From: Marino, Jay
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003
10:02 AM
To: Administrators
Cc: Charvat, Cheryl
Subject: Updates and Reminders
for 1-10-03
Updates
and Reminders for 1-10-03 from the Office of Instruction and School
Improvement...
Topics in this issue include…
ACTION ITEMS
-Koalaty Kid Conference and Site Visit Opportunities For
Administrators (Contact My By Friday, January 17th)
-List of Strategies & Intervention At Your School- Due Friday
January 24th
-Evaluate January 27th 1/2 Day In-service; Due Monday, February
3rd
INFORMATIONAL ITEMS
-Reminder- Previously Scheduled SIP/Budget Planning Meetings With
Jay, Kay & Bruce Are Postponed
-Koalaty Kid Updates
-SIP Updates
-Science Training- 1-24-03 & 2-26-03
-ITBS & ISAT Summary Data Available (Board of Education SIP
Reports)
-Illinois Learning Standards/RISD Curriculum Alignment &
Student Friendly Standards Online Now!
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Instruction/School Improvement Related- Dates To Remember...
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Please
note- This is not an exclusive list of meetings; there may be other meetings
that are not included on the list below
*January
16h, 8:45 - 3:00pm- Social Studies
Curriculum Alignment Committee meeting
(http://curriculum.risd41.org/committee/social_studies/meeting1-16-03.htm )
*January
16th, 3:45pm- Koalaty Kid facilitator meeting
(http://curriculum.risd41.org/documents/koalaty/facilitators/school_facilitators.htm
)
*January
17th, 9:15am- Leadership Meeting
(http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/principal_meetings/principal_meetings_02-03.htm)
*January
17th- Last date to let Jay know if you are interested in attending the National
Koalaty Kid conference
(http://www.asq.org/ed/conferences/koalatykid/index.html)
*January
21st, 3:30 - 7:30pm- Day 5 Koalaty Kid training at TPC
(http://curriculum.risd41.org/documents/koalaty/school_data/kk_schools.htm)
*January
23rd, 9:15am- K-12 Principal meeting
(http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/principal_meetings/principal_meetings_02-03.htm)
*January
24th, 8:30am- FOSS training for Science P.O.C's
(http://curriculum.risd41.org/committee/science/poc/foss_mcmillan_training.htm)
*January
24th, Last day to turn in list of strategies & interventions (
http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/improvement_strategies.doc )
*January
27th, 1/2 day school improvement- make sure to evaluate in-service using the
usual means (http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/pd/profes_dev.htm)
*February
3rd, 1/2 day school improvement evaluation summaries due
(http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/pd/profes_dev.htm)
*February
4th, 3:45pm- Social Studies Curriculum Alignment Committee
(http://curriculum.risd41.org/committee/social_studies/ss_curriculum_align.htm)
*February
5th, 3:45pm- Science Point of Contact Meeting
(http://curriculum.risd41.org/committee/science/poc/point_of_contact.htm)
ACTION ITEMS
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-Koalaty Kid Conference and Site Visit Opportunities For
Administrators (Contact My By Friday, January 17th)
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One of
the best ways to enrich your knowledge of quality tools and how PDSA works in
the school or classroom is by making a site visit to a model school or
attending the National Koalaty Kid conference.
I am working on setting up a site visit to Pekin School district
sometime over March intersession. The
Koalaty Kid conference is April 5th - 8th in Ottawa, Canada. If you are interested in attending either the
Koalaty Kid site visit or the Koalaty Kid national conference, please contact
me by Friday, January 17th. You won't
want to miss these opportunities to develop your understanding and enhance your
ability to drive data driven decision making and continuous improvement in your
school. More information about the
Koalaty Kid conference is available online at
http://www.asq.org/ed/conferences/koalatykid/index.html .
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List of Strategies & Intervention At Your School- Due Friday
January 24th
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One of
our goals next year is to develop effective classroom instructional models
& practices district wide. In
efforts to begin this task, the PDSA cycle directs us to "define the
system" or identify what we are currently doing. By Friday, January 24th, we would like each
school to list the effective instructional practices, programs and
interventions being utilized at your school.
This includes assisting programs or other strategies for school
improvement. Examples might be; PBIS, balanced literacy, Koalaty Kid, Soar to
Success and others. Later this Spring or
Fall, we will be seeking to put together a committee of teachers and
administrators to help make recommendations for effective instructional
strategies for all subject areas and grade levels. More information to come on this topic...
I will
compile this information and report it back out to all principals. Please use the following form-
http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/improvement_strategies.doc . Please download the file to your computer,
enter the data and then email the file back by January 24th. Thanks for your assistance.
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Evaluate January 27th 1/2 Day In-service; Due Monday, February
3rd
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Just a
reminder to evaluate the January 27th 1/2 day in-service using the customary
format. Please use the standard
"professional development evaluation form" found at
http://curriculum.risd41.org/documents/pd/evaluation.doc and submit your
school's summary evaluation to the Curriculum Office by Monday, February
3rd. In efforts to continuously improve
our staff development activities, please review last year's evaluation data and
make changes as necessary. Last year's
1/2 day evaluations are available online at
http://curriculum.risd41.org/documents/pd/evals/pd_evaluations.htm . Thanks for your assistance.
