2.  Cane Ridge High School – ◦ Is a new school with rapidly changing needs as it adds its first senior class ◦ Has a new Executive Principal and has new leadership at other levels including its Academy teams ◦ Has implemented wall-to-wall academies as part of a larger district initiative to restructure high schools ◦ Will receive its first AYP measurement at the end of the 2010-11 school year ◦ Has a target of achieving “Model” status in the certification of each of its Career Academies

3.  Developing and living a shared mission and goals  Establishing a positive school culture and climate under new leadership  Developing a highly functional Leadership Team that is committed to the improvement plan  Developing and using a measurement system to continuously improve student performance  Identifying the key processes that support mission and goals and ensuring the processes are well defined and measured  Making AYP and Certifying each of the Career Academies as “Model” using the National Standards of Practice

4.  Each of the challenges identified can be met by taking a “Systems Approach” to improving quality ◦ “Systems Approach” supported by AdvanceED District Accreditation process and the Baldrige criteria ◦ “Systems Approach” is also consistent with the Tennessee School Improvement Planning Process

5.  Engaging in a Systems Approach requires understanding three concepts: ◦ Systemic Improvement – using and aligning the interdependent functions within and across the school to produce improvement ◦ Systematic Improvement – fostering improvement efforts that are regular and predictable at all levels of the schools ◦ Sustainable Improvement – maintaining and supporting improvements over time Source: Adapted from AdvancED Accreditation for Quality School Systems: A Practitioners’ Guide

6.  Support the Vision of the District – Anyone know it? ◦ Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools will provide every student with the foundation of knowledge, skills, and character necessary to excel in higher education, work and life.

7.  There are 3 Strands to Our Efforts ◦ Redesign of High Schools (physical space, scheduling, common planning times, etc.) ◦ Transform Teaching and Learning (formative assessments, differentiated instruction, etc.) ◦ Develop and Nurture Building and Community Support (branding our academies, business engagement, articulation agreements, etc.) Rate our progress on a scale of 1-10 in each of these areas.

8.  Redesign of High Schools

9.  Transform Teaching and Learning

10.  Develop and nurture building and community support