1. Texas Transformation Project Seminar September 2010

3. Team Game “Remember that????” Team Game “Remember that????”

4. Team Game “Remember that????” Team Game “Remember that????” 1.20 minute teach piece by each group…..YOU CAN TAKE NOTES!!! 2. The groups will be divided by Day 3 session. 3. Each group will complete the clicker quiz game…”Remember that?” 4. We will reconvene and see which teams remembered the most!!!

5. Be Back at 9:00 AM if you are a principal, district or PSP Be Back at 9:30 AM if you’re a Teacher Leader Good Luck

6. BREAK Check out

7. Next Steps and Priorities

8. Quick Wins Scheduling and systems Increasing Learning Time Teacher Leaders Incentives and rewards PBIS Social Worker Evaluation systems District Shepherd Job-Embedded Professional Development

9. Establishing Priorities 1.Get out your 4 day agenda 2.On your own, look at each topic and develop the top three priorities and areas that need immediate action and number them on your agenda 3. Designate a scribe 4. Go around the table clockwise and share ONE item from each persons list 5. If a priority is repeated, have the scribe write it on your poster paper (each time the same priority is mentioned, make a tick mark) 6. Continue going around the table until all ideas have been shared 7. Formulate a team list of established priorities for immediate action by numbering the ones with the most marks.

11. Communication Plan

14. Reflects mission, vision, and goals as related to TRANSFORMATION Integrated into daily operations Informs everything

16. Staff members Parents/families Community members School Board members Professional Service Provider District Shepherd

17. ELEMENTS

18. Has a strategic direction Clear messages tailored to target audiences Effective delivery mediums (email, presentations, newsletters, staff meetings, etc.)

19. T I M E L I N E

20. First Day First Week First Quarter Frequency

21. TEMPLATE Positioning Tagline Elevator Speech Audiences Benefits & Attributes Features

24. 90-Day Strategy

26. Performance Goals (APGs) Improvement Activities Found in TTIPS Application Campus Improvement Plans (CIPs) Contains APGs and Improvement Activities 90-day Strategy Arises out of CIPs These are the immediate steps needing to be taken/what has to be done now. Quarterly Implementation Reports (QIRs) Pull from APGs, Activities, 90-day Strategy and CIPs Critical Success Factors (CSFs)

27. 90-day Strategy

28. Transformation Requirements (Musts) Evaluation systems Reward or remove school personnel Job-embedded professional development Strategies to retain staff

29. Use data to identify and implement research-based instructional programs Use of student data to differentiate instruction Increased learning time Family and community engagement Operational flexibility Ongoing technical assistance Transformation Requirements (Musts)

30. Response to intervention. Technology-based supports and interventions Increase rigor Increase graduation rates Early warning systems to identify students at risk of dropping out Transformation Permissible Activities (Mays)

32. August  October November  January February  April May  July

40. 90-Day Strategy Demo

41. In the next 90 school days I will: focus on chronic absenteeism as identified from 2009- 2010 attendance data by implementing a faculty mentoring program. Improve School Climate – Increased Attendance So that: By the end of the first six weeks of the 2010-11 school year, the number of tardies decreases by 50% as compared to last year’s average, and the attendance rate increases to 90%. 1. Review attendance data from the 2010- 1011 school year and identify the students with the highest # of absences per grade. 2. Notify chronically absent/tardy students of the school’s start date 3. Identify source of funds to provide financial incentive/award to each mentor teacher 4. Identify source of funds and provide student recognition awards to students achieving predetermined attendance goals. 5. Share initiative with teachers during one of the opening in-service days. 6.Identify 5 teachers per grade level to serve as mentors. 7. Assign each faculty member 10 students for whom they will serve as mentor to monitor attendance. 8. Meet with mentors to share vision for their role and responsibilities. 9. Designate administrative staff to have face-to-face meetings with chronically absent students 10. Conduct face-to-face meetings. 11. Monitor individual and group progress weekly using district/campus attendance reporting program. 12. Create attendance committee to identify causes of absenteeism 13. Conduct first attendance committee meeting 14. Award students achieving predetermined attendance goals 1. Principal and Attendance Clerk – 8/12/10 2. Attendance Clerk 8/16/10 3. Principal – 8/16/10 4. Principal – 8/16/10 5. Principal – 8/16-19/10 6. Principal – 8/20/10 7. Lead Counselor – 8/23/108/ 8. Principal – 8/23/10 9. Principal - 8/25/10 10. Mentors - 9/1/10 11. Attendance Clerk & Principal - 9/3, 10, 17, 24/10 12. Assistant Principal - 9/10/10 – Assistant Principal] 13. Assistant Principal - 9/17/10 14. Principal - 10/1/10

