Solutions for the 21st Century Classroom
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Districts from across Arizona were represented at the Leadership Seminar to Optimize Implementation held last week at the Phoenix Elementary School District office. The room of packed educators, principals, directors of curriculum and instruction,
directors of assessment, instructional coaches, and superintendents interacted
and brainstormed with facilitators Susan Jacobs, School Improvement Facilitator
Comprehensive School Assistance Program with WestEd and Sarah Callahan Estrada,
Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist and Project Manager for Galileo Development
with ATI as they guided them through the optimization of district and school
initiatives related to gathering, understanding, and using formative
data.
“Tipping points are a reaffirmation of the potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the world around you.It may seem like an immovable implacable place. It’s not. With the slightest push – in just the right place- it can be tipped.”Malcolm Gladwell
The morning began with a brief
discussion of real world leadership goals and challenges complemented by a
description of available support services from WestEd and ATI. The remainder of
the interactive seminar focused on helping the leaders address four critical
tipping points to maximize student and staff success in their schools and
districts:
- teachers and students benefit
from an engaging, relevant, and appropriately rigorous curriculum
- data-driven instruction must be
based on trusted and authentic data
- instruction must respond to the
implications of student performance data in targeted and authentic ways
- leadership requires the tools
to combat initiative fatigue and data overload
Participants walked
away with suggested strategies, resources, and action plans to implement immediately
in their school or district. Leaders
from both WestEd and ATI were available at the end of the seminar and provided
needs evaluations to educational leaders. Together they identified next steps
for long term solutions supporting a relentless approach to quality
implementation of curriculum and instruction promoting student learning.
To find out more about
the seminar, access the slide deck. If your school/district would like a needs evaluation, contact us at the following:
Jason Kane Feld
Bob Rosenfeld
Vice
President, Corporate Projects
Senior Manager, Field Services
Assessment
Technology Incorporated WestEd
800-367-4762
415-717-5450
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