1. Buena Vista School District February 12, 2018
ENDS Report Priority #1 Building Professional and Community Collaboratives
Buena Vista School District
February 12, 2018

2. Student Centered Accountability
Build Professional and Community COLLABORATIVES
Instruct with focus on THINKING STRATEGIES and FEEDBACK
Create spaces of OPTIMISM
Establish SAFE and HEALTHY Learning Environments ​

3. District Priority 1

4. TIME FRAME FOR BEGINNING, IMPLEMENTING, & SUSTAINING ACTION
District Priority 1
District Priority 1 - Build Professional and Community Collaboratives Spring 2018 Update
ACTION
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE
TIME FRAME FOR BEGINNING, IMPLEMENTING, & SUSTAINING ACTION
UPDATE OF ACTION
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Share instruction and assessment between PK and K-5
Early School Director & Elementary Principal
Begin & Implement: Fall Sustain: Fall 2017
Kindergarten transition planning meetings & action items
Earlier enrollment and placement meetings for kindergarten involving preschool, kinder, principals, and support staff
The door between the elementary and preschool is physically open all day every day
Relationships being built between early childhood and elementary staff X

5. District Priority 1
The door between the elementary and preschool is physically open all day every day
Kindergarten transition planning meetings & action items

6. TIME FRAME FOR BEGINNING, IMPLEMENTING, & SUSTAINING ACTION
District Priority 1 - Build Professional and Community Collaboratives Spring 2018 Update
ACTION
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE
TIME FRAME FOR BEGINNING, IMPLEMENTING, & SUSTAINING ACTION
UPDATE OF ACTION
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Use Co-Teaching model at MMS to support student growth and teacher growth
SPED Director, Middle School Principal, Teachers
Begin: Summer Implement: Sustain:
MMS SPED Teacher continues to provide services to her students inside the general education classroom utilizing the co-teaching method. Her collaboration with Bever, Close, Cronsell is in their 3rd year together. Collaboration with Fritsch and Glaser in their second year. SPED model at the MMS allows for co-teaching 4 days a week with the 5th day reserved for co-planning.
Social Studies teachers continue to co-teach with Math and ELA classes.
New this year is a co-taught 6th grade Science class with Litvay and Jacobson.
Other collaborations of co-teaching include Flavin and Page, Burt and Scheidt, and Urbine with Page.
Struggles include losing Greg Perrin to the HS and starting from scratch to build the 7th grade co-teaching team of Close and Reed. With that we also lose the integrated 7th grade math concepts that Mr. Perrin was incorporating into his SS curriculum.
Teams that have been together for longer periods of time are really creating special cross-curricular units of study...Fritsch and Kinkaid
Teachers taking an active role in utilizing their paraprofessional in more than just supportive roles.
BVHS SPED teacher (Ricci) co-teaching L.A. with Beth Volpe
1 FTE
District Priority 1

7. District Priority 1
MMS SPED Teacher continues to provide services to her students inside the general education classroom utilizing the co-teaching method. SPED model at the MMS allows for co-teaching 4 days a week with the 5th day reserved for co-planning.
Social Studies teachers continue to co-teach with Math and ELA classes.
New this year is a co-taught 6th grade Science class with Litvay and Jacobson.

8. District Priority 1 Utilize Instructional Coaches
District Priority 1 - Build Professional and Community Collaboratives Spring 2018 Update
ACTION
WHO IS RE-SPONSIBLE
TIME FRAME
UPDATE OF ACTION
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Utilize Instructional Coaches 
District Administration, Principals, Coaches
Begin: Summer Implement: Sustain:
6-12 Coach implemented “Training Tuesdays” teaching teachers on Tuesday mornings and afternoons a variety of tech-related tools. (BVHS)
6-12 Coach leads the new teacher IDA days and ongoing professional development for 2 new teachers at BVHS.
6-12 Coach assists advisors on an as needed basis for student issues regarding the digital portfolio and iCAP implementation.
Because 6-12 Coach has 8 different roles, she doesn’t serve as often as a “traditional” instructional coach. Consider reducing her roles to focus influence.
K-5 Coach sets up times for peer observations, providing teacher growth by learning from peer instructional practices.
K-5 Coach meets with grade-level teams and individuals teachers to plan best practice instruction in response to student needs.
K-5 Coach plans and guides book clubs for the district and AvP.
K-5 Coach observes and gives constructive feedback for PGPs, math workshop cohort, and general teaching feedback.
K-5 Coach provides guidance with grade-level teams to continue focus on CTACHs through collaborative planning.
K-5 Coach provides “high impact” classes for teachers after school, emphasis on instructional practices.
K-5 coach works with Title 1 to interpret data and implement instructional support for teachers/students.
K-5 Coach works with teachers regarding the RTI processes and refining interventions for students.
K-5 Coach collaborates with the principal on instructional guidance for staff.
K-5 Coach serves on the Avery-Parsons leadership team.
1.5 FTE
District Priority 1

9. District Priority 1 Instructional Coaches:
6-12 Coach assists advisors on an as needed basis for student issues regarding the digital portfolio and iCAP implementation.
Because 6-12 Coach has 8 different roles, she doesn’t serve as often as a “traditional” instructional coach. Consider reducing her roles to focus influence.
K-5 Coach meets with grade-level teams and individuals teachers to plan best practice instruction in response to student needs.
K-5 Coach provides guidance with grade-level teams to continue focus on CTACHs through collaborative planning.

