Leadership Conference 20052006

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Leadership Conference2005-2006

• Expectations and Performance
• Whatever It Takes

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A Little Bit About a Couple of Things

• Hurricane Duty Thanks and Thanks-in-Advance
• You cant always believe everything your read
  but sometimes you can ... and you can always ask
  
• If this is your first SAA meeting

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Summer Reading

• Freakonomics, Levity and Dubner
• The Boys of San Joaquin, Smith
• Five Regions of the Future, Barker
• The World Is Flat, Friedman
• Your Best Life Now, Osteen
• On Common Ground, DuFour, others
• The Last Season, Jackson
• Why Gender Matters, Sax
• Blink, Gladwell
• Crucial Conversations, Patterson

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Todays Agenda

• A QUICK OVERVIEW

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Leadership Conference

• The Past, Present and Future (15)
• Establishing Our Way of Work
• Reorganization and Alignment (30)
• K-12 Reading (30)
• Pinellas (Kaplan) Learning (15)
• Informed Instructional Leadership (30)
• RED Professional Development (10)
• Communications (20)

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Leadership Conference

• District Expectations Part One (60)
• Student Safety
• To and From School
• Walkers and Bike Riders
• Car Riders
• Bus Riders
• At School
• Supervision
• Visitors, Volunteers, Vendors and the Lundsford
  Act
• Supporting our Bus Drivers
• Building a Sense of Team
• Cooperative Student Behavior Management Systems
• Changes In Transportation

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Leadership Conference

• District Expectations Part II (120)
• Contract Administration 101
• Performance Assessment
• Student Attire and the Code of Student Conduct
• Use of Campus and Other Policing Agencies
• Campus Monitoring Systems
• RED

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Leadership Conference

• District Expectations Part III (30)
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Data Prep Clerks, Secretary Bookkeepers
• Front Office Staff and Customer Service
  Expectations
• Student Absence Reporting
• Materials and Supplies, Textbooks and Teachers
• Technology Support
• Parent Connect

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Leadership Conference

• Administrative Extras
• Use of Movies As An Instructional Tool or
  Incentive
• Field Trips
• Program Fidelity
• FCAT Practice Tests
• Campus Appearance Attention to Detail

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Lets Go

• The Past, Present and Future (15)
• Establishing Our Way of Work
• The Guiding Principles -
• Reorganization and Alignment (30 CW)
• K-12 Reading (30 Dan/Marie)
• Pinellas (Kaplan) Learning (15 Shelby)
• Informed Instructional Leadership
• (30 CW)
• RED Professional Development (10 CW)
• Communications (20 Sterling)

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• We will teach and our students will learn the
  next thing they need to know
• We will create and deliver a seamless array of
  education services for our students and their
  families
• We will reorient and rededicate ourselves to
  delivering world class customer service (video)
  back

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Leadership Conference

• District Expectations Part II (120)
• Contract Administration 101 (Ron)
• Student Attire and the Code of Student Conduct
  (Alec, et. al.)

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Pinellas County Schools Code of Student Conduct

• Updates and Changes for

2005-06
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Agenda

• Review the overall Code changes
• Discuss communication and consequences that will
  
• Support the enforcement of the dress code
• Minimize the loss of instructional time
• Discuss the development of your school discipline
  plan for 2005-06

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Process for Change

• Every three years the Code goes through a major
  revision
• A committee composed of
• parents, students, teachers, community members
  and administrators review and make
  recommendations for changes to the Code of
  Student Conduct

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Process for Change

• Recommendations are reviewed by different
  stakeholder groups for input, including two Board
  workshops
• Recommendations ultimately go to the School Board
  for final approval (May 24,2005)

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Student Code of Conduct Changes

• The most significant changes are in the area of
  student dress
• These changes apply consistently to all students
  at the elementary, middle and high school levels

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Is there really any question why we need a Dress
Code??
A NCLB
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Shirts , Blouses and Dresses

• Shirts and blouses must cover the midriff, back,
  sides and all undergarments including bra straps
  at all times.

