1. 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”

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

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

4. 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?

5. First… Some Background

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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).

11. 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.

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

14. Where We Were
Prior to the school year, the Altar Valley School District was a BT partner, but…

15. 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.

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

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

21. The BT Seven Key Starting Points
VIDEO CLIP:

22. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

24. AVSD District Initiative

25. 6.

26. 7.

27. A Framework = Our Arrows Going In The Same Direction!

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

30. 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.

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

33. Curriculum & Instruction

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

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

36. 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)

37. Mrs. Tynes – 8th Grade ELA

38. Ms. Landers – 4th Grade

39. 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)

40. 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.

41. 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

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

43. Daily Math Skills

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

45. Assessment

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

47. Standards-Based Assessment

48. 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.

49. Mrs. Tynes – 8th Grade ELA

50. 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.

51. Lindie – 4th Grade

52. Conrad – 4th Grade

53. 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.

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

55. Basic Skills Assessment

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

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

59. 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.

60. INTERVENTION

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

62. 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.

63. 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.

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

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

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

67. Professional Learning Communities

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

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

70. 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.

71. 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?

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

73. 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.

74. 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.

75. Challenges & How We Overcame Them

76. 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

77. 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

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

79. Next Steps

80. 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

81. 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?

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

84. Questions?!

85. Session Evaluation

86. Contact Information
David Dumon
Altar Valley Middle School
Superintendent
Julie Waters
Altar Valley School District
Director of Federal Programs
and Staff Development