 "To begin with the end in mind means to
start with a clear understanding of your
destination.
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 It means to know where you're going so that
you better understand where you are now so
that the steps you take are always in the
right direction."
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To that End:
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Over the next two days we will:
 Identify practices and explore many tools to
provide access to the general education
curriculum for SWD
 Define strengths and areas for improvement
related to moving the SWD toward higher
achievement
• Develop high expectations for all learners
• Gain understanding of Universal Design for
learning
• Review formats for planning for instruction
• Identify strategies and tools to assist special ed.
teachers in their instruction
 Incorporate information gained through this
strand into district planning
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A happy marriage
COMPLIANCE and
CURRICULUM
LINKS to information for
Ohio expectations for
special education:
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 Statewide Special Education Leadership
Meeting 1/16 & 1/17
http://www.ode.state.oh.us
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keyword search special education leadership
 State Performance Plan
20 Indicators measured and reported to the federal OSEP
 Regulations/Rules update
 7/1/08 implementation dates
 New Testing/Rules book posted 1/18/08
 Letters of Determinations sent to districts
Ohio recognizes
“Schools of Promise”
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Schools of Promise reflect successful practices:
 Provide leadership that results in continuous
improvement of instruction
 Create a culture where each individual feels
valued.
 Design instruction to ensure every student’s
success
 Deliver rigorous instruction aligned to the
State’s academic content standards; and
 Engage parents and the community to support
student success
A Guide for School Leaders
Ohio Department of Education
Inclusion:
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 Table talk 2 minutes
 Define inclusion
 How does the ideas presented in your
prereading article by Rick DuFour and
others fit into the picture of “an
inclusive school”
Characteristics of Inclusive
Schools
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Diversity is valued and celebrated
Staff have roles that are more collaborative
Natural proportions
Flexible groupings, authentic and meaningful
learning experiences and developmentally
appropriate curricula for all students
Array of student supports
Active parent/community involvement
Strong and active instructional leaders
A unified belief that
 ALL CHILDREN CAN LEARN AND SUCCEED
Inclusion
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Inclusive Education is a continuous
problem solving process, therefore,
there is no RIGHT staffing pattern or
class composition
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More students with disabilities in regular
education more of the time and in more
meaningful activities (ODE)
In order to IMPROVE the overall
performance of our SWD, there must be a
philosophical CHANGE
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How will this change occur:
areas to address for moving
toward a more inclusive school:
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Common belief system
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Alignment to Standards
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Effective Teaching Methods for ALL
learners
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Involvement of all interested parties in
sharing ideas and concerns
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WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
ACTIVITY
Identify along the continuum
where you feel your school is
related to each of these items.
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 Talk at your table:
 In terms of achievement of your SWD
what matters most? WHY?
 Share ideas
Developing common
Beliefs--HUGE
BUMP!
Develop a TRUE Commitment to ALL children
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High quality instruction for every child
OUR children
not Mine/Your’s
 Simultaneously build vision while knocking down the
walls of separation
 All children are capable of learning
 All children have a right to an education with their
peers in their neighborhood school
 The district is responsible to address the unique
needs of all children in the school
WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY?
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The childs
The parent
The administration
The general ed. teachers
The special ed. teachers
 ALL of OURS!
Laying the Foundation of high
expectations for ALL students
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I. Clear Alignment to Standards
II. Communication of Expectations
to Everyone--Students and
Parents
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III.Quality of Expected Work
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IV.Clear Grading Practices and
Communication of Progress
V. Effective Teaching Methods for
ALL learners
VI.Intervention and Opportunities
for Extra Help
High Expectations:
Where Are We and Where
Would We Like to Be?
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 Read and complete a
quick review of your
level of implementation
of each of the six areas
of high expectations.
 Answer the questions on
page 5-8.
THE GOAL:
Decrease the achievement
gap for our SWD
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 We are obligated by law to provide
Access to the General Education
Curriculum.
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 To successfully close the achievement
gap you have to start the process
before any instruction happens
 Remember Start with the end in mind!
