1. Athena Improvement Team (2013 ~ Summer Meeting)

2. Objectives for Today Understand the connections and demands of the NYSED Reform Agenda, the District Strategic Plan, our current Athena High School data and the SIP. Analyze multiple sources of data to identify strengths and target areas for goals relative to the District Strategic Plan. Use the Cycle of Inquiry framework to begin the process of developing the SIP.

3. Our Purpose: The NYSED Reform Agenda Common Core Standards (What we teach) Data Driven Instruction (How we know it works) APPR Cycle (How we ensure professional growth)

4. GCSD Strategic Plan Envision Greece 2017 pg. 3 - Vision pg. 17 - Pathway pg. 21 - Goals Our Purpose:

5. Text Tagging Strategic Plan Goals CCLS DDI APPR PLC RtI PBIS FFS (Family Friendly Schools) Check - things we do already Star - things we don't do yet

6. Assessing Our Current Reality "A system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets."

7. Our Achievement Gap Students who are black Students who have disabilities Students who are economically disadvantaged Our system meets the needs of middle class white students who are not classified... tremendously well! Our system struggles to meet the needs of the following groups of students:

8. Building Shared Knowledge "People with the same facts, data and information, tend to come to the same conclusions."

9. Case Study - Brockton High School Challenges Faced Solutions Tried Ideas to Steal

10. Visible Learning - John Hattie "Visible teaching and learning occurs when learning is the explicit goal, when it is appropriately challenging, when teacher and student both (in various ways) seek to ascertain whether and to what degree the challenging goal is attained, when there is deliberate practice aimed at attaining mastery of the goal, when there is feedback given and sought, when there are active, passionate, and engaging people (teachers, peers, students and so on) participating in the act of learning." (Hattie, 2009, pg. 22)

11. Visible Learning - John Hattie Explicit Learning Goals Level of Challenge Assessment Deliberate Practice Feedback Relationships The Instructional Priorities According to the Research

12. Focus Areas for SIP Closing the Achievement Gaps (Proficiency & Mastery) Systematically Increasing Critical Skills Ensuring College and Career Readiness Continual Culture and Climate Improvement (We can consider more/other areas as needed based on the data, the research and the Strategic Plan)

13. Process: Cycle of Inquiry "What gets measure and monitored gets done!"

15. Group Work Closing the Achievement Gaps (Proficiency & Mastery) Systematically Increasing Critical Skills Ensuring College and Career Readiness Continual Culture and Climate Improvement

16. Athena Improvement Team (2013 ~ Summer Meeting)