Implementing The BT Framework While Maintaining Teacher Creativity You Are The Program: Implementing The BT Framework While Maintaining Teacher Creativity October 2, 2017 Beyond Textbooks Super Conference “The Right Tool For The Job”

Introductions Dr. Dave Dumon – Superintendent Julie Waters – Director Of Federal Programs And Staff Development

Who’s In The House?! Superintendent District Administrator Building Administrator High School Teacher Middle School Teacher Elementary Teacher Instructional Coach Anyone Else?! FIX ORDER

Session Outcomes Identify the BT Seven Key Starting Points Discuss Altar Valley’s framework for Curriculum & Instruction, Assessment, Intervention, and PLC’s Share challenges and how we have addressed them Action Plan: What are the next steps for your school / district?

First… Some Background

Three Points The Altar Valley School District is located in Three Points, which is about 25 miles west of downtown Tucson. Three Points, also known as Robles Junction, is a small, rural community (45 square miles) of about 5,000 residents. Our community is located adjacent to the Tohono O’Odham Reservation, and is about 30 miles from the international border. http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml###

Three Points Demographics The median household income is about $34,000, and nearly 28% of the population is below the poverty line. Most residents live in single-family homes or mobile homes. http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml###

Three Points Demographics Race / Ethnicity Percentage Of Population American Indian 10% Asian .10% African American Hispanic 51% White 38%

Three Points Demographics About 73% of residents are high school graduates. Nearly 8% of the population holds a bachelor’s degree and 5% of residents have attained a graduate or professional degree. http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml###

About AVSD The Altar Valley School District is vast, covering nearly 700 square miles in Pima County. Student enrollment is about 680 students between two school sites: Robles Elementary School (Pre-K – 4th Grade) and Altar Valley Middle School (5th – 8th Grade).

About AVSD There is no high school in Three Points, so students are bussed mainly to Flowing Wells High School in Tucson, which is about 30 miles away.

How does your school district compare with Altar Valley? Round Robin How does your school district compare with Altar Valley?

Where We Were Prior to the 2015-16 school year, the Altar Valley School District was a BT partner, but…

Our Roadmap: AVSD All-Star Expectations In July of 2015, members of the BT Leadership Team facilitated a full day Leadership Retreat with administrators and teachers from the Altar Valley School District. The goal: To craft an action plan to guide us as we moved forward with full implementation of the BT Framework with fidelity.

Our Roadmap: AVSD All-Star Expectations To guide our action planning process, we drew from BT’s Seven Key Starting Points.

Why Do We Need A Framework? Having Arrows Pointing In All Directions Is Like Having No Direction At All.

The BT Seven Key Starting Points VIDEO CLIP: https://www.beyondtextbooks.org/What_is_BT

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A Framework = Our Arrows Going In The Same Direction!

Round Robin Which of the BT Seven Key Starting Points are areas of focus in your school / district? Explain.

Our Roadmap: AVSD All-Star Expectations The result of our one day Leadership Retreat in July of 2015: Altar Valley All-Star Expectations. This document, based on the BT Seven Key Starting Points, serves as our framework for curriculum, instruction, assessment, and intervention.

Altar Valley All-Star Expectations PROVIDE HANDOUTS IN COLOR FOR PARTICIPANTS

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Curriculum & Instruction

Let’s Organize Our Learning Curriculum & Instruction Assessment Intervention Professional Learning Communities

Let’s Organize Our Learning Curriculum & Instruction Assessment Intervention Professional Learning Communities

Our Message To AVSD Teachers: You Are The Program! The expectation is that teachers will follow the sequence and pacing of the BT curriculum calendars (the what and the when). Teachers have a great deal of creativity when it comes to how they deliver instruction. Curricular materials Instructional strategies (Kagan)

Mrs. Tynes – 8th Grade ELA

Ms. Landers – 4th Grade

Our Message To AVSD Teachers: You Are The Program! The expectation is that teachers will follow the sequence and pacing of the BT curriculum calendars (the what and the when). Teachers have a great deal of creativity when it comes to how they deliver instruction. Curricular materials Instructional strategies (Kagan)

Lesson Plans Follow the BT Curriculum Calendars and utilize the Unwrapped Documents when planning lessons. Utilize the AVSD lesson plan template. Post lesson plans to the appropriate folder on the Google Drive by 8:00 a.m. the first day of the school week.

Instructional Objectives Two-part objectives Aligned with instruction Aligned with assessment Written in student-friendly terms Written for every lesson Posted in classrooms, large enough to read, and changed daily Verbally articulated to students

Essential Questions Posted in classrooms and changed as needed. Verbally articulated to students.

