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Good Morning

After you have located your team’s assigned table, please review the Outstanding Practices from other schools.

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High Schools That Work Prioritizing and Planning

Session

Creating an Initial Plan

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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

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:1. Admit Slip/Enhanced HSTW Brochure2. SREB orientation PowerPoint3. Create cross-curricular teams4. Each team take one section of planner, brainstorm,

share-out5. 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

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:1. How will you introduce the information

and recommended actions developed in this workshop to all district and teacher leaders?

2. How will you form focus teams (or other interdisciplinary teams) and make them active?

3. How will you identify an Effort Based Advocate in your school? (See page 39 for the definition.)

4. 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

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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

56

29

45

27

44

36

14

10

30

3

1

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Science

Mathematics

Reading

Below Basic Basic Proficient Advanced Bar 5

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2006 New Mexico Core Data

Source: 2006 HSTW Assessment and Student Survey – Based on students who completed the student survey and all three subject tests.

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Average Reading

Average Mathematics

Average Science

Fully Completed—11% (completed all three subjects)

295 320 322

Partially Completed—46%(completed 1 or 2 of the subjects)

278 306 296

Did Not Complete –43%

259 281 274

HSTW Goal 279 297 299

Statewide Reading Proficiency All Groups

Reading: % of Students At or Above Proficient

56.9

54.2

49.6 55

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43.4

40.9

56.9

51.8

55 49.9

51.6

42.8

58

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50.4

40.4

57.2

53.9

54.5

53.7 58

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Statewide Math Proficiency All Groups

Math: % of Students At or Above Proficient

30.1

43.7

46.0

36.4

26.8 30

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21.326

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39.243.3

19.8

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30.532.9

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Statewide Science Proficiency All Groups

Science: % of Students At or Above Proficient78

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54.8

42.4

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35.6

79.0

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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

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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

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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

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 …

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