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Good Morning

After you have located your team’s assigned table, please review the Outstanding Practices from other schools.

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High Schools That Work

Prioritizing and Planning Session Creating an Initial Plan

Objectives for the Morning

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To create a redelivery plan to engage ALL staff members in the investigation of HSTW Key Practices to impact student achievement and high school completion rates.

To create a prioritized action plan that will assist teachers and leaders to provide an enhanced focus to the current Educational Plan for Student Success

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HSTW Key Practices

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Culture of Continuous Improvement

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Program of Study Career/Technical Studies

Work-based Learning

High Expectations

Academic Studies

Students Actively Engaged

Teachers Working Together

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Guidance Extra Help

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School Teams that “Redeliver” the Workshop: Suggestions for Building Faculty Support Hold an Orientation:

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Admit Slip/Enhanced HSTW Brochure SREB orientation PowerPoint

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Create cross-curricular teams Each team take one section of planner, brainstorm, share-out Submit results of brainstorming to school improvement team

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Establish Need for Change:

Engaging faculty in gap analysis

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Opportunity Gap

Who is enrolled in which courses?

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Majority/minority Free/reduced lunch Gender Expectations Gap

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Variances in expectations across courses Variances in literacy across the curriculum

Survey students/teachers Achievement Gap

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Course levels enrolled in by ACT (College/non-College core) Expectations Grade level analysis (grade 9)

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Focus Teams: Develop Implementation Steps for Actions

Assign a major action to one or more of the focus teams

Draft a charge to the team regarding implementation of this action in year 1

Have teams develop an implementation plan for the action, present it to the school improvement team and eventually to the entire faculty

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When year 1 is completed, start work on year 2 Ask teams to develop benchmarks and monitor plan for implementation

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How will you get others involved?

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Use page 37 to answer the following questions: 1.

How will you introduce the information and recommended actions developed in this workshop to all district and teacher leaders?

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How will you form focus teams (or other interdisciplinary teams) and make them active?

How will you identify an Effort Based Advocate in your school? (See page 39 for the definition.) How will you empower focus teams to lead and take action?

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Adding to Your Presentation Board

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School Name 3 4 5 Top 5 Outstanding Practices 1 2 Will be completed next Redelivery Plan Team Structure

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Essential Table Questions…

How can we focus our actions to impact student achievement and high school completion rates?

How can we become the catalyst for change?

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Student Performance on the 2006 HSTW Assessment NEW MEXICO SITES

Reading 29 Mathematics 45 36 44 30 5 10 1

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Science 56 27 14 3 Below Basic Basic Proficient Advanced Bar 5

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2006 New Mexico Core Data

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Average Reading Average Mathematics Average Science Fully Completed —

11%

(completed all three subjects) 295 320 Partially Completed — 46% (completed 1 or 2 of the subjects) Did Not Complete – 43% 278 259 306 281 HSTW Goal 279 297 Source: 2006 HSTW Assessment and Student Survey – Based on students who completed the student survey and all three subject tests.

322 296 274 299

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Statewide Reading Proficiency All Groups

100 80 60 40 20 0 3

Reading: % of Students At or Above Proficient

4 5 6

Grade

7 8 9 11 2005 2006 2007

Statewide Math Proficiency All Groups Math: % of Students At or Above Proficient

100 80 60 40 20 0 3 4 5 6

Grade

7 8 9 11 2005 2006 2007

Statewide Science Proficiency All Groups

100 80 60 40 20 0

Science: % of Students At or Above Proficient

3 4 5 6

Grade

7 8 9 2005 2006 2007

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2007 New Mexico State ACT Results 62% Percent College Ready in English Percent College Ready in Math Percent College Ready in Social Science Percent College Ready in Science Percent College Ready in All 4 Areas State/National Composite Scores 32 48 22 16 20.2/21.2

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Step 1: Prioritizing Actions

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Use Page 33 as a brainstorming page as you review your action posters

Keep in mind that you will need to support the following:

Structural

Instructional

Support

Leadership Development

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Step 2: Identifying Year 1 Actions

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Use page 34 to outline the actions that you will implement over the next school year to impact student achievement and high school completion rates Continue onto page 35 to sketch a plan for year two and three You will add this action plan to the center section of your project board

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Adding to Your Presentation Board

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School Name 3 4 5 Top 5 Outstanding Practices 1 2 Action Plan for: Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Action/Who/When Redelivery Plan Team Structure

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Learning from Each Other

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Set up your presentation board Rotate through your row to gather information about what other schools are doing

Take a note pad to jot down key actions from other schools (to validate what you are doing and to use as future suggestions)

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Making the Connection

Dr. Steve Broome

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Ticket Out the Door

Rank Number Topic Literacy Numeracy Guidance and Advisement Grading Practices to Support High Rigor and Expectations Creating a High Performance Learning Culture Using Data Redesigning the Ninth Grade Experience Transitions from High School to Postsecondary Schools and Work Developing Programs of Study Developing an Effort-Based Learning Culture

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REMEMBER

All schools want to improve but few want to change. The fact remains that to improve, one

MUST

change.

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Next Steps

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KEEP MOVING!!!!!!!

REMEMBER – You own the plan!

Schools that fail to make progress:

Keep moving after this workshop – use summer planning time to engage additional faculty members in the discussion

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