TBAISD Superintendents Association

Leadership Academy 2010

TBAISD Leadership Academy 2010

Effective Instruction

Association Goal: 100 percent of our students will graduate ready for college, ready for career and ready for a 21st Century World.

To what extent do typical instructional practices within our schools move us closer to attaining this goal?

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An expert’s view:

“The role of the superintendent is to be the first teacher and first learner within the school district.”

Mike Schmoker’s walk-through “study”

Looked for Quality instruction: • Clear objectives, modeling, practice, & assessment • Standards • Students on task Asked: • What are you supposed to be learning?Found:• Poorly designed lessons • Irrelevant activities• Inability to articulate outcomes• Majority of students off task • Teachers focus on those paying attention • Lack of assessment

1500 Classroom observations

• Clear evidence of learning 4%• Use of high-yield L&T strategies .2%• Evidence of HOTS 3%• Students using/creating rubrics 0%• Less than 50% of students on task 85%• Students using worksheets 52%• Non-instructional activities occurring 35%

TBAISD Leadership Academy 2010

The Challenge of Change Leadership

TBAISD Leadership Academy 2010

Implementation

• Identify two important things that you and your administrative team could do to improve instruction within in your district.

• What should we expect of our principals in

this regard?

• How might we hold them accountable?

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Implementation Continued

• How might you use administrative team meetings to reinforce expectations, improve instruction and maintain focus on this initiative as a priority?

• As school leaders what could we do to support one another with this process?