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Shirts , Blouses and Dresses

• All shirts, tops, and
• dresses shall have
• sleeves and cover
• the shoulders

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Shorts, Skirts and Dresses

• Must be hemmed and mid-thigh or longer in length

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Trousers, Pants and Shorts

• Must totally cover undergarments, including boxer
  shorts
• Must be appropriate size, with the waist of the
  garment worn at the students waist

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Trousers, Pants and Shorts

• Clothing not properly buttoned, zipped, fastened,
  or with inappropriate tears shall not be worn

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Shoes

• Safe and appropriate footwear must be worn.
  Inappropriate footwear includes, but is not
  limited to, roller skates, skate shoes and
  bedroom slippers.

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Bus Discipline

• Placed language in the Code that would permit you
  to suspend a student from the bus, on his/her
  first offense, if the misconduct was significant
  enough to warrant the suspension

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Electronic Items

• Cameras, camcorders, and cellular phones
  (including the camera that may be part of the
  phone)
• were added to the list of
  electronic items that must be turned off and
  out of sight on school grounds unless a school
  official grants permission for its use.

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Process of Change Begins with Communication

• Newsletters
• School Website
• Personal messages/Connect Ed
• Orientations
• Student Government
• Posters and Flyers
• PTA/SAC

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Reinforced by School Discipline Plan

• Challenge is to develop a school plan that
• Communicates dress code expectations
• Delineates consequences clearly
• Minimizes the loss of instructional time

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Enforcement of the Dress Code

• Mostly a Secondary Issue
• Keeping the End in Mind
• Students Properly Dressed
• Students in Class

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Communicating Expectations

• Consistent Reminders
• Incentives/Privileges
• Special Activities

Dress Code
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Sample Consequences

• First Offense- Warning, change clothes, call
  parent ,student returns
• to class
• Second Offense- change clothes, call or meet with
  parent, refer to guidance, student returns to
  class

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Sample Consequences cont..

• Third Offense- Change clothes, call or meet with
  parent. Loss of privileges, other consequences,
  student returns to class.
• Fourth and Subsequent Offenses- Change clothes,
  required parent conference, after school
  consequence, student returns to class

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Level Discussions
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New School Discipline Plan

• Aligned with our District-wide Safe School
  Initiative
• Includes preventive/intervention strategies
• Describes how your school will monitor and
  measure the effectiveness of these strategies

Discipline Plan
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School Discipline Plan

• Includes Current Discipline and Attendance Data
• Suspensions/Reassignments
• Attendance Rate
• Arrests
• School Goals and Strategies to Reduce overall
  Discipline

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School Discipline Plan

• Evaluation Component
• Utilizing Data from
• School year 2004-05
• January 2006
• June 2006
• PDSA for Improvement

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School Discipline Plan

• Includes Professional Development to promote a
  positive school climate..
• Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI)
• Bullying Prevention
• Multicultural Training
• Specific details will be provided by your
  Director of School Operations

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Pinellas County Schools Code of Student Conduct

• Updates and Changes for

2005-06
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Leadership Conference

• Use of Campus and Other Policing Agencies (Tom,
  Nancy)
• OPS (CW, Nancy)
• Dress Code and Professional Responsibility
• Campus Monitoring Systems (CW)

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Leadership Conference

• District Expectations Part III (30)
• Roles and Responsibilities (CW)
• Data Prep Clerks, Secretary Bookkeepers
• Front Office Staff and Customer Service
  Expectations (Nancy)
• Student Absence Reporting
• Materials and Supplies, Textbooks and Teachers
• Technology Support
• Parent Connect

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Leadership Conference

• Administrative Extras (CW)
• Use of Movies As An Instructional Tool or
  Incentive
• Field Trips
• Program Fidelity
• FCAT Practice Tests
• Campus Appearance Attention to Detail

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Welcome News

• We will not hold an SAA meeting in August.
• After meetings
• Jim Madden with Choice schools
• Hurricane Denise Shelter School Principals with
  Michael Bessette
• Thank you for your time and attention. Lets make
  this year the best year yet for our kids
• Whatever it takes