1. Parent Conversations about Student Learning and
School Calendar
What do our students need to be world-class proficient? January 16, 2013

2. Welcome Inspire, Innovate, Lead
The Changing Landscape of Education- Dr. Deb Kerr
Overview of Draft Calendar and State Requirements
World Café Conversations – About the School Calendar
Next Steps
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3. Our Students 1638 Students in District Special Education 260 Students
11 different disabilities
English Language Learners
126 Students- 19 languages
43% Free and Reduced Lunch
We have great students and families…..it’s important to understand who we are educating today as our school and community population has changed dramatically over the past 10 years.
Open Enrollment
In – 188 Students
Out – 109 Students
Chapter 220 – 2 Students

4. The Brown Deer Way
Student Achievement Goals, PBIS, RTI

5. The Changing Landscape of Education
Common Core State Standards CCSS– Reading and Math
These new standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. Deeper learning of fewer concepts.
CCSS define the knowledge and skills students needed for college and careers
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6. Inspire, Innovate, Lead The Changing Landscape of Education
New SMARTER Balance Testing replaces WKCE
Better assessments, more frequent (3 times/year) and online – starts Fall of 2014 – Grades 3-8th & High School
Allows teachers to follow up with targeted instruction, students can better target their own efforts, and set goals
All staff can better understand what students know and can do, in order to guide curriculum and professional development decisions.
Teachers, principals, and parents receive results from computerized assessments in weeks, not months
Tests go beyond multiple-choice questions that allow students to complete an in-depth project to demonstrate critical thinking skills and real-world problem solving.
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7. The Changing Landscape of Education
New State Accountability and School Report Cards
Dean Elementary
Middle School
High School
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8. The Changing Landscape of Education
Teacher and Principal Effectiveness – Starts Fall 2013
New mandates of how teachers and principals are evaluated based upon student performance and other quality indicators.
A new system of continuous improvement of educator practice - from pre-service through in-service - that leads to improved student learning.
The system will evaluate teachers and principals through a fair, valid, and reliable process using multiple measures across two main areas: educator practice and student outcomes.
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9. State Minimum Requirements School Calendar
Days, Hours, Minutes – WI (10) School Day
Grade levels have different requirements
Current calendar is:
183 Student Days
193 Teacher Days
4. This Draft proposes:
194 Teacher Days
5. Professional Development Day are Full days – instead of early release – gain 2.5 hours
We thank you all for coming out this evening. Our goal is to engage everyone in our facilities conversation. Here how it works….

10. World Cafe' Conversation
We thank you all for coming out this evening. Our goal is to engage everyone in our facilities conversation. Here how it works….
Shaping our future
Having conversations that matter
Collective wisdom and insights

11. Our Conversations
Work with your table group to provide your opinions and perspectives
Each group will share out responses
Next Steps – Parent and Staff Survey?
Approval of Calendar at February/March Board Meeting
We thank you all for coming out this evening. Our goal is to engage everyone in our facilities conversation. Here how it works….

12. Brown Deer Community Engagement Reinventing Brown Deer Schools Next Meeting: Tues. Jan. 29 MS Café 6-8pm Guiding questions: What are the international benchmarks and what do our kids need to attain those….
Transformation
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14. Our Mission
Together with our families and community, we will inspire students to be passionate learners, creative thinkers, and innovative leaders who enrich our world
The Board officially approved the Strategic Plan in January 2012 after the successful passage of the referendum. Thank you for going on this journey with us and for spending your time to better understand the financial support needed to educate our children helping us to define our destiny.

15. Vision We aspire to be a world-class educational community that
honors diversity,
promotes high expectations
for life-long learning and leadership, preparing all students to reach their fullest potential
Brown Deer is a vibrant community – a wonderful place to live, work, learn and grow….and with your help there’s no reason we can’t become a world-class school district.

