Monday April 4, Staff Work Day
Work Day 7:30-3:30PM
AM Staff Meeting-- School Improvement Plan
8:30 – 10:30AM (with a short break)
Staff—please bring laptops
Agenda:
Coffee and Doughnuts/Fruit
- April Fools Fun and Games Elaine
- Overview of Process and Review “State of the School” presentation- Bill
- Gallery of Data, Assets and Challenges (Admins)
- Departments report out:
- What 2-3 assets did the department notice?
- What are 1-2 areas of need that we should address?
Please focus on :
- student achievement, intervention and support
- school climate/student engagement in school
- make suggestions with clear, achievable, time bound and measurable outcomes
- suggest actions at the Department level OR school wide
10:30-11:30AM (Approximately) PLC/Department Time
11:30 LUNCH on your own
Afternoon is individually directed teacher work time.
Gallery of Data, Assets and Challenges
- Norms ( Melyssa): (15 Min)
- Resist rushing to a judgment- take in the big picture and process with others.
- Focus on what we can control and influence. (We can’t control outside factors or blame outcomes on outside factors.)
- Recognize limitations in time and resources.
- Focus on achievable, time bound actions that we can see/measure the outcome.
- Process (Facilitated by Bill, Melyssa, Nancy and Elaine) (45Min) :
- Group by Department
- Admins introduce the data
- Jigsaw go through thedata gallery in pairs or threes
- Follow the protocol questions (google form):
- What are you seeing, noticing or wondering?
- What do these data mean for students/studentachievement?
- What is needed? What should we do?
- Return to Department and discuss
- Whatare some of our assets?
- What are areas of need that we should address?
- focus on student achievement/intervention and support and/or school climate/student engagement in school
- focus on achievable, time bound actions that we can see/measure the outcome
- Departments report out ( Department Heads):
- What 2-3 assets did the department notice?
- What are 1-2 areas of need that we should address?
- focus on student achievement/intervention and support and/or school climate/student engagement in school
- focus on achievable, time bound actions that we can see/measure the outcome
- This may be things at the Department level OR school wide ideas
- Department Ideas feed into next level of planning for May Meeting
- In May we will follow a similar process to create a 2-3 year plan and set a limited number of priorities