This document outlines a strategic planning process focused on coherence. It discusses aligning efforts to focus on the most important skills, using data to assess student performance on those skills, and adjusting instruction and professional development accordingly. The document suggests pathways like realigning, reframing or redesigning systems and emphasizes strengths in focus and connections. Supporting resources are provided on topics like ongoing improvement, school effectiveness, and moving from textbooks to digital content.

1. Strategic Coherence Planning
Focus & Connect
http://digitallearningforallnow.com
jpcostasr@gmail.com
http://www.slideshare.net/jpcostasr
 Coherence BOCES Summer Share
 Costa BOCES Summer Content Companion
Content Companion - Participant Notes and Reflections
CCR1 - Given what you have been told about the day and the content of the above graphic – what are
you hoping or expecting to learn – what do you want to get out of the day?

2. CCR2 - Have you seen evidence of these generational changes in your school/district/life? Can you think of
others?
CCR3 – What are your three most important skills?
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Check out these resources on Slideshare –
 Common Core Venn Diagram
 21st
Century Skills Crosswalk
 Four Highest Leverage Student Skills
Three areas for focus….

3. CCR4 -
Assessment Analysis
CCR5 - What data do you have to support growth in your three most important skills (CCR3)?
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CCR6 -
- If you were to add up all of the time devotedto assessment in your school/district– what
percentageof it IS CURRENTLY dedicatedto formativeand how much for summative?
-Form / Sum -
- In an IDEAL scenario,(if you could personally determineit)howmuch what percentageof
time would be dedicatedto formativeand how much for summative?
-Form / Sum -

4. Connect the Layers: - Student/Professional/Organizational
Putting it all together…

5. CCR7 -
Warm Feedback Cool Feedback
Three ways to get there….

6. Goals Measures of
Success
Practices/
Strategies
Leadership/Focus
What are the most important
high leverage skillsI am going
to focus on?
Whatare our success criteria
for high leverage skills and
what assessments we will use
to determine how well our
students are performing?
How will I use the results of
these assessments to adjust my
own teaching to increase
engagement andstudent
success?
Are there success conditions
within myownclassroom that I
need to change to support this
work?
What are the growthtargets for
my students for our high
leverage skills and what is my
professional practice focus/goal
relatedto mastering high
leverage teachingbehaviors?
What are the growthtarget
measurements and
professional practice target
measurements I willuse to
gauge mysuccessinreaching
my goals?
What professional learning
strategies would be most
helpful to buildmyown
capacityto buildstudent
success as indicated bymy
student’s results?
How am I supporting
professional practice and
contributing to success
conditions to support student
acquisitionof our highleverage
skills?
As a district, what are we doing
to focus the entire learning
communityon the importance
and necessityof our most
important highleverage skills?
What are our most important
critical student success
indicators andhowdo we
report them at the building and
district level to allour
stakeholders.
What professional learning
plans andstrategieswill create
the best opportunityfor
building the professional
capacityto support student
success as indicated byour
building/district level data?
How am I changing conditions
as a building district leader to
ensure success, focus and
coherence for student success
at the building and district
level?

7. CCR8 - Reflection on the 3 Rs…
• Given three possible pathways to coherence (realign, reframe, redesign), which do you think
works best for your district or school?
• On the basic ideas of Focus and Connections – where you do you see your district or school’s
strengths and weaknesses?

8. Supporting Resources:
1. Email Jonathan – jpcostasr@gmail.com
2. OtherContent from Jonathan Costa - (lookfor – among other things)
http://www.slideshare.net/jpcostasr
• One Goal Article
• Leverage Gap Analysis
3. My book about the endof books - http://digitallearningforallnow.com
4. Otherbook content resourcesrelatedto thisprocess….
• The Goal:A Processof OngoingImprovement,by Eliyahu M. Goldrattand JeffCox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_%28novel%29
• Results: The Key to ContinuousSchool Improvement,byMike Schmoker
http://www.ascd.org/Publications/ascd-authors/mike-schmoker.aspx
• Goodto Great: WhySome CompaniesMake the Leap...AndOthers Don’t, by Jim Collins
http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/good-to-great.html
5. Pareto Principal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto
6. Ted Talk on the importance of focus – it not onlyworks, it is almost always presentamong those that are
successful…
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-importance-of-focus-richard-st-john
7. From Compliance to Coherence – a statewide Connecticutconference basedon this planningmodel
sponsoredby the ConnecticutState Department ofEducation
http://www.connecticutseed.org/wp-
content/uploads/2014/12/Educator_Evaluation_and_Professional_Learning_Conference_Save_the_Date.pdf
8. An article from me about BYOD and Digital Learning from EdTech Magazine…
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/author/jonathan-p-costa-sr
9. A self-directedLiveBindercontentsite that explainsa processfrom moving from textbooksto digital
content inthe support of coursesin your schools –
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1266627