1. School District of South Milwaukee
SMART Learning Systems
March 19, 2015

2. Expected Outcome for Curriculum Expectations - Goal #1:
Throughout the district, 100% of students will make adequate academic progress to advance to the next grade level.
100% of students graduating from South Milwaukee High School will score a
22 or better on the ACT and/or make adequate progress on their
Academic Career Plan.

3. How do we leverage opportunities to offset the “heavy” demands?
educational change
open enrollment
poverty
culturally responsive
speed of change
community expectations
Student Achievement
evidence of student learning
climate
adversity to risk-taking
How do we leverage opportunities to offset the “heavy” demands?

4. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
~ Archimedes, ancient Greek scientist and inventor
Frontier, T. & Rickabaugh J. (2014) Five Levers on Improving Learning

5. WHY?
We have evidence that our students are not learning what they need to learn

6. SMMS - Goal Tree
6th Grade MAP Fall 223

7. Special Ed Subgroup 6th grade
Expected outcome: all students score 22 on ACT equates to scoring at the 77th percentile on MAP
Academic growth and the rate of growth are most important factors for this subgroup
MAP RIT Gain
(Fall to Winter; Expected Growth = 2 RIT)
Number of Students
Percentage of Students
7 or More 12
42.9%
5 - 6 2
7.1%
3 - 4 4
14.3%
Less than 2 6
21.4%
28 Students Total Are we okay with reporting groups of only 2 or 4 students in this setting?

8. With the appropriate lever,
no obstacle becomes too heavy to lift student achievement
logistics
groupings
Levers are influence
learning expectations
“Each lever holds varying degrees of potential for improving student learning.”
(Frontier, T. & Rickabaugh, J. 2014)
instructional design
beliefs
Framework of the levers to lift student achievement.

9. SMART Action Plan: By January 2019, every stakeholder at every school will be fully equipped to describe what a student who meets expectations looks like at each grade level and know what to do to drive personalized instruction, assessments, and curriculum.
Professional Development Purpose Statement - The purpose of professional development for the school year is to create conditions for the successful exploration and implementation of strategies and actions that build capacity and increase staff understanding and delivery of effective practices so that student achievement increases measurably.
WHY? It is our responsibility to honestly and kindly address student achievement through perseverance in respecting what we know and what we do not know about increasing student achievement.

10. A historical walk... Focus on STUDENTS and student learning ASW
April 2014
December 2014
March 2015
Present
Focus on STUDENTS and student learning
ASW
Support for Effective Professional Practice
Redefine Time and Levers that Support Time and Effective Practice

11. How has coaching helped us facilitate SMART discussions?
Learning about our personal coaching styles
Building a “coaching team,” based on our styles
Assessing our administrative team’s coaching styles
Appreciating and leveraging our personal and group strengths
Celebrating our successes, planning our next challenges

12. What next?
Continue to analyze “student” work and its connection to curriculum, instruction, assessment and personalized learning
Create a coherent and connected plan for transformation at the local level -- using the SMART process and the lens of the five levers
Fully utilize Educator Effectiveness to improve teaching and learning
“Student” work also includes administrators looking at each others’ evaluations of teachers; are we consistent, are we coherent, are we connected to transformation?

13. Commitment to continue the journey