Know Your Students Know About Instruction

1
Know Your Students Know About Instruction

• 2008-2009 Kickoff

2

• Catawba County Schools will educate and
  graduate lifelong learners equipped to be caring,
  responsible, and productive citizens.

3
A Vision for Catawba County Schools The
premier system in North Carolina

• We will become the premier educational system in
  North Carolina.
• We will become the system of choice for parents,
  teachers, students and community members, a
  school system where parents will seek to send
  their children.
• We will build on past success and strive to be a
  system that encourages innovation, creativity and
  student success.

4
Core Values

• Safe and Caring Schools-Safe, caring learning
  environments-Climates and instruction that
  enhance character
• High Standards for All-All students at or above
  grade level-No discernible differences among
  student groups-Variety of instructional methods
  and rigorous coursework

• Continuous Improvement-Attention to common
  voices of teachers, students and community
• -Improvement in all schools and departments
• -Open communications
• -Data-Driven Decision Making
• Human Resources Development-Recruitment and
  selection of
• high-quality personnel-Development of all
  personnel-Retention of personnel

5
2007-2008 Review

• Plenty to Celebrate

6
CCS District Accolades2007-08 Highlights

• CCS received Energy Excellence Award - 3 mil. in
  avoided utility costs in first three years of
  Energy program
• Three Literacy Coaches awarded to CCS by state
• Awarded 1.368 million Carol M. White Physical
  Education Program Grant from US Dept. of
  Education (3 years)

7
CCS District Accolades2007-08 Highlights

• Scholars Academy 26 CCS students in 1st year!
• Introduced Shining Stars Recognition Program
• Maiden Highs Dexter Shelton Speaks to NC
  Legislative Committee on behalf of NCVPS
• Cross Country Track introduced in middle
• schools
• Watch D.O.G.s established at Mt. View and Lyle
  Creek

8
CCS District Accolades2007-08 Highlights

• Facilities
• Opened Catawba Elementary
• Catawba Rosenwald Renovated Reopened
• Newcomers Center Relocated
• Broke ground for Snow Creek Elementary- a Green
  School

9
School Accolades2007-08 Highlights

• Claremont Elementary NAC named NC Nutritional
  Advisory Council of Year
• NC NAC Art Contest Winner Keyona Hicks, St.
  Stephens Elementary
• State Science Fair winners Alexis Zarro, Balls
  Creek and Jonathan Bell, Maiden Middle
• NC DAR winner Anna Taylor, Arndt Middle School
• CCS TAs one of Nine Who Care groups recognized
  by WSOC TV
• Rock Barn Tournament Ticket Art Contest Winner
  Taylor Hicks, Lyle Creek Elementary

10
School Accolades2007-08 Highlights
Eidson Energy Conservation Awards Banoak
Elementary School Maiden Middle School Bunker
Hill High School
11
Staff Accolades2007-08 Highlights
Tammy Johnson Maiden Middle School SRO National
SRO of the Year Jamie Bumgarner Startown
Elementary NC Elementary Counselor of the
Year CCS Elementary Counselor of the Year Sharon
Fox White EC Director Western Region EC
Director of the Year CCS Administrator of the
Year
12

• Donna Rudisill - Bunkcr Hill Feeder Area
• NC Instructional Technology Educator of the Year
• Karen Harris - Maiden Middle School
• NC School Library Media Coordinator of the Year
• Alice Rullman Claremont Elementary
• June Lyday Orton Award/ NC Branch/National
  Dyslexia Association
• Julie Young Tuttle Elementary
• Wachovia Regional Outstanding Elementary Educator

13

• Diana Dagenhart Catawba Elementary
• NC Outstanding Elementary Math Teacher for CCS
• Thea Sinclair - St. Stephens High
• NC Nominee Presidential Award for Excellence
• in Mathematics and Science
• Chris Gibbs Claremont Elementary
• Catawba County Schools Principal of the Year
• Melinda Hamilton River Bend Middle
• Catawba County Schools Teacher of the Year

