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An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon CLASS™ Project Creative Leadership Achieves Student Success

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon CLASS Project Corvallis School District September 25, 2012 Agenda Welcome Erin Introduction to CLASSCec Four Blueprint Areas/Prioritize Cec Calendar and Meeting TimesAll Operating AgreementsAll Guiding Principles/Design SummaryCec CommunicationAll Agenda Planning for Next MeetingAll Ensuring Instructional Excellence to Enhance Student Achievement

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon Chalkboard & CLASS Priorities--- Educator Effectiveness, Student Success, and Accountability Educator Effectiveness Student Success Accountability & Finance Educator Effectiveness Student Success Accountability & Finance

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon CLASS Project Overview

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon Chalkboard K-12 Student and Teacher Success CLASS Project: Empowering Educators, Raising Student Achievement CLASS Project: Empowering Educators, Raising Student Achievement

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon Educator Effectiveness Research identifies a strong link between a teacher’s professional practice and student achievement.  Research clearly identifies the effectiveness of the teacher as the single most influential factor for increasing student achievement.  Effective teaching increases student achievement and rate of learning.

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon President Obama promises to "recruit, prepare, retain, and reward" teachers  Initiate new career and compensation models for teachers who take on new roles and responsibilities:  mentoring  instructional leadership  working in hard-to-staff schools.

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon Goal of Chalkboard is to raise K-12 Student Achievement. CLASS is a teacher led initiative empowering educators and raising student achievement.  Empower educators and give them the time and tools to constantly strive for excellence for themselves and their students and be recognized and rewarded for doing so.

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon CLASS is Unique to each district… Each district’s CLASS Project design looks different because each district has different student and staff needs, but every design strives to strengthen effective teaching and raise student achievement.

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon CLASS Project Components

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon CLASS Project Creative Leadership Achieves Student Success The CLASS Project focuses on four components of effective teaching to increase student achievement and teacher leadership; expanded career paths, rigorous performance evaluations, relevant professional development and new compensation models. “A school culture of collaboration, innovation, creativity, and accountability is required to provide our students 21 st century skills. The CLASS Project is the cornerstone to our shift towards these higher standards.” Sherwood Teacher

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon The CLASS Project supports efforts to transform schools from teaching organizations to learning organizations.  Teaching Organizations  The goal is to maximize teaching efficiency with monolithic curriculum & instruction  (1/3 Thrive, 1/3 Survive, 1/3 Dropout) Learning Organizations The goal is to maximize learning effectiveness for every member of the community (Every teacher and each student thrives)

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon Four Components: 1. Expanded Career Paths 2. Effective Performance Evaluation 3. Relevant Professional Development 4. New Compensation Models CLASS Project Empowering Educators, Raising Student Achievement

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon Expanded Career Pathways  Improve Teacher Quality  Retain Teachers  Increase the supply of Ambitious and Motivated New Teachers  Build Capacity for Leadership  Generate Buy-In Rather Than Compliance  Support Beginning Teachers and Identify Ineffective Teachers Early CLASS Project Empowering Educators, Raising Student Achievement

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon Effective Performance Evaluation  The Core To Effective Teaching and Performance Evaluation is The Assessment of Professional Practice  Performance Assessment Must Address What A Teacher Knows, Does, And Accomplishes Re lative To Student Learning.  Oregon Framework For Teacher and Administrator Evaluation CLASS Project Empowering Educators, Raising Student Achievement

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon Relevant Professional Development  Sustained And Intensive Professional Development for Teachers is related to Student Achievement gains  Effective professional Development is: Intensive, Ongoing And Related To Practice Focuses on Teachers And Learning of Specific Academic Content Connected to school and district initiatives  Centers On An Individual Professional Development Plan At The Beginning Of Each Year That Is Based On student Learning Goals  O r e g o n F r a m e w o r k F o r T e a c h e r a n d A d m i n i s t r a t o r E v a l u a t i o n CLASS Project Empowering Educators, Raising Student Achievement

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon Compensation  Central To The District’s Strategy For Recruiting And Retaining Quality Staff  Encourages Reward: Effective Professional Practice Ongoing Learning Effective Shared Leadership Continuous Commitment and Empowerment Connected to school and district initiatives  Recognition, Salary and Variable Pay CLASS Project Empowering Educators, Raising Student Achievement

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon CLASS……. Early Results CLASS means progress for Oregon Students  Early indicators of student success include increased math and reading scores, improved college readiness, and increased recruitment and retention of effective teachers CLASS means progress for Oregon Educators  Creates expanded roles and responsibilities with new compensation models

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon Professional Development Strengths Where can we improve? Performance Evaluation Strengths What areas can we improve?

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon Career Paths (Career Leadership) Strengths (Current Opportunities) What is missing? Compensation Models What do we Know? Where do we go?

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon CLASS Planning and Design Process Planning Process Timeline

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon CLASS Group Agreements Membership and Responsibility Ground Rules Consensus Building Guiding Principles Committee Structure and Roles

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon CLASS Planning and Communication Relationship Barometer

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon How will you communicate to all stakeholders the progress of the CLASS Project? What new communication links will you need to create?

An Initiative of Foundations for a Better Oregon This is what CLASS is all about!