Canton Local School District’s
Journey to
ENGAGEMENT
The invitations:
You are cordially invited to the first District Design Team meeting of the 2012-2013 school year. Thursday, August 16, 2012 At McCall’s 10:00am-2:00pm Please RSVP by Friday, August 10 -2-
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August 2012 CSHS Designed study skills for each grade level
Newbies start their journey on learning the Canton Local Way!
FMMS
Set goal of all staff participating in at least 1 coaching circle each semester (either Bird’s Eye, Coaching Circle or Design Team Member)
FMMS “Divide & conquer” Lead Teachers work w/ administration to define roles & goals for school year: PLC, Tech, Engagement, & Coaching Circles
FMMS BDT Meetings each month during PLC
What are people saying about the eBook: • The progression of the work, being able to refer back to work • I really like the different quotes that people have shared • I love that it is digital -4-
Convocation 2012
Connecting the D•O•T•S
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September 2012 FMMS Michele P. Tech speed sharing
Do we need “Staff Voices”
(Yes)?
Canton Local Lead Teachers Chosen
Student Voices introduced! • • •
Walker Melissa Kalb Dan Lawver Katie Nolen Sharon Smith
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Walker Lead Teacher created Seuss - case
Panels of SDT in each school
Walker “WHO WORK” Done school wide
CSHS Staff Technology Share-Outs
Walker Panel FMMS Panel CSHS Panel
Canton Local Lead Teachers 2012-2013 Faircrest Mason Boldizar Nicole Bowman Amy Eibel Michele Pedone
CSHS Lisa Bryan Gregg Clark Meghan Fricke Cassie McGuyrt
FMMS
October 2012
Lynn Rudd working w/A. Eibel to design work for art classes incorporating literacy standards through crafting of artists statements for Veterans Day
District PD designed by Lead Teachers for entire staff
CSHS Student Voices Jr/Sr Focus Groups student lead
CSHS To be continued Technology Share-outs
October 2012 Moore:
FMMS
LEAD Teachers designed inservice. Teams worked on aligning & “breaking down” new curriculum standards
C4D
Amy Eibel & Gregg Clark to C4D training @ Schlechty Headquarters
Email from Jeff
“Teachers shared with teachers what they are doing in the classroom with technology. They not only shared how to use the technology, but how it was implemented into the classroom lessons and assessments-both daily and summative.”
October 2012 Senior Focus Groups Summarizing Thoughts and Themes The following themes emerged from both Senior Focus Groups. The themes themselves are not in any type of weighted order; however, they are themes that were common between the two different classes. The themes centered around the following topics:
1. Negative effects of the old grading policy. 2. Lack of and need for study skills instruction. 3. General thoughts about instruction. These include opinions regarding the over-concentration on test preparation, the over-emphasis on simple memorization, the lack of challenging work, and different opinions regarding the online options. 4. Meaningful work they had been given and achieved.
Focus Group Chart with examples from Jeff or Lynn
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Exit Ticket for October 8th –Walker What made it engaging for you?
- “Going over standards, candy, and fancy video” - “I was engaged during staff meetings today. I loved the videos and the novelty of the Dr. Seuss theme. I also like working with the other teacher of my grade level.” - “Talking through standards that were not clear” - “Working in my content area” - “Discussion” - “Group work, and going through each one” - “I liked allowing us to be with our grade level all day to work through the Common Core” - “I have been wanting to look at the Core standards so it was nice to have a day to look them over” - “Snacks, break time” - “The cooperative work discussions and the importance of the topic” - “Having Frank sitting with us and successfully talk through the core” - “Chance to discuss with team members” - “Having the day broken up into two parts - “I felt that it was very purposeful and a good use of our time” - “Working/discussing topics in a professional manner” - “Discussion with team to get everyone’s interpretation” - “I like Math and will be teaching” - “We worked as a team” - “Writing the core to help me understand. Great team to work with” - “The examples we are already using in class made it real, Love the movie” - “The relaxed atmosphere” - “I was the recorder, snacks were great, it really felt like we had great team works going on” - “Quiet room with grade level only. Specific guideline, clean cut instructions” - “I thought that it was authentic, that helped” - “It was applicable necessary work to clarify questions about curriculum. Also an administrator to keep all engaged and respectful really helped” - “I typed my own core statements. It was good to have input of peers” - “It pertained to me as a classroom teacher”
What would have made today better?