14

• Carolyn Zimmerman Startown Elementary
• CCS EC Teacher of Excellence
• Linda Barnett
• CCS Secondary Counselor of the Year
• Terri Evans- Mountain View Elementary
• CCS Teacher Assistant of the Year
• Trish Scronce Maintenance Department
• CCS Educational Office Professional of the Year

15
MaidenFeeder District 2007-08

• Maiden Elementary
• Startown
• Tuttle Elementary
• Maiden Middle
• Maiden High

16
Grades 3-8
17
High School Exit Standard Courses
18
Maiden Feeder District Performance

• 3 of 5 schools made AYP
• 4 of 5 schools made Expected Growth
• 3 of 5 schools made High Growth
• High School Graduation Cohort Rate of 77.3
• 2 Schools of Distinction
• 2 Schools of Progress

19
Preliminary Results for Catawba County
Schools2007-2008

• 12 out of 27 (44.4) Catawba County Schools made
  AYP as measured thus far
• CCS met 53 out of 61 (86.9) LEA targets thus far
• Overall, CCS met 356 out of 382 (93.2) possible
  targets thus far
• Currently, all but six schools, K-12, have made
  expected growth
• Currently, sixteen schools have been identified
  as having made high growth

20
CCS Performance 3-8

• 2007 2008
• 89.2 Unavailable Reading
• 74.1 77.1 Math
• 55.2 68.7 Writing
• 81.7 Unavailable Overall
• Performance

21
Writing Performance 2008
22
CCS Performance in Exit Standard Courses

• 2007 2008
• Algebra I 72.1 77.7
• Biology 75.7 73.4
• Civics 73.7 70.5
• English I 78.8 76.3
• US History 67.5 70.7

23
Preliminary Graduation Cohort Rate Calculation
for Catawba County Schools 81.2
1114 graduates 13 million in scholarships
24
AYP vs ABC

• This is the beginning of the real disconnect
  between federal AYP and state ABC models.
• Explaining this to parents will be a challenge.
• I am more worried about growth (ABCs) than AYP.

25
Technology

• New desktop and laptop purchases totaled 1076
  computersSharePoint server installed and will
  become new web portalApple XServe provides
  podcasting, blogging, and wiki forums
• Inspiration and Kidspiration purchased and
  training conducted for all elementary schools
• All school media centers converted to Destiny
  online library catalog
• Comprehensive file storage established for high
  school graduation projects
• Email server upgraded and an email archive was
  installed
• All school servers now back-up to storage at the
  Central Office

26
Know Your Students
27
The Millennials or The Net Generation
27
28
(No Transcript)
29
Who we are dealing with?

• Video

30
The here and now

• Our kindergarten class was born in 2003.
• Our graduating class was born in 1991.

31
The Echo Boom/Millennials

• The Millennials are almost as large as the baby
  boom-some say larger - depending on how you
  measure them (approx. 81M).
• The Millennials are the children born between
  1982 and 2002 (peaked in 1990), a cohort called
  by various names

Echo Boom
Generation Y
Net Generation
Millennials
32
Millennials

• This generation is civic-minded, much like the
  previous GI Generation.
• They are collectively optimistic, long-term
  planners, high achievers with lower rates of
  violent crime, teen pregnancy, smoking and
  alcohol use than ever before.
• This generation believes they have the potential
  to be great, and they probably do. We are looking
  to them to provide us with a new definition of
  citizenship.

33
The Millennial Childhood

• The most monumental financial boom in history
• Steady income growth through the 1990s
• Still great disparity between races
• Saw their parents lose all their stocks and
  mutual funds (college funds) during the early
  2000s

34
Demographic Trends

• The Baby Boomers chose to become older parents in
  the 1980s while Gen X moms reverted to the
  earlier birth-age norm, which meant that two
  generations were having babies.
• In 1989, 29 percent of the 4.4 million live
  births were to women aged 30 and older.
• Millennials have older, largely Baby Boomer
  parents Average age of mothers at birth at an
  all time high of 27 in 1997.

