The document outlines plans for a staff workshop aimed at improving student engagement at Woodbury High School. The workshop will bring staff together to create a shared vision of engaged students and staff, establish trust through group activities, challenge limiting beliefs, and develop action plans to commit to engaging all students. The goals are to connect staff, establish a collaborative culture, and provide strategies and support for improving engagement.

1. Coming Together “Commit to Engage” 9.02.10 Woodbury High School

2. Jackie Roosevelt Richard Nicole Meet.. Natasha

3. Core Team & Project M Students Meet..

4. Less than 40 to 60% ENGAGED

5. Come Together

6. Create safe space Connect and create trust Break down limiting beliefs Establish networks of support So we can commit to engage! Come Together

7. ENGAGED has three elements Thinking Feeling Action

8. The Gap…

9. We CAN Promise You will have opportunities to: Move – body, mind, emotions Be challenged and grow Have fun Shift your perspective

10. We CAN’T promise: You will move. You will be challenged and grow. You will have fun. You will shift your perspective.

11. Believe ALL children can learn Believe ALL children will learn because of what we do Feel excited to ENGAGE all students Impact

12. Outcomes Create a vision for how to ENGAGE self and students Create action plans for engaging all staff and students Commit to engage ALL students

13. Turn off cell phones Fast pace, perspectives… “notice without judgment” Challenge by choice Respectful challenges …discovery Accommodate your learning style Your ideas? Confidentiality Agreements

14. WELCOME 8:00 – 8:20 VISION 8:20 – 8:40 CONNECT 8:40 – 9:15 CALIBRATE 9:15 – 9:50 BREAK 9:50 -10:00 PERSPECTIVES 10:00 – 10:45 BREAKING LIMITING BELIEFS 10:45 –11:30 INTEGRATE 11:30 – 12:10 CLOSE 12:10 – 12:15 Agenda

15. Vision

16. Find a person you don’t know Pair up with two more groups to make a total of 6 Ask for a scribe and a group voice Raise your hand if …. Share your NAME Think back to the time you got into teaching and share what you loved about it Get into small groups

17. What is a PLC? “ A Professional Learning Community is a group of educators committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research in order to achieve better results for the students they serve. PLC’s operate under the assumption that the key to improved learning for students is continuous, job-embedded learning for educators ” DuFour, et. al, 2006

18. Ensuring that Students Learn Collaborative Culture Focus on Results Three BIG ideas

19. Shared Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals Collective Inquiry Collaborative Culture Action Orientation and Experimentation Continuous Improvement Focus on Results Six Characteristics of PLC

20. LEARNING What do we want students to learn? How do we know if they have learned? How do we respond when students do not learn? What Results Matter?

21. Technical Cultural Two Forms of Change in a PLC

22. Technical

23. Technical changes are changes in learning tools/structure Collaborative time Common assessments Data Educational Technology Support Classes Technical Change

24. Common Misconceptions about Technical Changes Changing the structure will lead to higher levels of learning (“Rearranging the seats on the Titanic”) Technical changes make up for poor instruction or unprofessionalism Technical changes will “fix” kids or “fix” schools which are broken (i.e. dress codes, longer school day)

25. South Washington County Schools . . . empowering all learners with the knowledge, skills and attitudes for success. www.sowashco.k12.mn.us TOOLS: Strategic Plan Core Values SIPs & DIPs Staff Motivation Continuous Improvement Purpose, Passion, Positive Moving People from…

26. Technical Cultural Two Forms of Change in a PLC

27. Cultural

28. School Culture “School culture is the set of norms, values, and beliefs, rituals and ceremonies, symbols and stories that make up the ‘persona’ of the school” Kent Peterson (2002)

29. “Healthy” School Culture “Educators have an unwavering belief in the ability of all of their students to achieve success, and they pass that belief on to others in overt and covert ways. Educators create policies and procedures and adopt practices that support their belief in the ability of every student.” Kent Peterson (2002)

30. “Toxic” School Culture “ Educators believe that student success is based upon students’ level of concern, attentiveness, prior knowledge, and willingness to comply with the demands of the school, and they articulate that belief in overt and covert ways. Educators create policies and procedures and adopt practices that support their belief in the impossibility of universal achievement.” Kent Peterson (2002)

31. “Frustration” – The Root of a Toxic Culture Frustration = “A feeling of anxiety as a result of the inability to perform a task” A miss-match between skill set and task Causes people to deflect blame onto others and create covert alliances with people experiencing similar struggle

32. Good to Great , Jim Collins What do great corporations/organizations do differently than good/average organizations? They seek and confront the “brutal facts” They get the right people on the “bus” and sit them in the “right seats”

33. All Children Can Learn All Children Will Learn Because of What We Do (All children DO learn, they just do not always learn what we want them to learn) Two Underlying Assumptions in a PLC

34. The Vision will promote a “Healthy School Culture” Assume…

35. What do you see/notice when students are engaged? What do you see/notice when staff are engaged? What assumptions get/might get in the way of that? Exercise

36. Our Students ENGAGED!

37. This school year ALL students will ______ Because ALL staff will _______________ Because ALL students will ____________ Because ALL students will ____________. Create Your Vision

38. Write in BIG letters Share Vision Statements

39. This school year ALL students will ______ Because ALL staff will _______________ Because ALL students will ____________ Because ALL students will ____________. Create Your Vision

40. Connect

41. We will move

42. Warm Up Exercise in Large Group

43. Find a person you don’t know Pair up with two more groups to make a total of 6 Ask for a scribe and a group voice Get into small groups

44. Purpose Demo Practice Designing an Alliance

45. What? (did you notice) So what? (could that mean) Now what? (will you do) Process

46. Move to the

47. NO! YES! 1 ------ 2 ------- 3 ------- 4 ------ 5 Engagement Scale

48. BREAK

49. Find a person you don’t know Pair up with two more groups to make a total of 6 Ask for a scribe and a group voice Get into small groups

50. Perspectives Journey to the Heart

51. Breaking Limiting Beliefs

52. Integrate

53. What NOW?

55. Background What do you know? Vision Analysis Recommendations What now? Impact/Value Why is this important? Why are we talking about it? What is the problem? Where do we stand and assumptions? What are the symptoms? Where do we need to be? What is the specific change you want to accomplish now? What is this REALLY about? What is the root cause(s) of the problem? - What is possible? What is your proposal to address this? What can we Try? What activities will be required for implementation and who will be responsible for what and when? How do we know we did a good job? How we will know if the actions have the impact needed? What remaining issues can be anticipated? COMING TOGETHER: Commit to ENGAGE 9.02.2010

56. Close

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