Creating a 21st Century Learning Environment

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Creating a 21st Century Learning Environment

• A Matter of Choice

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Factors Necessary for School Wide Improvement

• Updated campus improvement plan that is a working
  document
• Discipline framework
• Climate of high expectations for student academic
  success
• Positive campus leadership
• Everyone rowing in the same direction
• Effective communication
• between all stakeholders

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Campus Improvement Plan

• Should be updated from school wide data and
  deficit areas
• Document should be a collaborative effort from
  the campus leadership team and include input from
  all stakeholders
• Allocation of school funding should be directed
  to areas of concern and driven by your school data

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Campus Improvement Plan

• Should align with the district improvement plan
• Should include areas of improvement from the
  district level.
• TAKS data strengths and deficit areas should be
  addressed
• Timeline for improvements must be included in the
  CIP

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Campus Improvement Plan

• Parental involvement must be included in your
  plan and building positive relationship should be
  a priority.
• Parent meetings, parent literacy programs, and
  inclusion of parents in college nights.
• Parents should be encourage to join booster
  clubs, PTA or any organization that includes
  students from your school.

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Creating a Campus Discipline Framework

• Form a committee that includes a student
  representive, faculty member, administrator, and
  parent
• Using PEIMS data, determine what are the major
  offenses that are addressed daily on your campus
• With teacher collaboration, develop a discipline
  framework for minor classroom offenses

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Creating a Campus Discipline Framework

• Develop maps and charts to include hot spots on
  campus
• Make sure that these areas are always under
  supervision
• Ensure that teacher develop classroom rules and
  regulations and are posted in the classroom in
  view for all students to see
• Have teachers review rules and regulations with
  the students
• for clarity

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Creating a Campus Discipline Framework

• Stress the importance of parental involvement in
  the discipline framework
• Develop a system for positive student phone calls
  and develop a whale done board to reward
  positive student behavior
• Increase the administrative classroom
  walk-throughs to support any changes in the
  school discipline framework

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Creating a Campus Discipline Framework

• Make sure positive declines in discipline
  referrals are posted and develop incentives for
  students who display positive student behavior
• Determine the effectiveness of your ISS program
  for in school suspension
• Monitor the quality of instruction being
  administered in ISS

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Positive Faculty and Staff Discipline

• Go over the changes yearly with your faculty and
  staff
• Go over your expectations with your faculty and
  staff concerning the discipline handbook and make
  sure everyone in rowing in the same direction.
• Develop incentives for faculty and staff who
  exhibit a drop in classroom discipline referrals

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Positive Faculty and Staff Discipline

• Post teachers names who exhibit lowest classroom
  discipline referrals
• Develop an intervention plan for teachers in need
  of classroom management strategies and high
  discipline referrals
• Conference with teachers in need of assistance
  when needed.

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Campus Discipline Management Committee

• Develop schedule to meet and discuss discipline
  problem affecting the campus
• Create an environment for positive collaboration
  to brainstorm effective change
• Develop suggestion boxes for teachers, students
  and staff around campus

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Campus Discipline Management

• As building principal, are you discussing your
  discipline data with your assistant principals
  and leadership team?
• How effective is the level of instructions in ISS
  or in school suspension?
• Are students given opportunities to work their
  way out of in school suspension?
• How often do you go by ISS to check on the level
  of instruction.

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Creating Effective Campus Communication

• Effective school wide communication starts with
  the Principal
• Empowering the members of your team will only
  strengthen the communication between your
  leadership team and the staff
• Create a system of trust and
• family within your school

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Creating Effective Campus Communication

• Create a system within your school where the
  students have a voice
• Provide opportunities where faculty and staff can
  meet and share quality time with each other
• Develop a call system to inform parents of
  activities within the school
• Encourage teachers and staff to make positive
  phone calls to parents to share in the success of
  their child

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Creating Effective Campus Communication

• Constantly change and update your school marquee
  to inform the parents and community of events
• Send a monthly newsletter to parents and
  community members highlighting positive events at
  the school
• Inform the local newspaper and television
  stations of important
• events at your school
• Make presentations at the board meeting to
  showcase your school

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Creating a Shared Vision with all Stakeholders

• Start each school year by presenting a powerpoint
  presentation highlighting your vision for the
  students, teachers and staff and include any
  physical changes to the building
• Ensure that your leadership team knows the vision
  and mission of the school and are a part of the
  developmental process
• Meet constantly with curriculum assistant
  principal to ensure that the academic vision of
  the school and your expectations of student
  success are in line with the campus and district
  improvement plan.

