Principals Professional Development

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Principals ProfessionalDevelopment

• Local District 2
• Wednesday, March 11, 2009

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Superintendent cortines vision

• My approach is to build a school district from
  the classroom out, so that we can minimize the
  impact on teachers.

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Superintendent cortines vision

• Schools need to make the decisions
• More funding will be given to each school
• There will be guidelines to follow
• The school may purchase resources from the budget
  list
• The school may purchase items that were cut

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Budget Process

• Preparing the School Budget.
• Analyze and review data sources
• Identify student needs
• Set school goals
• Share information with staff
• Share information with Parents
• Identify budget items that align to address
  student needs
• Establish transparency about student needs and
  budget purchases
• Ready to take budget thinking for approval by SSC
• LD will have the final review

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Todays WorkPreparing for next year

• Continue the work from February Principals
  Meeting
• Identify promising practices to improve the WAY
  we do our work
• Share our Practice and reflect with colleagues
• Mentor our staff through Reflection,
  Collaboration and Modeling

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Identify promising practices for academic success

• California Standards Test Proficient and
  Advanced
• CELDT Early Advanced and Advanced
• Reclassification Rate Local District 2- 15.6
• CAHSEE Literacy/Math Passing Rate
• A-G Enrolled and with Passing Grade
• Periodic Assessment Proficient
• Gifted Identification 5 of Student Enrollment
• Attendance 98 ES and 95 MS/HS
• Academic Performance Index 3 Growth
• Graduation Rate

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elementary Look to successful Schools

• Today the elementary schools will revisit the EL
  Plan AMAO 3
• How are we successful in building access to core
  and mastery of standards?
• What are the Practices that successful schools
  use?
• Which two practices will the local districts use?

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Secondary look to successful schools

• Today the secondary schools will revisit the EL
  Plan AMAO 1 and 2
• How are we successful in building English
  proficiency as measured by the CELDT?
• What are the Practice that successful schools
  use?
• Which two practices will the local districts use?

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Elementary Schools Reflective Conversation

• The Elementary Schools will
• Reflect as a Team regarding the Agreements on the
  three practices, the collection of the Baseline
  Data and the second collection of Data
• The Team will focus on the Questions which
  support the facilitation of an effective
  Reflective Team Conversation comparing the two
  data collections

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Building agreements insecondary schools

• Later this morning Secondary will Discuss
• Building Agreements with a Team
• Area of student academic Need for Discussion
  assessment data, student work, classroom
  observation of program/practice implementation
• The Look Fors (Team Agreements)
• Classroom Visitations by Administrative Team
• Reflective Conversation to inform school PD and
  teacher Practice
• Debrief Administrative Group reflects on the
  Process of Building Agreements

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Goal Increase the percentage of students scoring
proficient or advanced in ELA/Math by 4
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Reflective Practice Schedule
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change

• The search for static security in the law and
  elsewhere is misguided. The fact is security
  can only be achieved through constant change,
  adapting old ideas that have outlived their
  usefulness to current facts.
• William O. Douglas
• American Supreme Court Justice

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Reflective question

• Identify the most critical challenge that you
  think you will have at your school site as you
  plan the organization of the next school year to
  meet the needs of your students and ensure their
  academic success.