1. SAU #41 2010-2011 WELCOME TO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR

2. Another Exciting Year Ahead  Assuring that our students have a cohesive PreK-12 experience  Purposeful collaboration  Strengthening relationships  Sense of urgency  Celebrate successes, learn from shortcomings

3. A Shift in Emphasis in 2009-10  A focus on learning  Teaching as collaborative practice  School improvement a requirement  Responsibility  Distributed leadership

4. SAU 41 - LEADERSHIP TEAM FIVE YEAR PLAN, 2009-2014  Data – a systemic plan  Curricular alignment in our core content areas  Responsibility for Student Growth, academic and behavioral  A comprehensive plan for Building Capacity at the organizational and individual levels

5. Five Year Plan First Year 2009-2010 Researched, selected data management program – Inform Began to identify the types of data we collect and use Began a review of our practices when learners need more support – Response to Intervention (RTI) Conducted a staff development survey

6. In Addition, We… Established a strategic planning steering committee, Transforming Our Schools Together, and held a Visioning Day Submitted two applications for Race to the Top Established two PreK-12 professional days in this year’s calendar

7. And We Also… Piloted an online learning management system at HUES, Blackboard Completed year two of using the Danielson model for teacher evaluation Launched a new, standards-based Multi-Dimensional School Leader Assessment System for administrators

8. Five Year Plan Second Year 2010-11  Launch data management through Inform  Data work through RTI, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)  Map the taught curriculum, PreK-12  Begin to standardize formative assessment; extend summative assessment

9. Second Year - Continued  Build lateral capacity – vertical and horizontal connections through PLCs  Complete the strategic planning process and finalize an SAU 41 vision of our schools  Extend/expand leadership development

10. STATE LEVEL REFORM  Comprehensive Educational Plan  Common model for teacher evaluation  Adding a 5 th Domain to the Danielson model, Student Achievement  Adopted the Common Core Standards in June

11. NH DOE Reform Initiatives  Race to the Top: Four Assurances (data, great teachers/great leaders, assessment, struggling/innovative schools  Smarter Balanced Consortium – 31 states  Equity: graduating all students career- and college-ready

12. Federal Reform The Shift at the Federal Level  From Highly Qualified Teacher to Highly Effective Teacher  From Focus on Teaching to Focus on Learning  Time to complete the curriculum  Time to meet students’ needs  Measure growth over time, not a snapshot in time  Funding directly connected deep, systemic change  Reauthorizing ESEA

13. Reform Priorities Rewriting ESEA  College- and Career-Ready Students  Great Teachers and Great Leaders in Every School  Equity and Opportunity for All Students  Raise the Bar and Reward Excellence  Promote Innovation and Continuous Improvement

14. What’s At Stake for Continued Educational Funding  Federal level – billions of dollars - but tied to a comprehensive plan for reform  Foundations – Gates, Kellogg, others – creating an “Open Innovation Portal”  Regional Labs – help with writing grants  Consortia  Technical Centers for district, state support with NCLB

15. SAU 41: Positioning Ourselves for Continued Success  Continue our focus using the Five Year Plan as our roadmap  Build our systemic/school/classroom capacity through lateral and vertical Professional Learning Communities  Know and use our data to chart our progress at all levels of the system  Align our curricula in the core content areas and use the data to make adjustments  Increase our ability to respond to the data on student growth – maintain a sense of urgency

16. SAU 41… A Community of Learning Professionals  “Power consists in one’s capacity to link his [her] will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.” - Woodrow Wilson