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Outcomes for our time together • What is synergy?
Why is it Parkway’s 2008-2009 theme?
• 2008-2011 Long Range Planning
• Connections to today’s sessions
SynergySynergyThe bonus that is The bonus that is
achieved when things achieved when things work together work together harmoniously. harmoniously.
Mark Twain
Synergy
• Synergy is achieved when two or more people work together to create a better solution than either could alone. It’s not your way or my way but a better way, a higher way.
Stephen Covey
Synergy
• Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
Buchholz and Roth
Synergy
• Conflict is inevitable in a team…in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict.
Susan Gerke, IBM Leadership Development
Synergy is best explained as,
One plus one equals more than two. Today’s world requires a critical mass of transformational leaders who will commit to creating a synergy of energy within their circle of influence so new level of social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual success can be reached.
Synergy helps…
You realize the value of others, and secondly, encourages you to find the right people.
Synergy is a dynamic form of leverage. Avoid using it, and end up working four times as hard for half the results. Use it and watch the results expand exponentially!!!!
Long Range Planning for Parkway
• 2006-2008 (Phase 1)• MSIP Cycle IV began July 1, 2006
• 2008-2011 (Phase 2)• MSIP Cycle V begins July 1, 2011
Planning Backwards
1. Identify desired results – “I Cans”
2. Determine acceptable evidence
3. Plan learning experiences and instruction
From Understanding by Design, Wiggins & McTighe, ©2005
Long Range Goals• 2007 – 2008: Stage One – Desired Results Identified the “I Cans”
Cross referenced to other standards (CRS, NETS*S)• 2008 – 2009: Stage One – Desired Results Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings• 2009 – 2010: Stage Two – Acceptable Evidence
Authentic Assessments, Performance Events
Long Range Goals
• 2010 – 2011: Stage Two – Acceptable Evidence Authentic Assessments, Performance
Events• 2011 – 2012: Stage Three – Learning Experiences Differentiation, critical pedagogy, inquiry, web-enriched collaboration
EQUITY Through Alignment…• Everyone knows what the priorities and expectations
are and can align their efforts to achieving them.
• Everyone knows how success is defined, how it will be measured and when.
• Everyone is involved in finding ways to achieve the priorities within the context of his or her own work and collectively learn what is and what is not working.
• Decisions are well informed and resources are targeted, giving successful new initiatives a far better chance of being sustained and continuously improved over time .
Conzemius and O’Neill
Student
Academic Performance
College Going & Completion
Rates
Career Readiness
Educated CitizenryEa
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g Po
tent
ial
Global Competitiveness
WHAT THE RESEARCH CONFIRMS
Establish a single expectation for all students
Define knowledge and skills necessary for
readiness
Adopt College Readiness Standards™ (ACT)
Monitor College Readiness early
Create longitudinal data systems
Making Readiness a Reality—Five Priorities
Shared Commitments
To core competencies and grade-specific essential questions
Backward Design
Transfer
New Tools
• E- Feedback – faster, clearer, more effective
• Online collective inquiry using Web 2.0 tools
• Brain-compatible music and rhythm-based methods to expand expressive language
PARKWAY SYNERGYTogether gears perform tasks at a rate that makes
machines run quicker, smoother and more efficiently.
As a team of gears works in unison behind the scenes they are moving in different directions and at different speeds; linked together they each have their own responsibility, but the same goal.
You are an integral part of Parkway’s team, allowing us to work better together and in turn driving us to success.
You are a perfect fit.