16. Three Schools on our Campus
Dean Elementary School
562 students K4-4th grades
Brown Deer Middle School
509 students – 5th-8th grades
Updated enrollment information as of today….total of 1638 students in our schools.
Brown Deer High School
567 students – 9th-12th grades

17. Strategic Plan - Action Priorities
Student Achievement
Facilities & Grounds
Communication
Accountability
Personalized Learning
Over 70 stakeholders in our school community met this past school year to explore the development of a vision for our preferred future, study best educational and research practices, candidly discuss the issues facing our district in uncertain economic times, and most importantly recommend an academic plan that will allow the district to execute a 21st century culture of achievement accelerating academic success for all of our children.
With this renewed focus and energy of a new strategic plan, our District now has a coherent plan and roadmap of strategies in five key areas. These initiatives will be implemented over the next five years as we aspire to become a world-class school district. I would like to thank everyone who participated in this process as well as the leadership of the Board of Education in developing this plan. Needless to say, we have been very busy….
See page 2 for more details about our goals and Action plans

18. Transformation and 21st Century Learning
Not only do we need to deal with the achievement of our students today, we also need to plan for the future. Our students need the skills and expertise to compete in a global environment. Our world is a different place and the demands for expertise and knowledge require a different skill set for our graduates.
Transformational change is on the horizon.

19. Using Technology to Keep Us Engaged
Kara Turner
Please put your device on vibrate….

20. It Takes a Village…
Dr. Gary Williams

21. Presentation of 2012-2013 Budget Inspire – Innovate - Lead Leading Together
Lisa Albers and Fran Peters
At the core of effective systems are teachers who challenge students, develop positive relationships with them, and are very intentional in their use of a wide variety of teaching strategies. Effective schools and teachers set high expectations, provide whole-child student supports for students and ensure a high –quality learning experience in every classroom.

22. Presentation of 2012-2013 Budget Inspire – Innovate - Lead Revitalizing Our Campus
Our community has come together to bring new life to buildings in need of repair to support and create a legacy of educational opportunities and value for a lifetime.
This collective vision is becoming a reality each and every day as we watch the impressive transformation of physical space reshape our campus with a new 38,000 square foot field house, a fitness center, modernized flexible classrooms, and community gathering spaces.
Every classroom and learning space in this district will be touched or influenced by this transformation. Dr. Deb Kerr
Emily Koczela

23. Transforming…

24. Transformation and 21st Century Learning
Student achievement and delivery will take on a new look – a more personalized approach
Schools and learning will look and feel more like the modern world of work
Learning will become the constant – not time
Flexibility in learning will drive policy changes
Increased use of technology
Achievement will be measured in new forms – growth and mastery of skills

25. Fusing the 3Rs with the 4Cs
The 3Rs and the 4Cs
Reading
wRiting
aRithmatic
Fusing the 3Rs with the 4Cs
Critical Thinking
Communication
Collaboration
Creativity
Our model of education has not been adjusted to respond to the realities of the 21st century community or workforce.
Our students aren’t ready for the challenges of 21st century citizenship or 21st century jobs.
Our current responses to these challenges are isolated and silo-ed.
We do not currently have a systemic community response to these challenges.
Everything that we do must have a connection and relationship to our end goal – ensuring all students have the skills to be prepared for college and career readiness. In collaboration with all representative groups of our school community, we developed this compact of high expectations for all stakeholders to elevate the level of achievement for our students.
I hope that you will join in with us as we build upon our diverse strengths, enhance the learning opportunities for our students, and distinguish ourselves as a world-class district where excellence is the norm. This is about a personal connection to your student and his/her learning and everyone in our community has an important role to play.

26. Transformation and 21st Century Learning
Did You Know?/Shift Happens – Version 6 – 2012 By: David S. Rose, Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod and XPLANCE
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"Did You Know?/Shift Happens" (Version 6, 2012)
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Did You Know? originally started out as a PowerPoint presentation for a faculty meeting in August 2006 at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, United States. The presentation "went viral" on the Web in February 2007 and, as of June 2007, had been seen by at least 5 million online viewers. Today the old and new versions of the online presentation have been seen by at least 20 million people, not including the countless others who have seen it at conferences, workshops, training institutes, and other venues. The web site tells more about how this simple little presentation spread worldwide (which certainly was not the original intent) and provides complete credits for this and its predecessor versions. As you will see, there was lots of feedback, both positive and negative, about the presentation. When XPLANE offered to help with the redesign, they gratefully accepted its offer to make a "new and improved" version in order to try and help continue the conversation (and to ask more from viewers). This version, updated to early 2012, was created by David S. Rose for use in the Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics program at Singularity University (singularityu.org). All of the contributors to this presentation believe that it is only through conversation, and subsequent action, that we will achieve the best possible education for our children. You are encouraged to download and share this video, and help keep it current by contributing updated versions to the ShiftHappens Wiki. "Did You Know?/Shift Happens" is licensed by David S. Rose, Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and XPLANE under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license. You are free to copy, distribute, remix and transmit the presentation as long as you give proper attribution to the original creators and share the resulting work under the same license. You may not use Did You Know? for commercial purposes without permission from the creators. (Note that the audio track for this presentation is subject to copyright and may need to be licensed separately.)

