1. Western Area Principals’ Meeting
March 14, 2017

2. Welcome By the end of the meeting, principals will …
Learn together to build our capacities and competencies.
Discuss the direction of our work in alignment with the WCPSS Strategic Plan.
Develop a deeper understanding of the formative assessment process and providing meaningful feedback.
Grow our capacity and capabilities to lead effective school improvement processes.
Receive important updates and reminders about district policies, procedures and events.

3. Know Your Why
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4. The District’s “North Star” (Primary Focus)
Vision 2020 Update
What: A deep focus on the Standards and 4Cs
How: Dynamic Learning Experiences
Learner Agency
Digital Learning
Social Emotional Learning
Who: PLTs
Systems Approach: MTSS
Read the speaking points sent from Brian Kingsley
The District’s “North Star” (Primary Focus)

5. Vision 2020 Diagnostic
Is your School’s main focus aligned to the District’s North Star?
What strengths do you have in your school within each of the areas (Standards and the 4Cs, Dynamic Learning Experiences, PLTs, and MTSS)?
What are some of the gaps that exist that you can begin to prioritize as areas of focus and learning moving forward?

6. April District Meeting
Half Day Sessions:
Secondary – April 21st from 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Elementary – April 21st from 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Schools can bring up to 6 people
Recommended: Principal, SIP Chair, API/IRT, Instructional Coach
Subs paid for by school
Discuss the logistics of April and the dates they will be attending. Keeping the reflection questions they just answered and sessions attended in mind, they will start to think about and plan for the April District meeting.
Level setting, work session, sharing

7. Reflect and Plan for April
Reflect on Feb session and plan for March

8. Planning for April
1. How can you ensure that your school’s instructional leadership team brings these areas (4 circles) together to strengthen core instruction?
2. What supports will you need to have in place at the school and from central services to do this work well?
3. How are you considering prioritizing the work of the strategic plan through professional learning in your schools and SIP beyond this school year?
4. Who are the key stakeholders on your staff who you would want learning with you as Principal, supporting the implementation of the work in order to impact your teachers and PLTs?
What data do you need to bring/review to inform this work? What level setting, info., understandings does your team need before ½ day? Supports on that day – area sup’s, special assistant, academics – all dept’s. Short and long range planning to get to staff (Canvas, regional PD, ER, PLT’s, etc.)

9. Not sure where you want slides for survey and Consolidated Assessment

10. Add survey and Consolidated Assessments

11. How do you keep the one thing the one thing?

12. Personalized Learning
November 15 Winston, Trent, Tim and Steve
Chapter 2 The Honeycomb Model
December 13 Mike, Chip, Rod and Rick
Chapter 3 Personalized Learning from the
Students’ Perspective
February 14 James, Lisa, Keith, Robin and Catherine
Chapter 4 The Five Key Instructional Shifts
Of Personalized Learning
March 14 Tanner, Doug, Nikia and Nolan
Chapter 5 Building Educator Capacity:
Personalized Professional Development
March 14 Shejuanna, Kristin, Karen and Stephanie
Chapter 6 Secrets to Scaling and
Sustaining Transformation

13. Personalized Learning
Chapter 5
Building Educator Capacity:
Personalized Professional Development
Tanner, Doug, Nikia and Nolan

14. 15 minutes
Break

15. Formative Assessment
Open the folder provided, read the given handout, and begin your activity.
Each group has a different success starter, with directions.

16. Formative Assessment and Feedback
Unpacking the Standards Protocol: Step 6
Formative assessment and intentional planning for checks for understanding

17. Formative Assessment and Feedback
Mellisa Smith’s portion

18. Remediation versus Acceleration
Fast Lane…
Remediation versus Acceleration
This is to get them back into the text. Recall Chapter 1 was about remediation versus acceleration and rethinking how we supported struggling students. Similarly in Chapter 2 our focus on Standards Wall and Concept Maps forced us to rethink how we make the standards and objectives accessible and meaningful for students as opposed to merely posting the standard as written or making it too simple that we lost the language of the standard. Similarly, Chapter 3 introduces an alternative to traditional warm-ups in an effort to maximize engagement and new learning. These are called success starters; which we modeled at the beginning of the today’s discussion on formative assessment.

19. Standards Wall/Concept Map
Creating strong “I can” statements, aligned to the standard
Creating clear learning goals for students

20. Success Starters Connect to prior learning
Hold high interest, real-world relevance, and value for students
Explicitly tie to the standard being taught
Engage every learner
Set up the lesson

21. Success Starters Debrief
What advantages do success starters offer in comparison with traditional warm-ups?
How do success starters level the playing field for all learners?

22. Formative Assessment and Meaningful Feedback
How does the teacher involve the students in establishing the learning goals/targets and success criteria?
How does the teacher asses student’s and help students asses their own learning?
Elementary, Middle and High

23. Formative Assessment and Meaningful Feedback
Elementary-
Middle-
High-

24. Formative Assessment and Meaningful Feedback Debrief
Reflect upon practices you see in classrooms To what degree do you find planned opportunities in a lesson to “check in” for understanding?
After today’s learning, what opportunities do we have to redefine how we use formative assessment opportunities and feedback to impact student achievement?

25. Lunch

26. Press Release
One minute Press Release on your school’s Quarterly Review data

28. Press Release
Pair with someone from like conference to share Press Release
Circulate the room to partner with someone from opposing conference and share Press Release

29. Quarterly Review Reflection, Planning and Feedback Tool

30. Implementation and Monitoring Reflection, Planning and Feedback Tool

31. Personalized Learning
Chapter 6
Secrets to Scaling and Sustaining Transformation
Shejuanna, Kristin, Karen and Stephanie

32. 15 minutes
Break

33. Share
Exchange
LEARN
GROW
PLTs

34. Celebrations Farmington Woods
Magnet Schools of America Merit “EXCELLENCE”
Award Winner 2017
International Baccalaureate PYP

35. HAPPY BIRTHDAY March April Jill Herbst – 8th Tim Chadwick – 3rd
Kristin Walker - 11th
Tim Chadwick – 3rd

37. Celebration! Law Enforcement Memo
Farmington Woods
Magnet Schools of America Merit “EXCELLENCE”
Award Winner 2017
International Baccalaureate PYP
Law Enforcement Memo
Grades being posted to Power Schools should follow school policy
New Wake
ID Portal

38. Officials who visit building need Area Superintendent to be there too
HS Planning for Graduation
Consolidated Assessment Form
NO Area Meeting in April

39. Your feedback is important!
Plus / Delta
Your feedback is important!