35
Demographic Trends, continued

• Smaller families Only child families will
  comprise about 10 of the population.
• More parental education 1 in 4 has at least one
  parent with a college degree.
• Kids born in the late 90s are the first in
  American history whose mothers are better
  educated than their fathers by a small margin.

36
Demographic Trends Changing Diversity

• Increase in Latino immigration - Latino women
  tend to have a higher fertility rate than
  non-Latino women.
• Nearly 35 of Millennials are nonwhite or Latino.
• Twenty percent of this generation has at least
  one parent who is an immigrant.
• Millennials have become the most racially and
  ethnically diverse generation in US History.

37
Safety Issues

• The Safest Generation
• This generation was buckled up in car seats, wore
  bike helmets,
  donned elbow and knee pads when skating, and were
  the inspiration for Baby on Board signs.
• The Well-Being of U.S. Teens
• Mortality Rate for US teens aged 1519 declined
  from 1960 to 1997.
• -Teens are having fewer accidents than Boomers.

38
Major Influencing Factors

• Their parents
• The self-esteem movement
• The customer service movement
• Gaming and technology
• Casual communication

39
Parenting Millennials

• This generation is being parented by
  well-educated, over-involved adults who
  participate in deliberate parenting. They have
  outcomes in mind.
• Boomers were the first generation to be thrown
  out into an unsafe
  world as adolescents.
• The 60s and 70s were very scary and many of us
  felt unprepared for it.
• We were naïve and didnt have enough tools in our
  tool box to deal with it.

40
Baby Boomers as Parents

• Boomers rebelled against the parenting
• practices of their parents.
• Strict discipline was the order of the day for
  boomers.
• They made conscious decisions not to
• say because I told you so or because Im the
  
• parent and youre the child.
• Boomers became more friendly with
• their children.
• They wanted to have open lines of communication
• and a relationship with them.

41
Baby Boomers as Parents

• They explained things to their children (actions,
  consequences, options, etc.) they wanted them
  to learn to make informed decisions.
• They allowed their children to have input into
  family decisions, educational options and
  discipline issues.
• We told them just because it is on
  television doesnt mean its
  true or You cant
  believe everything
  you read.
• We wanted them to question
  authority.
  

42
The Result

• Millennials have become a
  master set of negotiators who
  are capable of rational
  thought and decision-making
  skills at young ages.
• They will negotiate with anyone including their
  parents, teachers and school administrators.
• Some call this arguing.

43
One Teachers View

• More and more students challenge me and the
  material. They either see it as opinion, and
  nothing else, or they see it as propaganda.

44

Contrasting Learning Styles

• Traditional
• Producer mentality
• Very limited computer access
• Tolerant of non-engaging pedagogical techniques

• Millennial
• Consumer mentality
• Ubiquitous computer access
• Intolerant of non-engaging pedagogical techniques

McGuire and Williams, 2002. The Millennial
Learner Challenges and Opportunities. To
Improve the Academy. Vol. 20 185-1996.
45
Information Mindset

• Frand (2000) suggests that a distinctive
  information-age mindset is common among
  students growing up in the globally connected,
  service- and information-intense, digitally based
  culture.
• He characterizes this mindset in terms of broad
  observations of change, ways of doing things,
  and subliminal needs.

Frand, Jason. 2000. The Information-Age
Mindset Changes in Students and Implications
for Higher Education. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 35,
no. 5 15-24.
46
broad observations of change

• Computers Arent Technology
• Computers are part of the infrastructure of the
  public realm technology is software and devices
  for personal enhancement.
• Internet is better than TV
• Internet is interactive and customizable.
• Reality No Longer Real
• Digital communications and virtual
  representations can be as consequential and
  meaningful as personal interactions and physical
  realities.
• Doing Rather Than Knowing
• The ability to deal with complex and often
  ambiguous information will be more important than
  simply knowing a lot of facts or having an
  accumulation of knowledge.