Daily Math Skills

Let’s Organize Our Learning Curriculum & Instruction Assessment Intervention Professional Learning Communities

Assessment

Let’s Organize Our Learning Curriculum & Instruction Assessment Intervention Professional Learning Communities

Standards-Based Assessment

Common Formative Assessments (Weekly) Administered following instruction on each BT Essential Standard in the following areas: Math Reading Common Formative Assessments for each Essential Standard are available on the BT website.

Mrs. Tynes – 8th Grade ELA

Common Formative Assessments (Weekly) Formatives should be scored and input by the end of the work day on Friday. This data will be utilized to group students for Re-Teach & Enrich / Power Hour.

Lindie – 4th Grade

Conrad – 4th Grade

District Galileo Benchmark Assessments (Quarterly) Administered to 2nd – 8th grade students three times during the school year in Math, Reading, and Writing. Administered with the same level of integrity as the AzMERIT Test.

Summative Assessments (Spring) AzMERIT: Administered to 3rd – 8th grade students in ELA (Reading & Writing) and Math. Science AIMS: Administered to 4th & 8th grade students.

Basic Skills Assessment

Curriculum-Based Measurements Administered three times during the school year. Measurements of Reading and Math fluency.

Let’s Organize Our Learning Curriculum & Instruction Assessment Intervention Professional Learning Communities

Rally Robin Look through the notes that you jotted in your graphic organizer. Curriculum & Instruction Assessment Place a star next to the four key points that you think are the most important. When given the signal, share your key points back and forth with your face partner.

INTERVENTION

Let’s Organize Our Learning Curriculum & Instruction Assessment Intervention Professional Learning Communities

Common Formative Assessments (Weekly) Formatives should be scored and input by the end of the work day on Friday. This data will be utilized to group students for Re-Teach & Enrich / Power Hour.

Re-Teach & Enrich / Power Hour A dedicated period of time built into the daily master schedule of both schools. Students who do not demonstrate mastery of the standard will receive additional instruction during Re-Teach. Students who demonstrate mastery of the standard will have opportunities to extend and apply their learning during Enrich.

Common Formative Assessment Tier I Instruction Common Formative Assessment Mastery: Enrichment Non-Mastery: Re-Teach Re-Assess (CFA #2) Mastery  Non-Mastery: Continued Intervention

Additional Interventions Reading Intervention After School Tutoring Summer School Small Group Instruction In The Classroom

Let’s Organize Our Learning Curriculum & Instruction Assessment Intervention Professional Learning Communities

Professional Learning Communities

Let’s Organize Our Learning Curriculum & Instruction Assessment Intervention Professional Learning Communities

PLC’s: When One day each week during common prep time. Every Friday during early release time before or after school.

PLC’s: Why To score formatives, input data, and re-group students for R & E. To ensure that R & E is implemented with fidelity. To engage in collaborative dialogue, share ideas and resources, and support each other. To analyze student data and utilize data to plan rigorous instruction.

PLC’s: How What is it that we want students to learn? How will we know if they’ve learned it? What will we do for the students who do not demonstrate mastery? How will we enrich/extend instruction for the students who do demonstrate mastery?

Let’s Organize Our Learning Curriculum & Instruction Assessment Intervention Professional Learning Communities

Numbered Heads Together Take a look at your notes in the Intervention and Professional Learning Communities sections of your graphic organizer. Quiet Think Time: Which of these pieces is in place in your district? What does it look like? Stand up and “put your heads together.” (Share answers.) After everyone has shared, please sit down.

Numbered Heads Together Decide as a team who would like to share out with the whole group. Team reporters will stand up and share their answers.

Challenges & How We Overcame Them

Challenges & How We Overcame Them Teacher Resistance Early release on Friday Common prep Weekly Planning With The Principal Meetings Ongoing Professional Development Lack Of Clear Expectations Altar Valley All-Star Expectations: Non-Negotiable

Challenges & How We Overcame Them Lack Of Dedicated Collaboration Time Change was made so both schools release early on Friday Lack Of Collaboration Planning With The Principal Weekly Half Day

Challenges & How We Overcame Them Staffing Salary Schedule Opportunities to earn extra money Tuition Reimbursement

Next Steps

Next Steps Kagan – Full Implementation District-Wide Continued Professional Development 80% mastery on Reading and Math CBM’s 10% increase in Reading and Math on Spring 2018 AzMERIT Focus on increased rigor Continued targeted intervention

Action Plan Where are you currently with implementing the BT Framework? Where do you want to be? What actionable steps will you take to get there?

Stand Up – Hand Up – Pair Up What is one thing you learned today that you would like to bring back to your school / district?

Questions?!

Session Evaluation

Contact Information David Dumon Altar Valley Middle School Superintendent ddumon@avsd.org 520-822-1484 Julie Waters Altar Valley School District Director of Federal Programs and Staff Development jwaters@avsd.org 520-822-9343