Welcome Back, Team Rochester!

August 27, 2012

“The Mission of the Rochester School Department

is to ensure quality educational experiences.”

Develop engaged and passionate learners K – 12.

When all students are engaged, all students are learning!

How do we engage all students?

How do we know they are learning?

What do we do when they don’t get it?

What do we do when they already know it?

How do we engage all students?

How do we know they are learning?

What do we do when they don’t get it?

What do we do when they already know it?

Road Map to Excellence District Goals

What does Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, Collaboration, Culture

& Accountability look like in practice here in Rochester?

District Goals in Action

By September of 2013 student learning K-12 in the Rochester School District will be fostered through a competency based

instructional model.

Competency Camp

Over 60 campers K – 12 participated!

January 2013

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Rigor CoherenceFocus

Smarter BalancedBen’s Game World is having a sale on video games. The store is offering a sale pack of 4 video games for $43.80. What is the unit price of a video game in the sale pack?

Roberto’s Electronics is also having a sale on video games. The unit price of any video game at Roberto’s Electronics is the same as the unit price of a video game in the sale pack at Ben’s Game World. How much would it cost a customer for 7 video games at Roberto’s Electronics?

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ResponseBen’s Game World is having a sale on video games. The store is offering a sale pack of 4 video games for $43.80. What is the unit price of a video game in the sale pack?

Roberto’s Electronics is also having a sale on video games. The unit price of any video game at Roberto’s Electronics is the same as the unit price of a video game in the sale pack at Ben’s Game World. How much would it cost a customer for 7 video games at Roberto’s Electronics?

$ 10.95

$ 76.65

Scoring Rubric for Multi-Part Items:

Responses to this item will receive 0-2 points, based on the following: 2 points: The student demonstrates a thorough understanding of using ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world problems. The student gives the unit rate in Part A of $10.95 and the cost of $76.65 for 7 video games in Part B. 1 point: The student demonstrates a partial understanding of using ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world problems. The student gives the correct unit rate in Part A but answers Part B incorrectly OR the student answers Part A incorrectly but the answer in Part B corresponds to the incorrect answer in Part A. 0 points: The student demonstrates inconsistent or no understanding of using ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world problems.

RigorDepth of Knowledge

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4Recall &

ReproductionSkills & Concepts Strategic Thinking Extended Thinking

Student Engagement & Learning Plan“Roadmap to Excellence”

Highly Effective

Instructional & Classroom Management

Strategies

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."   --  Confucius

“…writing thinking on paper…”   --  Doug Reeves

Student Engagement & Learning Plan

• Collaboration – – District-wide Early Release

• October, January, April

• Sharing artifacts of implementing the strategies with a focus on student assessment through writing

• Unit plan - April– Stage 3: Design Learning

Experiences & Instruction

Research Based Instructional Strategies

A great deal of your effectiveness as a teacher has to do with your ability to design and implement instruction that promotes learning.

Learning is directly correlated to teacher planningand preparation. Once your plan is complete, you

will be able to focus on its implementation.

When Planning Remember to Differentiate Your Instruction

“Teach to the top and differentiate for the rest of the class.”

-Mike Hopkins, August 2011

New Evaluation System

New Evaluation System• Informal observations to assess standards• 10 mini-observations throughout the year• Summative Evaluation every year• Ongoing informal discussion of teacher performance• A yearly meeting to complete a summative evaluation,

supervisor and employee bring completed rubrics to the meeting

• Final Evaluation document is completed and submitted to the Personnel folder

Mini-Observations

• Informal observations and other documented sources may be used as part of the summative evaluation process and post observation summary.

• Mini-observations require at least a ten minute observation.• The evaluator shall meet face to face as soon as possible,

then follow up with the reflections of observation form as soon as possible.

• Mini-observations will not include checklists or long written observations.

ROCHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT REFLECTION OF OBSERVATION

   Name: 

Position: Observer: 

Date: Date of face to face Conversation: 

Date of emailed Observation: # of Mini-Observation: 

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Three Year Professional Learning Plan

• Replaces the “Form A”• No PEGS!• Reflective Practice• Focus on SMART Goals

Yes, you heard right, NO PEGS!

5 S’s

• Stop• Shift• Share• Sustain• Start

Passion and Persistence