Costa BOCES Summer Content Companion
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This document outlines a strategic planning process focused on coherence. It discusses aligning efforts to focus on the most important skills, using data to assess student performance on those skills, and adjusting instruction and professional development accordingly. The document suggests pathways like realigning, reframing or redesigning systems and emphasizes strengths in focus and connections. Supporting resources are provided on topics like ongoing improvement, school effectiveness, and moving from textbooks to digital content.
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- 1. Strategic Coherence Planning Focus & Connect http://digitallearningforallnow.com jpcostasr@gmail.com http://www.slideshare.net/jpcostasr Coherence BOCES Summer Share Costa BOCES Summer Content Companion Content Companion - Participant Notes and Reflections CCR1 - Given what you have been told about the day and the content of the above graphic what are you hoping or expecting to learn what do you want to get out of the day?
- 2. CCR2 - Have you seen evidence of these generational changes in your school/district/life? Can you think of others? CCR3 What are your three most important skills? 1. 2. 3. Check out these resources on 際際滷share Common Core Venn Diagram 21st Century Skills Crosswalk Four Highest Leverage Student Skills Three areas for focus.
- 3. CCR4 - Assessment Analysis CCR5 - What data do you have to support growth in your three most important skills (CCR3)? 1. 2. 3. CCR6 - - If you were to add up all of the time devotedto assessment in your school/district what percentageof it IS CURRENTLY dedicatedto formativeand how much for summative? -Form / Sum - - In an IDEAL scenario,(if you could personally determineit)howmuch what percentageof time would be dedicatedto formativeand how much for summative? -Form / Sum -
- 4. Connect the Layers: - Student/Professional/Organizational Putting it all together
- 5. CCR7 - Warm Feedback Cool Feedback Three ways to get there.
- 6. Goals Measures of Success Practices/ Strategies Leadership/Focus What are the most important high leverage skillsI am going to focus on? Whatare our success criteria for high leverage skills and what assessments we will use to determine how well our students are performing? How will I use the results of these assessments to adjust my own teaching to increase engagement andstudent success? Are there success conditions within myownclassroom that I need to change to support this work? What are the growthtargets for my students for our high leverage skills and what is my professional practice focus/goal relatedto mastering high leverage teachingbehaviors? What are the growthtarget measurements and professional practice target measurements I willuse to gauge mysuccessinreaching my goals? What professional learning strategies would be most helpful to buildmyown capacityto buildstudent success as indicated bymy students results? How am I supporting professional practice and contributing to success conditions to support student acquisitionof our highleverage skills? As a district, what are we doing to focus the entire learning communityon the importance and necessityof our most important highleverage skills? What are our most important critical student success indicators andhowdo we report them at the building and district level to allour stakeholders. What professional learning plans andstrategieswill create the best opportunityfor building the professional capacityto support student success as indicated byour building/district level data? How am I changing conditions as a building district leader to ensure success, focus and coherence for student success at the building and district level?
- 7. CCR8 - Reflection on the 3 Rs Given three possible pathways to coherence (realign, reframe, redesign), which do you think works best for your district or school? On the basic ideas of Focus and Connections where you do you see your district or schools strengths and weaknesses?
- 8. Supporting Resources: 1. Email Jonathan jpcostasr@gmail.com 2. OtherContent from Jonathan Costa - (lookfor among other things) http://www.slideshare.net/jpcostasr One Goal Article Leverage Gap Analysis 3. My book about the endof books - http://digitallearningforallnow.com 4. Otherbook content resourcesrelatedto thisprocess. The Goal:A Processof OngoingImprovement,by Eliyahu M. Goldrattand JeffCox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_%28novel%29 Results: The Key to ContinuousSchool Improvement,byMike Schmoker http://www.ascd.org/Publications/ascd-authors/mike-schmoker.aspx Goodto Great: WhySome CompaniesMake the Leap...AndOthers Dont, by Jim Collins http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/good-to-great.html 5. Pareto Principal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto 6. Ted Talk on the importance of focus it not onlyworks, it is almost always presentamong those that are successful http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-importance-of-focus-richard-st-john 7. From Compliance to Coherence a statewide Connecticutconference basedon this planningmodel sponsoredby the ConnecticutState Department ofEducation http://www.connecticutseed.org/wp- content/uploads/2014/12/Educator_Evaluation_and_Professional_Learning_Conference_Save_the_Date.pdf 8. An article from me about BYOD and Digital Learning from EdTech Magazine http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/author/jonathan-p-costa-sr 9. A self-directedLiveBindercontentsite that explainsa processfrom moving from textbooksto digital content inthe support of coursesin your schools http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1266627