47
how people do things

• Nintendo over Chess
• Trial and error the predominant mode of reasoning
• Multitasking Way of Life
• No longer a single computer workstation but a
  mobile, integrated set of personal information
  synthesizers
• Typing Rather Than Handwriting
• More need for digital input and graphic forms of
  expression than personal handwriting and
  sketching

48
subliminal needs

• Staying Connected
• Personal devices allow continuous connection
• Zero Tolerance for Delays
• An expectation that it is possible for an
  immediate response
• Consumer/Creator Blurring
• The sampling of information from the Internet and
  its remixing to produce new forms of expression

49
Helicopter Parents

• Helicopter Parent (n) A parent who hovers over
  his or her
  children.
• Or Snowplow Parent (n) Parents who clear the way
  for their children.
• these (echo) boomers are confident,
  achievement-oriented and used to hovering
  "helicopter" parents keeping tabs on their every
  move. (Anthony DeBarros, "New baby boom swamps
  colleges," USA Today, January 2, 2003)

50
Helicopter Parent Goes to College

• A new generation of over-involved
  parents is flooding campus
  orientations, meddling in
  registration and
  interfering with students' dealings
  with professors, administrators and
  roommates, school officials say.
• Some of these hovering parents, whose numbers
  have been rising for several years, are
  unwittingly undermining their children's chances
  of success, campus administrators say. Now,
  universities and colleges are moving rapidly to
  build or expand programs aimed at helping parents
  strike a better balance.

Colleges Ward Off Overinvolved Parents By Sue
Shellenbarger From The Wall Street Journal
Online
51
Baby Boomer Parents have been their Biggest
Cheerleaders

• Millennials expect and need praise.
• Will mistake silence for disapproval.
• Millennials expect feedback.

52
Focus on Self-esteem

• This generation was the center of the
  self-esteem movement.
• 9,068 books were written about
  self-esteem and children during the 80s and
  90s (There were 485 in the 70s.).
• The state of California spent millions studying
  the construct and published a document entitled
  Toward a State of Self-esteem.
• Yet they cant escape the angst of adolescence
  they still feel disconnected, question their
  existence, purpose and the meaning of life. They
  want to feel valued and cared about.

53
Focus on Customer Service

• Expect access (24/7)
• Expect things to work like
  they are supposed to
• If they dont that is your
  problem
• They want what they have paid for
• Everything comes with a toll-free number or web
  address
• Want Gateway Go Back in
  classes

54
Add the Impact of Gaming

• Gaming has impacted children
• The game endings changed based
  on the decisions children made
  (Role Playing Games
  Legend of
  Zelda, Final Fantasy, Chronotrigger)
  impacting locus of control.
• Involves a complex set of decision-
  making skills
• Teaches them to take multiple
  pieces of data and make
  decisions quickly
• Learning more closely resembles Nintendo, a trial
  and error approach to solving problems

55
We navigated our way through
56
They navigated their way through
57
Technology

• This generation has been plugged in since they
  were babies.
• They grew up with educational software and
  computer games.
• They think technology should be free.
• They want and expect
  services 24/7.
• They do not live in an
  85 world.
• They function in an
  international world.

58
Millennials Want to Learn

• With technology
• With each other
• Online
• In their time
• In their place
• Doing things that matter (most important)

Source Achievement and the 21st Century Learner.
59
Technology In School

• Students are increasingly savvy when
  it comes to technology.
• In general, students expect faculty to
  incorporate technology into their teaching and be
  proficient at it.
• At the very least, communication via e-mail,
  access to online resources, PowerPoint
  presentations, Internet activities, discussion
  boards and electronic classrooms are expected.
• Faculty will need to balance the use of
  technology with their own philosophies of
  teaching.

