This document provides information about strategic coherence planning services offered by Jonathan P. Costa, Sr. to school districts. The services are aimed at helping districts pursue coherence by focusing on student learning goals, instructional strategies, and measures of success. Specific services listed include facilitating strategic planning processes, supporting implementation of goals, providing curriculum resources, and helping with assessment and data analysis to align organizational systems with student learning goals.

1. Putnam/Northern Westchester
BOCES – Superintendent Resources
Pursuing Coherence
Focus & Connect
Jonathan P. Costa, Sr.
November 19th, 2015
http://digitallearningforallnow.com
http://www.slideshare.net/jpcostasr
jpcostasr@gmail.com

2. Contact Information
Jonathan P. Costa, Sr.
jpcostasr@gmail.com
(cell or text) 860-484-9109
(Twitter) @jpcostasr
To access these slides and additional assorted materials:
www.slideshare.net/jpcostasr
And then download
“BOCES Superintendent Services”
www.digitallearningforallnow.com

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7. 1. The district has identified, defined and committed to supporting a
focused set of appropriate student learning goals that will ensure
student success in life, learning and work beyond school.
2. The district has committed to supporting instructional and adult
learning strategies that ensure rigorous, digitally supported
pedagogical experiences aligned with the district’s student goals.
3. The district uses and reports on appropriate and balanced measures of
student and adult success that are aligned with its student learning
goals.
4. The district aligns its supporting organizational systems to support the
acquisition of its student learning goals.
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8. Student Data
Driving
Instructional
Practices &
Decision
Making
Instruction
Driving
Improved
Measures
Professional
Practice
Driving
Improved
Measures
Systems
Driving
Improved
Measures
Adult Data
Driving
Professional
Learning &
Decision
Making
Organizational
Data
Driving
Systems
Decision
Making

9. Student
Goals
- Common
Core/21st
Century Skills
& Content
Professional
Goals
Evaluation & support
goals, SLOs, focus
goals & other
Organizational
Goals
Improvement targets
related to DPI,
SPI or other goals
Instructional
Strategies
CC/21CS goal
aligned
teaching
methods
& strategies
Assessing
Learning
PARCC &
other valued
summative,
formative,
standardized and
non-
standardized
measures
Professional
Growth
Aligned with
high leverage
student goals
and
PL Standards
Professional
Measurement
Student and
related
professional
data
Organizational
Plans
District or
building
level plans
or strategies
aligned with PL
Standards
Organizational
Measures
District and
Building level
data
Other…
Coherence

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12. 1. Leadership/Mission Focus Support
A. Facilitating Strategic Coherence Planning processes and implementation support.
B. Understanding and anticipating barriers to change.
C. Building capacity for implementing High Quality Feedback and Collegial Calibrations of administrator, teacher
(Claim, Connect, Act) and student performance (ReVision Learning) for instructional and leadership improvement.
D. Access/implementation of Skills21 blended course curricula and implementation support.
E. Visual Access Data Aggregation and Analysis Tool – a live feed that provides teachers, administrators and central
office personnel access to district and public data at every level enabling comparisons and analysis for
improvement processes across the system.
2. Policy & Regulation – Support for Board’s crafting and applying policies that support the district’s pursuit of its
Mission and priority student learning goals and appropriate digital learning environments.
3. Community Engagement – Strategies for supporting the meaningful involvement and engagement of parents and
community in support of student learning in the district.
4. Resource Deployment – Guidance for resource redeployment in support of articulated goals for learning and
demonstrated Mission-based needs.
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13. 1. Helping to build a rationale for making high leverage choices.
a) Review of literature on Vital Few/Pareto Principle
b) Presentations on change, impact of digital world and information age, highlighting current systems
challenges.
c) Building consensus on the need for balance and focus
2. Designing and facilitating processes for making high leverage choices – defining the
attributes of a successful graduate.
3. Retreat/Advance planning and support for goal setting at all levels.
4. Curriculum audits and revision processes to create the room needed to align and integrate
critical skills and attributes.
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The district has identified, defined and committed to supporting a focused
set of appropriate student learning goals that will ensure student success in
life, learning and work beyond school.
Costa /BOCES - Strategic Coherence Planning Support Focus - Connect

14. 1. Helping to build a rationale for making high leverage instructional choices.
a) Identification of high leverage indicators in instructional observational processes.
b) Building instructional observation rubrics that mirror rigorous digital learning environments.
c) Presentations on change, impact of digital world and information age, highlighting rationale for
moving from “Just in Case” to “Just in Time.”
2. Designing and facilitating processes for designing meaningful, rigorous instructional
experiences for all students.
3. Support for teachers using on-line, blended learning course content in a variety of STEM and
digital learning areas.
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The district has committed to supporting instructional and adult learning
strategies that ensure rigorous, digitally supported pedagogical experiences
aligned with the district’s student goals.
Costa /BOCES - Strategic Coherence Planning Support Focus - Connect

15. 1. Helping to build a rationale for making high leverage assessment choices.
2. Building technical assessment capacity to create a balanced system of formative and
summative assessment in support of district’s critical goals for learning.
a) Constructing effective rubrics – measuring what you value
b) Designing rubric aligned tasks – connecting it to practice
c) Scoring protocols – build capacity to judge student work
d) Data collection and analysis tools – how to use the results
3. Implementation of assessment audits and acting of results.
4. Facilitating alignment of assessment results data from level to level.
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The district uses and reports on appropriate and balanced measures of
student and adult success that are aligned with its student learning goals.
Costa /BOCES - Strategic Coherence Planning Support Focus - Connect