The Keynote I used to guide my back to school staff meeting. Email me if you'd like to know which videos went in the blank pages on this SlideShare and what some of the photos were used for. I should have put in some brief notes in Keynote before I uploaded this Sorry!

1. Amazing back to school
presentation
Northern Hills Elementary
August 30, 2012

5. S

6. essments

8. Recognition
• Data retreat team
• Common Core team
• Rettig scheduling
• August 20 work day (PBIS, scheduling)

9. 2012-13 Goals
• 90% of our students will be proficient on local
assessments in reading.
• 90% of our students will be proficient on local
assessments in math.
• 85% of our students will be proficient on the
WKCE in reading. 79% in 2011
• 85% of our students will be proficient on the
WKCE in math. 80% in 2011

10. 2012-13 Actions
• Collaboration (planning and REAL)
• Weekly learning overview to share with other staff
and parents.
• Progress monitoring
• Parent engagement: Heritage event, communication
thru newsletters, email, web sites

14. 1. Kind
2. Patient
3. Nurturing to children
4. Fun

27. Changes
• Common Core State Standards
• Smarter Balance
• Effective Educator (evaluations)
• RtI

29. Changes
• Common Core State Standards
• Smarter Balance
• Effective Educator (evaluations)
• RtI
Why?

30. Why do we need to do this?

31. Why do we need to do this?

32. Hard Facts Regarding Dropout
• Less employable in a volatile job market.
• Dropouts earn 33 cents for every dollar a
college grad earns. They earn 66 cents for
every dollar a HS grad earns.
• Their children have only a 1 in 17 chance of
earning a college degree.
• More prone to ill health and shorter lives.

33. Lots of change, but why?
• CCSS has been in the works for years.
• NCLB Waiver
• Higher expectations
• Most importantly, it’s our mission.

34. The mission of the School
District of Onalaska is to
work together to ensure
high levels of learning for all.
Slogan: Climbing to
Excellence

35. I have yet to see a school where
the learning curves of the adults
were steep upward and those of
the students were not. Teachers
and students go hand and hand
as learners...or they don’t go at
all. Roland Barth (2001)

36. In a moment of decision, the
best thing you can do is the
right thing. The worst thing
you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

37. You know, I don’t know, but
you better do something.
Curtis Clyde Rees III

39. PLC

40. Distributed Cognition:
Theory that says knowledge is distributed
across members of a group (and the tools and
processes the group may use) rather than
residing only in an individual.

42. Radar O’Reilly on MASH played by Gary Burghoff

43. Diffusion of Innovations

44. Diffusion of Innovations
Everett Rogers
1962

45. Diffusion of Innovations
made real
1. Knowledge: Here’s an idea.
2. Persuasion: I think we should try it!
3. Decision:Yes, let’s do it!
4. Implementation: Hey, we’re doing it!
5. Confirmation: It worked (or didn’t work) and
here is why...

46. Powerful education practice
Teachers work together in collaborative teams.
• Clarify what students must learn.
• Gather evidence of student learning.
• Analyze that evidence.
• Identify the most powerful teaching
strategies.
Reflective teaching must be based on evidence
of student learning. Reflection is most powerful
when it is collaborative.

47. The needs of the patient come first and
we will meet those needs through the
practice of team medicine and
unsurpassed collaboration.

48. The needs of the patient come first and
we will meet those needs through the
practice of team medicine and
unsurpassed collaboration.
Mayo Clinic

49. Principal’s Job
Conversation with Dr. Tim Kanold

50. Principal’s Job
Conversation with Dr. Tim Kanold
• Needs to be the great noticer.

51. Principal’s Job
Conversation with Dr. Tim Kanold
• Needs to be the great noticer.
• Notice, but also respond with
consequences, make corrections, give
compliments.

52. Principal’s Job
Conversation with Dr. Tim Kanold
• Needs to be the great noticer.
• Notice, but also respond with
consequences, make corrections, give
compliments.
• Pick one or two things for the year and
“notice the hell out of them.”

53. Collaboration
• The collaborative teaching team is the
engine that drives the culture of your
school.
• The teacher team is the key unit in school
improvement.

54. Spheres of Influence

55. PLC Flow

56. PLC Energy Quadrants

57. Dangers in Quadrants III and IV

58. Dangers in Quadrants III and IV

60. Importance of Norms
• Norms and protocols depersonalize the
accountability.
• No more cordial hypocrisy.
• Leads to productive conflict.
• Keep you focused and productive.
You need to have protocols in place when norms
aren’t being followed. TURN AND TALK

61. Care Enough to Confront

62. Care Enough to Confront
• Confront ASAP: Every time you delay the issue
gets worse.

63. Care Enough to Confront
• Confront ASAP: Every time you delay the issue
gets worse.
• Separate the team member from the wrong
action.

64. Care Enough to Confront
• Confront ASAP: Every time you delay the issue
gets worse.
• Separate the team member from the wrong
action.
• Give the team member the benefit of the doubt.

65. Care Enough to Confront
• Confront ASAP: Every time you delay the issue
gets worse.
• Separate the team member from the wrong
action.
• Give the team member the benefit of the doubt.
• Avoid absolute words.

66. Care Enough to Confront
• Confront ASAP: Every time you delay the issue
gets worse.
• Separate the team member from the wrong
action.
• Give the team member the benefit of the doubt.
• Avoid absolute words.
• You always...You never

67. Before you criticize a teammate,
walk a mile in their shoes.

68. Before you criticize a teammate,
walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, if he gets angry,
he’ll be a mile away and
barefoot.

69. Celebration
Right now parent satisfaction with public
education is 9 times higher than the
approval rating for Congress.
And who is writing the laws for education?!?!

70. Affirmation

71. Communication can ease conflict
and increase effectiveness.

74. Stress

75. Stress

76. Stress and adversity will
occur. Guaranteed.
Share with a neighbor what
you look like at your
worst.

78. Be a better version of yourself.

79. Be a better version of you

80. Be a better version of you
• Focus on your strengths

81. Be a better version of you
• Focus on your strengths
• Weaknesses: 9%

82. Be a better version of you
• Focus on your strengths
• Weaknesses: 9%
• Strengths:

83. Be a better version of you
• Focus on your strengths
• Weaknesses: 9%
• Strengths:
• 73%

84. Be a better version of you
• Focus on your strengths
• Weaknesses: 9%
• Strengths:
•
• 73%
What is it you do well? Turn and talk.

85. Be a better version of you
• Focus on your strengths
• Weaknesses: 9%
• Strengths:
•
• 73%
What is it you do well? Turn and talk.
• What is hard for you? Who does that well?

87. Tight

88. Tight
• Implementation CCSS ELA

89. Tight
• Implementation CCSS ELA
• Schedule

90. Tight
• Implementation CCSS ELA
• Schedule
• Plan and check student progress through
collaboration. Collaboration by invitation
does not work.

91. Tight
• Implementation CCSS ELA
• Schedule
• Plan and check student progress through
collaboration. Collaboration by invitation
does not work.
• Celebrate and share what goes right

92. Tight
• Implementation CCSS ELA
• Schedule
• Plan and check student progress through
collaboration. Collaboration by invitation
does not work.
• Celebrate and share what goes right
• Avoid Quadrants III and IV.

96. Remember, we have the
opportunity to become a
hero to some student
every day!
Let’s have a great year.