Lighthouse Schools

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Lighthouse Schools

• A Path of Focus and Persistency

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Cahuenga Elementary LAUSDand Grant Elementary
SJUSD

• EL Schools of poverty exceeding subgroup AYP
  targets
• A study of collaborative leadership with
• relentless focus, support, and accountability

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Cahuenga Elementary

• 67 EL, 65 Hispanic, 84 FRL
• ELA-EL AYP 47.5
• ELA-SD AYP 49.7
• ELA-Latino AYP 38.6

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Grant Elementary

• 67 EL, 65 Hispanic, 75 FRL
• ELA-EL AYP 41.5
• ELA-SD AYP 46.1
• ELA-Latino AYP 46.4

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Table Talk-Now Lets Look At The Data

• What do you want to know about these schools?

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Doug Reeves Research - Closing the
Implementation Gap

• Lighthouse schools show us that a narrow focus on
  a small number of high leverage research based
  practices, implemented by 90 of the staff,
  results in significant achievement gains

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The Potent Target is90 Implementation

• Narrow focus on a small number of strategies
• Systems to make implementation happen overtime
• Persistence until 90 implementation is achieved

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What Systems Do We See In These Lighthouse Schools

• Climate Strategies Shaping a climate of belief
• Norming Expectations best practice agreements

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• Building staff skills training, demo
  lessons,coaching, continuous mini-trainingsuntil
  skills are mastered
• Monitoring Systems Accountability Daily
  principal walkthroughs and feedback, teacher
  evaluation connected to best practices

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• Data driven data constantly in front of staff
  for instructional planning, intervention
  planning, program planning
• Collaborative content teams instructional
  planning weekly or twice a month, with protocols
  and accountability

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• Continuous improvement strategies
• Student evidence weekly/monthly drives
• - focus of professional development,
  coaching, and principal-teacher feedback (1
  on 1 mtgs), resource
• teacher work
• - changes in instructional and
  intervention planning

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• Celebrating successes/recognition
• - showcase student and teacher successes
• - promote excellence in teaching
• and best practice mastery

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Table Talk

• Where is your district with..
• -Narrow focus
• -Systems for implementation
• towards 90 implementation
• -Persistency until 90 is achieved

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Proposal for Curriculum Council

• Focus for the year
• - Specific content area (s)
• - Implementation systems