21ST CENTURY LEADING FOR LEARNING

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21ST CENTURY LEADING FOR LEARNING

• Sac CSD Board President Shirley Phillips
• Wall Lake View Auburn CSD Board President
  Charles Brotherton
• East Sac County Schools ICC Team
• Barb Kruthoff, Julie Meyer, Pam Rust Jill
  Sundblad

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Demographics
East Sac County Schools is located in Northwest
Iowa.

• Third year of whole-grade sharing.
• The combined districts consist of five buildings
  located in three towns.
• Our school population is approximately 950
  students.
• 40.1 free and reduced.

• Sac City
• Alternative School
• Middle School
• Sac Elementary

• Lake View
• High School
• Wall Lake
• Wall Lake Elementary

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Iowa Core Curriculum OutcomesEast Sac
County-Outcome 1 3

• Outcome 1 Leadership School leaders build
  and sustain system capacity to implement the Iowa
  Core Curriculum.
• Outcome 2 Community Community members and
  other supporting agencies work together to
  support the implementation of the Iowa Core
  Curriculum.
• Outcome 3 Schools A continuous improvement
  process to improve teaching and learning is used
  at the district and school level.
• Outcome 4 Content Alignment District leaders
  and other educators monitor and use data to
  increase the degree of alignment of each and
  every students enacted curriculum and other
  relevant educational opportunities to the Iowa
  Core Curriculum.
• Outcome 5 Professional Development Educators
  engage in professional development focused on
  implementing Characteristics of Effective
  Instruction and demonstrate understanding of
  Essential Concepts and Skill Sets.
• Outcome 6 Instruction and Assessment
  Educators implement effective instructional
  practices to ensure high levels of learning for
  each and every student.

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Outcome 1 Leadership Outcome 3 Schools

• Develop teacher leadership in 3 key areas
• District-wide Professional Development
• Climate/Culture of Change
• District-wide Vision/Mission
• Technology Integration and preparing
  East Sac County students for the Global Economy
  are embedded in the three areas of teacher
  leadership.

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Outcome 1 Leadership
Establishing a sense of Urgency is crucial to
gaining needed cooperation. (pg. 36, LEADING
CHANGE)
Compliance VS Commitment Conversation
Guiding Coalition-Kotter
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Outcome 1 LeadershipCreate a Guiding
Coalition-Kotter

• Recruiting staff to take part in the
• 21st Century Leading for
  Learning
• Building Faculty Meetings (March 2009)
• Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin
• Invitation
• Book study on district Wiki (March-May 2009)
• GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENT GAP
• LEADING CHANGE
• Two-Day Workshop (May 28 29, 2009)
• Preview of the Wiki

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Outcome 1 Leadership Outcome 3 SchoolGOALS
FOR THE 2-DAY WORKSHOP

• Plan and Implement Long Range PD Plan
• Create Vision/Mission Statements and Video
• Plan for School Climate That Supports Change

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Workshop Schedule

• Change
• McLeod SlidesChange
• 2 Million Minutes-School Discussion
• Urgency-Kotter video clip
• Implications for Change
• Use Implications to Inform Climate/Culture
  Survey Analysis, Vision/Mission PD Plan
• Break into 3 groups
• Analyze culture/climate survey data (surveys from
  Spring 08 09)
• Vision/Mission
• PD Plan
• Report out at 330 day 1 plan for day 2

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Outcome 1 Leadership Outcome 3
SchoolPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP

• Responsible for creating a two-three year PD plan
  thatis clear, concise, and builds in
  accountability.
• Process
• Plan Created
• Overview of PD
• PD Action Plan
• Continuing Process

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Outcome 1 Leadership Outcome 3
SchoolVISION/MISSION GROUP

• Responsible for developing vision/mission
  statements and a 5-7 minute video that
  illustrates the vision.
• Process
  A Vision of K-12
  Students Today
• Final Product Created
• Continuing Process Video

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Outcome 1 Leadership Outcome 3
SchoolCLIMATE/CULTURE DATA ANALYSIS GROUP

• Responsible for analyzing the culture/climate
  data creating a plan to improve culture/climate
  that supports change.
• Process
• Day one
• Day two
• The Culture Builder by Roland S. Barth
• The School Leaders Tool For Assessing and
  Improving School Culture
  by Christopher R. Wagner
• Final Product Created
• Continuing Process summer work

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Outcome 1 Leadership Outcome 3
School2009-2010 School Year

• Professional development
• PD is in one place for all staff
• Staff members take the lead
• Focus on technology integration cognitive
  demand
• All remaining staff participating in book study
  by reading THE GLOBAL ACHIEVEMENT GAP and
  reflecting on the district Wiki.
• Cognitive Demand (Fall 2009) All staff
  participate in 3-hours of small group study. The
  goal is to create a shared vision of the
  importance of instructional tasks.

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Outcome 1 Leadership Outcome 3
SchoolWorking to Create Climate of Change

• T-shirts, folders, banners, and posters
• Staff get-togethers
• Picnic before school
• Holiday gathering
• Wellness
• Perfect theme this year when weve had hard
  conversations Whatever it Takes

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Outcome 2 Community

• Fall 2009-Begin work to develop understanding of
  ICC, 21st Century Skills, Technology Integration,
  Cognitive Demand to our communities.
• Share information on 21st Century Skills
• School Boards-October 2009
• Citizens Advisory Committee-October 2009
• 21st Century Skills Presentation
• Mission and Vision Statements
• February 2010

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Get on the bus
A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when
you are after it, as when you are on it
or be left behind.
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Resources

• Books
• The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
• Freakonomics, Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt
• The Global Achievement Gap, Tony Wagner
• Leading Change, John Kotter
• Disrupting Class, Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis
  W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn
• Caught in the Middle, Richard C. Longworth
• Other Resources
• Websites Edutopia Dangerously Irrelevant
• Organizations SAI, IASB, NSTA, ISTE, NCTM, Iowa
  DE, AEA, Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

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Resources

• Articles
• The Culture Builder by Roland S. Barth
• http//principals.mpls.k12.mn.us/sites/ee869d27-88
  e5-478a-97e1-b5e41772b8f7/uploads/BarthCultureBuil
  der.pdf
• The School Leaders Tool For Assessing and
  Improving School Culture by Christopher R. Wagner
• http//www.mssaa.org/School-Culture-Triage.pdf
• Contacts