High High Performance Performance Consulting Consulting
Creating High Performance Schools David L. Linzey, Executive Director Clayton Valley Charter High
Values • Each student matters and deserves a world class education • Parents as partners is a key to world class schools • Rigorous instruction is essential to preparing students for a competitive global work force • Relevant application of content is key to learning • Nurturing relationships between teachers and students is a fundamental right of students • Working at schools is the greatest job and most noble profession in the world! We are touching and creating the future! – Collaboration, Communication & TEAMWORK (“together everyone achieves more”)
Vision For CVCHS • Each student is prepared with collegereadiness and 21st century skills! • Teachers , staff and administrators give 100% effort • Schools are the highest performing in their similar schools band • Utilize cutting edge – research based instructional strategies to insure the best learning is taking place for every student • Rigorous/Relevant Application/Nurturing Relationships= Results • First class citizens with a world class education with elite staff 3
My Beliefs • All students can learn and achieve at very high levels • My responsibility is to insure all students do learn and achieve • Teachers who take responsibility for their students learning see much higher results than those who blame • All teachers can become effective when supported and when they have the commitment to work hard to learn how • Schools that perform high are typically focused on the students needs • CVCHS can become the highest performing in their 100 “similar schools band” 4
RESULTS
• How High of API Can We Go? • What % of our students can become proficient? 50%? 75%? 100%? • How many of our students can go to college? Directly to a 4 year college? • What should high schools teach? What are the true goals in educating students? What should our outcomes be? • How would you measure success this coming year? • What do we want CVCHS to be when we grow up? 5 years from now? • “Without a vision the people perish” – • What is our vision? 5
Goals 2012-2013 • English Department – Advanced and Proficient %? • Social Studies ? • Science? • Math? • Goals for Foreign Language? • Goals for Athletics and PE? • Elective Goals? 6
Vision and Goals • What words best describe you as a professional educator? • Committed, hard working, prepared, world class, team player, cutting edge, innovative, learning new strategies, on the grow, inspired, motivated, student centered, above and beyond? • World class teachers make world class students = world class school 7
Why Change Schools? • “Our students must become prepared for the world they live in and for their future success not our past” - Future jobs • Students will have 9+ different career changes and must have a college education for the middle class jobs-prepare to compete! • Students live in a changing world- a global market place, scientific advancements, technological society. • Global competition for high paying jobs of the future: Literacy, Problem-solving & Technology 8
Our Changing World
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Projection Keyboard
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Nations' Average Science Performance Compared with the U.S. 100% 50% 0% Grade 4
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Nations scoring higher than the U.S. Nations scoring the same as the U.S. Nations scoring below the U.S. Source: Highlights From TIMSS
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Nations' Average Mathematics Performance Compared with the U.S. 100% 50% 0% Grade 4
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Nations' scoring higher than the U.S. Nations scoring the same as the U.S. Nations scoring below the U.S. Source: Highlights From TIMSS
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African American and Latino 17 Year Olds Do Math at Same Level As White 13 Year Olds 100%
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White 8th Graders African American 12th Graders Latino 12th Graders Source: NAEP
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African American and Latino 17 Year Olds Read at Same Level as White 13 Year Olds
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Number of Participants Intel International Science Competition
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Careers of the Future • • • •
Math Science Technology Literacy at Very High Levels for All Careers (Blue Collar Jobs Require Highest Levels of Literacy - Technical Manuals) 27
Employment 1970’s High Skill
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Employment 1990’s High Skill Semi Skill Low Skill 29
Employment 2010 High Skill Semi Skill Low Skill 30
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Show Me The Money!!! • College Graduates – Earn about $1,500,000 more than high school graduates during their career – Have a much higher rate of employment – Own their own homes at a higher rate
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Factors that Effect Student Learning Principals
Students
Schools
Teachers
Peers
Students Teachers Home Peers Schools Principals
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Powerful Instructional Program-”No Silver Bullet”
Instructional Guides Benchmark Exams Personal Learning Plans-students need a vision Quality Criteria for Classroom Inst.Walkthrus Powerful Tech-Based Intervention Programs Comprehensive Professional Dev. Program Administrators in Classrooms-provide feedback Data-Driven Decision Making Celebration of Success! Build Upon Strengths! Culture of Sharing Best Practices Among Teachers Math & Reading Support Classes or Intervention Powerful Student Mentoring Programs Comprehensive Guidance Programs Own the Instructional Day - Expand Time on Task37 Inst Minutes
Strategies for 2012-2013 • Data Action Teams • Unpack Standards – “what do students need to know or be able to do to demonstrate mastery/proficiency?” • High Powered Intervention Programs – Achieve 3000 – Destination Math – Saturday Achievement Academy – Afterschool Tutoring – “Accept what you expect”-Require Effort – Failure is not an option-”do-overs”
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Keys to Accelerated Learning • Reading – Achieve 3000 (40 assignments raise reading a full lexile level – grade level)-let’s have them read 40 in Language Arts, 40 in Science, and 40 in History • Cornell Notes in all subjects (AVID) • Time on task – Bell-to-Bell Instruction • Clear expectations – unpacked standards with rubrics and Graphic Organizers for each lesson 39
Initiatives for 2012-2013 • Reading in all disciplines – use of Achieve 3000 • CVCHS students become the best writers in California – writing school • Professional Development on research based instructional strategies – The high school that offers the best instruction to students 40
Parents as Partners • Lack of sleep=lack of focus in class = 2 years below grade level performance • Check homework assignments online – posted assignments • Attendance everyday –increase attendance by 1% • Eat a good breakfast • Parent-teacher communication – post grades immediately so they can check and be up-to-date on work completed • When students miss school-make sure they get opportunity to make up missed work immediately – post work so they can complete homework while home sick • Allow/require students to perform make up work/do overs
Fundamental Belief
Schools Can & Will Make a Powerful Difference
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Teachers Make a Difference • “The single greatest factor that impacts learning is the quality of the teacher standing in front of the students every day” • Teacher effectiveness must be our laser-like focus, theme, professional development, and our primary issue • Cannot overcome two years of poor teaching…students at huge disadvantage 43
Some Attribute the Achievement Gap To…. • Lack of good role models • Language differences • Lack of parental support • Poor • No quiet place to study
• Poor peer choices • Lazy • Were not prepared by past teachers • Lack of focus • Lack of sleep & food
No one is to blame.
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What do we believe? • About the potential of each individual student? • About the skills and abilities of our colleagues? • About the impacts of ethnicity, home language, socio-economic status? • If we Believe all students can achieve at high levels, why do we allow some to fail? -on the road to dropping out…ex. Saturday Academic Achievement Academy 45
Promising Practices • • • • • • • • • • •
Professional Learning Communities No Excuses University -Teachers Take Responsibility GLAD Training-Reading and writing focus in all subjects Gear Up for College-College Preparedness for All EL Master Plan-all out attack on literacy - feedback, close the achievement gap - laser like focus Writing As a Focus in Each Subject by Every Teacher AVID Strategies: Academic Vocabulary & Tutoring “Not all students learn the same way or on the same day”-Doug Reeves; “But all students can learn and achieve at high levels given enough time and support” Reeves - “You accept what you expect” - High Expectations for student work is key TEAM - “Together Everyone Achieves More” 46 Powerful Intervention Programs
We need to prepare students for their future, not our past. -Anonymous
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Job Well Done - Gratitude
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