WCEA 2016Holy Family School | Sacred Heart School | St.

Joseph School, Mt. View | St. Lawrence School | St. Mary of the Immaculate

Conception | St. Patrick School

Common Features of Confident, Reflective People

They are willing to recognize and live with their own unfinishedness,knowing that they are subject to weaknesses and sometimes failures but that the best of them is good, so very good. They know they have limitations but they also know that they can rejoice in the promise of redemption.

Despite their fears, they constantly stretch their inner selves to take risks, to meet challenges. They believe in their giftedness and know that the best way to thank God for it is to continually reach into risk, discovering, and developing their hidden potential.

They know how to laugh and enjoy life even in the most difficult of times; they do not take themselves so seriously as to grimace and fret through each day.

They take time for solitude—to think and to pray in order to distance themselves and get a good perspective on their present situation.

 

They have their values in proper order, recognizing that people are always more important than material things, knowing that it is only the immaterial values such as love that they will carry them into the eternal life.

They nurture an intimate relationship with their God for they have learned that the more they know this wonderful God, the more they will understand how deeply He cherishes them no matter what happens in their lives.

Finally, they have a vision within themselves that reminds them that their strength and power, their hope and trust, can never be mustered all by themselves. Rather, it is God in whom they find their strength and often this God gives the needed strength through the encouragement and kindness of other human beings.

 

 

Knowledge Assessment

Don’t Know | Have Heard | Understand |Can Teach Forming Teams

Task of Data Teams

Types of Data

Data Analysis, Significance of Analysis

Triangulating Data, Importance of Looking at

Multiple Data Points

Shareholder Engagement

Nuances in the Protocol

Self Assessment

• Where are you in the process?

• Are teams in place?

• Have surveys been sent out?

• Have surveys been analyzed?

• Discussions: have begun | are well under way | will begin in the fall

• Writing: has begun | is well under way | will begin in the fall

On why we need to ask why…

In the absence of sound science, incomplete information can powerfully combine with the power of suggestion. In fact, a common thread that runs through beliefs of all sorts, he says, is our tendency to convince ourselves: We overvalue the shreds of evidence that support our preferred outcome, and ignore the facts we aren’t looking for.

Michael ShermerFounder and Publisher|Skeptic Magazine

Ch. 3, D: Data Analysis and Action to Support High

Achievement of All Students

The school uses educationally sound assessment processes to collect data. The

school disaggregates and analyzes student performance data and uses the analysis as a

basis for instructional/curricular improvement.

Discussion Questions Written Narrative Conclusion | 3-5 significant accomplishments | 1-3 significant

impact

Evidence | about Appendix B

Discussion Questions

These questions are provided to stimulate discussion and help build the

“Big Picture” of the school; not to be specifically

answered in the narrative. The written narrative should synthesize the

information gathered in these discussions, fully address the

Accreditation Factor and respond to the writing points.

Written Narrative, 1

Write a concise 3- to 5-page narrative describing how and to what extent your school uses

educationally sound assessment processes to collect, disaggregate

and analyze data and uses the analysis as a basis

for curricular/instructional improvement.

Written Narrative, 2

Conclude your narrative by describing what you discovered about the

school’s Data Analysis and Action by analyzing your

data. ::: What data supports this analysis?

::: What did you discover that needs

to be improved?

BREAK

Shareholder Engagement

Scheduling Discussions

Evidence

Evidence

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49053554/WCEA/0.%20Landing%20Pages/Accreditation%20Welcome%20Page.pdf

Next Steps

• Continue discussions

• Part 3 Training: Sept. 3 | 9A-3P

• Identifying areas of growth: prioritization, five goals, top two and in-depth becomes action plan

• Action plan in SMART goal language, accompanied by strategies with specific details as available (resources: cost, time, personnel)

• Bring plan to present evidence and preparation for the visit

Drafts | Questions?Due by mid-June:

DRAFT Chapter 2 | Context of the School

A. School ProfileB. Use of Prior Accreditation Findings to

Support High Achievement of All StudentsDue by Sept. 3:

DRAFT Chapter 3| Quality of the School Program

On why we need to look deeper…

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little finite moments of time than we would guess.

Malcolm GladwellAuthor | Journalist