42. Model Selection and Description Report

43. http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=7354 &menu_id=798

48. III. B. Provide ongoing mechanisms for family and community involvement -- Social worker on campus -- Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS) IV. B. Ensure school receives ongoing, intensive technical assistance from the LEA and SEA -- Designated district personnel (district shepherd) -- TTIPS District Snapshot -- District Institute -- Case management -- On-Site Technical Assistance by Professional Service Provider (PSP)

51. LUNCH!!!

52. 90-Day Strategy

54. YOU ARE HERE

55. WHY AM I HERE?

57. “….successful organizational improvement …takes a strong unbending will and a compass set determinedly on children’s learning” (Hassel, Hassel, & Rhim, 2007).

58. Action!

61. In the next 90 school days I will: focus on chronic absenteeism as identified from 2009- 2010 attendance data by implementing a faculty mentoring program. Improve School Climate – Increased Attendance So that: By the end of the first six weeks of the 2010-11 school year, the number of tardies decreases by 50% as compared to last year’s average, and the attendance rate increases to 90%. 1. Review attendance data from the 2010- 1011 school year and identify the students with the highest # of absences per grade. 2. Notify chronically absent/tardy students of the school’s start date 3. Identify source of funds to provide financial incentive/award to each mentor teacher 4. Identify source of funds and provide student recognition awards to students achieving predetermined attendance goals. 5. Share initiative with teachers during one of the opening in-service days. 6.Identify 5 teachers per grade level to serve as mentors. 7. Assign each faculty member 10 students for whom they will serve as mentor to monitor attendance. 8. Meet with mentors to share vision for their role and responsibilities. 9. Designate administrative staff to have face-to-face meetings with chronically absent students 10. Conduct face-to-face meetings. 11. Monitor individual and group progress weekly using district/campus attendance reporting program. 12. Create attendance committee to identify causes of absenteeism 13. Conduct first attendance committee meeting 14. Award students achieving predetermined attendance goals 1. Principal and Attendance Clerk – 8/12/10 2. Attendance Clerk 8/16/10 3. Principal – 8/16/10 4. Principal – 8/16/10 5. Principal – 8/16-19/10 6. Principal – 8/20/10 7. Lead Counselor – 8/23/108/ 8. Principal – 8/23/10 9. Principal - 8/25/10 10. Mentors - 9/1/10 11. Attendance Clerk & Principal - 9/3, 10, 17, 24/10 12. Assistant Principal - 9/10/10 – Assistant Principal] 13. Assistant Principal - 9/17/10 14. Principal - 10/1/10

62. 90 Day Action Strategies Objective: Based on the immediate actions identified while participating in this seminar, work to develop at least two 90 Day Action Strategies. Activity: 1.Gather any needed notes and your two 90-Strategy posters, and find a location to work. 2.On your 90 Day Action Strategy posters create at least two immediate action goals and plans (one strategy per poster). 3.After 45 minutes, gather in our eating room with your posters. 4.When prompted go to the poster hanging to the right of yours. 5.Review the plan and provide feedback on sticky notes 6.When prompted move to your right and repeat step 4.