Good Morning

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Good Morning

• After you have located your teams assigned
  table, please review the Outstanding Practices
  from other schools.

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High Schools That Work Prioritizing and Planning
SessionCreating an Initial Plan
HSTW
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Objectives for the Morning

• To create a redelivery plan to engage ALL staff
  members in the investigation of HSTW Key
  Practices to impact student achievement and high
  school completion rates.
• To create a prioritized action plan that will
  assist teachers and leaders to provide an
  enhanced focus to the current Educational Plan
  for Student Success

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HSTW Key Practices
HSTW

• Culture of Continuous Improvement
• Program of Study
• Career/Technical Studies
• Work-based Learning
• High Expectations

• Academic Studies
• Students Actively Engaged
• Teachers Working Together
• Guidance
• Extra Help

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School Teams that Redeliver the Workshop
Suggestions for Building Faculty Support

• Hold an Orientation
• Admit Slip/Enhanced HSTW Brochure
• SREB orientation PowerPoint
• Create cross-curricular teams
• Each team take one section of planner,
  brainstorm, share-out
• Submit results of brainstorming to school
  improvement team

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Establish Need for Change Engaging faculty in
gap analysis

• Opportunity Gap
• Who is enrolled in which courses?
• Majority/minority
• Free/reduced lunch
• Gender
• Expectations Gap
• Variances in expectations across courses
• Variances in literacy across the curriculum
• Survey students/teachers
• Achievement Gap
• Course levels enrolled in by ACT
  (College/non-College core)
• Expectations
• Grade level analysis (grade 9)

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Focus Teams Develop Implementation Steps for
Actions
HSTW

• Assign a major action to one or more of the focus
  teams
• Draft a charge to the team regarding
  implementation of this action in year 1
• Have teams develop an implementation plan for the
  action, present it to the school improvement team
  and eventually to the entire faculty
• When year 1 is completed, start work on year 2
• Ask teams to develop benchmarks and monitor plan
  for implementation

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How will you get others involved?

• Use page 37 to answer the following questions
• How will you introduce the information and
  recommended actions developed in this workshop to
  all district and teacher leaders?
• How will you form focus teams (or other
  interdisciplinary teams) and make them active?
• How will you identify an Effort Based Advocate in
  your school? (See page 39 for the definition.)
• How will you empower focus teams to lead and take
  action?

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Adding to Your Presentation Board
School Name
Top 5 Outstanding Practices 1 2 3 4 5 Will be completed next Redelivery Plan Team Structure
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Essential Table Questions

• How can we focus our actions to impact student
  achievement and high school completion rates?
• How can we become the catalyst for change?

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Student Performance on the 2006 HSTW Assessment
NEW MEXICO SITES

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2006 New Mexico Core Data
HSTW
Average Reading Average Mathematics Average Science
Fully Completed11 (completed all three subjects) 295 320 322
Partially Completed46 (completed 1 or 2 of the subjects) 278 306 296
Did Not Complete 43 259 281 274
HSTW Goal 279 297 299
Source 2006 HSTW Assessment and Student Survey
Based on students who completed the student
survey and all three subject tests.
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Statewide Reading Proficiency All Groups
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Statewide Math Proficiency All Groups
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Statewide Science Proficiency All Groups
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2007 New Mexico State ACT Results
Percent College Ready in English 62
Percent College Ready in Math 32
Percent College Ready in Social Science 48
Percent College Ready in Science 22
Percent College Ready in All 4 Areas 16
State/National Composite Scores 20.2/21.2
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Step 1 Prioritizing Actions

• Use Page 33 as a brainstorming page as you review
  your action posters
• Keep in mind that you will need to support the
  following
• Structural
• Instructional
• Support
• Leadership Development

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Step 2 Identifying Year 1 Actions

• Use page 34 to outline the actions that you will
  implement over the next school year to impact
  student achievement and high school completion
  rates
• Continue onto page 35 to sketch a plan for year
  two and three
• You will add this action plan to the center
  section of your project board

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Adding to Your Presentation Board
School Name
Top 5 Outstanding Practices 1 2 3 4 5 Action Plan for Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Action/Who/When Redelivery Plan Team Structure
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Learning from Each Other

• Set up your presentation board
• Rotate through your row to gather information
  about what other schools are doing
• Take a note pad to jot down key actions from
  other schools (to validate what you are doing and
  to use as future suggestions)

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Making the Connection

• Dr. Steve Broome

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Ticket Out the Door
Rank Number Topic
Literacy
Numeracy
Guidance and Advisement
Grading Practices to Support High Rigor and Expectations
Creating a High Performance Learning Culture Using Data
Redesigning the Ninth Grade Experience
Transitions from High School to Postsecondary Schools and Work
Developing Programs of Study
Developing an Effort-Based Learning Culture
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REMEMBER
HSTW

• All schools want to improve but few want to
  change. The fact remains that to improve, one
  MUST change.

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Next Steps

• KEEP MOVING!!!!!!!
• REMEMBER You own the plan!
• Schools that fail to make progress
• Keep moving after this workshop use summer
  planning time to engage additional faculty
  members in the discussion