60
Technology Use

• Children under 6 years
• 48 have used a computer
• 27 (4-6 year-olds) use a computer daily
• 39 use a computer several times a week
• 30 have played computer games
• Teens
• 100 use the internet to seek information
• 94 use the internet for school research
• 41 use email and IM to contact teachers and
  schoolmates about school work
• 81 email friends and relatives
• 70 use IM to keep in touch
• 56 prefer the internet to the telephone

61
By age 21..

• It is estimated that the average
• child will have
• Spent 10,000 hours playing video games
• Sent 200,000 emails
• Spent 20,000 hours watching TV
• Spent 10,000 hours on their cell phone
• Spent under 5,000 hours reading
• But these are issues of income. Will a child who
  grows up in a low income household have these
  same experiences?

62
The Information Age Mindset

• Students have never known life without the
  computer. It is an assumed part of life.
• The Internet is a source of research,
  interactivity, and socializing (they prefer it
  over TV).
• Doing is more important than
  knowing.
• There is zero tolerance for
  delays.
• The infrastructure and the
  lecture tradition of school
  may not meet the
  expectations of students
  raised on the Internet and interactive games.

63
Cell Phone Technology

• They all have cell phones and expect to be in
  contact 24/7.
• Not a phone a lifestyle management tool
• Staying connected is essential.
• Communication is a safety issue for parents.
• Communication has become casual for students (IM,
  email and cell phones).

64
What About 1st Generation Students?

• Not all students will be proficient
  first-generation and students from low income or
  working class families may have less experience.
• Their experience with technology has been in
  arcades and minimally in school (poorer
  districts).
• They have not had the exposure to educational
  uses of technology.
• Huge digital divide between the haves and the
  have nots is based on income levels (class).
• Digital divide is appearing in pre-K.

65
College Full-time Enrollments in Millions
First Millennial College Graduates Spring 2004
--- Peak Enrollment 2010. Of the 5.8 million in
college in 2010, 56 will be women.
66
Boys and Their Educational Choices
The Boys Project. http//www.boysproject.net/stati
stics.html
67
First Time Freshman Enrollments by Gender 50
Years (numbers in thousands)
(54.8)
(45.2)
68
Difference in Values

• They have witnessed their baby boomer parents
  coming home from jobs stressed, exhausted,
  falling asleep at the dinner table and they
  dont want that for themselves.
• They are a generation who is interested in a life
  with value and meaning they do not aspire to
  what the boomers aspire to they want
  something different.

69
True Multi-taskers

• Millennials have lived programmed lives and are
  already quite capable of learning several jobs
  simultaneously and performing them admirably.
• Millennials will change careers
  many times.
• Retooling and recycling their
  skills and talents
  will become
  common.
• To retain them, smart employers
  will encourage Millennials to
  try out different careers within the same company.

70
Need for Services

• It is estimated that 3 million Millennials have
  been diagnosed with ADHD and have been medicated
  (80 are boys).
• Within student populations, the number with
  disabilities has jumped from 3 to 9.
• Many have had individual education plans.
• Many need testing services (quiet, separate
  setting).
• Need to self-advocate to teachers.
• Major transition from high school to college.

71
Some are already in the workforce. What are
they saying?

• The technology is too slow.
• Just because Im young doesnt mean I should be
  given low pay and a poor work schedule.
• I expect to be treated fairly.
• We are inheriting a mess in the workforce who
  got us there?
• My dad worked 60 hours a week and then lost his
  pension no way Im doing that.
• I can get my work done in 40 hours sorry if
  you cant.

Charlotte Observer, Sunday, March 5, 2006.
72
How They Will Push Us

• More independence in the workforce
• Consumer-based fairness
• Better technology
• Enhanced professional development
• Get rid of thats the way weve always done it
• Have more life balance
• Re-establish priorities

73
So How Do We Work With Them?

• Because they have grown up in a different world,
  never assume they know certain things like
• You dont want to talk to their mother when they
  are having problems.
• You dont get points for showing up or an A for
  effort.
• The definition of plagiarism and cheating.
• Its not appropriate to call the teacher at home
  after 9pm.
• They cant use IM language in papers.
• When they email you at 3am, youre not sitting on
  the other end waiting to respond to them.

