QUALITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: AISI 5 MAY 2012 PLANNING

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Before we begin…

Turn and Talk with your table group  What do you hope to get from us today?  What do you hope your team gets accomplished today?

Our Day: 1.Understand provincial AISI requirements 2.Collaborate 3.Determine measures 4.Complete school plan

NUTS AND BOLTS: THE DETAILS FROM THE PROVINCE QLE~AISI 5

Priorities for Cycle 5 1. RESEARCH CAPACITY/LEADERSHIP  Site-based research taken to the next level  Examine current theories of teaching and learning  Read and evaluate published findings

Priorities for Cycle 5  Analyze findings  Incorporate findings into practice  10% minimum expenditure {district}  Annual Progress report vs APAR RESEARCH CAPACITY/LEADERSHIP

Priorities for Cycle 5 2. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT  All projects will be required to demonstrate active and meaningful engagement of key stakeholders:  Administrators  Teachers  Students  Parents  Elected officials  Businesses, organizations and institutions Community Engagement Rubric – on AISI 5 wiki

Priorities for Cycle 5 3. Collaborative Cross-School Authority Projects  Additional funding available for 2 or more school authorities to submit one collaborative project  Zone 4 collaboration ~ Adolescent Literacy (grades 7, 8, 9)

WHAT IS IMPORTANT FOR CESD?

AISI 5  AISI 5 Projects will focus on all or some of the following:  Student engagement  Student learning  Student performance

Clarity - Special Education Moving from Moving to Student Services takes on responsibility of Special Education Student Services aligns with other CO services to support EVERY student – focus on Mission/Vision/QLE Special Education Liaisons – coordinate specialized services, support work of IPPs, work with individual students, Level B assessments Learning Support teacher– assist teachers with IEPTs, paperwork, coordination of services and when needed, Level B assessments Learning Support Team – provide and facilitate instructional coaching, co-teaching and/or co- planning Coordinate/facilitate professional development as part of a team Focus on students identified with a special education code – common practice to pull out and provide separate specialized programs Support for ALL students in classrooms – main focus on supporting/working in the classroom environment with targeted and/or specialized support when needed

Clarity around AISI Moving FromMoving To AISI as a separate Learning Services initiative QLE drives district and school focus AISI leaders coordinate/facilitate professional development Learning Support Teams: Provide and facilitate instructional coaching, co-teaching and/or co-planning Coordinate/facilitate professional development as part of a team AISI leaders engage in research around areas of focus Teams engage and apply research in classrooms Focus on students Deliberate focus on ALL students AISI individual school improvement CESD community improvement

Learning Support Team:

CESD overarching question: To what extent and in what ways will our CESD Quality Learning Environment framework improve student learning?

Elevator Speech… What is your strategy? 1.How will you address Key Outcomes (QLE) with this strategy? 2.How will you address Balanced Assessment (QLE) with this strategy? 3.How will you address Instructional Strategies (QLE) with this strategy? 4.How will you address Personalization (QLE) with this strategy?

Meet and Greet: Large Group 4 Questions  Instructions will be on the screen  When lights are turned off:  Thank your partner  Find a new partner  Read NEW question on PowerPoint

Question 1:  Find someone who was not at your table  Introduce yourself  What school are you from?  What you are you going to be teaching?  What is your strategy?  How will you address Key Outcomes (QLE) with this strategy?

Switch partners

Question 2: New Partner  Introduce yourself  What school are you from?  What you are you going to be teaching?  What is your strategy?  How will you address Balanced Assessment (QLE) with this strategy?

Switch partners

Question 3: New Partner  Introduce yourself  What school are you from?  What you are you going to be teaching? What is your strategy? How will you address Purposeful Instructional Strategies (QLE) with this strategy?

Switch partners

Question 4: New Partner  Introduce yourself  What school are you from?  What you are you going to be teaching? What is your strategy? How will you address Personalization (QLE) with this strategy?

Return to your table ~ What did you learn?

BREAK Return to your table in 15 min.

Measures

Measures:  Meaningful to your school  Appropriate to the strategy  Focused on student learning and progress  Part of your 3 year plan…not an add-on

Thinking about your measures…  Purposeful Sampling: Tracking a group of students  e.g. grade 6 students year 1;  same group of students now in grade 7 – year 2;  same group of students now in grade 8 – year 3  Random Sampling (e.g. 30 students across grades 10-12)  All Students

School Measure  How will you regularly measure student progress based on the strategy you have chosen? Examples: running records; reading comprehension assessment; student focus groups; observation checklist; classroom feedback loop; etc.

School Measure 15 minutes:  Discuss– what are you considering?  Record each type of measure on an individual post it note

Post your thoughts:

YOUR PLANNING  Template  Provide as much detail as possible  Talk with other schools  Project plan reviewed by one of us  Follow up visit in June to review status of your plan  Plans submitted to Lorraine Ewashen by June 15 th  Talk with one of us before you leave today…