Providing Access,
participation and progress
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 Within the general education
curriculum hinges on:
How we understand the curriculum or
more precisely, the “conception, design,
and implementation of the general
curriculum and the assumptions that
underlie it”
Hitchcock, Meyer, Rose and Jackson,
2005 Teaching Exceptional Children,
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Universal Design for
Learning (an overview)
Please refer to the UDL
powerpoint handouts
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Session B
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Planning for Instruction
A team approach
A daunting Task-Planning for instruction
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Kame’enui,, E.J., & Simmons, D.C. (1999). ˆToward successful inclusion of students with disabilities:
architecture of instruction. Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional Children.
Demonstrate Multiple means of representation,
engagement, and expression through:
 Big Ideas
 Conspicuous Strategies
 Mediated Scaffolding
 Strategic Integration
 respectful tasks, flexible grouping, ongoing
assessment and judgment.
 Differentiation of content, process, product using
students’ readiness, interests, and learning
profiles
 Judicious Review
 Primed Background Knowledge
Co-Planning Using BASE
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 Big Ideas
 Analyze the difficulties
 Strategies
 Evaluation
Hawbaker, B., Balong, M Buckwalter, S., & Bock, S. (2001). Building a
strong base of support for all students through co planning.
TEACHING Exceptional Children, 33(4), 24-30.
BASE article online:
http://journals.cec.sped.org/EC/Archive_Articles/VOL.33N
O.4MARAPR2001_TEC_Article4.pdf
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UDL planning tool
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 Curriculum Unit Methods and Materials
 Challenges for specific students
 Instructional Solutions to overcome
barriers to learning
Critical Questions in Planning
from OSSA planning conference
What do I want students to
know and be able to do?
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How do I know what they know
now?
At what level?
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What standards? Which
students? How to get
there?
How do we differentiate our
lessons?
How will we be sure ALL
students will know it? How will
we know?
Did we set clear expectations?
Resources? Are they
adequate?
How to consider elaboration
for those students who have
mastered the standards
benchmarks & indicators?
What do we do when they
don’t know it?
Is the information necessary?
What are students’ needs for
learning?
How do I get students engaged?
Team time,
Review and practice
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 Quietly review the sample lessons formats
Pyramid, BASE, HSTW (9,10) and UDL
 Identify common traits
 How would you/ your staff have to change
practices to incorporate more indepth
planning processes.
 What needs to be in place or developed to
utilize these planning processes?
 Share 1 idea from your table
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Tools and Strategies
A click away;
but where do I start?
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 Review of items provided
 Lesson plans in manilla folder
• IMS website
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 HSTW folder and CD
 Online accessible tools listing
 Learning Toolbox book
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 On your Table for your group to use:
• 3 computers all having Internet access
• One of the computers will be for the team and is
hooked to the projector
Tools and strategies to help
meet needs of kids
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 Learning Toolbox
 Quick mnemonic reference for 8 areas
 Printed on the tables for reference only:
link to get access is on the website
listing and your CD.
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Organization
Test taking
Study skills
Note taking
Reading
Writing
Math
Advanced thinking
Ohio sources of lessons
 http://ims.ode.state.oh.us/ode/ims/
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 http://www.ohiorc.org/default.aspx
 http://www.ossrc.org/ode_focus.php
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 http://www.infohio.org/Educator/edu
cator3.html
 Another Tool:
 UDL Solutions and Accessible Technology
Handout in folder:
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 Review the lesson plans provided in the
manilla envelope
 Choose one lesson/unit to work with
 Keep in mind the planning needs to
address the needs of various abilities
 disabilities (physical, cognitive,
social emotional, etc)
 ALL KIDS!!!!
 As a team choose one lesson that your
group will revise utilizing the UDL
planning guide (pg. 21-23)
 Locate useful tools/strategies to
assist with the student instruction,
assessment and meeting the needs
of all our students in order to access
the general ed. curriculum
 Teams will present Friday am their
redesigned lesson plan
What Are Your Next Steps?
Margaret Wheatley wrote in
Leadership and New Science (1994)
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“I no longer believe that
school organizations can be
changed by imposing a model
developed elsewhere. So
little transfers to, or even
inspires, those trying to work
at change in their own
organizations. . . .
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There are no recipes or formulae,
no checklists or advice that
describe “reality” There is only
what we create through our
engagement with others and with
events. Nothing really transfers;
everything is always new and
different and unique to each of
us.
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Team De-Briefing