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Career & College: Ready, Set, Go! NC’s Race to the Top (RttT) Initiative

Career & College: Ready, Set, Go! NC’s Race to the Top (RttT) Initiative. State Initiatives Update: Professional Development & Strategic Staffing May 3, 2011. Webinar Overview. Reiterate General RttT Requirements & Process for LEAs/Charters (“Local”)

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Career & College: Ready, Set, Go! NC’s Race to the Top (RttT) Initiative

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  1. Career & College: Ready, Set, Go!NC’s Race to the Top (RttT) Initiative State Initiatives Update: Professional Development & Strategic Staffing May 3, 2011

  2. Webinar Overview • Reiterate General RttT Requirements & Process for LEAs/Charters (“Local”) • Clarify State Plan & Implications for Local Plans • Professional Development Initiative • Strategic Staffing • Address Questions Key Take Away = Know how to move forward with your local RttT plan!

  3. General RttT Requirements • For 2011-12 submission to DPI…Local DSWs must include plans (i.e., a completed row on the spreadsheet) for implementing all RttT Required Activities • Local RttT detailed budgets (in BUD) must match Local DSWs (talk to your Finance Officer!) • Complete local DSWs must be submitted to DPI by August 3, 2011 (same process as last fall…but much more time to develop plans)

  4. General RttT Requirements Submission of Local DSW to DPI… 2010-11 (Nov. 8, 2010) 2011-12 (Aug. 3, 2011) • State Detailed Scope of Work (DSW) • outline State Objectives (A2, B3, D5, E2, P2)) • post- Nov. 2010 • RttT “Guidance” Documents • outline State Objectives • pre- Nov. 2010 • Local RttT DSWs • outline plan for all RttT activities • Local RttT DSWs • outline plan for RttT Dollars www.ncpublicschools.org/rttt/district/ www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/rttt/state/plan/state-dsw.pdf

  5. RttT Guidance Documents

  6. State DSW

  7. 2011-12 DSW Submission Timeline Feb 10, 2011 March & April June 1-27 August 3 - 11 August 12-22 Sept. 1 • DPI Finance Informational Webinars (2) • Requirements for submission of budget and detailed plans • DPI Informational Webinars • focused on • RttT State Initiatives • LEAs & Charters • Review Requirements for Local RttT Plans • Provide LEAs/Charters with greater detail regarding State Plan (by Initiative) • Regional Support & Planning Meetings • LEAs & Charters • Review Informational Webinar Info • Review Approval process • Support Updated local DSWs • Support Implementation All Local Plans submitted to DPI All Plans reviewed by DPI • DPI staff follow up with LEAs/Charters to resolve any outstanding issues All Plans Final (posted to RttT Website) Based on feedback…Similar process, but extended planning window

  8. Great Teachers and Leaders Professional Development and Strategic Staffing Initiatives • To prepare and develop high quality educators • To staff highly effective educators in rural and hard • to staff schools • To build, sustain and support leadership LEA teams

  9. LEA PD Lead LEA PD Lead LEA PD Lead LEA PD Lead LEA PD Lead Chats Blogs RESA Director Kenan Fellows RttT Professional Development Lead Regional Education Facilitator LEA PD Lead Integrated Technology Coach LEA PD Lead Regional Lead Curriculum Contact LEA PD Lead LEA PD Lead Wikis Forums LEA PD Lead LEA PD Lead LEA PD Lead

  10. Summer Institute Formative Support Formative Support July June Aug RESA Session RESA Session May Sept Annual Professional Development Cycle Formative Support April Oct Formative Support Nov Mar RESA Session RESA Session Feb Dec Jan Formative Support Formative Support RESA Session

  11. 2011 Common Core State Standards and NC Essential Standards Summer Institutes for LEA/School PD Leadership Teams

  12. Professional Development: Initial Access and Support Spring 2011 Menu of Content Modules MODULES CC and Essential Standards Tools Instructional Tools targeted to aid in the transition and to complement the professional development. Online support to increase teacher understanding and implementation of standards 1: The Call for Change: An Overview of the Common Core and Essential Standards Crosswalk Unpacking Standards 6: NC Teacher Standards Course 2: Understanding the Standards 2: Understanding the Standards 4: Developing Local Curricula 5: NC FALCON Training Implementation Guide 3: Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (RBT) Presentational Resources

