2. A New Day in Public Education Presented by Dr. Jack McClanahan West Virginia Deputy Superintendent of Schools

3. Overview  Five Exemplary Practices of Outstanding Leadership  Personal Perspective  Vision for Educating Students in the 21st Century

4. A New Day  Best Practices of Exemplary Leadership Model the way Inspire a vision Challenge the process Enable others to act Encourage the heart The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner

5. West Virginia and NCLB

7. INSTRUCTION Currently in placeStill to do  Marzano strategies  Learning styles  Students engaged, hands –on activities  Nurturing, supportive classrooms  Differentiated instruction beginning  Flexible groupings  Assessment practices strong at some levels – classroom based, sight words, letters/sounds, DIBELS, fluency graphs, rubrics, benchmark tests, slate assessments  Interventions based on assessment data  Shift in focus from “Have I taught it?” to “Did they learn it?”  Differentiated instruction – continue to learn  Cooperative learning- more emphasis  Integrate lessons across content areas  Assessment for learning: teachers show products at various stages of learning & quality, assessments include products/performances/ demonstrations, growth portfolios  Pre school program $

8. A New Day

11.  West Virginia and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills

13. A New Day  West Virginia’s Framework for 21 st Century Skills Core Subjects New Content Context Life Skills Technology Tools Balanced Assessment Program

15. A New Day  Six Ways to Teach Independent and Higher Learning: Teaching For Tomorrow by Ted McCain Teachers must:  Resist the temptation to “TELL”  Stop teaching de-contextualized content  Stop giving students the final product of their thinking  Make a fundamental shift-Problems first, teaching second  Progressively withdraw from helping students  Reevaluate evaluation

18. A New Day  Best Practices of Exemplary Leadership Model the way Inspire a vision Challenge the process Enable others to act Encourage the heart The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner

19. A New Day “Be the change you want to see in the world.” - Gandhi “Be the change you want to see in public education.”

20. http://wvde.state.wv.us