The Partnership for Success

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The Partnership for Success Office of School
Excellence Michigan Department of
Education Thomas D. Watkins, Jr., Superintendent
of Public Instruction Sue C. Carnell, Director of
the Office of School Excellence
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Partnership for Success

• Places highly skilled educators, on loan from
  their organizations/districts, in schools
  identified as underperforming
• Provides intense, on-site, assistance that
  supports 5 guiding assumptions and focusing on 3
  domains

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Highly Skilled Educators in Underperforming
Schools

• On loan Partner Educator has expertise in
• leadership development
• instructional design and delivery
• assessment (data) literacy, and
• school improvement
• Underperforming Schools - Districts identified 2
  to 4 elementary and or middle schools based on
  the following criteria
• 40 or more of students scored in the lowest
  category of MEAP with emphasis in reading
• Not currently a Comprehensive School
  Demonstration site
• Principal is willing to be mentored by a Partner
  Educator

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PfS Guiding Assumptions

• Change requires co-creation in collaboration with
  the participants
• Data-rich environments drive decision-making and
  instruction
• Deep change requires leadership invested in
  excellence
• What we learn is as important as what we do
• Networks increase knowledge and options

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Partnership Domains

• Strengthen Leadership
• Build Capacity
• Implement Meaningful School Improvement Process
  and Plan

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Partnership Design
Partnership Domains LEADERSHIP High
Expectations Engagement Management CAPACITY Clima
te Student Achievement Learning
Community Processes/Procedures Decision-making
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT Purpose Continuous
Improvement Participation

• PARTNERSHIP
• ASSUMPITONS
• CO-CREATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS
• CREATE DATA-RICH ENVIRONMENT
• LEADERSHIP INVESTED IN EXCELLENCE
• LEARN FROM WHAT WE DO
• NETWORK SCHOOLS

Learning Community capable of sustaining
Instructional Change
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Data Collection - School Profiles
2002-3 Schools by size
1200
1075
1000
832
810
800
Districts Served Beecher Detroit Flint Grand
Rapids Highland Park Johannesburg-Lewiston Lansing
Pontiac Thomas Gist PSA
629
619
539
600
474
Number of students
440
327
400
268
245
235
162
114
200
0
School 9
School 1
School 2
School 3
School 4
School 5
School 6
School 7
School 8
School 12
School 10
School 11
School 13
School 14
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School Profiles staff
Caucasian 48
Average Principal Experience 6.2 years 77
African-American 23 Caucasian
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School Profiles students
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Student Achievement - Reading

• All Baseline Data Collected November, 2002

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Student Achievement reading

• All Baseline Data Collected November, 2002

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Student Achievement - Writing

• All Baseline Data Collected November, 2002

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Student Achievement writing

• All Baseline Data Collected November, 2002

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Partner Activities
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The Partnership Continues

• Continue data collection - longitudinal
• Implement web-enhanced assessment initiative with
  EduTest and Wireless Generation
• Scale up program design through widening network
  and professional development
• Continue supporting schools

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• Wisdom begins in wonder.
• Socrates

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Partner Educators

• Valerie Belay, an ATLAS Coach from the Detroit
  Public Schools, is located at a K 8 site.
• Henry Cade, from Wayne RESA, is at a middle
  school.
• Ron Collins, a Principal with the Ann Arbor
  Public Schools, is located at a K 8 site.
• Rosanna Formaro, from K.B. White Elementary in
  Detroit is located at an elementary school.
• Jeff Holbrook is retired from the
  Johannesburg-Lewiston School District. Jeffs at
  a K 8 site and works with the PfS technology
  initiative.
• Vaenka Davis-Littles, a Comer Facilitator with
  the Detroit Public Schools, is located at 2
  elementary schools and coordinates the PfS
  technology initiative.
• Pat Meaux, a Comer Facilitator with Detroit
  Public Schools, is located at an elementary
  school.
• Gale Sharpe comes to the Partnership from the
  Dewitt School District and is assigned to two
  elementary schools.
• Linda Smith, a high school English teacher from
  Birmingham, is located at a middle school.
• Betty Underwood, a Principal with the Lansing
  Schools is located at a K 8 site.

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Partnership Support Staff

• Yvonne Caamal Canul is from the Lansing School
  District where she was the Director of
  Curriculum, Assessment, and Professional
  Development. A Partner last year in Grand
  Rapids, Yvonne currently serves as the
  Partnerships Coordinator.
• Dr. Malverne Winborne is the programs principal
  researcher and also serves as a liaison between
  Partner Educators and Partner Schools. Dr.
  Winborne is Assistant Director of the Eastern
  Michigan University Charter School Office.
• Joann Neuroth is the Programs Evaluator and also
  serves as researcher for the program. Joann is a
  private consultant who shares her time with the
  Partnership by working with a variety of other
  clients, including the newly created PSA,
  University Preparatory Academy.
• Sarah Uhle is the Programs Data Manager and
  works with Partner Educators in setting up their
  school-wide databases. She also manages the
  Partnerships database and creates the programs
  data reports.

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Information

• Sue C. Carnell, Director Office of School
  Excellence, Michigan Department of Education
  CarnellS_at_michigan.gov
• Michigan Department of Education
  www.michigan.gov/mde
• Yvonne Caamal Canul, Coordinator Partnership for
  Success, Michigan Department of Education
  Canuly_at_michigan.gov