Principals Meeting

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Principals Meeting

• Instructional Update
• May 14, 2008

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Today we will

• Provide important reminders
• Share recommended phase-in plan for Math adoption
• Discuss LD 5 Math Pathway
• Participate in A Discussion on Values

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Instructional Updates

• Reminders
• MEM-4136 Buy Back Days- Waiver to Request
  Alternate BBD -Attachment B due to Director
  School Services by June 6, 2008
• BUL- 4064.1 Closing the Achievement Gap (Spring
  Semester Activities) The school report form
  (Attachment A) due to DSS by May 15, 2008. DSS
  will submit the LD report form (Attachment B)
  Central by May 30, 2008
• BUL-3868.1 Williams Case Secondary Science
  Instructional Materials-includes Principal
  certification for Science equipment sufficiency
  due June 30,2008 to Science Branch.

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ScienceForces and Motion Model Lesson Training

• June 11 - 12, 2008
• East Los Angeles Science Center
• All 8th grade teachers who teach 3 or more
  classes of eighth grade science

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BTSA Program Reminder

• STATE Surveys due
• Support Providers May 12, 2008
• Participating Teachers May 19, 2008
• Site Administrators May 19, 2008
• Thank you to all who have completed the survey.

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History/Social Science Instructional Guides

• The 7th and 10th Grade Instructional Guides are
  finished and scheduled to be delivered to schools
  in June.
• All student materials will be included in
  consumable workbooks that are also scheduled to
  be delivered in June.
• The guides and student materials are available on
  the LAUSD History/Social Science website,
  www.lausdhss.org.

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Recommended Phase-In Plan for Math Adoption

• Postpone elementary textbook adoption
• District would purchase K-2 consumables of
  current adoption and purchase textbooks to
  replace lost or damaged books.
• Postpone middle school textbook adoption
• Includes basic math for grades 6 and 7, Algebra
  Readiness and Algebra I
• High schools are currently selecting their
  textbooks from the adopted list and submitting
  orders to LDs

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Secondary Math Pathway
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Proposed Agreements

• Use multiple measures to determine appropriate
  Math placement.
• All middle schools in LD 5 will test 6th, 7th and
  8th graders using the UCLA MDTP.
• Students who fail Algebra 1A will move on to
  Algebra 1B the following semester.
• All Matriculating 6th graders are placed in 6th
  grade Math

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7th Grade Placement

• Advancement to next level in Math will be based
  on a minimum grade of A or B and support of the
  following multiple measures
• 5th grade CST scores (only proficient or Advanced
  to Algebra 1) (review new CST scores in August)
• Periodic assessment data
• Fall final mark and spring mid-term mark in Math
• UCLA MDTP (Algebra Readiness Test (for 7AB) or
  Elementary Algebra Test (for Algebra 1)
• Teacher comments
• It is highly recommended that 7th graders in
  Algebra also receive 7th grade math curriculum.
  For example, 2 math periods, one period 7th grade
  math and one period Algebra, or 7th grade honors
  math (which would include 7th grade curriculum
  and Algebraic concepts).
• Parent and student commitment letters for 7th
  graders placed in Algebra

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8th Grade Placement

• Advancement to next level in Math will be based
  on a minimum grade of A or B and support of the
  following multiple measures
• 6th grade CST Score (review new CST scores in
  August)
• Periodic Assessment data
• Fall final mark and Spring mid-term
• UCLA MDTP
• Teacher comment
• Parent and student commitment letters for 8th
  graders placed in Geometry or Algebra 2AB

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9th Grade Placement

• Advancement to next level in Math will be based
  on a minimum grade of A or B and support of the
  following multiple measures
• 2 periodic Assessment Scores
• UCLA MDTP
• Last 2 years CST Math Scores (review new CST
  scores in August)
• 7th grade Math final mark
• 8th grade fall final mark and spring mid-term
• Teacher comments

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A Discussion on Values

• How must we behave in order to make our shared
  vision a reality?

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Core Values

• Values are the link between emotion and
  behavior, the connection between what we feel and
  what we do.With everything changing around us we
  need something unchangingto hang on to.Values
  are our moral navigational devices.
• James Champy (1995, p.78)

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Core Values A Definition

• Values are the specific attitudes, behaviors
  and commitments
• that must be demonstrated
• in order to advance
• toward the shared vision.
• Articulated values answer the question, How must
  we behave in order to make our shared vision a
  reality?

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Characteristics of Core Values

• Core values
• Clarify who we are
• Are constant, essential tenets
• Articulate what we stand for
• Help explain why we do business the way we do
• Guide us in making decisions

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Sample Value Statements

• We will model and promote the behaviors called
  for in the Districts vision statement.
• We will recruit and retain individuals who are
  best suited to advancing the vision and goals of
  the District, and we will create conditions which
  support their on going professional growth.
• We will approach every situation with an open
  mind and a commitment to continuous improvement.

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LD5 Core Values

• Equity and Access
• Innovation
• Excellence
• Coherence
• Co-Accountability

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Values and Beliefs
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Criteria for Developing Value Statements

• Criteria to keep in mind when developing value
  statements
• Keep them few in number
• Link the statements directly to the vision
  statement
• Be direct
• Focus on behavior, not beliefs
• Focus on ourselves rather than others

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What behaviors build

• Equity and Access?
• Innovation?
• Excellence?
• Coherence?
• Co-Accountability?

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Values/Commitments/Behavior Activity
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Activity

• In your Directors session
• Review each core value
• Review each commitment statement
• Work together to identify the behaviors that
  support these commitments

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• Regardless of the terminology, the
  identification of the attitudes, behaviors, and
  commitments that will advance the vision of a
  school is crucial to the process of building a
  professional learning community.

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• If we are to go forward today, weve got to go
  back and rediscover some mighty precious values
  that weve left behind. Thats the only way that
  we would be able to make of our world a better
  world.
• Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
• In his Rediscovering Lost Values Sermon
  February 28, 1954