- “It was two years in the future. When we are actually using the standards, also need to see what test will look like - “Not used to sitting all day. It was important work that had to be done” - “Not doing the same thing we’ve already done before” - “Changing things up, just sat in front of computer for four hours” - “Only participating in current content area” - “Less sitting” - “Nothing” - “Heat” - “All team members would have made all feel welcome” - “Examples to clarify each- there were a couple confusing standards” - “Long afternoon, great group, worked hard, very tired” - “We already have been teaching the standards, so finding resources, etc. to teach with would be helpful” - “Choosing a harder standard and designing a lesson around it” - “It was tough to stay on focus all the time…” - “Loved the videos” - “Lots of intense thinking” - “Wish we had more time to do now, within our team!” - “A lot to do at one time. Bit of an overload” - “No Dr. Seuss… not a fan” -
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November 2012 FMMS
School Spirit Store opens to build school spirit
Student Surveys
FMMS
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Six coaching circles at FMMS for work design to take place in near future
CSHS
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Beliefs Rolled Out
Collected feedback from coaching circles to inform & redesign process in future high participation & positive comments resulted
Monica trains Student Voices Group from CSHS
New Staff Induction
CSHS Student Voices Group -13-
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December 2012 FMMS
School-wide “Christmas Choose Your Own Adventure” Design Experience 2-Day Design of work for students B4 holiday break *Big “WHO” work w/this design
Yes
CSHS Beliefs Rolled Out
Engaging the Net Generation II 12/17 AM Osborn Brickwood Brant Clark Bergert Lawver Steinke Pachan Nolen Mohn Bowman Boldizar Stepanovich Rogers -15-
12/17 PM Moore Fricke Roth McGuyrt Berardo Sigler Sadler Kalb Welker Kreitzer Pedone Faiello Eibel Hopple
12/18 - All day at Walsh Kara Wines Nancy Miller Shawn Haines Greg Williams Deb Urban Amiee Salapack Jen Kruger Jim Fletcher Greg Eibel Sheila Doerschuk Janice Barnes Keith Long Nicki Howard Jay Moody Dale Rush
January 2013
District Design Team Agenda Monday, January 28, 2013 Central Office, Board Room noon -5 pm
School Design Team Meeting Tuesday, January 29, 2013 Central Office, Board Room
Agenda
8:00-9:30 am Faircrest Design Team 10:30-noon South Design Team 1:15-2:45 pm Walker Design Team
12:00 noon I. Welcome & Recalibrating our Mission Why are we recalibrating? What is distracting us from the Work? What is the purpose of our work today?
12:15pm II. The WORK of Today Break into 5 groups Read about topic Complete chart 1:15pm III. Break 1:25pm IV. Report Out of info 2:20pm V. Gallery Walk What are the key questions we must ask ourselves as we embark on our work? Comment on visuals
Agenda I. Welcome & The State of the District II. Update on District Design Team work DDT members share the work from yesterday III. Share Out of SDT work SDT members share the work from the 1st semester with group IV. Transformation Chart work Review School Transformation Chart Where are we with respects to what we said we were going to do last Spring? What are our next steps to move forward? • Dale will secure subs
3:00pm VI. Fife Conference call 4:00pm Debrief / Next Steps
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Recalibrating our Mission
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The Met - Meshing Everything Together The Canton Local Parthenon Laying the foundation for today, to create a better tomorrow! • Rising to the Challenges of today, expecting a better tomorrow • Building a better foundation for tomorrow
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February 2013
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April 2013
CSHS 2nd round ALL STAFF Technology Integration
Integration of Instructional Framework “the HOOK” ARRGH FMMS Pedone/Hopple Led tech PLC mtgs to support teacher use
Common Core Mapping LA Gr 3-4 Math Gr 1-2
April/May Grade Level Design/Coaching
CSHS Teacher Talk Meetings
Staff Technology • Tech PLC • Instructional Framework • Mapping Grade Level Design/Coaching • Teacher Talks
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May 2013
CSHS Seniors had 3 yrs of Design Work
FMMS olbox ‘Who’ to FMMS o t e l b a avail r Staff fo 2013-2014
Walker Grade level/ Coaching Activity
FMMS Staff presentation of parent communication none week activity Design World Student voices Struggling Readers Interviews
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May 24 FMMS
Knowing your who? Continued Use BINGO dotters to record students feelings about their engagement for the day. This would cost much less than colored stickers and would serve the same purpose. Have students place a colored dot as they leave the room after the following statements: Today I was cruising towards success. Today I was successful but didn’t give 100%. Today I did what I was told but didn’t get much out of it. Today I was not interested in my learning.
Have students record what they learned each day on a calendar. They could reflect, ask questions, or make declarations about their engagement. Collecting these weekly could help guide instruction.
This could be used to gain student understanding pre or post lesson. Creating 100 questions makes students think beyond the obvious.
