This document outlines the agenda and discussion topics for a vertical collaborative teams meeting. Key points included celebrating leadership successes, reviewing expectations for school improvement plans and instructional plans, providing updates on professional development opportunities, and clarifying district, principal, and teacher responsibilities to support core instruction and intervention systems. Time was spent discussing how to refine these areas and identifying relevant professional learning. The goal was to align efforts across the district to focus on research-based practices around curriculum, instruction, and student support.

1. Vertical Collaborative Teams
April 12, 2012

2. Grounding:
Celebrating Your Leadership
 How do you plan to celebrate the
incredibly hard work, successes, and
growth that you have led?
◦ Individually reflect on what, how, and
when you will celebrate with your staff?
◦ Record your idea on a post-it.
◦ When prompted, join a colleague from a
different cluster.
◦ Share ideas as a cluster.

3. Key Learning Objectives
 Review and clarify expectations for
SIP.
 Review and clarify expectations for
core instruction and system of
interventions action plans.
 Clarify summer PD opportunities
related to core instruction and system
of interventions.
 Provide update on Q-Comp re-write
following focus group with BEA
executive board.

4. Focus on Core Instruction
“If the last 30 years have taught
us anything, it’s that institutions
will neglect even the most obvious
and powerful practices unless we
focus on them—and them
alone—until they’re truly
understood and implemented.”
 M. Schmoker

5. The School Improvement Plan
Framework
Current Reality (Needs Assessment)
Student Achievement Goals
Core System of Culture and Community
Instruction Interventions Climate Engagement
Action Plan Action Plan Action Plan Action Plan
Systems of Culture and Community
Core Instruction
Interventions Climate Engagement
PD Plan
PD Plan PD Plan PD Plan

6. Key Notes & Common Expectations
 Key dates for sharing our work will
continue to be established.
 Note the following preliminary
benchmarks:
◦ April/May : principals clarify expectations for
action plans, meet with TLT directors, and
establish categorical budgets supporting the
SIP
◦ Spring/Summer: SIP and PD plans are
created as well as a plan for monitoring and
sharing via Google sites
◦ Fall: plans are launched
◦ November: principals present prior year
results and current year plans with school
board

7. Surveys on Learning,
Collaboration, & Results
 Links and directions for the learning,
collaboration, and results surveys will
be sent to principals early next week.
 The survey window will be open
through May.
 Survey results will be processed as
part of our DLT retreat in June (18-19).

8. Refocus Professional
Development
“For a time—perhaps a few years—
schools and districts should devote the
lion’s share of their professional
development time and resources to
courses and workshops with dull titles
like “Curriculum 101,” “Effective Teaching
101,” “Literacy 101,” and “PLCs 101.” In
offerings like these, educators would
become thoroughly acquainted with the
evidence that demonstrates that these
structures and practices would have
more effect than all other initiatives
combined.”

9. Summer PD Options
 A calendar of events and descriptions
will be finalized and shared after
tomorrow’s TLT meeting.
 A PDF will be posted on the TLT web
page and will reflect when updates are
made to the calendar.

10. Core Instruction: (Initially Processed November
17)
Common Expectations
District Principal Teachers
• What does • What do • What do
the district principals teachers
need to do need to do need to do
(& (& (&
document) to document) to document) to
support the support the support the
development development development
of core of core of core
instruction? instruction? instruction?

11. Clarifying Core Instruction
 Using the Google doc for your cluster,
consider each of the expectations for
core instruction.
 Discuss the relevance of each
expectation.
 Finally, document your cluster’s
responses to the three questions to
the right of the expectation.

12. Clarifying Core Instruction
 What does TLT need to do to clarify
and fully support the implementation
of the expectation?
 What do buildings (principals and
collaborative teams) need to do to
fully support the implementation of the
expectation?
 What do individual teachers need to
do to fully support the implementation
of the expectation?

13. What PD Is Needed?
 Add a column to the right of the final
column on your cluster’s Google doc.
 Generate a list of suggestions for PD
that would support…
◦ Our buildings
◦ Our collaborative teams
◦ Principals
◦ DLT and/or BLT members
◦ Teachers

14. Clarifying System of
Interventions
 As a cluster, identify criteria that should guide
the development of a district-wide system of
interventions and enrichments.
 Consider the following:
◦ Draft copy of K-6 Intervention Process Flowchart
◦ Updates for parents of G/T students
◦ Standardizing TAT (bat, cat, dat, fat, hat, rat, sat)
process
◦ Connecting PBIS data to core instruction and
system of interventions
 Document your list of emerging
criteria/expectations on your cluster’s Google
doc

15. General Updates
 Building Common Assessments
 May 1-2 (elementary)
 May 22-23 (secondary)
 June 20-21 (secondary)
 June 28-29 (elementary)
 Q-Comp Update
 Equity Leadership for Students
 Learning Leaders Lyceum