10. District Priority 1 - Build Professional and Community Collaboratives Spring 2018 Update
ACTION
WHO IS RE-SPONSIBLE
TIME FRAME
UPDATE OF ACTION
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Establish time for department and cross-department (SPED and general) planning
District Administration, Principals, Coaches
Begin: Implement: Sustain:
AvP -Kindergarten transition collaboration
AvP -Intervention support is expanding to math.
AvP -Socio-emotional supports have become system-wide with Second-Steps program at AvP.
AvP - A focus group has completed initial research into transforming the discipline processes at AvP. After community and staff review, an initial behavioral response code will be in effect in 18/19.
AvP -MTSS/RTI analysis and process is being streamlined with leadership from Hanna Jayne and the AvP MTSS team. Staff are more cohesively engaged in identifying and responding to struggling students.
AvP - Utilizing data for short cycle instructional planning in student progress towards CTACHs continues and is being evaluated by collaboration of grade-level teams.
MMS - Teachers have found ways to establish common planning times at least once a week. In some cases that means that they use the co-teaching 4 days a week and use the last day for planning.
MMS- Kindra Johnson co-teaches 6 different classes (3 ELA and 3 Math) with 5 different teachers for all grade levels.
MMS - New in are grade level meeting during early release to allow teachers to identify grade specific needs and collaborate in creating “mini-lessons” taught during advisory,
BVHS -RTI student talks on early release (BVHS )
BVHS- Advisory planning meetings on PL day afternoons- 1 hour (3-4 times in )
BVHS - Math department Lab School visits and PL in Denver (March 2018)
BVHS - French/Spanish teachers visited Aspen High (Oct. 2018)
BVHS -Planning for changes to BVHS schedule to allow for 1 hour of Dept. planning and 1 hour of Advisory planning, and 3 hours of additional individual planning time each week ( )
Time
Possible .5 FTE
District Priority 1

11. MMS - New in are grade level meeting during early release to allow teachers to identify grade specific needs and collaborate in creating “mini-lessons” taught during advisory
BVHS -RTI student talks on early release (BVHS )
BVHS- Advisory planning meetings on PL day afternoons- 1 hour (3-4 times in )
BVHS -Planning for changes to BVHS schedule to allow for 1 hour of Dept. planning and 1 hour of Advisory planning, and 3 hours of additional individual planning time each week ( )
District Priority 1

12. District Priority 1
District Priority 1 - Build Professional and Community Collaboratives Spring 2018 Update
ACTION
WHO IS RE-SPONSIBLE
TIME FRAME
UPDATE OF ACTION
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Provide shared opportunities to score and analyze student CTACH assessments
District Administration, Principals, Coaches, Teachers
Begin: Implement: (limited)
Implement: Sustain:
 IDA days continue to be offered for shared scoring
BVHS -Anticipated common department plan time once per week as part of schedule at BVHS, with admin support. ( )
Grade-level teams use planning time and IDA days to evaluate CTACH progress.
$12,000 Substitutes

13. District Priority 1 Time Frame:
Begin: Implement: (limited)
Implement:
Sustain:
 IDA days continue to be offered for shared scoring
BVHS -Anticipated common department plan time once per week as part of schedule at BVHS, with admin support. ( )
Grade-level teams use planning time and IDA days to evaluate CTACH progress.
District Priority 1

14. District Priority 1
District Priority 1 - Build Professional and Community Collaboratives Spring 2018 Update
ACTION
WHO IS RE-SPONSIBLE
TIME FRAME
UPDATE OF ACTION
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Establish relationships with the Buena Vista School District community by communicating vision and being transparent with decisions
Superintendent and administrative staff
Begin & Implement: Sustain:
MMS partnering with local businesses to reward and recognize honor roll students
Bi-weekly Admin/Law Enforcement meetings at BVPD
Community meetings regarding Building Project
Meet with Town Administrator regularly
On-going: Membership in Chamber and CCEDC, Optimists X

15. District Priority 1 Bi-weekly Admin/Law Enforcement meetings at BVPD
Community meetings regarding Building Project
Meet with Town Administrator regularly

16. None at this time, depends on any changes to programming
District Priority 1
District Priority 1 - Build Professional and Community Collaboratives Spring 2018 Update
ACTION
WHO IS RE-SPONSIBLE
TIME FRAME
UPDATE OF ACTION
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
Strengthen partnership between CCHS and BVHS/MMS
Superintendent, Principals, Teachers, Students
Begin: Implement: , , (phases may be needed if significant changes are made, especially in location) Sustain:
3 meetings to identify mutually beneficial relationship between CCHS/BVHS and fundamental roles of each school
Projected :
Re-establish clear admission system as parents expect freedom of choice.
Common campus planning
Consider use of a facilitator to help identify unique mission/vision of each school in order to identify symbiotic connections.
Staffing: CCHS math could teach 2 periods instead of one, bringing some CCHS students with him in order to blend schedules.
None at this time, depends on any changes to programming

17. District Priority 1
3 meetings to identify mutually beneficial relationship between CCHS/BVHS and fundamental roles of each school
Projected :
Re-establish clear admission system as parents expect freedom of choice
Common campus planning

19. Buena Vista School District February 12, 2018
ENDS Report Priority #1 Building Professional and Community Collaboratives
Buena Vista School District
February 12, 2018

21. Student Centered Accountability
Build Professional and Community COLLABORATIVES
Instruct with focus on THINKING STRATEGIES and FEEDBACK
Create spaces of OPTIMISM
Establish SAFE and HEALTHY Learning Environments ​
Collaborative
Constructive
Critically Competent
Creative
Connected
Curious
Character-Centered