It’s OUR Job.

 Dale Ellis

“High expectations are the key to everything.” - Sam Walton Why do you think this is true?

“I don’t have high expectations anymore. Maybe they’ve just been beaten out of me.” -Actress Elisabeth Shue Why do you think this is true? How does that happen?

 Without an education, where can our kids go?  With only a high school education, where can they go?  Why is college important?  Why is career ready equally as important? We ALL own K-12 education for OUR students We ALL own OUR achievement gaps We ALL own poor performance in OUR ____ grade We ALL own poor performance on OUR ACT scores  Do your faculties truly believe these statements?

 We have “bless your heart” schools.  That is not necessarily a bad thing. It shows compassion.  It’s ok to pat our kids on the back, but let’s push them while our hand is back there too!  We don’t want to love them into stupidity and mediocrity.

 What’s working?  What’s not?  Are IFs involved and active in classrooms?  Are IFs providing district and school mandated staff development?  Are we doing CWTs consistently and using data to improve instruction?  Are we carrying out the model with high fidelity?  Or, are parts of it failing because we have low expectations for staff and students?

 Educators have a victim mentality, especially right now.  I agree that this feeling is not totally misplaced.  But, we can not make victims of our children because of what is happening in Raleigh.  We can not make victims of our children because WE don’t think they can do the work to be exceptional.  The adults are victimizing kids when we set low expectations! a8w

"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.“ – Steve Jobs Can your people do the work that is needed? Can you lead them in accomplishing this work? Do they get “it”?

"My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.“ – Steve Jobs  A real-world high expectations example.

 Happy Students

What happens to kids from kindergarten to that time they start not liking school? We do.

 The change we need starts with setting high expectations.  It starts with all of us being engaged and serious about this process. I’m sure glad the hole isn’t in our end.

 Market leaders are the last to transform.  They do not keep up, pay attention, and realize there is a problem until it is often too late.

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” - Socrates

Part of You Video “You say it long enough, it starts to be a part of you.”

 Let’s build those relationships and set high expectations for ALL students.  Let’s do the work with high fidelity so THEY can accomplish amazing results.  Growth is great, but we are better than below the state average!  Every kid deserves a champion!  Questions, comments, concerns?