Transforming SchoolsThrough Data Driven Instruction

and PBIS/ICU

Norms

• Introduction• Participate• Ask questions• Share your knowledge

Learning Objectives• A transforming school works collaboratively

to identify student learning objectives• A transforming school uses teamwork to

create common assessments• A transforming school monitors each

students learning on a frequent and timely basis

• Creates a systematic process to provide intervention for students who are experiencing difficulty and enrichment for those already proficient

• A transforming school focuses on data and uses data to fuel continuous improvement.

• The transforming school process requires educators to engage in reflective practice

• Research shows that it improves teaching and learning for all

A Process

Three Big Ideas

Focus on Learning

Collaborative Culture

Focus on Results

What is to we want all students to learn?

How will we know if they have learned it?

How will we respond when they do not learn?

How will we respond when students already know it?

What should we see?

Intense Focus on Learning

Collaborative Culture

Increase Learning Time

• Added instructional time to the academic school day.

• Wilson ISD added 33 minutes to each school day, which equals 5841 extra minutes or 97 additional hours.

Summer Academies

• Horticulture• Food and Nutrition• Astronomy• Rocketry• Robotics• Technology Camp

Front Load Core Academics

• Math and reading courses were double blocked

• Additional 7,965 minutes of math instruction time, totaling 132.75 extra hours.

Tutors

• Wilson ISD added 9 new staff members to provide tutoring for math and reading for small groups.

Focus on Results

Biggest Difference?

DataDrivenInstruction

PBIS

• School-wide discipline plan• Positive, Behavior, Intervention, Support• Routines and Procedures• Sets guideline for success• Clear behavioral expectation in all area of the

school• Rewards and recognition systems

ICU

• Intensive Care Unit• Shared Communication Tool• Tracks missing assignments• Teamwork• Parent Communication• Re-do work that is not satifactory

Negativity

The Key

• Adult Learning

Assumptions about Adult Change

Leaders Must Focus on Adult Learning

Reason School Reform Fails

Data

Teacher Learning

StudentIntervention

Success Equation

Teacher Reflective Learning

Collaboration Student Achievement

Four conditions for effective adult interaction

• Relationships that foster interdependence reflected in shared norms

• Face to face creation of Learning Culture• Understanding conflict and conflict

management• Interactions promote individual and group

accountability land responsibility

Teachers Must Have the Time

Effective Meetings

• Focused on Instruction• Focused on Data• Monitor their teamwork through the creation of products such as list of norms, values, creation of common assessments

Leaders Must Insist on SMART Goals

• Specific• Measureable• Accountable• Realistic• Timely

What conditions are needed for change?

Where do you start?

Four Building Blocks

Mission Vision

Values Goals

Mission or Purpose• Why do we exist?

Vision

What do we hope to become?

Values

How must we behave in order to make our shared vision a reality?

Goals

Working Together

What steps will be taken first, and when?

Results

Cultural Shift

Traditional Schools