27. Research of the Best Schools In the World
Goggle Best Schools in the World for Children
Research private and charter schools in our area
Schools That Can Milwaukee
New Tech Network
KIPP
Harlem Academy Zone
Rocketship Schools
University School
Brookfield Academy
Cranbrook Academy
Use Rubric online as guide for inquiry
Post online
Share at future meeting

28. Poll Everywhere http://transformation.browndeerschools.com/
Keeping the Conversation Going…
Remind 101
Poll Everywhere

29. EXAMPLE How To Vote via Texting
This slide is for display to the audience to show them how they will vote on your polls in your presentation. You can remove this slide if you like or if the audience is already comfortable with texting and/or voting with Poll Everywhere.
Sample Oral Instructions:
Ladies and gentlemen, throughout today’s meeting we’re going to engage in some audience polling to find out what you’re thinking, what you’re up to and what you know. Now I’m going to ask for your opinion. We’re going to use your phones to do some audience voting just like on American Idol.
So please take out your cell phones, but remember to leave them on silent. You can participate by sending a text message.
This is a just standard rate text message, so it may be free for you, or up to twenty cents on some carriers if you do not have a text messaging plan. The service we are using is serious about privacy. I cannot see your phone numbers, and you’ll never receive follow-up text messages outside this presentation. There’s only one thing worse than spam – and that’s text message spam because you have to pay to receive it!
Standard texting rates only – we are using free version
We have no access to your phone number
Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do
TIPS

30. How To Vote via PollEv.com
EXAMPLE
This slide is for display to the audience to show them how they will vote on your polls in your presentation. You can remove this slide if you like or if the audience is already comfortable with texting and/or voting with Poll Everywhere.
Sample Oral Instructions:
Ladies and gentlemen, throughout today’s meeting we’re going to engage in some audience polling to find out what you’re thinking, what you’re up to and what you know. Now I’m going to ask for your opinion. We’re going to use your phones or laptops to do some audience voting just like on American Idol.
So please take out your mobilephones or laptops, but remember to leave them on silent. You can participate by submitting an answer at PollEv.com on your laptop or a mobile phone.
The service we are using is serious about privacy. I cannot see who you are or who voted.
TIP
Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do

31. How To Vote via PollEv.com/username
EXAMPLE
This slide is for display to the audience to show them how they will vote on your polls in your presentation. You can remove this slide if you like or if the audience is already comfortable with texting and/or voting with Poll Everywhere.
Sample Oral Instructions:
Ladies and gentlemen, throughout today’s meeting we’re going to engage in some audience polling to find out what you’re thinking, what you’re up to and what you know. Now I’m going to ask for your opinion. We’re going to use your phones or laptops to do some audience voting just like on American Idol.
So please take out your mobilephones or laptops, but remember to leave them on silent. You can participate by submitting an answer at PollEv.com/username on your laptop or a mobile phone.
The service we are using is serious about privacy. I cannot see who you are or who voted.
TIP
Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do

32. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.
If you like, you can use this slide as a template for your own voting slides. You might use a slide like this if you feel your audience would benefit from the picture showing a text message on a phone.

33. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.
If you like, you can use this slide as a template for your own voting slides. You might use a slide like this if you feel your audience would benefit from the picture showing a text message on a phone.

34. “True belonging is born of relationships not only to one another but also to a place of shared responsibilities and benefits. We love not so much what we have acquired as what we have made and whom we have made it with.”