1. April 2017 School Board Report
Teacher Leadership
April 2017 School Board Report

2. Introduction & Strategic Plan

3. Matthew Rebecca Jessie Amber Lindsay
Alexander Berchenbriter Ketchum Osterkamp Spears
Social Studies Math & Data Literacy Science Special Education
Learning Supports Specials

4. Focus 1: We believe all children can learn at high levels

5. Focus 2: We believe educators matter

6. Program Lead Teacher Leadership outreach efforts
Teacher Leadership website
Monthly check ins with principals
Quarterly check ins with all full time Teacher Leaders (CAL)
Weekly meeting with Tracy Schipper
Deanne Thiede

7. 23 full time Teacher Leaders have logged
Data
As of April 3, 2017
23 full time Teacher Leaders have logged
2,118 coaching interactions for a total of
1,724 hours of coaching with teachers

8. Data Reflections Last year’s End of Year Report Year two reflections
reflections: celebrations and areas for improvement
Value feedback and data
New Teacher Data/Feedback

9. Matthew Alexander, Social Studies Curriculum Lead
New Social Studies Standards
Drafted last school year; currently being finalized with a review team
New standards are a departure from current Iowa Core
Earliest the Department of Education will adopt new standards is late summer/early fall 2017
Anticipate 3-4 year implementation window for districts
Grade level themes to guide curriculum
Content anchor standards written around the skills found within the 5 major social sciences: behavioral science, civics, economics, geography, and history
Inquiry anchor standards shift expectations for student work from memorization of information to active investigation of content in order to draw informed conclusions

10. Matthew Alexander, Social Studies Curriculum Lead
Goal of this year’s coaching support: Build a foundation to support implementation of the new standards as soon as possible
K-6 Social Studies Council is developing new curriculum and learning focused around the new standards
7-12 is doing the same work but within individual PLCs
7-12 is also engaged in Literacy in the Social Studies training during PL Days

11. Jessie Ketchum, Literacy Curriculum Lead
Revisions to K-12 ELA Standards
Eliminate specific text titles but maintain genre references
Clarify the use of the terms “perspective” and “point of view”
Eliminate IA.1 (comprehension strategies) in grades K-12 under literature and informational texts
Realign Standard IA.2 (fluency) as a substandard of Standard 10 (range of texts) under literature and informational texts (grades 6-12)
Revise Speaking and Listening Standard 6 to include the content of IA. 5 and IA. 6. (public speaking and interviews)
Continued research and support with early
literacy instruction
Dr. David Kilpatrick
95% Group
Survey and focus group participants said they saw the specific titles as required reading rather than examples of possible text options.
This will be done by inserting the proper term in parentheses within the standards statements and including the terms point of view and perspective in the glossary. The authors of Common Core failed to accurately differentiate between the two terms “perspective” and “point of view” in the Reading Standards.
Survey participants indicated they found this standard to be redundant.
Feedback indicated that Standard IA.2 was a better fit as a substandard than a stand-alone standard. See Appendix A on p. 19 for the revised reading literature and informational text Standard 10.

12. Jessie Ketchum, Literacy Curriculum Lead
Coaching Supports
Vertical analysis of standards
PLC support
Professional development (K-4)
Handwriting Curriculum (K)
Blog posts

13. Rebecca Berchenbriter, Math Curriculum Lead
Curriculum, Standards, & Assessment
Elementary: Math DCA Revision
Middle: Develop Math Course Advancement criteria
Secondary: HS Math Courses transformation
State Summer Math Institute -- Steve Leinwand
Support with Mathematics Screening & Intervention
Math Education Research & Sharing
Principles to Actions: Effective Math Teaching Practices
Number Sense & Fluency

14. Rebecca Berchenbriter, Data Coach
Standards Based grading - Infinite Campus support
Data Visualization software - Tableau
Data Collection and analysis - Google Forms & Sheets

15. Amber Osterkamp, Science Curriculum Lead
Adoption of the New Iowa Core Science Standards
Adoption: In year two of four
Science Council-Unit design based on three dimensional learning and tied to phenomena
K-12 science teachers-implementing three- dimension and hooking units and lessons to phenomena
Facebook Page-Collection of resources

16. Amber Osterkamp, Specials Curriculum Lead
Curriculum Support
Moving PLC’s forward
Powering standards
Creating proficiency scales
Professional learning
Facilitating PL
Designing and/or supporting creation of PL
Advocate/Support
Organize conference costs and requests
Support new learning
Creation/design of PLC facilitation

17. THANK YOU for your support! Questions?