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Continuous Improvement: Our Foundation for Success
Tesha A. Ruley | Daniel P. Butler
@TeshaAnneRuley | @danpbutler
[email protected] | [email protected]
Intended Outcome
Leaders will understand how data centers,
assessment walls, and social media have
been utilized to increase student
achievement, enhance family engagement,
while fostering a culture of improvement.
Our Foundation
Focus on improvement | Preschool-12th grade alignment
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Classroom Data Centers
SMART goals
Progress data
Strategic plans
Data Folders
Students track
individual progress
Individual goals set
(aligned to classroom goals)
(which are aligned to building goals)
Building Data Center
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Joseph Grenny’s 6 Sources of Influence:
❖ Love what they hate
❖ Help them do what they can’t
❖ Provide Encouragement
❖ Provide Assistance
❖ Change their economy
❖ Change their environment
Assessment Wall: A Culture of C.I.
Who: Classroom teachers, instructional coach, interventionists, administrator
What: Triangulation & discussion of student needs...what next!
When: Following benchmarks & monthly move opportunities
Where: In front of the assessment wall and around a table
Why: Support--students & teachers
How: Data sheets to inform discussion
Assessment Wall Process
Assessment Wall Process
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Assessment Wall Process
Assessment Wall Process
● Use your student data sheet to determine a placement on the wall for your
student. Mark this category on your student card.
Below Basic--BB Basic--B Proficient--P
Advanced--A
OR
Met--M Not
Yet--NY
● Now look at the code on the back. What next for this student? Is extra
support needed? If so, is it already in place? If not, what is your plan?
Interactive Activity
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EES/FES Websites | Facebook | Remind | Storify
Twitter (small following | big mistake)
Engaging Beyond Our 4 Walls
Take 2 minutes to reflect on your own or talk to someone about:
● Benefits of connecting your school or classroom
● Challenges of connecting your school or classroom
● Questions/other thoughts
Why Connect?
● Celebrate the good | Control the message
● Family engagement
● Increase student achievement
● Tell the story of our schools
Our Purpose
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● Define your purpose
● Meet your people where they are
● Foster a growth mindset toward connectivity/improvement
Maximize Your Impact
Academic Family Nights
Purposes:
❖ Build and enhance relationships
❖ Share information
❖ Bring families into the school beyond conferences
❖ Teach strategies
❖ Tell our story
Continuous Improvement: A Partnership with Families
Reaching out to Families
Make the connection:
❖ Letter
❖ Remind text
❖ Personal phone call
❖ Handwritten letter
❖ Facebook posts
Create a purpose!
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Continuous Improvement: A Partnership with Families
Connecting
families with
familiesBuilding home
libraries
Breaking down
the four walls
Creating
understanding
(Iowa
Assessments)
Growing skills
Partnering in vision
Celebrate
accomplishments-
performances
● Teacher Leadership and Compensation
● Teacher choice and voice
● “When you insist, they will resist”
● Personalized Professional Learning
● Session Examples
Instructional Coaching
1. WCEDD
1. Voxer
1. Twitter (#Hashtags)
Personalized Professional Learning
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Mobile phone app (walkie talkie app for smartphones)
Voice messaging w/ voice clips, text, and pictures
How is this used | What are the benefits?
● Live example
● Teacher | Principal
Voxer
● Easy, quick communication w/ individuals and groups
● Seamless collaboration
● Book studies, scenario-based podcasts
● Walkthrough Feedback
o Walkthrough 1
o Walkthrough 2
Voxer
● Think of hashtags as television channels such as ESPN, CNN, etc.
● Different channels provide different information; similar w/ hashtag
● Popular hashtags to follow:
o #iaedchat
o #edchat
o #tlap
o #satchat
o #saiconf15
#Hashtags
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● Tweetdeck
● Hootsuite
● Web based applications to allow easy access and ability to
utilize multiple hashtags at once
● Official Twitter Chat List
Accessing #Hashtags
Storify
● Tool to archive tweets and posts from multiple social media
platforms
How can this work for you?
● Archived Twitter chats
● A Week/Month/Year in Tweets
Archiving #Hashtags
Intro to Tweetdeck (video)
Storify Tutorial (video)
Formatting Google Forms (video)
Voxer 101 (video) | Voxer 101 Part 2 (video) via @joe_mazza
Farley Elementary: We Are Amazing (video)
Social Media 3.0 Beyond Twitter and Facebook (article)
Official Twitter Chat List | #eduVoxers Directory
Resources
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Thank You
dan TeshaAnneRuley | danpbutler
[email protected]@wdbqschools.org
truley404 danpbutler
danpbutler.com