This would be a great way to get to know how students feel about your content area. Have them fill this out based on the things they learned in your classroom at the end of a nine weeks. You could list the topics they may choose from.
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May 24 FMMS
Knowing your who? Continued This is a simple way to collect info on what students hope to get from you as their teacher. Could expand or simplify depending on what you want to gain from it.
Knowing your...
This could be used as a way for students to understand the objective. Why they are learning that objective. How they will know when they have mastered the objective. Frame a poster to create a wipe off tool students can comment on lessons to summarize their learning or provide feedback on the lesson. This poster could be used to track kids’ exit tickets, reflections, or thoughts on the day’s lesson without their identity being known to all. A working Twitter board that centers around student learning. Students could use as an exit ticket or an entrance ticket. Easy to view and restart as classes switch.
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June 3 Meeting What are we passionate about? • How do we fuel our passions? • How do we continue to develop a culture that kindles our passion? • What are the first impressions/thoughts regarding this neighborhood/ community? • What students come to your mind when you see this area/ community? Why? • How can your passions enable students from this community to be innovators, creators, or producers? How can we innovate for the students/community? • What evidence can you see that indicates innovative thinking in this community? • How can we enable students to become innovators, creators, producers in our district? • Why is innovation important to this community and our students? How can we inspire others? • How can you use our areas of passion to inspire students from this community?
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fuel our passion • develop a culture be innovators, creators or producers innovative thinking • inspire students
Monday, June 3, 2013 June 3 Meeting 8-10: Morning: ASSESSMENT • Where we have been. (info for eBook, use sticky notes, etc.) • Standard bearer questions. Sent in email to think about in preparation for meeting. 10-12: Inspirational Adventure • Guiding questions Passion/Innovation/Inspiration Finding your role in the vision: Need five drivers. (20 people total) Cards for each suite. Drivers have one card as designator. (Add Jacks) What are we passionate about? • How do we fuel our passions? • How do we continue to develop a culture that kindles our passion? • What are the first impressions/thoughts regarding this neighborhood/community? • What students come to your mind when you see this area/community? Why? • How can your passions enable students from this community to be innovators, creators, or producers? How can we innovate for the students/community? • What evidence can you see that indicates innovative thinking in this community? • How can we enable students to become innovators, creators, producers in our district? • Why is innovation important to this community and our students? How can we inspire others? • How can you use our areas of passion to inspire students from this community? 12-12:30: LUNCH 12:30-2:00: Afternoon: FUTURE: What is my role in the vision • Debrief what we saw. (post-its on large paper with questions. Gallery Walk) • Book talks (Bob) • Choose a book • Clarifying summer work. Goal to leave with purpose, action, accountability. • July 31st meeting 3-4 hours
End of Year at Goodwill Industries in Canton. Attendees: Nick Stepanovich, Gay Welker, Chris Noll, Frank Kruger, Katie Nolen, Mason Boldizar, Eric Brickwood, Jeff Moore, Todd Osborn, Amy Eibel, Mallory Floyd, Kim Redmond, Krista Hussar, Lynn Rudd, Dale Rush, Jay Moody, Lisa Hookway, Becky Steinke, and Meghan Fricke.
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It comes down to engaging people in the schools... -29-
Year 3 Wrap Up of our Journey
We started the school year with the theme, “Connecting the Dots” and have come full circle. Our focus of Compliance, Wellness, High Expectations, Engagement, Bond Issue, and Portrait of a Canton Local Graduate served us well. The District and School Design Teams focused specifically on Extended use of Coaching Circles and utilizing our Instructional Framework-keeping engagement and design at the forefront. Our culminating product was the “Canton Local Parthenon” document that allowed us to make sure we kept the Portrait of a Canton Local Graduate and our beliefs in the front. This document brings me great pride as we look at any initiative that may come into the district and make sure that it fits our beliefs, engagement, design and the Portrait. This was the document that truly “Connected the Dots” for us. Kim
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Innovation Team 2013-2014 Walker
Chris Noll Frank Kruger Katie Nolen Becky Steinke Deshanna Carter* Stephanie Berardo* Aimee Salapack*
Faircrest
Gay Welker Amy Eibel Mason Boldizar Katie Kreitzer* Brian Mohn* John Hopple*
South
Todd Osborn Jeff Moore Eric Brickwood Meghan Fricke Gregg Clark* Kourtney Betler* Celia Roth* Scarlett Papas*
Central Office
Mallory Floyd Jay Moody Kim Redmond Lisa Rogers Dale Rush Lynn Rudd Krista Hussar* Wendy Busnick* *New to the group
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