DEVELOPING CIP’S IN WCSU: VTCLA PRESENTATION Jen Miller-ArsenaultJanuary 8, 2016

Assessing Our Needs  Some context  There is always some tension between “SU work” and “local work.”  A new superintendent and a new curriculum director started together in July  We’ve been trying to bring a lot of processes to the SU level so that we can be strategic about the deployment of our resources.  We are creating a team of systems thinkers across the supervisory union!

Some Key Annual Events  In October the leadership team reviews all of our grants at the SU level. We do this every year as part of the budget process.  Together we complete a professional learning needs assessment in January during a leadership team work session. When I first started, we considered action plans, SWP plans, school improvement plans, NEASC work, leadership team goals and IPDPs.

Some Key Annual Events (continued)  Now we consider our continuous improvement plans (more about that later) and our teachers’ goals.  Now I also require the independent schools that participate in Title IIA services to complete the same professional learning needs assessment that we complete at the SU.  The WCSU professional learning needs assessment becomes part of the regional plan at LAPDA in January and February.

Continuous Improvement Plans  Kickoff meeting, Google sites, cross-school work, sharing, continuing to guide our work

CIPs (continued)  Systems Work  In the spring of 2015 all schools wrote new CIPs even though they were not required for all schools.  Central Office administrators wrote the tasks that we were doing across the SU.  We utilized a Google doc format and used the template that the AOE provided.  We just started using them as the basis of principals’ monthly reports to their school boards.

CIP Kickoff Meeting Agenda  Wednesday, March 11, 2015  4:30-7:30 p.m.  U-32 Cafeteria  Desired Outcomes: Each person who engages in this dialogue leaves feeling connected in some way to the WCLT vision and/or their school board’s student learning outcomes. Each person understands explicitly that it is worth our time to connect our daily work directly to the vision because doing so promotes: Effectiveness as educators Professional satisfaction and reduced professional stress.

CIP Kickoff Meeting Agenda (continued)  Intros and Welcome in pre-assigned, mixed-school tables  Personal Narrative: What was a defining experience for you as a student or learner?  Vision Reading from Strategy in Action  Shift to Same-School Tables  Asking Why: Why do you come to work/send your child to school/come to school…  Introduction to Continuous Improvement Planning: Presentation  Dinner  Work Time for School Teams  Wrap Up

Introduction to CIP  PowerPoint Presentation from Kickoff Meeting if time permits…  Show agenda and supporting documentation if time permits…

Reflection  What resources do you have available to you?  How are you attending to continuous improvement planning?

Questions  What questions do you have?  Really!