DLT Update
May, 2017
Recapping a Successful Year...
2016-2017 has been a busy year!
Here is some of the work led by your District Leadership Team:
Structural Items --
- Established professional Learning Communities / Teacher Based Teams in all buildings
- Emailed updates following DLT meetings
- Completed BLTs building plans in ALL buildings complete with school vision statements
- Aligned DLT initiatives with Academic Achievement portion of revised Strategic Plan
- Rewrote hiring processes for new Buckeye teachers that include coming in to teach a model lesson (Model Lesson Rubric)
- Established Adoption Cycle Plan
- Completed Science Adoption Year 1 (piloting Science Fusion in fall)
- Completed World Language Adoption
Items aligned to goal "Continuum of Services"
- Sent team to Least Restrictive Environment training to review data suggest procedures
- Provided co-teaching training and site visits to other districts
- Initiated co-teaching classrooms throughout the district
- Created internal monitoring team for IDEA compliance created
- Began gifted cluster groups in 3-4th grade and cleaned up placement processes for JH and HS honors classes
- Provided gifted training for all required teachers in 16-17, in line with 30 hour state requirement
Items aligned to goal "Effective Feedback"
- Completed vertical articulation of student strengths / struggles / grade-level outcomes by subject area
- Started establishing K-12 Philosophy Statements for teaching contents
- Provided Google Classroom (with 251 New Classrooms set up since August!!!!!) and Google Apps training
- Piloted and purchased districtwide licenses for DataMap in ProgressBook providing immediate access to student data history
DLT Plan
Click Here: This is the rubric DLT and BLTs use to determine next steps in our initiatives.
Strategic Plan
Click Here: This is a working document from this year's revisions. DLT's work is highlighted in the Academic Achievement tab.
Looking Ahead....
The DLT is committed to making sure initiatives are long-term and directly connected to our two goals (DLT plan) and the Strategic Plan. As we continue moving forward, the team is planning the following items for next school year:
Structural Items --
- Continue the work of this year, AND...
- Look at districtwide homework policies
- Look at districtwide RtI procedures
- Develop a DLT subcommittee for Professional Development Planning
- Plan for Science Adoption Purchase in Jan. 2018
- Plan for Math Adoption Year 1
Items aligned to "Continuum of Services":
- Continue the work of this year, AND...
- Bring in a "Brain Trainer" to provide PD to all staff on the changing brains of millennials and how their brains affect their learning ability
- Grow Gifted Clusters to grades 5/6
- Grow Co-teaching classrooms into other grades -- continuing to decrease number of students receiving majority of services in self-contained / pull out settings
- Continue state-required gifted PD for necessary teachers
- Continue site visits and co-teaching training as needed for new co-teaching pairs
Items aligned to "Effective Feedback":
- Provide .pdf of guidance on DataMap in early August so teachers can pull their students' data as soon as class lists are available (There will be a performance - based "opt out" of additional DataMap training for teachers who can successfully use the .pdf instructions!)
- Provide multi-year focus on MAX Teaching Training -- See below for more information!!
- Use MAX Teaching writing rubrics across contents in vertical meetings (this will make sense in the Fall)
- Develop OTES rubric for teachers to reference with performance suggestions tied to MAX Teaching strategies (ex. "Doing __[this strategy]__ will help you get to accomplished")
What is MAX Teaching?
Click Here: For more information on the MAX Teaching training Buckeye will begin next year.
Friday, August 18 -- Inservice Agenda
Click Here to view the agenda for our back-to-school inservice. Final updates to this schedule will be available in August.
Event Information
2017-2018 Back to School Inservice
Note: This is the SECOND day back, not the FIRST. The first day, August 17, will be a staff work day with no meetings.
When?
Friday, Aug 18, 2017, 08:00 AM
Where?