Canton Local School District’s

Journeyto

ENGAGMENT

The invitations:

You are cordially invited to the first District Design Team meeting of the 2012-2013 school year.Thursday, August 16, 2012At McCall’s10:00am-2:00pmPlease RSVP by Friday, August 10

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August 2012

CSHSDesigned study

skillsfor each

grade level

FMMSBDT Meetings

eachmonth during

PLC

FMMS“Divide & conquer”

Lead Teachers work w/ administration to define roles & goals for school year: PLC,

Tech, Engagement, & Coaching Circles

Newbiesstart their

journey on learning the Canton Local

Way!

FMMSSet goal of all staff

participating in at least 1 coaching

circle each semester(either Bird’s Eye,

Coaching Circle or Design Team Member)

What are people saying about the Ebook:

• The progression of the work, being able to refer back to work • I really like the different quotes that people have shared

• I love that it is digital

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Convocation 2012

Connecting the D•O•T•S

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September 2012

FMMSMichele P.Tech speed

sharing

Walker“WHO WORK”Done schoolwide

WalkerLead Teacher

createdSeuss - case

Do we need“Staff Voices”(Yes)?

Panels of SDT

in each school

Canton Local Lead Teachers 2012-2013

Canton LocalLead Teachers

Chosen

CSHSStaff

Technology Share-Outs

Student Voices introduced!

• WalkerPanel • FMMSPanel • CSHSPanel

WalkerMelissa KalbDan LawverKatie NolenSharon Smith

CSHSLisa BryanGregg ClarkMeghan FrickeCassie McGuyrt

FaircrestMason BoldizarNicole BowmanAmy EibelMichele Pedone

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October 2012

DistrictPDdesigned by

LeadTeachersforentirestaff

FMMSLEAD Teachers designed inservice. Teams worked on aligning & “breaking down” new curriculum

standards

CSHSStudent Voices

Jr/Sr Focus Groupsstudent lead

CSHSTo be continued

TechnologyShare-outs

C4DAmy Eibel & Gregg Clark

to C4D training @ Schlechty

Headquarters

FMMSLynn Rudd working

w/A. Eibel to design work for art classes incorporating literacy stardards through

crafting of artists statments for Veterans Day

October 2012 EmailfromJeffMoore: “Teacherssharedwithteacherswhattheyaredoingintheclassroomwithtechnology.Theynotonlysharedhowtousethetechnology,buthowitwasimplementedintotheclassroomlessonsandassessments-bothdailyandsummative.”

October 2012 Senior Focus GroupsSummarizing Thoughts and Themes

The following themes emerged from both Senior Focus Groups. The themes themselves are not in any type of weighted order; however, they are themes that were common between the two different classes.

The themes centered around the following topics:

1. Negative effects of the old grading policy. 2. Lack of and need for study skills intruction. 3. General thoughts about instruction. These include opinions regarding the over-concentration on test preparation, the over-emphasis on simple memorization, the lack of challenging work, and different opinions regarding the online options. 4. Meaningful work they had been given and achieved.

Focus Group Chart with examples from Jeff or Lynn-8-

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Exit Ticket for October 8th –Walker

What made it engaging for you?- “Going over standards, candy, and fancy video”- “I was engaged during staff meetings today. I loved the videos and the novelty of the Dr. Suess theme. I also like working with the other teacher of my grade level.”- “Talking through standards that were not clear”- “Working in my content area”- “Discussion”- “Group work, and going through each one”- “I liked allowing us to be with our grade level all day to work through the Common Core”- “I have been wanting to look at the Core standards so it was nice to have a day to look them over”- “Snacks, break time”- “The cooperative work discussions and the importance of the topic”- “Having Frank sitting with us and successfully talk through the core”- “Chance to discuss with team members”- “Having the day broken up into two parts - “I felt that it was very purposeful and a good use of our time”- “Working/discussing topics in a professional manner”- “Discussion with team to get everyone’s interpretation”- “I like Math and will be teaching”- “We worked as a team”- “Writing the core to help me understand. Great team to work with”- “The examples we are already using in class made it real, Love the movie”- “The relaxed atmosphere”- “I was the recorder, snacks were great, it really felt like we had great team works going on”- “Quiet room with grade level only. Specific guideline, clean cut instructions”- “I thought that it was authentic, that helped”- “It was applicable necessary work to clarify questions about curriculum. Also an administrator to keep all engaged and respectful really helped”- “I typed my own core statements. It was good to have input of peers”- “It pertained to me as a classroom teacher”

