ISLLC Standard #4 ISLLC Standard #4 Monitoring Diverse Needs Name Workshop Facilitator

Welcome  Name of Superintendent  Welcome  Why Important © AZ Board of Regents, BEST Professional Development, All rights reserved, 2012.

Overview & Introductions  Name of Facilitator  Introductions  Overview / Agenda  Guiding Questions  Targeted Objectives  ISLLC Standards © AZ Board of Regents, BEST Professional Development, All rights reserved, 2012.

Proposed Norms & Expectations  Stay focused and fully engaged  no competing conversations please  Participate to grow  share openly and monitor your listening  Be a learner  create your own meaning and application  Get your needs met  ask questions that benefit the group  personal questions on breaks  Housekeeping  silence cell phones  handle business later  share ONE point …then next person

Leadership Model A Systems Thinking Approach: ISLLC Standards and improvement strategies are managed through Key Processes Student Achievement Teacher Quality Instructional Leadership ImplementingMonitoring Supporting CommunicatingAdvocatingPlanning

ISLLC Standards  A principal may choose to implement specific strategies to meet the ISLLC Standards and/or improve his/her performance relevant to the ISLLC Standards. The standards are: 1.Facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning 2.Advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth 3.Ensuring management of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment 4.Collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources 5.Acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner 6.Understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context

Sample Application Focus

Application Focus At the conclusion of this module you will identify key concepts and plan your application focus In the column labeled “Current Reality” –Rate yourself on a scale of 1-5  5 = Highly effective  3 = Satisfactorily Effective  1 = Ineffective –Describe the evidence that supports your application of this concept

Monitoring Diverse Needs Segment Guiding Question  How do you go about uncovering and addressing diverse needs without offending families or misunderstanding their beliefs?

Kugler, E. G. (2011). Is Anyone Listening to Families’ Dreams? Educational Leadership, 68(8),

Handout: Parent Engagement Strategy  Choose one of the “practices” from the article. Describe a new parent engagement strategy that you could use at your school.  * reach out to families with programs that are novel and non-threatening  * take outreach to the community  * send out invitations in multiple ways, the more personal the better  * ask current family leaders to serve as mentors for newly involved families

TeachingChannel (Producer). (2011, September 6). The ABCs of parent involvement [Video]. Retrieved from

Application Focus  Consider the guiding question, and think about connects between the ISSLC Standard and workshop’s key concepts  Use column labeled “Strategies/Ideas”  List at least THREE things per box  Pair Share ONE strategy you learned today and how you plan to use it at your school. 13

Workshop Closure  Review the following…  Targeted Objectives  ISLLC Standard (Elements, Criteria, or Targeted Behavior list on Application Focus)  Next Steps  What additional data do you need?  Who will you involve in process?  What resources do you need?  Application Focus  Do what?  By when?

Workshop Closure  Please complete “Participant Feedback” form  Grant research  Improve future workshops