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Making Reform Real for Students
YES, We Can!!Yes, We Will!!
Juan R. Baughn, Ed.D.June 19, 2008
Focus!!
PVAAS 6
CIRCLES
PSSA 4 SIGHT
SCHOOLS
bestevidence.org CDDRE CCSSO (access)
WHAT WORKS
Aligned School Improvement System
Fair Assessments
Fair Assessments
CurriculumCurriculum
InstructionInstruction
Resources & MaterialsResources & Materials
InterventionsInterventions
Clear Standards
Clear Standards
Strong Results
for Students
Strong Results
for Students
The content behind the standards
How you teach the content behind the
standards
What students should know and do
How you help struggling kids
understand the content
The stuff you use to teach the
content
How you measure what students should know
and be to do.
A Foreign Place Called School
Being “the other”
RESILIENCY
• THE CAPACITY TO OVERCOME RISK FACTORS TO MOVE TOWARD POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT (BONNIE BERNARD 2004)
• TO SPRING BACK REBOUND (AND) SUCCESSFULLY ADAPT IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY (HENDERSON & MILSTEIN 2003)
Clear & Consistent Boundaries
School Code of Conduct Truancy Intervention Plan/Tool Kit
School-wide Positive Behavior Supports Training
High Expectations
PDE Standards/PSSAGovernor’s Institutes
Accountability Block Grants Project 720/CFF/Dual enrollment
Governor’s Special Education Performance Grants
Meaningful StudentEngagement
Student Council Service Learning
Youth Surveys
Connectiveness & Bonding
Mentoring & Drop-out grants Parent Involvement Conference After school/summer programs Homeless, Migrant & Refugee
student programs
Skills for Life
Anti-bullying programsCharacter education
Social/Emotional learning Resiliency training
Anti-tobacco/drug programs Career Counseling Grants
Unconditional Support
Alternative Education Student Assistance Program
Youth Suicide Prevention Pregnant/Parent/Teen
ELECT ProgramSpecial Education
Strong Results for
Students
Linkages Between Student Achievement and …
Quality Teaching Quality Leadership
Artful Use of Infrastructure Continuous Learning Ethic
Trailblazers: willing to go where no person has gone before
Pioneers: willing to take considerable risks.
Settlers: need to know what they are expected to do and where they are going.
Stay-at-Homes: may never go along and if so, only for a visit.
Saboteurs: are actively committed to stopping change.
Five Types of Change Participants:
Phillip Schlechty
Safe Schools
•Academically•Socially•Emotionally•Physically
No one can make you angry without your permission.
Window/Mirror
Seek First to Understand,
Then to Be Understood.
Stephen R. Covey
Right/Wrong
vs.
Appropriate/
Inappropriate
“You cannot talk yourself
out of a situation
you have behaved
yourself into.”
Juan R. Baughn, Ed.D.
Lehigh University
September, 1997
“Fair is not always equal”
Juan R. Baughn, Ed.D.Lehigh UniversitySeptember, 1997
Multiple Perspectives
The Past Plus the Present Is Not Equal to the Future
Unless We
Choose for it to!