What would have made today better?- “It was two years in the future. When we are actually using the standards, also need to see what test will look like- “Not used to sitting all day. It was important work that had to be done”- “Not doing the same thing we’ve already done before”- “Changing things up, just sat in front of computer for four hours”- “Only participating in current content area”- “Less sitting”- “Nothing”- “Heat”- “All team members would have made all feel welcome”- “Examples to clarify each- there were a couple confusing standards”- “Long afternoon, great group, worked hard, very tired”- “We already have been teaching the standards, so finding resources, etc. to teach with would be helpful”- “Choosing a harder standard and designing a lesson around it”- “It was tough to stay on focus all the time…”- “Loved the videos”- “Lots of intense thinking”- “Wish we had more time to do now, within our team!”- “A lot to do at one time. Bit of an overload”- “No Dr. Suess… not a fan”-

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November 2012

FMMSSix coaching circles at

FMMS for work design to take place in near future

Monica trainsStudent Voices

Group from CSHS

FMMSCollected feedback from

coaching circles to inform & redesign process in future high participation & positive

comments resulted

CSHSBeliefs

Rolled OutCSHSStudent Surveys

FMMSSchool Spirit Store

opens to build school spirit

NewStaffInduction

CSHSStudentVoicesGroup

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December 2012

FMMSSchool-wide “Christmas

Choose Your Own Adventure” Design Experience 2-Day

Design of work for students B4 holiday break

*Big “WHO” work w/this design

CSHS

Beliefs RolledOut

Yes

EngagingtheNet

GenerationII12/17 AMOsbornBrickwoodBrantClarkBergertLawverSteinkePachanNolenMohn BowmanBoldizarStepanovichRogers

12/17 PMMooreFrickeRothMcGuyrtBerardoSiglerSadlerKalbWelkerKreitzerPedoneFaielloEibelHopple

12/18 - All day at WalshKara WinesNancy MillerShawn HainesGreg WilliamsDeb UrbanAmiee SalapackJen KrugerJim FletcherGreg EibelSheila DoerschukJanice BarnesKeith LongNicki HowardJay MoodyDale Rush

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January 2013District Design Team Agenda

Monday, January 28, 2013Central Office, Board Room

noon -5 pm

Agenda

12:00 noon I. Welcome & Recalibrating our Mission

Why are we recalibrating?What is distracting us from the Work?

What is the purpose of our work today?

12:15pm II. The WORK of Today

Break into 5 groupsRead about topicComplete chart

1:15pm III. Break

1:25pm IV. Report Out of info

2:20pm V. Gallery Walk

What are the key questions we must ask ourselves as we em-bark on our work?

Comment on visuals

3:00pm VI. Fife Conference call

4:00pm

Debrief / Next Steps

School Design Team MeetingTuesday, January 29, 2013

Central Office, Board Room

8:00-9:30 am Faircrest Design Team10:30-noon South Design Team

1:15-2:45 pm Walker Design Team

Agenda I. Welcome & The State of the District

II. Update on District Design Team work

DDT members share the work from yesterday

III. Share Out of SDT workSDT members share the work

from the 1st semester with group

IV. Transformation Chart workReview School Transformation Chart

Where are we with respects to what we said we were going to do last Spring?

What are our next steps to move forward?

• Dale will secure subs

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LoveTHIS pullsitalltogether!

