1. Courageous Leadership: Technology, Data, and Transparency
Jen LaMaster
Assistant Principal
@40ishoracle
JD Ferries-Rowe
Head Geek
@jdferries
No, really, it’s going to be a blast!

8. Looking Under the Rock

9. Visionary leadership requires: engages local, regional & global culture, challenges current processes, open to growth and failure, listens to and communicates to all stakeholders.

10. Demographics are changing
All Students
Caucasian 59% 50%
African American 17% 16%
Hispanic 19% %
Private School
Caucasian % %
African American 5.6% 8%
Hispanic 9.2% %
National Center for Educational Statistics…
Brebeuf changes from 17.4% students of color in 2008 to 24% in 2018
Faculty stagnates from 7.6% to 8%

11. Other changes affecting the mission and vision...
Increased non-Catholic enrollment - grown to 19% (NCEA, )
Competition from other educational institutions
Salary structures and teacher recruitment/retention
Changing social-cultural norms
Increasing cost of keeping schools open - 16 new schools opened, 110 closed or consolidated (NCEA, )
NCEA Catholic School Survey _School_Data.aspx

12. Brebeuf Jesuit Mission Statement
Brebeuf Jesuit, a Catholic and Jesuit school, provides an excellent college preparatory education for a lifetime of service by forming leaders who are intellectually competent, open to growth, loving, religious and committed to promoting justice. Fostering a culture of understanding and dialogue, Brebeuf Jesuit seeks and welcomes students from diverse religious, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Students at Brebeuf Jesuit are called to discover and cultivate the fullness of their God-given talents as a responsibility and as an act of worship.

13. An inciting incident

14. Predictability & Support
Question
ISM Comparison
2016 Brebeuf
2017 Brebeuf
8. Our tests this grading period have covered exactly what my teachers said they would cover.
Mean
6.94
6.33
6.74
7,8,9
52.5%
62.1%
9. All the grades I received during this grading period--big tests, quizzes, papers, etc.--were exactly the grades I think I actually earned--no higher or lower.
6.66
6.22
6.03
50.4%
47.6%

15. I and my colleagues...
ISM Comparison
2016 Brebeuf
2017 Brebeuf
10.create predictable tests (not to be confused either with "simple"tests or with "easy" tests); our students can rely on the test preparation we offer them.
Mean
7.56
7.26
7.95
7,8,9
82.2%
88.3%
11. provide fair, reliable, understandable grade/reward structures for our students; our students are led to understand why they receive the grade they received--good or bad--and thereby to see how improvement, if they will seek it, might be possible.
7.60
7.16
7.98
72.2%
91.7%

16. Surely this is just kids being kids… we are predicable and supportive
Surely this is just kids being kids… we are predicable and supportive. All kids have equal opportunity…. Right?
In chairs - is this by class? Type of angry student? When was survey given - right after exams (it was not)? What outside indicators tampered with the students emotions? Oh wait - do we have an achievement gap??

17. The traditional school often functions as a collection of independent contractors united by a common parking lot.
- Robert Eaker
Think about your own schools. Parking lot conversations can sometimes be the only avenue of collaboration in schools. These meetings tend to be critical and produce nothing that will increase student learning.
Why do we resist using collaboration as a way to improve schools?

18. Moving