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rigor
November 2016Slide2
Guidelines for Today’s Learning
Be open to and respect all points of view.Listen with an open mind and expect to learn from one another.
Accept responsibility for active and equitable participation by each group member.
Check for understanding. Before you counter an idea, be sure you fully understand what has been said.
Allow think time – before and after someone speaks.Welcome questions.Slide3
Commitment to Professional Learning
What?
Expectations about Participation
Why? To set the stage for professional learning, build community, and make commitments to each other
How?
Complete a 4-item survey to reflect on the commitment you are willing to make to the quality of today’s learning experience. Share ratings at your table. Review the Guidelines for Today’s Learning and identify those that will support your commitments. Slide4
Learning Targets
Participants will:
share and reflect
on
actions taken to increase rigor.
d
eepen understanding of the leadership role for increased rigor.
d
eepen understanding of the definition of rigor, specifically, “each student is supported so that he or she can learn at high levels”.Slide5
What is RIGOR?
Rigor is creating an environment in which each student is expected to learn at high levels, each student is supported so he or she can learn at high levels, and each student demonstrates learning at high levels. (Blackburn, 2008)Slide6
Share actions taken for increasing rigor
What?
Success Analysis Protocol
Why? To share actions taken since first session and dialogue with
colleagues
about successes and challenges.
How? Prepare to discuss with your colleagues an effective action taken since our first session for increasing rigor in your school or
district. Use the
Success Analysis
Protocol
in your
activity
packet.
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Strategies for Increasing RIGOR-Leaders
C Create a Positive & Supportive Climate
O Ownership and Shared Vision
M Managing Data
P Professional Development
A Advocacy
S Shared Accountability
S Structures to Support SuccessWilliamson, R., & Blackburn, B. (2012). School Leadership Strategies for Classroom Rigor. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education.Slide8
School Leadership Strategies for Classroom Rigor - COMPASS
What?
Lightning Round Discussion
Why? To consider Williamson and Blackburn’s COMPASS Model and how it can positively impact rigor in your school or district.
How?
Select COMPASS element/s that you would like to revisit. Discuss with colleagues at your table and generate ideas about how these elements might be an important consideration in the planning for increasing rigor in your school or district. Share insights in whole group sharing.Slide9
What is RIGOR?
Rigor is creating an environment in which each student is expected to learn at high levels,
each student is supported so he or she can learn at high levels
, and each student demonstrates learning at high levels. (Blackburn, 2008)Slide10
Preparing for content sessions
What?
Think-Square-Share
Why? To deepen our thinking about the article Just-in-Time Support
by Suzy Pepper Rollins
How?
Participants will use the Think-Square-Share protocol to discuss significant ideas addressed in the article.
http://
www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/oct16/vol74/num02/Just-in-Time_Support.aspxSlide11
Prepared Graduate
Possesses the
knowledge and skills needed to
enroll and
succeed in
credit-bearing, first-year courses at a two- or four-year
college, trade school,
or
technical
school
,
without
the need for
remediation
.
Possesses the ability to
apply core academic skills
to
real-world situations
through
collaboration
with peers in
problem solving
,
precision
, and
punctuality
in delivery of a product, and has a desire to be a life-long learner.Slide12
SURVEY
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CCRS20162Slide13
rigor
Reflection and Next StepsSlide14
Team Reflection and Planning
Share insights gained during today’s sessions
Three Applications
As a team, spend some time reviewing your learning from today’s sessions. Then, write three ways you can use or apply what you have
learned today.
Circle the one you plan to do first. Please leave a copy with your facilitator.Slide15
For the next CCRS meeting…
Please be prepared to share what you are learning along your journey towards increasing rigor in the classrooms in your school/district.Slide16
PLU Information
Register on Chalkable for PLUACLD528
Attend all three CCRS meetings
(Sept
2016, Nov 2016, Feb 2017)Complete and
submit
Implementation and
Action Plan and Progress Notes Complete Reflection and Next Steps after each session (Google Doc Survey)Complete PLU Evaluation at February meeting
Contact Ms. Gay Finn with questions.
334-353-1191
gfinn@alsde.edu