AD Connect
April 3rd 2017
CNA
Information on CNA Data Sources:
- Organizational Learning will be running your Professional Development report from Oracle to summarize your campus PD data. Look for this report to come to you in an email from O.L. soon. This report will replace what was listed as the Sched Report in the CNA training documents.- Due to confidentiality concerns, the Project GOAL survey may not be available. Nelson Orta will be following up with ADs on that and we will let you know of any changes.
- New BrightBytes survey data will be available in mid-April. The report you can access now contains last year's data. All principals have access to that data, but Angie Cheatham is your resource if you need assistance.
- Please be sure you are using the surveys shared by Kim Caddell in her WAIP memo (attached) to obtain teacher, student and parent climate and culture information. You may use alternate surveys with prior approval from your AD. Focus Schools should either incorporate those additional culture and climate items into the Google teacher survey our group created or administer Kim's survey separately. The CNA process will not be complete without these data pieces.
Expectations Update
- Text vs call vs email: Text messages get to me quickly and I respond as quick as possible and tells me hey, I need an answer today. Emails will of course be answered as quickly as possible as well but send me the message that you need an answer this week. A phone call tells me that you have an emergency and need me to answer the phone and interrupt another meeting or visit.
- Field Trip Chaperones: Should you have an overnight field trip as an elementary school, an administrator should be present.
- If you have any difficult parent/employee situations that aren’t your average, run-of-the-mill interactions, please keep me abreast. Not only does it notify me in advance of any possible contacts, but we can problem solve together and hopefully determine the best resolution.
- Write ups and TINAs: Should you need to write up an employee or you need to place an educator on a growth plan, please forward to me your planned documentation so that we can discuss prior to moving forward with the employee.
Testing: Lessons Learned
- Please know that it is best practice and Garland policy that paraprofessionals NOT serve as test administrators. They can monitor the halls and the restrooms. They can even be in a room with a certified educator, however, they are not to be left alone with testing materials.
- As principals are ultimately responsible for state testing and all that is involved, please make sure that your are in the halls monitoring. Principals should not relieve teachers or administer the evaluations, but rather be in the halls monitoring and solving any problems as they arise.
- There are multiple layers to training for these evaluations. 1st: test security training; 2nd: specific test training such as 5th grade math and reading; 3rd: specific accommodation training such as oral administration to ensure that proper procedures are followed.
Shoutout
- I would like to give a big shoutout to the educators at Back and Steadham!! They demonstrated flexibility and understanding as they arrived at school with no power. I am very appreciative of administrators and educators having a plan in place for just such emergencies :)
Beaver Invention Convention
Couch Cleaning up the World
Herfurth Data Dig
SSI Plan
Below you will find the link to the PowerPoint containing the SSI plan created by the IDF’s that will take 5th grade educators starting next week through April 21st which I mentioned in the memo this past week. Within the link, you will find QR codes/links to each content area plan. On the final slide, you will see the names of the IDF’s for each area. They have put a lot of work into this plan and it is very thorough. You may either follow the plan as is, alter it, or perhaps you already have an alternative plan. Whichever the case, please let me know by Monday how you intend to proceed. She you have questions or need support, please don’t hesitate to ask. We hope you find it helpful.
Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (Google it :)
If you are attending the 2017 RYHT Leadership Institute in Harvard
please click on the following link: http://bit.ly/2017GISDRYHT and complete the form.
Next Round of Visits
As I come to your campus for our second visit, I plan to spend about an hour. The first 30 minutes will involve a systems check discussion and the latter 30 minutes a few walkthroughs. During the systems check, please refer to the items listed below and a brief 60 second elevator speech to tell me how you hand each system. During the walkthrough, I will have you complete a walkthrough on a few teachers and then we will discuss what feedback and coaching conversation will occur following the visit.
- Systems check
- Lesson plans: turn in, review, format
- Walkthroughs: format, quantity, when do you just send the feedback and when do you coach
- Improving culture: what are you doing to improve climate and culture in your building
- PLC plan: training, timeline, who leads, protocols, duration
- PD plan: How are you providing PD throughout the year and how are you determining need, what is the current need.
- Faculty meeting: how often, content, duration
- RtI plan: How does a child move through the tiers?
- Data review: how are you reviewing data with educators, how often, what data
- Meeting with Secretary, leadership, AP: how often do you meet with specific groups and what is the content of the meeting
- Dealing with no subs: how are you dealing with situations when substitutes do not show up or a job is not filled?
- Check email and getting paperwork done: How are you managing time with coaching educators and getting all the tasks done that are required of an administrator?
Steadham School Garden
Fostering Grit and Resiliency
Deficit mindset...I think not!
IDF Support
Region 10 Curriculum Audit
TTESS
Chris' Schedule
- Monday: Campus visits in morning and afternoon with a district level meeting in the middle of the day
- Tuesday: Campus visits in morning and afternoon with a district level meeting in the middle of the day
- Wednesday: District meeting at Harris Hill all day; GPLA
- Thursday: Campus Visits all day
- Friday: Ed Foundation golf tournament and bond meetings