1. Windsor Middle School Leveraging Teacher Reflection and Practice to Create Innovative Programming1

2. Presenters Scott Beattie Assistant Superintendent for Instruction
Deanna Brown
Middle School English Teacher/Literacy Coach
Barbara Phillips
Director of Data, Accountability and Continuous Improvement
Katie Rogan
Literacy Specialist/Literacy Coach

3. Session Outcomes
Share Windsor Middle School’s successful implementation of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
Describe intentional decisions and actions taken in regard to collective inquiry, action orientation and experimentation, and a commitment to continuous improvement
Describe evidence of student and educator success

5.
Baseline Data

6. Structural Change

7. Systems Change

8. Tight-Loose Leadership

9. Cultural Change

10. Culture of Continuous Improvement

11. Evaluation vs. Coaching
Director of Data, Accountability, and Continuous Improvement
COACH
EVALUATOR

13. Instructional Leverage Areas
Student Safety and...

15. “Clarity Precedes Competence!”
Who has been trained?
“Clarity Precedes Competence!”
~Dufour & Dufour
Board of Education
Administration
Teachers

16. Teacher-led Initiatives
Teacher Empowerment
Professional Learning Community (PLC)
Allotted Collaboration Time
District Coach
Peer Classroom Visits
Peer-to-Peer Coaching
Flexible Scheduling and Release Time

17. Station-Based Instruction in the Secondary Classroom
Step One: Teachers identified a need for a more differentiated model of instruction during PLC Data Meetings
Step Two: Pilot Program - Differentiated, leveled Guided Reading instruction within the secondary classroom
Step Three: Administrative support

18. Station-Based Pilot Support
PLC
Allotted Collaboration Time
District Coach
Elementary Classroom Visits
Peer-to-Peer Coaching
Professional Development
Regular Release Time for Curriculum Development
Flexible Scheduling
Literacy Specialist co-teaching in Secondary English classroom

19. Results
Student Reading Level Growth in First Year of Station-Based Instruction
Reading level growth
Percent of students
1 grade level
37%
2 grade levels
3 grade levels
14.8%
No growth
11.1%

20. So, is all of this REALLY working?

21. Instructional Coaching (as of 6/1/17)
New Teacher Support
85 visits
33%
Professional Development Follow-Up
79 visits
31%
Teacher Initiated
94 visits
36%

29. National Recognition…

30. Question and Answer

31. Presenters Scott Beattie, sbeattie@windsor-csd.org
Assistant Superintendent for Instruction
Deanna Brown,
Middle School English Teacher/Literacy Coach
Barbara Phillips,
Director of Data, Accountability and Continuous Improvement
Katie Rogan,
Literacy Specialist/Literacy Coach

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