RecalibratingourMission

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SuggestedNames: • TheMet-MeshingEverythingTogether •TheCantonLocalParthenon-Layingthefoundationfortoday,tocreate abettertomorrow! •RisingtotheChallengesoftoday,expectingabettertomorrow •Buildingabetterfoundationfortomorrow

CSHSBeliefsrolledout

Walker

PoetryNight

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February 2013

• FMMS - Michele P. & John H. led tech PLC meetings to support teacher tech use

• FMMS - Hopple & J. Laughlin time redesigned to address tech needs

• Walker - Coaching Circle - Professionalism

• Design plan for at-risk seniors to graduate

• FMMS - Staff survey of ‘who’ design qualities

• FMMS - Updated transformation chart to track design growth

• Walker - BIO BASH

• CSHS - Review prior high school goals

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March 2013

Walker

Startedour

“Design

Showcase”in

mainhall

Walker

Common

CoreMapping

LAK-2

CSHS

StudentFocus

Groups,Soph.

OGTprep,etc.

(Student Led)

FMMS

Pedone/Hopple

LedtechPLC

mtgstosupport

teacheruse

CSHS

EnglishMapping

FMMS

6CoachingCircles

for

2ndsemesterwork

*Designs focused on

developingengagin

gwork

topreparestude

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OAA

FMMS

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designqualitiesby

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3StaffMembers

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identify“who”

characteristics

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April 2013

CSHS2nd round ALL

STAFFTechnologyIntegration

FMMSPedone/HoppleLedtechPLC

mtgstosupportteacheruse

IntegrationofInstructionalFramework“theHOOK”ARRRRRR

CommonCoreMapping

LAGr3-4MathGr1-2

April/MayGradeLevel

Design/Coaching

CSHSTeacherTalk

Meetings

StaffTechnology•TechPLC•InstructionalFramework•MappingGradeLevelDesigh/Coaching•TeacherTalks

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May 2013

CSHSSeniorshad

3 yrs of DesignWork

FMMS‘Who’toolbox

availabletoFMMS

Stafffor2013-2014

WalkerGradelevel/

CoachingActivity

FMMSStaffpresentationof

parentcommunication

noneweekactivityDesignWorld

StudentvoicesStrugglingReaders

Interviews

Lookedatgoalsfor

13-14FMMS

3 Techsurveys•teacherneed

s

•teacherstudent

needs•studentneed

s

FMMS

Studentvoice

surveyedfor8thgr

graduation

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* 2012-2013

AdditionsW•O•W

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This would be a great way to get to know how students feel about your

content area. Have them fill this out based on the things they learned in your classroom at the end of a nine weeks. You could list the

topics they may choose from.

May 24 FMMS Knowing your who? Continued

Use BINGO dotters to record students feelings about their engagement for the day. This would cost much less than colored stickers and would serve the same purpose. Have students place a colored dot as they leave the room after the following statements:

Today I was cruising towards success.Today I was successful but didn’t give 100%.Today I did what I was told but didn’t get much out of it.Today I was not interested in my learning.

Have students record what they learned each day on a calendar. They could re-

flect, ask questions, or make declarations about their engagement. Collecting these

weekly could help guide instruction.

This could be used to gain student understanding pre or post lesson. Creating 100 questions makes students think beyond the obvious.

* 2012-2013

Additions

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May 24 FMMS Knowing your who? Continued

This is a simple way to collect info on what students hope to get from you as their teacher. Could expand or simplify depending on what you want to gain from it.

This could be used as a way for students to

understand the objective. Why they are learning

that objective. How they will know when they have

mastered the objective.

Frame a poster to create a wipe off tool students can comment on lessons to summarize their learning or provide feedback on the lesson.

This poster could be used to track kids’ exit tickets,

reflections, or thoughts on the day’s lesson without their

identity being known to all.

