Career

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Career College Ready, Set, Go!NCs Race to
the Top (RttT) Initiative

• State Initiatives Update
• Professional Development Strategic Staffing
• May 3, 2011

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Webinar Overview

• Reiterate General RttT Requirements Process for
  LEAs/Charters (Local)
• Clarify State Plan Implications for Local Plans
• Professional Development Initiative
• Strategic Staffing
• Address Questions

Key Take Away Know how to move forward with
your local RttT plan!
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General RttT Requirements

• For 2011-12 submission to DPILocal DSWs must
  include plans (i.e., a completed row on the
  spreadsheet) for implementing all RttT Required
  Activities
• Local RttT detailed budgets (in BUD) must match
  Local DSWs (talk to your Finance Officer!)
• Complete local DSWs must be submitted to DPI by
  August 3, 2011 (same process as last fallbut
  much more time to develop plans)

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General RttT Requirements
Submission of Local DSW to DPI
2010-11 (Nov. 8, 2010)
2011-12 (Aug. 3, 2011)
www.ncpublicschools.org/rttt/district/
www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/rttt/state/plan/state
-dsw.pdf
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RttT Guidance Documents
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State DSW
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2011-12 DSW Submission Timeline
Sept. 1
Feb 10, 2011
March April
June 1-27
August 3 - 11
August 12-22

• DPI Finance Informational Webinars (2)
• Requirements for submission of budget and
  detailed plans

• DPI Informational Webinars
• focused on
• RttT State Initiatives
• LEAs Charters
• Review Requirements for Local RttT Plans
• Provide LEAs/Charters with greater detail
  regarding State Plan (by Initiative)

• Regional Support Planning Meetings
• LEAs Charters
• Review Informational Webinar Info
• Review Approval process
• Support Updated local DSWs
• Support Implementation

All Local Plans submitted to DPI All Plans
reviewed by DPI

• DPI staff follow up with LEAs/Charters to resolve
  any outstanding issues

All Plans Final (posted to RttT Website)
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Great Teachers and Leaders Professional
Development and Strategic Staffing Initiatives

• To prepare and develop high quality educators
• To staff highly effective educators in rural
  and hard
• to staff schools
• To build, sustain and support leadership LEA
  teams

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LEA PD Lead
LEA PD Lead
LEA PD Lead
LEA PD Lead
LEA PD Lead
Chats
Blogs
Kenan Fellows
RESA Director
RttT Professional Development Lead
Regional Education Facilitator
LEA PD Lead
Integrated Technology Coach
LEA PD Lead
Regional Lead
Curriculum Contact
LEA PD Lead
LEA PD Lead
Wikis
Forums
LEA PD Lead
LEA PD Lead
LEA PD Lead
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Summer Institute
Formative Support
Formative Support
July
June
Aug
RESA Session
RESA Session
May
Sept
Annual Professional Development Cycle
Formative Support
April
Oct
Formative Support
Nov
Mar
RESA Session
RESA Session
Feb
Dec
Jan
Formative Support
Formative Support
RESA Session
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2011 Common Core State Standards and NC Essential
Standards Summer Institutes for LEA/School PD
Leadership Teams
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Professional Development Initial Access and
Support Spring 2011 Menu of Content Modules
MODULES
CC and Essential Standards Tools
Instructional Tools targeted to aid in the
transition and to complement the professional
development.
Online support to increase teacher understanding
and implementation of standards
1 The Call for Change An Overview of the Common
Core and Essential Standards
Crosswalk Unpacking Standards
6 NC Teacher Standards Course
2 Understanding the Standards
2 Understanding the Standards
3 Revised Blooms Taxonomy (RBT)
Training Implementation Guide
Presentational Resources
4 Developing Local Curricula
5 NC FALCON
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Key Instructional Tool Deliverables and Release
DatesCommon Core State Standards and NC
Essential Standards
April 1, 2011
June 3, 2011
June 24, 2011
June 15, 2011-August 2014
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Tentative Outline of RESA Partnership Schedule
Local PD Leadership Team Trainings
JULY - SEPTEMBER
Local PD Leadership Team Trainings
OCTOBER - DECEMBER
DSW Meetings NCDPI RttT Leadership Team
Teacher Effectiveness Workgroup Meetings
Local PD Leadership Team Trainings
JANUARY - MARCH
Teacher Effectiveness Feedback Workgroup Meetings
Local PD Leadership Team Trainings
APRIL - JUNE
DSW Meetings NCDPI RttT Leadership Team
Teacher Effectiveness Workgroup Meetings