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Creating a Shared Vision with all Stakeholders

• Attend department meetings with your curriculum
  assistant principal to ensure that the academic
  vision of the school is being met based on the
  data of your school.
• On each newsletter sent to the parents, make sure
  that you make a statement concerning the school
  and include some words of wisdom
• Work hard to establish relationships with the
  parents for yourself and all of your faculty
• Develop book studies with your administrative
  team, department chairpersons, and your campus
  improvement committee

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Establishing a High Performance Learning Culture
and Climate

• Find ways to reward student success
• Effective use of the campus announcements,
  bulletin boards and live television broadcast
• Whale Done Board (catching students doing
  something good)

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Establishing a High Performance Learning Culture
and Climate

• Establish mentors from local businesses
• Bring in local business owners to your school to
  mentor and motivate your students
• Talk to local businesses about employment of your
  students
• Send personal invitations to local businesses to
  attend functions at your school
• Invite local businesses to provide funding for
  activities at your school.

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Establishing a High Performance Learning Culture
and Climate

• Always keep in mind the correlations between
  discipline and academic achievement.
• Make your school visually stimulating.
• Post examples of student work to build self
  esteem.
• Increase the number of organizations on campus to
  include more students

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Establishing a High Performance Learning Culture
and Climate

• Encourage students to participate in the
  different ethnic holidays during the school year.
• Emphasis the need for your students to understand
  diversity within your school.
• Constantly retain sponsors who are committed to
  student success
• Encourage students to form study groups and
  provide agenda for all students on your campus to
  help students with their organizational skills
• Encourage students to use after school tutorials

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Meeting Professional Development Planning

• All staff development training for teachers and
  staff should be driven by your school data
• Actions taken as a result of data driven decision
  making should be included in the campus
  improvement plan
• Staff development training should be ongoing and
  updated on your campus improvement plan

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Data Driven Interventions

• Effective use of Benchmark assessments to drive
  decision making
• Developing effective timelines to ensure success
  on the TAKS test
• Using checkpoints to align instructions

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Data Driven Intervention

• After the benchmark assessment, are you asking
  the proper questions to ensure future success of
  your students
• 1. What happened?
• 2. How will you ensure that the students
• that were not successful master the
• information?
• 3. How will you prevent what happened
• on this assessment not occur on
• future assessments?

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Data Driven Intervention

• Make sure you are monitoring the ethnic breakdown
  of the students not being successful on all
  assessments and a strategy is being used to
  ensure mastery
• Conference with teachers who students are not
  being successful on benchmark assessment and make
  sure they have a strategy in place to address
  their students with deficits

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Data Driven Intervention

• Post scores around the building to monitor
  progress and motivate teachers and students to
  raise their expectations
• Provide incentives for classes with the highest
  scores on the benchmark assessment.
• Foster a competitive spirit within the core
  subjects

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Key factors necessary for meeting AYP

• Create a climate of high academic achievement for
  students
• Create a discipline framework for your campus
• Raise the expectations of your teachers and staff
• Provide incentives for students who attend school
  daily
• Add programs to build the self esteem of your
  students

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Key factors necessary for meeting AYP

• Increase the parental involvement in your school
• Closely monitor the academic success of your at
  risk students
• Use your school data to drive decision making in
  your school
• Increase the number of classroom walk through for
  your administrative team

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Factors Necessary for Meeting AYP

• Build a sense of family within your students and
  staff
• Constantly recruit and retain quality staff
  members
• Use your data in selecting staff development
  training your faculty
• Ensure that the students are tested on what they
  are taught