1. Summer Leadership Conference Summer 2017
Moving from Good to Great: Elevating the Standards and 4Cs through Student-Centered Project Work
Summer Leadership Conference
Summer 2017

2. To identify, recruit, develop and retain highly effective talent.
This IS THE Work
Learning and Teaching
Achievement
Balanced Assessment
Human Capital
Community Engagement
To provide teachers and students with the opportunity to participate in a relevant, rigorous, innovative and comprehensive learning environment.
To increase proficiency and growth rates across all groups and eliminate predictability of achievement.
To develop and implement a balanced assessment system that accurately reflects students’ knowledge of core curriculum standards as well as the ability to collaborate, be creative, communicate and think critically.
To identify, recruit, develop and retain highly effective talent.
To foster shared responsibility for student success by building trust, collaboration, and engagement among staff, families and community partners.
We are an organization focused on these five areas - this is THE work. So much so that Learning and Teaching, Achievement and Balanced Assessment are all one committee now as we can not address one of these areas without the other. These areas cover us and define what we do every day to make a difference for every child.
Where are we in our SP process? We are defining our strategies through the core work of learning and teaching. Designing resources to build knowledge, skill, and support. Building collaborations with teachers, students, parents, business owners, stakeholders...to define what we want our learners to look like when they leave us, what teachers should look like to create this learners, what leaders will look like to create environments that allow for the learning and teaching that we know should occur
We are fortunate in Wake. We ALREADY HAVE the resources needed to do this work.

3. Vision 2020 Instructional Blueprint
SPEAKING NOTES:
We have set an aggressive goal for ourselves to make sure that by the year 2020 more than 95% of our students not only graduate, but do so with options in their hands.
So, as leaders in our classrooms and schools, it is our job to ensure we look at the elements of our plan, celebrate our strengths, but most importantly, become intentionally focused on our students who are not on target and work tirelessly to support them. They are depending on us!

4. Vision 2020 Instructional Blueprint
SPEAKING NOTES:
We have an Instructional Blueprint for Vision 2020 that will resonate with every staff member in our District. Not only does this blueprint outline clearly our standards and 4Cs as what we want our students to know and be able to do, but it more clearly defines what success looks like in practice for both adults and students.
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5. Professional Learning to Advance the
Vision 2020 Instructional Blueprint
These are the overarching learning focuses for the next three years as identified by the Strategic Plan. You can see the continuity that runs through the years, as well as the tight alignment of focus to the Vision 2020 Instructional Blueprint expectations.

6. Alston Ridge’s connection to The Work.
Alston Ridge’s connection to The Work

7. 5-year plan:
Align standards to assessment to instruction: UbD Framework
Develop school improvement plan based on schoolwide need: Differentiation
Develop process to tie the work together in a meaningful way: Project Based Learning

8. What do you know about Project Based Learning?
More importantly, what do you want to know?

9. Why did Alston Ridge choose The Project Approach?

10. 3 Phases
The Project Approach

12. Questions
Take 2 minutes to talk with a neighbor and note any questions you have at this point and see how many are answered as you hear three teacher’s experiences…

13. Kindergarten Project Teacher: Ms. Heidi Cousley Topic: Ponds
Standards Covered: Kindergarten “Animals” Science unit (K.L.1, K.L.1.1, and K.L.1.2 ) and 10 others connected to reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

14. Second Grade Project Teacher: Ms. Stacy Knapp Topic: Maps
Standards Covered: 2nd Grade Social Studies (Geography -2.G.1.1,1.2, 2.1, & 2.2) along with 10 others connecting to reading, writing, and speaking.

15. Third Grade Project Teacher: Ms. Megan Madlon Topic: Bees
Standards Covered: 3rd grade “Plants” Science unit (3.L.2) and 9 others connected to reading, writing, speaking and listening.

16. Open Panel
Ask us questions about our experiences, processes, implementation, and utilized resources