INFORMATIONAL ITEMS
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Reminder- Previously Scheduled SIP/Budget Planning Meetings With
Jay, Kay & Bruce Are Postponed
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Just a
quick reminder that the scheduled Title I Budget/SIP meetings are postponed
until after more information is available to schools. In light of the budget cuts that will be
made, it seems wise to postpone these meetings until we all have a better
picture of the impacts of reductions.
Please continue planning how Title I (and other school funding sources)
will support an effective SIP. More
information to come later...
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Koalaty Kid Updates
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On
January 21st, 125 teachers, administrators and paras will complete their 5 day
Koalaty Kid training. This will mean
that 13 schools will have teams (and is some schools most teachers) trained in
the Koalaty Kid approach to continuous improvement. It is becoming evident as I visit schools and
classrooms that the Koalaty Kid initiative is beginning to take off. Congratulations to all schools who are
completing the training.
To better
support, sustain and build internal capacity for Koalaty Kid to become a
powerful change agent, we are initiating our second wave of support through the
implementation of Koalaty Kid facilitators.
A building Koalaty Kid
facilitator keeps the momentum of Koalaty Kid training going in the school.
He/she works closely with the building principal and school improvement team to
enhance the school's use of Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) and the use of quality
tools. He/she serves as a "coach" for teachers and works with staff
in refining their skills in the following areas: use of data driven decision
making at the classroom level, creating classroom mission statements,
implementing the use of student data folders (and student led conference
techniques), use of quality tools to enhance instruction and use of PDSA to
increase academic achievement and positive student behavior. In general, the
school's Koalaty Kid facilitator serves as a "PDSA/quality tools support
person".
It is our vision that
every school in RISD 41 has a Koalaty Kid facilitator. Facilitators may be
involved in the following:
-Share best practices in PDSA/quality tool usage in the school or classroom
setting
-Network with other facilitators to share ideas and best practices
-Assist staff, students and administrators in learning how to effectively use
PDSA and quality tools
-Learn from each other's expertise and experiences and discuss how to deploy
and enhance continuous improvement efforts in RISD #41
-Attend conferences, workshops, site visits or other professional development
activities
Learn
more about Koalaty Kid facilitators and view a list of who they are at
http://curriculum.risd41.org/documents/koalaty/facilitators/school_facilitators.htm
.
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SIP Updates
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After
several meetings with the Educators In Residence, there have been a few helpful
revisions made to the SIP template to more closely align our template with the
ISBE rubric. All SIP information is
available online at -->
http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/school_improvement/school_improvement.htm
. These updates will be shared at the
next Leadership meeting. Here are some
of the updates:
-Alignment
of the ISBE rubric with the RISD41 SIP template (section by section correlation
to the ISBE rubric). To view these
changes, visit
http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/school_improvement/risd41_SIP_Template.doc .
-Suggested
annual calendar of SIP activities to be able to transform your current SIP into
the new format. Available online at
http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/school_improvement/SIP_Timeline.xls .
-SIP
Quarterly Review Sample Agenda for conducting quarterly SIP action plan
reviews. Available online at http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/school_improvement/Quarterly_Review.doc
.
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Science Training- 1-24-03 & 2-26-03
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Science Point of Contacts will be engaging in advanced training in our recently adopted new science materials. FOSS training is scheduled for Friday, January 24th from 8:30am - 3:00pm in room 23 of the administration center. McMillan/McGraw-Hill science training is scheduled for February 26th from 8:30am - 3:00pm in room 23 of the administration center. A complete list of registered participants is online at http://curriculum.risd41.org/committee/science/poc/foss_mcmillan_training.htm . All administrators are invited to join the training or just stop by.
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ITBS & ISAT Summary Data Available (Board of Education SIP
Reports)
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As many
of you prepare your school's SIP summary for the Board of Education, I have
created an ISAT and ITBS graphical summary (by school). These excel files are available to you and
your staff for other SIP purposes as well.
Feel free to use the data as appropriate. The files can be downloaded, viewed and
printed online at
http://curriculum.risd41.org/documents/published_reports/curriculum_office_published.htm
.
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Illinois Learning Standards/RISD Curriculum Alignment &
Student Friendly Standards Online Now!
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Please
take a moment to review the teacher created RISD 41 curriculum alignment
documents for the content areas that you teach.
In most cases, the major subject areas contain the K-12 Illinois
Learning Standards by grade level. On the web site, we have also placed a
document that translates the Illinois Learning Standards into "student
friendly language" that is easily understood. These Word files can be printed and displayed
as posters in the classroom to help student (and teachers) identify and
understand the standards. In the area of
writing and math, student assessment rubrics are available. To view all of these documents, visit our web
site at http://curriculum.risd41.org/committee/curriculum_alignment.htm .
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View
past "Updates and Reminders" at... http://curriculum.risd41.org/admin/updates/updates_and_reminders.htm
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Jay
Excellence Every Day!
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Jay Marino
Assistant
Superintendent for Instruction & School Improvement
Rock
Island-Milan Public Schools
2101 Sixth
Avenue- Admin Center - Rock Island, IL
61201
Voice:
309-793-5900 ext. 253 - Fax: 309-793-5905
jay.marino@risd41.org
- http://www.risd41.org
Instruction/
School Improvement Site: http://curriculum.risd41.org/
Personal Web
Site: http://www.jmarino.ws
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