1. Curr culum Leadersh p ADMN 6140

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3. For Next Week 1.Read Aligning Standards, Curriculum, and Assessment 2.(NEW) Download from Atkins Library 2.(NEW) Download David R. Krathwohl - A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy:An Overview from Atkins Library 3.Complete your CA Project Outline. Submit to MD 4.Start Reading all featured blogs beginning with the word Leadership 5.Keep those blogs coming? GREAT work!

4. Objectives Review common TIA myths Describe and apply curriculum alignment models Discuss how the system-in-place affects student learning outcomes

5. Total Instructional Alignment

6. What is Total Instruction Alignment?

7. 1. Align of the System  Lisa also calls this systemic alignment  Brainstorm synonyms with a partner  What insights did you gain?  Apply the synonyms to schools  How are we doing in system alignment?  How does this connect to Deming’s idea of PK?  What is competency buck passing?  When was the last time you had a conversation with a teacher of a feeder school or a school to which you feed about IA? Why? Is this so difficult?  Describe the supply chain needed to build a car? Who talks to whom in the chain? Why?  Critical Questions:  What do we mean by “the system in place?”  What exactly are we aligning?  What can we expect if we do not align the system?

8.  What insights can we gain from this Venn diagram? Align Standards, Curriculum, and Assessments

9. 2. Align of Standards, Curriculum, and Assessments  Question for curriculum guides  Are the guides aligned with the most recent standards?  Do teachers have a clear understanding of what students are supposed to learn and how it will be assessed?  Do teachers typically build lessons from the guides?  What is the result if they do not use the guides?  What happens if a teacher uses the curriculum guide to design lesson plans but doesn’t clearly understand the learning expectations?  Do teachers at different grade levels ever teach the same concepts?

10. 3. Align Instructional Practices in the Classroom  What does this mean to you?  The basic tools  Clear learning goals in the form of specific and measurable behavioral goals  Why should teachers write their own objectives? Why not depend on the textbook or the curriculum guide?  Broad Learning goals broken down into curriculum maps  Must reverse-engineer the process  Year – Semester – Quarter – Unit – Week – Day  Develop appropriate assessments  Develop congruent activities  Secure resources (materials, time, space)  Critical Questions  Who aligns curriculum practices? Elmore’s connection?

11. Unaligned Classroom System  What can we expect from this configuration?

12. Unaligned Classroom System  What can we expect from this configuration?

13. Aligned Classroom System  What can we expect from this configuration?

14. Curriculum Alignment – View 2 EC OAG INTK

15. Total Instructional Alignment Aligning the System

16. “History for 500 Alex …”  How has the role of education changed with the growth of the U.S.  When the U.S. was agricultural?  When the U.S. was industrial?  From Post WWII – 1980’s  Since the 1990’s?  How long was the year?  What were the most important expectations?  What did the schools look like?  From the discussion above, create a sentence that describes the current system-in-place

17. How does the System-in-Place affect learning?  What we know about learning 1. Kids come to school with different amounts of knowledge and skills. Therefore, … 2. All students can learn, but not necessarily at the same rate. Therefore, … 3. Learning is for the most part incremental in nature. Therefore, …  What can we expect of the performance of children in the factory model of education?

18. Aligning Classroom Structures  Describe the typical classroom structure today?  Placement?  Grading?  Pedagogy?

19. The Race for 300 Alex … Student C X AugustJune E X F X A X B X D X How much time is provided to each student? How does the system deal with students D and C? What can we learn from this picture about the students? System?

20. Placement by Age? Group I Argue the Affirmative: Argue the Affirmative:  Placement by age is a legitimate means of organizing students for learning Group II Argue the Negative: Placement by age is an inappropriate means of organizing students for learning. Placement by age is an inappropriate means of organizing students for learning.

21. Vertical and Horizontal Teams  Horizontal Teams  What to they look like?  What is their purpose?  What do they talk about when they meet?  What is the impact on student achievement?  Vertical Teams (p. 43)  What to they look like?  What is their purpose?  What do they talk about when they meet?  What is the impact on student achievement?

22. ANOTHER VIEW OF VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL TEAMS

23. Toyota Kentuck y ToyotaTexasToyotaIndiana HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT Toyota Style

24. VERTICAL ALIGNMENT Toyota Style

25. Horizontal Alignment 1st Grade Science Classroom 1 1 st Grade Science Classroom 2 1 st Grade Science Classroom 3 ALIGN THE CURRICULUM

26. Grade 10 Science Grade 7 Science Grade 1 Science Grade 3 Science Grade 2 Science Grade 1 Science Upper School Middle School Lower School Vertical Alignment ALIGN THE CURRICULUM

27. Leaders Do the Right Things - Warren Bennis  Managing Learning Data  How frequently do you need learning data?  What kind of data do you need?  How will you get it?  What will you do with it?  Supporting Professional Development  Describe PD in your school right now?  How do you determine what PD is needed?  What is Best-of-Class PD?  How much is allocated for PD in your district/school?  How are funds allocated?  Who decides on PD?  How is PD evaluated?

28. Leaders Do the Right Things - Warren Bennis  Providing Administrative Support  Principals provide vision  Principals provide direction  Principals provide inertia  Principals provide time  What if the district does not actively support IA?

29. For Next Week 1.Read Aligning Standards, Curriculum, and Assessment 2.(NEW) Download from Atkins Library 2.(NEW) Download David R. Krathwohl - A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy:An Overview from Atkins Library 3.Complete your CA Project Outline. Submit to MD 4.Read all featured blogs beginning with the word Leadership 5.Submit a blog?