1. Power & Priority Standards
Presented By: Alan Cabanting & Melissa (Missy) Beavers
July 23, 2015 (Thursday)

2. Defining Priority Standards:
Department Power Standards
AKA Enduring Understanding
Power Standards that are central to a discipline and have lasting impact beyond the classroom.
Course or Content Priority Standards
AKA Essential Understanding
Priority Standards are the most important standards in your specific course.
Missy – Defines what power and priority standards are.
2010 Leadership and Learning Center

3. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s):
What is this new thing that we are doing again?
How does this even fit with what we are doing here at Moanalua?
How are we going to tackle this task?
Why are we doing this?
MISSY: Goes over the frequently asked questions WITHOUT giving answers.
2010 Leadership and Learning Center

4. 1) Is it new? NO, we have been doing it.
Some departments worked on it way back when.
We are revisiting it to FOCUS our teaching.
Alan – Goes over FAQ 1 with answer
2010 Leadership and Learning Center

5. 2) How does it fit with Moanalua?:
Missy – Goes Over FAQ 2 with answer. Roots (Expectation)  Trunk (Success Standards)  Branches (Dept Power Standards)  Leaves (Priority Standards)

6. 3) How are we going to get it done?
Power Standards will be worked on in your Departments.
Priority Standards will be worked on in your Data Teams.
MISSY: Go over FAQ # 3 with answer.
2010 Leadership and Learning Center

7. Quick Reminder of Overall Data Teams Process:
1) Establish Expectations
- Unwrap the Standards
8) Determine if Goals Met
Reflection & Next Steps
2) Develop a Curriculum Map
7) Administer Post
CFA’s
3) Create Common Formative
Assessments (CFA’s)
Alan – Go over Data Teams Process VERY quickly…
6) Use Agreed Upon
Instructional Strategies
4) Administer Pre
CFA’s
5) Data Teams 5 Step
Process

8. Focusing Your Data Teams:
Provide a basic framework for data teams
Get started on what’s most important
Start Small
Spend time actually talking about instruction and its effect on student performance
Focus on the core
Be as specific as possible
Select a concept or skill that can realistically be taught and assessed over the course of a few weeks
Zoom in
Complete multiple cycles
Adjust process in response to feedback
Iterate and refine
Missy:
1) we need to start small. If you go back and try to do everything you hear in a book or training on data teams, you’ll leave very little room for developing ownership around the process, and very little room for fitting the process into your existing work.
2) We need to focus on improving instruction in order to improve student learning.
3) I believe that we do this by zooming in on specific concepts and skills that we want students to master, and closely examining and refining how we teach those concepts and skills.
Finally, since we’re talking about improving a process over time, and focusing on very specific teaching targets, we don’t want to spend all year on one small thing; we want to go through multiple cycles, each time refining the process so it better serves our goals as a school.
Excerpt From: Leadership and Learning Center

9. I said so…. What we are doing now? 3) Why are we doing this?
All standards important
Teach all of the standards
All by the end of school year
Students are unprepared for next grade & low achievement!
Teachers burnt out, unhappy, and frustrated!
Alan: Joke about Ms. Martin…
2013 Larry Ainsworth

10. 4) Why are we doing this? Makes it easier for us to teach when we:
Prioritize Standards
Depth over Breadth
Retention of Learning is increased
Students are more prepared & increase in student achievement
Teachers are less frustrated, happier, and a sense of accomplishment.
MISSY:
2013 Larry Ainsworth

11. Hakuna Matata:
Exemplars of Power & Priority Standards Tomorrow
Department Meeting time for Power Standards
Collaborative Groups (Data Teams) to determine Priority Standards
You ARE NOT alone…the PD team and Admin are here to help and support you!
Alan & Missy:
Alan – Go over 1, 2, & 3
Missy – You are not alone section…supported by PD Team.

12. Reference:
Data Teams – 2010 Leadership and Learning Center
CFA’s – 2008 Leadership and Learning Center