Newport Schools

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Newport Schools

• 0809 Goals Objectives
• August 27, 2008

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NEWPORT SCHOOL DISTRICTDistrict
Goals/Initiatives2006-2009Kerry W. Helm,
Superintendent The best case for public
education has always been that it is a common
good. Everyone ultimately has a stake in the
caliber of schools and education is everyones
business. The quality of the public education
system relates directly to the quality of life
that people enjoy (whether as parents, employers,
or citizens), with a strong public education
system as the cornerstone of a civil, prosperous,
and democratic society. As the main institution
for fostering social cohesion in an increasingly
diverse society, publicly funded schools must
serve all children, not simply those with the
loudest or most powerful advocates. This means
addressing the cognitive and social needs of all
childrenand must include citizenship and what
some people call character education. Moral
purpose of the highest order is having a system
where all students learn, the gap between high
and low performance becomes greatly reduced, and
what people learn enables them to be successful
citizens and workers in a morally based knowledge
society.- Michael Fullan in The Moral
Imperative of School Leadership, 2003
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Code

• Vision
• Mission
• Shared Values

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Goals, Plans, Teams

• Academic Professional Goals
• District Strategic Plan 2008-2014
• District Goals, 2006-2009
• District Initiatives
• District Committees

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• Goals (2006-2009)
• Improve Communication district-wide
• Meet AYP Through 2009
• 100 Highly Qualified Focused Personnel in All
  Positions
• Complete High School renovation project (August
  2008)
• New district Strategic Plan (2008-2014)
• New Pre-K program (Fall, 2009)

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• District Initiatives (2006-2009)
• High School Renovation Project Kerry Helm
• Learning Focused Schools Rick Musselman
• Pacing Guides Curriculum Wiki Rick Musselman
• Technology Integration Tammy Cody
• PreK Program Mike Smith
• District Emergency Plan Lori Gallagher
• Strategic Plan Kerry Helm
• Special Education Improvement Plan (HQT, gifted,
  full compliance, inclusion) Dana Hurrell
• Personal Professional Development Evaluation
  Plan (PPDEP) for all professional personnel
  Kerry Helm
• District-wide goals, all staff
• Administrative staff Kerry Helm
• Business office staff Dick Brosius
• Professional staff Lori Gallagher, Joe Stroup,
  Mike Smith
• Aides Dana Hurrell
• Custodial maintenance staff Nick Soccio
• Foods service staff Amy Stoy
• District Budget Improvement Process Dick
  Brosius

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0809 District Committees, Subcommittees, and
Councils Administrative Cabinet Kerry
Helm Superintendents Leadership Council Kerry
Helm Superintendents Advisory Council Kerry
Helm Budget Committee Richard
Brosius Curriculum Committee Rick
Musselman Professional Development Committee
Rick Musselman Safety Committee Nick
Soccio Technology Committee Tammy
Cody Building Level Committees Site-Based
Leadership Councils Elementary Steering
Committee Mike Smith Middle School Steering
Committee Joe Stroup High School Steering
Committee Lori Gallagher Alternative Education
Rick Musselman Education Ken
Ewing Extracurricular Greg Miller Personnel
Finance Jim Magaro Policy Attendance Blake
Tomforde Transportation, Property, Supply
Committee Kermit Harry
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What I Learned This Summer
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They told me if youre looking for the fort,
youre too late. Its long gone, washed away. I
actually was standing in the fort as it turned
out.
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What I Learned This Summer
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What I Learned This Summer
Pi Lambda Theta International Honor Society and
Professional Association in Education Northeast
Region 1 July 2008 Conference Schedule July
25-26, 2008 Theme Education Power and Promise
Meet the Needs of All Children
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Some Common Themes

• Go Slow to Go Fast Provide opportunities for
  reflection.
• Kids cant learn if you dont know what your
  teaching them or what theyre supposed to learn.
• READ WRITE THINK
• Cooperative Learning works.
• Programs are only as good as you make them.
• Its all about implementation.
• There are no shortcuts.
• All kids can succeedsome faster then others.
• Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired (HALT) makes
  learning difficult and makes for bad decisions.
• Teach kids by doing help them to learn how to
  be adults in a public setting and how to get
  along with others.

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What I Learned This Summer
Summary

• Know Your Kids.
• Know Your Content.
• Know How to Teach Your Kids Your Content.

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Know Your Kids

• Background
• Performance Data
• Vital Personal Information
• Personality
• Learning Style
• Goals

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Know Your Content

• Standards
• Assessment Anchors
• Resources
• Timing
• Acceleration and Remediation
• Reinforcement

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Know How to Teach ItSo They ALL Can Learn It

• Essential Questions
• Pacing
• Differentiate
• Cooperative Learning
• Acceleration and Remediation
• Technology Integration
• Reinforcement
• Rapport
• Mentoring

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Essential Questions for Educators.

• What do we want students to know, do, and/or
  understand?
• How do we know when they dont?
• What do we do when they dont?
• By the end of 2nd grade it is possible to
  predict with approximately 80 accuracy the
  learning outcomes of students by 11th grade.
• Benjamin Bloom, Stability and Change in Human
  Characteristics (1964)

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How important is

• early childhood education for 34 year olds esp.
  when you consider the 10 to 1 return on each
  dollar of investment resulting in less crime,
  welfare, health issues, remedial education, and
  general social minuses?
• reading for comprehension by the end of the 2nd
  grade esp. when you consider that the ability
  to understand instruction in our schools is a
  function of reading comprehension and verbal
  ability?
• benchmarking student progress throughout the
  school year rather than one time at years end
  esp. when you consider the need to intervene
  before its too late?
• data-driven decision making that follows the
  child from early childhood through 2nd grade in
  his or her progress in reading comprehension/readi
  ng-for-meaning?
• mentoring and tutoring of those students in
  need of reading-for- comprehension especially
  if closing the achievement gap is
  one-child-at-time?

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Focus on target attainment

• Speed in learning is not the issue.
• Mastery of reading and learning is the issue.
• Blooms message to all of us focus on target
  attainment and abandon any needs to identify the
  swiftest except as to provide them with a
  challenging curriculum that is in sync with their
  speed and determination
• By providing the kind of support good habits,
  attitudes, reading and linguistic skills, and
  cognitive abilities enjoyed by the more
  privileged of learners, all learnerseven those
  normally thought to be academically at risk or
  less privilegedcan master what we want them to
  know, do, or understand.

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Individual Professional Goals

• Pedagogy
• Instructional Design Questions
• Questions for Daily Reflection
• Research Based Instructional Strategies
• Curriculum Design
• Differentiated
• Cooperative
• Data-driven
• Technology Integration
• Effective Assessment
• Acceleration and Remediation
• Classroom Management
• The Art Science of Teaching, Marzano, 2007

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Research Based Instructional Strategies

• 1. Identifying similarities and differences2.
  Summarizing and note taking3. Reinforcing effort
  and providing recognition4. Homework and
  practice5. Nonlinguistic representations6.
  Cooperative learning7. Setting objectives and
  providing feedback8. Generating and testing
  hypotheses9. Cues, questions, and advance
  organizersClassroom Instruction That Works,
  Marzano, Pickering, Pollock,

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Professional Development

• Activities Initiatives
• October Dr. William Dagget at Newport
• January District Wellness Workshops
• Ongoing professional development activities
• Millersville Partnership
• Messiah College on-site
• TECHNOLOGY FIRST
• Communication
• Data retrieval, compilation, sharing
• Instruction Assessment
• Remediation and support
• Administrative