1. Sydnee Dickson Director, Teaching and Learning USOE

2. Ensuring literacy and numeracy for all Utah children. Providing high quality instruction for all Utah children. Establishing curriculum with high standards and relevance for all Utah children. Requiring effective assessment to inform high quality instruction and accountability.

3. 20052006200720082009 Caucasian81.0782.9982.8083.0684.14 African American 58.8759.9860.5158.7462.12 Hispanic51.5554.3354.6455.0158.26 Native American 52.3755.1054.3353.8256.37 Student w/ Disabilities 40.0542.4242.6743.9046.25 ELL50.1352.6252.3147.5449.53 Econ. Dis.63.8565.6565.3564.0966.82

4. Are we improving? While some improvement has been made in performance for students with disabilities, achievement gaps continue as compared with their peers who do not have disabilities. Gaps have closed by approximately one percentage point each year.

5. Are we improving? Students living in conditions of poverty are not making gains in achievement at the same rate as their middle class peers. Gaps in learning between these students and their peers hover at around 19 percentage points.

6. Orem Jr. HighMonroe Elementary

8.  Implementing Common Core Standards  Developing 21 st Century teacher and principal standards  Measuring teacher and principal effectiveness  Advocating for teacher collaboration  Improving professional development  Exploring differentiated pay and teacher leadership  Revisioning the career continuum for teachers

9. Visionary and persistent leadership Clearly articulated performance standards Laser focus on students who aren’t meeting standards Attention to social/emotional needs of students Commitment to high quality instruction as tool for improvement Consistent time for adult learning (PLCs) to study data and student work Community engaged in achievement endeavors

10. I said to my children, “I’m going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don’t ever want you to forget that there are millions of God’s Children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don’t want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.” Martin Luther King Jr. in The Flat World and Education by Linda Darling Hammond