4. Transitioning our Culture
Mission – Learning for ALL
Vision – We do whatever it takes
Values: Commitments – Developing
and Maintaining PLCs to ensure
learning for all
– Focus on Learning
– Utilize Best Practice
– Learning by Doing
– Strive for Continuous Improvement
6. Professional Learning
Communities
Four Big Questions
1) What do you expect students to learn?
2) How will you know when they learn it?
3) What will do you do for students that
don’t learn it?
4) What will you do with the students
that have already learned it?
7. PLC’s continued
Curriculum and Communication
– Scope and Sequence – Changes in Math, Social Studies and
English
– Common Pacing and Assessments
Culture of Change
– Students and faculty
– Mission, vision, values and goals
– Emphasis on learning instead of teaching
Administrative Review
– Learning
– Data
– Tight versus loose leadership
EXAMPLE of REVIEW
8. Tier One
School Improvement Team – focus change
Report Card versus Deficiency Report
Schedule Changes
– Reduced Passing Time – Freddy 14
– 0 and 9th hour
– Testing Center
– Modified Block
Resource Time
9. Tier One – Continued
Privilege System
Closed campus for freshmen
Technology Differentiation
STAR Conferences – 8th / 11th grades
Breakfast Program
10. Collaboration looks like…
A group of people working
interdependently to achieve
a common goal for which
they are mutually
accountable.
11. Collaboration Schedule
EXAMPLE of Collaboration Schedule
– 2010-11 School Year
– Includes collaboration dates for:
Tier One (whole staff)
Tier Two (core teams)
Tier Three (integrated teams)
Department Chair Meetings
School Improvement Committee
12. Collaboration Plans
Initially developed by School
Improvement Team and
Administration in 2008-09
By November of 2009 Departments
asked for autonomy to focus on areas
of need
Submitted each month prior to
collaboration time
13. Initial Collaboration
Examples of building provided agenda
– Initially needed to work through:
Norms
SMART Goals
High functioning teams
Group expectations
2nd Agenda
– Focus on Formative Assessments
– Realization of different starting points
“We can’t use common formative assessments if we aren’t using
common learning outcomes.”
– EXAMPLE
14. Improved Collaboration
Paradigm shift from department head
to collaboration leader
“Herd instinct” – some feel need to
keep entire department together
instead of breaking into teams
Administrative Role
EXAMPLES
15. Example of Science
– 10 minutes for Physical Science
– 10 minutes for Biology
16. Challenge of departments
teaching singletons
- International Language Department
- Different Languages, different levels but similar
instructional strategies
- Leads to discussion regarding best practices
and assessment
- Business Department
- CPA Core Standards
- Cross-walk class activities to 21st Century Learning
Standards
17. Professional Development
Shift from speakers to team work time
Tier 1, 2, and 3 activities
EXAMPLES
– Transition Point – February 19, 2009
– Transition Point – October 27, 2010
19. OHS Tier 2 Interventions
Intervention Manual
Content Study Halls
Reading Class
– Started as a freshmen course, expanded to sophomore
section and junior/senior section
Double up academic hours
Team Teaching – Resource and Regular Ed
Teaching Teams
Testing Center
Transitional Summer School Classes
Schedule
– Allow for lateral shifts
20. OHS Tier Three
Interventions
Intervention Conferences
Targeted Literacy – Reading Class
Odyssey
Peer Tutoring
CARE Conferences
OASIS
– Alternative School
Summer Credit Recovery
21. Team Approach to Problem Solving
(TAPS)
Meets every Thursday for one hour
School Counselors, Associate Principal, School Nurses,
School Resource Officer, School Psychologist, At-Risk
Teacher
Formerly spent too much time “admiring the problem”
Two lists generated prior to meeting
1) Five minute List – Five minutes or less to ID
intervention
2) More than five minutes list – More than five
minutes to ID Intervention
Expectation of Action
23. Intervention Conference
- Organized and led by guidance counselor
- Invite teachers, associate principal, and
sometimes school psychologist
- 15-20 minutes in length
- Share student’s strengths and weaknesses
- Follow up provided to each teacher
- EXAMPLE
24. Privilege List
Developed by SIC team
Focus on keeping the student in the
classroom
– Example of student in library
Focus on the student earning (back)
privileges and motivation to monitor
progress
EXAMPLE
25. Structured Study Halls
EXAMPLE of Structured Study Hall
Guidelines
CELEBRATION of new lists
Step approach between 340 hour,
commons, and study hall
26. Assessment Plans
Focus on Learning rather than
teaching
Future emphasis on being “tight” with
assessments, “loose” with teaching
strategies
– Underutilized during the first year
EXAMPLE
Example of AA
Change to team-based assessment
plans
27. Odyssey
Targeted Math Intervention
– ID of Freshmen and Sophomores 2 Grade
Levels Below
– Sale of program to students
Challenge of using study hall time
– Development of Privileges to increase
student ownership
– This year differentiation in targeted
classes with technology
28. Other Interventions
Freddy 14 and Passing Time
Credit Recovery and OASIS
Required Resource on ELD’s
Professional Development Opportunities
Restructuring of Resource Department
LINK Class
29. What needs improving
Communication among grade-level
teachers
PLC Sustainability
Consistency in grading policies
Improve Assessment Practices
Develop essential learning outcomes
for junior and senior level courses
30. THANK YOU
Peter Woerpel – High School Principal
– 608-783-4561, extension 5007
– woepe@mail.onalaska.k12.wi.us
Jared Schaffner-Associate HS Principal
– 608-783-4561, extension 5003
– schja2@mail.onalaska.k12.wi.us
