Charts from RIC meeting 2-1-2002

Charts from RIC meeting 2-1-2002
1. Staff Development – Essential Elements
  1. Flexible schedule – vertical/horizontal

Charts from RIC meeting 2-1-2002

7-12 Configuration buildings

Barriers:
� Shared staff
� Physical plant

Staff Development – Essential Elements

Flexible schedule – vertical/horizontal

Flexible schedule – vertical/horizontal

Assessments:
� Retention
� Sort/select
� Lower expectations – L1/L2
� Middle School � More like High School
� Gather and use data
� Alternative Assessments – no finals
� Open communication (5-8)
� Change use of time
� AIS – help
� Special Education – improve
� Loss of teacher time
� Emphasis on Grade 8 only
� Not focused on social/emotional

Help?
� Data Analysis � Practical use – What does it mean?
� Middle School teachers – best practices – internal capacity
� Support sustain administration

Suggestions:
� Too many requirements Grades 6-8
� Staff Development – instructional strategies
� Social Emotional/Behavioral needs – equal focus

SED:
� Premature evaluation
� Too much emphasis on academic
� Assess and evaluate all 7 Essential Elements

Educational leadership is essential

Barriers:
� Monies – successful Middle School – Academic/Social/Emotional
� Transition
� Communication
� Parent “buy-in” to Middle School concept

Why is High School more successful?
� Coming in more prepared

Assessement
� Current alignment
� Staff development
� Progressive evaluation
� Instruction
� Goal setting
� Rigor
� Reflection on practice
� Interdisciplinary opportunity
� Teacher/student/parent/administration stress
� Testing is not the only measure of success
� No monies – mandates
� AIS – limit opportunity for alternative interest

Middle School evaluation (SURR model)
� Criteria is explicit
� More collaboration/discussion
� Time to do the work – balance monies, staff development, loss of instruction time
� Essential Elements (K-12)
� Teacher most important � student achievement
� Student work
� Multiple layers of work – (change instruction)
� Assessment:
� Need to integrate all areas
� Collaboration
� Rigor
� Emphasis – reading
� Teach to test
� Lack of teacher training – standards – preparation
� Disparity – Middle School philosophy
� Middle School staff development – needs of student
� Middle School philosophy – agreement
� SED – help “buy-in” of all 7 Essential Elements – not just academic requirements
� Monies and time barriers to implement philosophy
� Extend time
� Team
� Blocks
� Professional Development – instructional strategies

Assessments: (create anxiety – not able to focus on all aspects)
� performance – extended task
� Alignment of curriculum
� Conversations – focused attention
� Focus/format – curriculum development

Process: Implement 7 Essential Elements – give it time

Quality teachers – key to Essential Elements (K-12)

Parental/Community support – inform changes

Cultural barriers � change

Assessments not used effectively for planning

SED—Scoring parallel to Regents?

7-12 – Where to start?

6/7-12 Buildings – share staff, etc.

Teachers/Instruction
� Assessments not measures of Elements
� How to measure?
� Time focused on assessments – not able to do other things
� How to use data? Teachers? What does it mean? How can we use it?
� Awareness of 7 Essential Elements? New staff?