A working Twitter board that centers around student learning. Students could use as an exit ticket or an entrance ticket. Easy to view and restart as classes switch.

Knowingyour...

‘WHO’

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June 3 Meeting

What are we passionate about?

• How do we fuel our passions?• How do we continue to develop a culture that kindles our passion?• What are the first impressions/thoughts regarding this neighborhood/ community?• What students come to your mind when you see this area/ community? Why?• How can your passions enable students from this community to be innovators, creators, or producers?

How can we innovate for the students/community?

• What evidence can you see that indicates innovative thinking in this community? • How can we enable students to become innovators, creators, producers in our district? • Why is innovation important to this community and our students? How can we inspire others?

• How can you use our areas of passion to inspire students from this community?

fuel our passion • develop a culturebe innovators, creators or producers

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Monday, June 3, 2013

June 3 Meeting

8-10: Morning: ASSESSMENT• Where we have been. (info for ebook, use sticky notes, etc.)• Standard bearer questions. Sent in email to think about in preparation for meeting.

10-12: Inspirational Adventure• Guiding questions

Passion/Innovation/Inspiration

Finding your role in the vision:Need five drivers. (20 people total)Cards for each suite. Drivers have one card as designator. (Add Jacks)

What are we passionate about?• How do we fuel our passions?• How do we continue to develop a culture that kindles our passion?• What are the first impressions/thoughts regarding this neighborhood/community?• What students come to your mind when you see this area/community? Why?• How can your passions enable students from this community to be innovators, creators, or producers?

How can we innovate for the students/community?• What evidence can you see that indicates innovative thinking in this community? • How can we enable students to become innovators, creators, producers in our district? • Why is innovation important to this community and our students? How can we inspire others?• How can you use our areas of passion to inspire students from this community?

12-12:30: LUNCH

12:30-2:00: Afternoon: FUTURE: What is my role in the vision• Debrief what we saw. (post-its on large paper with questions. Gallery Walk)• Book talks (Bob)• Choose a book• Clarifying summer work. Goal to leave with purpose, action, accountability.• July 31st meeting 3-4 hours

End of Year at Goodwill Indsutries in Canton. Attendees: Nick Stepanovich, Gay Welker, Chris Noll, Frank Kruger, Katie Nolen, Mason Boldizar, Eric Brickwood, Jeff Moore, Todd Osborn, Amy Eibel, Mallory Floyd, Kim Redmond, Krista Hussar, Lynn Rudd, Dale Rush, Jay Moody, Lisa Hookway, Becky Steinke, and Meghan Fricke.

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It comes down to engaging people in the schools...

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We started the school year with the theme, “Connecting the Dots” and have come full circle. Our focus of Compliance, Wellness, High Expectations, Engagement, Bond Issue, and Portrait of a Canton Local Graduate served us well. The District and School Design Teams focused specifically on Extended use of Coaching Circles and utilizing our Instructional Framework-keeping engagement and design at the forefront. Our culminating product was the “Canton Local Parthenon” document that allowed us to make sure we kept the Portrait of a Canton Local Graduate and our beliefs in the front. This document brings me great pride as we look at any initiative that may come into the district and make sure that it fits our beliefs, engagement, design and the Portrait. This was the document that truly “Connected the Dots” for us. Kim

Year 3 Wrap Up of our Journey

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Innovation Team2013-2014

WalkerChris Noll Frank Kruger Katie Nolen Becky Steinke Deshanna Carter*Stephanie Berardo*Aimee Salapack*

Faircrest Gay Welker Amy Eibel Mason Boldizar Katie Kreitzer*Brian Mohn*John Hopple*

SouthTodd Osborn Jeff Moore Eric Brickwood Meghan Fricke Gregg Clark*Kourtney Betler*Celia Roth*Scarlett Papas*

Central OfficeMallory Floyd Jay Moody Kim Redmond Lisa Rogers Dale Rush Lynn RuddKrista Hussar*Wendy Busnick*

*New to the group

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