74
Some Major Issues Worth Addressing

• Some of them have been performing below grade
  level all their lives and they may not know it
  (age of social promotion).
• You may be the first strict grader they have
  encountered (will discourage them).
• They are not good planners and will do everything
  late if allowed.
• Many are not very hardy. Will quit or drop out
  because its hard.
• They are very good consumers and will figure out
  a way to stay under the radar.

75
What Should Institutions Do (In the Classroom)?

• Develop policies and practices around appropriate
  communication.
• Give them electronic access to as much as is
  philosophically possible.
• Draw a line on negotiations.
• Give them definitions, boundaries and rules.

76
One Final Word

• In case you're worried about what's going to
  become of the younger generation, it's going to
  grow up and start worrying about the younger
  generation. (Roger Allen)

77
(No Transcript)
78
Know Instruction
79
An Education Challenge

• Always design a thing by considering it in its
  next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room
  in a house, a house in an environment, an
  environment in a city plan."
• -Eliel Saarinen, "Time", July 2, 1956

80
My wife and I went to a kindergarten
parent-teacher conference and were informed that
our budding refrigerator artist, Christopher,
would be receiving a grade of Unsatisfactory in
art. We were shocked. How could any childlet
alone our childreceive a poor grade in art at
such a young age? His teacher informed us that he
had refused to color within the lines, which was
a state requirement for demonstrating
grade-level motor skills. Jordan Ayan, AHA!
81
What is the next larger thing for our schools?

• Preparation of students for the world beyond high
  school
• Transition of students to postsecondary education
• Transition, immediately or ultimately, to the
  world of work
• Transition of students to lifelong learning

82
What do those transitions look like from the
other side?

• 60 of students entering postsecondary education
  need remediation
• 65 of todays workforce is in skilled and
  technical jobs (compared to 15 in 1950)
• Most of the jobs students of today will hold
  havent even been created yet, so the
  responsibility of and capacity for lifelong
  learning is essential.

83
What do Millennials look for in their
instructors? (from survey of students)
Percent Who Agree
84
Learning Centered Schools

• We are in our third year of LCS work.
• The first two years focused on Principals.
• (They needed a head start.)
• This year focuses on Teachers.
• Each school will send teachers to LCS Academy.
• I expect teachers will catch administrators very
  quickly.

85
New Work. New World. New Education. The Three
Must Meet.Tom Peters/09.16.2004
86
Attributes of Those Who Made the 10th Grade
History Book

• Committed!
• Determined to make a difference!
• Focused!
• Passionate!
• Irrational about their lifes project!
• Ahead of their time / Paradigm busters!
• Impatient! / Action obsessed!

87
Attributes of Those Who Made the 10th Grade
History Book

• Made lots of people mad!
• Flouted the chain of command!
• Creative! / Quirky! / Peculiar! / Rebels! /
  Irreverent!
• Masters of improv! / Thrive on chaos! / Exploit
  chaos!

88
Attributes of Those Who Made the 10th Grade
History Book

• Forgiveness Permission
• Bone honest!
• Flawed as the dickens!
• In touch with their followers aspirations
• Darn good at what they do!

89
Each of us has a design problem to solve to
create from the raw material around us the
curriculum for a good life. It isnt easy, and it
isnt the same for any two people.John Taylor
Gatto, A Different Kind of Teacher
90
Our toughest learning achievementmastering our
native languagedoes not require schools, or even
competent parents. It does require a desperate
need-to-know.Great teachers are great learners,
not imparters-of-knowledge.Great teachers ask
great questionsthat launch kids on lifelong
quests.The world is not about right wrong
answers it is about the pursuit of increasingly
sophisticated questionsjust ask a ski instructor
or neurosurgeon. Manifesto for Education in the
3rd Millennium
91
My Challenge

• Review your current instructional practices
• Do your instructional methods match your
  students needs?
• Try something new every week!
• Embrace technology
• Let the students have at it.
• Find creative ways to use technology in your
  lessons.
• Try one of the following
• Wiki
• Blog
• Web Page
• Take part of your lesson and put it online.