Sunday+Session+One

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.03em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.3em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0.3em; position: relative; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgba(255,255,255,0.496094) 0px 2px 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 7;">**2109 -- Becoming a Great High School: 6 Strategies and 1 Attitude That Make a Difference** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"><span style="-webkit-background-size: 100% 100%; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,0% 100%,0% 0%,color-stop(0.19,#111111),color-stop(0.57,#4f4f4f),color-stop(0.86,#636263)); background-origin: initial; background-size: 100%; border-bottom-color: #666666; border-bottom-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-color: #d9d9d9; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; border-right-color: #666666; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 2px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-color: #666666; border-top-left-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-right-radius: 10px 10px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; color: white; display: block; float: right; font-size: 0.9em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 7px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 195px;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday 3/25/12 8:00 am - 9:30 am ** This session will provide participants with an overview of the 6 + 1 model for moving from good to great, along with examples of how high schools across the country are making this important transition. Participants will gain an understanding of the characteristics high-performing high schools have in common and leave with a comprehensive model that integrates research-based practices into a unified program to give a school's improvement efforts coherence.
 * Sunday Session One**

Tim Westerberg, Dillon, CO <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">Closing the gapbetween common sense and common practice. The differencbête tween knowing and doing. Close gaps between what we know we ought to be doing and what we are actually doing. Middle class schools not performing as well as they could and are producing the backbone the the US economy.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Presenter(s): **
 * Becoming a Great High School (Musser & McCallum)**

What creates a great school? Key: We expect success attitude All students receive three critical messages from all adults at every turn: 1.Clear instructural goals 2. Effective instruction 3. Frequent formative assessment 4. Tracking progress 5. Timely intervention 6. Celebrating success
 * All students see learning as important
 * All students can learn
 * I am not going to give up on you even if you give up on yourself
 * Big picture targets & outcomes uniform among classrooms
 * School wide & department goals
 * Have a language of instruction - beyond sharing ideas & lessons, but what really affects students and learning.
 * Do not wait until autopsy report (final test). Frequent checks of learning & alteration ofinstruction.

Effort Based Learning Say it (messages?) Model it (preparation? use of time?) Organize for it (homework policies?, ability grades?) Protect it (interruptions) Reward it (awards, recognitions?)

Factors influencing achievement 1. Curriculum coherence 2. Agreement on assessment criteria 3. Discussing best practices to help students learn 4. Great high schools leave nothing important to chance (I.e., writing process)

Hammond: @ Session 2171, Empowering Students with Web 2.0 and Social Media to Foster Student-Directed Learning

The American public school teacher 50 years.

Past Present and Future of Teaching 50 year period Public education was about access now it is about quality. 1966 Coleman report analysis. ( verbal composition) Data to outcomes with performance. (hierarchical linear modeling) Socioeconomic status is a predictor of success more than the teacher. Desegregaition impact teachers brown vs board of Ed1980 9 percent to 23 percent today. Inclusion of special education into classrooms Metamorphosis of schoolsTracking-60s poll- all teachers liked it. Detracting increases complexity Second major factor is the standards and accountability reform and the impact on teaching that is wholistic about higher order thinking. NCLB bought off the shelf documents for testing due to capacity. Studies indicate mapping of demand is very low. The highest level of demand to standards is about 30 percent. Overarching conclusion is a paradox and professionalism of teaching is based on the research efforts and the future definition of learning free from hunch, best practice experience and more of a science. In looking across the data there were four streams of commentary. Demographics of teachersBallooning of teacher workforce Until 1980 then explosion of teaching beyond enrollment (IDEA impact created this push). Class size reduction focused on elementary only. Rapid expansion equals decreased quality....(.ie mapping of teacher standardized tests performance ie sat)80s again the bell shaped curve of teacher age changed to bi modal. Career switchers ( almost 40 percent of teachers entering the profession now) Population of teacher diversity is the same ie black always around 7 percent. (implications) we don't know why performance drops when minority teachers teach white students, or they are active effects he/she is doing if we could identify. 80 s 2/3 females now (2010) 3/4 of teachers boys are substantially worse in reading and women are only marginally less better. Grades 6-8 is 80 percent female. 45percent of teacher turnover occurs in 25 percent of schools. New study suggesting that the better teachers move to better schools and less human capital is impact on learning but it is the churn that impacts learning ( resource allocation) Changing working conditionsLack of time for collaboration ( he is presenting OECD) 21 percent non teaching time in other countries versus 30 percent in the USA. Training licensure, induction We have built an infrastructure to raise up the profession rests upon a weak foundation. Our knowledge of how to teach is very weak. The real problem is the view of teaching, we need centralization, but looking historically in the medical field, they had the same problem. They failed horribly when they tried. Johns Hopkins adopted a scientific approach to medicine as a standout. Flexter report went to all medical schools and JH had it down. Then standards were developed. There are parallels with per service teaching and medicine. Centralization can only happen after you identify what you want. M Induction- researchers Richard ingersol indicates you need the following: Attributes were given to west Ed etc to test them. After 2 years father following our knowledge of what we new best did not work. Professional Development review of 1300 studies and only standards only 9 studies met the standards of research, all in elem and very small teacher pool of 200 executed by the developers of the program. Licensure - district achievement and proportion of teachers with or without licensure. The higher the proportion of licensure equals higher performance. You cannot use aggregate data to draw conclusions about learning. What we know now is that licensure does not matter much at all. Study in North Carolina minority teacher with less licensure has better results than licensured opposite race teacher. Race trumps licensure. It is possible to take graduate schools of education and develop a network and doing separate research and set up central research standards first. We have meaningless data such as standardized test. We need higher order outcomes. The problem with value added are the inputs not the outputs. Until we standardize our research methodologies the profession will remain unchanged. Imagine if we were developing an intervention for blood pressure only if we used heart rate. Ie standardized testing to higher order thinking.

Professionalization Arizona state university eliminated college of Ed and are using BS degrees only. The public believes teachers are born 70 percent. We must abolish that.. Emulating international Assessments be cautionary!