• Contract includes
• Materials/Supplies
• Printing/Duplication Costs
• Travel/Mileage Expenses
• Administrative Costs
• Registration/CEU Certificates
• Food/Meals
• NCDPI will provide trainers and determine content
  of all meetings and trainings

All LEAs and charter schools receiving RttT
funding should be included in sessions,
regardless of membership.
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Guskeys Framework Five Levels
Level 1 Reaction to Learning Experience
Level 2 Demonstration of Learning
Level 4 Evolved Practices and Behaviors on Site
Level 5 New Leader and Student Outcomes
The Work
Level 3 Organizational Support (Behaviors,
Practices, Policies)
Adapted from Guskey, 2000, pp. 79-81
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PD Assessment Planning
Level 2 Learning
Level 3 Organization Support
Level 4 Implementation
Level 5A Impact on Learning Conditions
Level 5B Impact on Student Performance
Level 1 Reactions
Prior to Participation End of each PD
Session End of PD Training 90 Day
Follow-up Annual follow-up
Organizational Climate Survey
Satisfaction Survey
TO BE DETERMINED
Knowledge Survey
Implementation Survey
Levels of Use Survey
Action Plan Survey
Case Studies
TO BE DETERMINED
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Strategic Staffing Leadership Academies

• Principal Preparation
• Halifax, Northampton, Bertie, Hertford, Warren,
  Weldon City, Roanoke Rapids
• Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Martin,
  Nash-Rocky Mount, Vance,  Washington

Northeast Leadership Academy (NELA)
Sandhills Leadership Academy

• Principal Preparation
• Columbus, Montgomery, Cumberland, Hoke, Richmond,
  Anson, Lee, Robeson, Scotland, Moore, Harnett,
  Whiteville
• Sandhills Regional Education Consortium, UNC
  Pembroke, Fayetteville State

Piedmont Leadership Academy

• Principal Preparation
• Asheboro, Winston-Salem Forsyth, Guilford,
  Alamance Burlington
• Piedmont Triad Education Consortium (PTEC), UNC
  Greensboro

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Distinguished Leadership in Practice (DLP)

• Recognized 33 of the original 40 DLP Cohort 1
  participating
• principals for full completion of the
  program.
• Reviewed applications for DLP 2 in four
  geographic
• locations Northeast, Southeast, Central and
  West.
• Accepted 225 principals from all 8 regions of
  the state.
• Held DLP Component 1 sessions for DLP 2
  participants
• in each of the 4 locations.
• April, 2011

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2011-2012 NCDPI Tentative Professional
Development Schedule
JUN-JULY
AUGUST 2011
SEPT-NOV
DEC-JAN
FEB-MAR
APR-JUNE

• Year End LEA/Charter School Diagnostic Needs
  Assessments
• RESA Teacher Effectiveness Feedback Group
  Sessions
• RESA DSW Meetings with NCDPI RttT Leadership Team
• Customized feedback/support sessions for PD
  Leader Teams
• IHE Trainings (CC and ES)

• RESA Teacher Effectiveness Feedback Group
  Sessions
• RESA PD Leader Team Trainings
• RESA DSW Meetings with NCDPI RttT Leadership Team
• DPI Consultant Trainings
• IHE Trainings (CC and ES)

• Initial Support for PD Leader Teams
• Follow Up Sessions from Summer Institutes
• Utilization of support from Regional PD Leaders

• Mid Year LEA/Charter School Diagnostic Needs
  Assessments
• RESA PD Leader Team Trainings

• RESA Teacher Effectiveness Feedback Group
  Sessions
• RESA PD Leader Team Trainings
• DPI Consultant Trainings

Summer Institutes (selected locations)
This is the yearly cycle schedule content will
change
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Professional Development Contacts
Dr. Lynne Johnson Director of Educator
Recruitment and Development ljohnson_at_dpi.state.nc
.us
Yvette Stewart RttT Project Coordinator for
Professional Development ystewart_at_dpi.state.nc.us
Dr. Eliz Colbert Professional Development Lead
Consultant ecolbert_at_dpi.state.nc.us
PD Lead contact information http//www.ncpublicsc
hools.org/profdev/directory/
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Questions?
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Webinar Summary

• Reiterated General RttT Requirements Process
  for LEAs/Charters (Local)
• Clarified State Plan Implications for Local
  Plans
• Professional Development
• Strategic Staffing
• Addressed Questions

Key Take Away Know how to move forward with
your local RttT plan!