Greenwood Middle School Simulation

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Greenwood Middle School Simulation

• Only a change in practice produces a genuine
  change in norms and values. Or, to put it more
  crudely, grab people by their practice and their
  hearts and minds will follow.
• --Richard Elmore

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Greenwood Middle School SimulationRegional Host
Mike YoungFacilitators Cindy Burkhart and
Jacques Gibble
Pennsylvania Inspired Leadership
v3 Mar 2014
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Leadership in Pennsylvania
The leader must be Student-centered Standards-Bas
ed Data-Informed and Future-focused
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PA CORE Standards

• The leader
• has the knowledge and skills to think and plan
  strategically, creating an organizational vision
  around personalized student success.
• is grounded in standards-based systems theory and
  design and is able to transfer that knowledge to
  his/her job as the architect of standards-based
  reform in the school.
• knows how to access and use appropriate data to
  inform decision-making at all levels of the
  system.

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Corollary Standards

• The Leader
• creates a culture of teaching and learning with
  an emphasis on learning.
• manages resources for effective results.
• collaborates, communicates, engages, and empowers
  others inside and outside of the organization to
  pursue excellence in learning.
• operates in a fair and equitable manner with
  personal and professional dignity.
• advocates for children and public education in
  the larger political, social, economic, legal,
  and cultural context.
• supports professional growth of self and others
  through practice and inquiry.

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Where we are in the Program
Understanding what needs to change
Learning how to change it
Unit 13 Final Simulation
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What is educational leadership?
The guidance, direction and support of sustained
instructional improvement leading to higher
student achievement
The guidance, direction and support of sustained
instructional improvement leading to higher
student achievement
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• Todays Agenda
• Thinking processes
• Course Themes
• Key Concepts and Ideas
• Getting the skinny on Greenwood
• Simulation
• Debrief

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Visionary Thinking
Change Agent Thinking

• Strategic
• Thinking

Ethical Thinking
Instructional Thinking
Systemic Thinking
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Review 1

• Courses
• and
• Big Ideas

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Review 2
Thinking Motifs and Big Ideas
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Review 3

• Big Ideas integrated across courses and motifs

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Getting the skinny on Greenwood

• 1 Introduction to Facilities
• 2 Facilities to Student Progress
• 3 Student Progress to School Vision
• 4 Vision to School Organization
• 5 School Organization to Key Players
• 6 Key Players to Your Task
• What are the implications of these facts as you
  take on the role of principal at Greenwood Middle
  School?

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Your Tasks as Principal

• is to lead the improvement of instructional
  practice and to achieve higher student
  performance during the next two years.
• is to have 55 percent of the students proficient
  in Reading and 50 percent in Math at each grade
  by the end of next year, and then achieving
  ongoing improvement thereafter.
• is to begin with the data.
• is to take your time, and dig beneath each of the
  decisions, the feedback, and the consequences

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Answer Key Log for Discussion
Jan and Bill
Work with 8, this will allow us to give extra
help to kids in grade 9 getting ready for
Keystones
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Greenwood Middle School Simulation

• Alone

Pair
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• http//nisl3.nislonline.org/nisl/simy2/webstudent/
  
• Session

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• What are the major challenges facing this school
  and its principal in attempting to improve
  instruction and in gaining high achievement for
  all students?

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Greenwood Middle School Simulation

• Only a change in practice produces a genuine
  change in norms and values. Or, to put it more
  crudely, grab people by their practice and their
  hearts and minds will follow.
• --Richard Elmore

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• Welcome Back, NISLeers!

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Group Assignment

• Count off by 3
• Groups 1
• Issue 1 The need for further improvement in ELA
  performance
• Group 2
• Issue 2 The need for further improvement in Math
  performance
• Groups 3
• Issue 3 A just, fair and caring school community
  student connectedness, engagement, and safety

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• 2014

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• 2017

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No 1 ELA
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2 Math
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No 3 Just, Fair and Caring
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Your ILI Then- ILI Now
Area Positive Negative
Vision    
Systems/Data    
Effective instruction    
Alignment and Coherence    
Learning Communities/Teams    
Sustaining Improvement    
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David Marsh on Challenges

• What are the major challenges facing the school
  and its principal in attempting to improve
  instruction and in gaining high achievement for
  all students?
• What is the biggest problem and what strategies
  could they implement to make the changes one
  student at time?

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