  13. Key Instructional Tool Deliverables and Release DatesCommon Core State Standards and NC Essential Standards April 1, 2011 June 3, 2011 Content-specific professional development offerings available June 24, 2011 June 15, 2011-August 2014

  14. Tentative Outline of RESA Partnership Schedule JULY - SEPTEMBER Local PD Leadership Team Trainings OCTOBER - DECEMBER Local PD Leadership Team Trainings DSW Meetings – NCDPI RttT Leadership Team Teacher Effectiveness Workgroup Meetings JANUARY - MARCH Local PD Leadership Team Trainings Teacher Effectiveness Feedback Workgroup Meetings APRIL - JUNE Local PD Leadership Team Trainings DSW Meetings – NCDPI RttT Leadership Team Teacher Effectiveness Workgroup Meetings • Contract includes: • Materials/Supplies • Printing/Duplication Costs • Travel/Mileage Expenses • Administrative Costs • Registration/CEU Certificates • Food/Meals • NCDPI will provide trainers and determine content of all meetings and trainings *All LEAs and charter schools receiving RttT funding should be included in sessions, regardless of membership.

  15. Guskey’s Framework: Five Levels Level 1: Reaction to Learning Experience Level 2: Demonstration of Learning Level 4: Evolved Practices and Behaviors on Site Level 5: New Leader and Student Outcomes The Work Level 3: Organizational Support (Behaviors, Practices, Policies) Adapted from Guskey, 2000, pp. 79-81

  16. PD Assessment Planning Level 1: Reactions Level 2: Learning Level 3: Organization Support Level 4: Implementation Level 5A: Impact on Learning Conditions Level 5B: Impact on Student Performance Prior to Participation End of each PD Session End of PD Training 90 Day Follow-up Annual follow-up Organizational Climate Survey Satisfaction Survey TO BE DETERMINED Knowledge Survey Implementation Survey Levels of Use Survey Action Plan Survey Case Studies TO BE DETERMINED

  17. Principal Preparation • Halifax, Northampton, Bertie, Hertford, Warren, Weldon City, Roanoke Rapids • Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Martin, Nash-Rocky Mount, Vance, & Washington Northeast Leadership Academy (NELA) Strategic Staffing: Leadership Academies Sandhills Leadership Academy • Principal Preparation • Columbus, Montgomery, Cumberland, Hoke, Richmond, Anson, Lee, Robeson, Scotland, Moore, Harnett, Whiteville • Sandhills Regional Education Consortium, UNC Pembroke, Fayetteville State Piedmont Leadership Academy • Principal Preparation • Asheboro, Winston-Salem Forsyth, Guilford, Alamance Burlington • Piedmont Triad Education Consortium (PTEC), UNC Greensboro

  18. Recognized 33 of the original 40 DLP Cohort 1 participating • principals for full completion of the program. • Reviewed applications for DLP 2 in four geographic • locations: Northeast, Southeast, Central and West. • Accepted 225 principals from all 8 regions of the state. • Held DLP Component 1 sessions for DLP 2 participants • in each of the 4 locations. • [April, 2011] Distinguished Leadership in Practice (DLP)

  19. 2011-2012 NCDPI Tentative Professional Development Schedule JUN-JULY AUGUST 2011 SEPT-NOV DEC-JAN FEB-MAR APR-JUNE • Year End LEA/Charter School Diagnostic Needs Assessments • RESA Teacher Effectiveness Feedback Group Sessions • RESA DSW Meetings with NCDPI RttT Leadership Team • Customized feedback/support sessions for PD Leader Teams • IHE Trainings (CC and ES) • RESA Teacher Effectiveness Feedback Group Sessions • RESA PD Leader Team Trainings • RESA DSW Meetings with NCDPI RttT Leadership Team • DPI Consultant Trainings • IHE Trainings (CC and ES) • Initial Support for PD Leader Teams • Follow Up Sessions from Summer Institutes • Utilization of support from Regional PD Leaders • Mid Year LEA/Charter School Diagnostic Needs Assessments • RESA PD Leader Team Trainings • RESA Teacher Effectiveness Feedback Group Sessions • RESA PD Leader Team Trainings • DPI Consultant Trainings Summer Institutes (selected locations) This is the yearly cycle schedule; content will change

  20. Professional Development Contacts Dr. Lynne Johnson Director of Educator Recruitment and Development ljohnson@dpi.state.nc.us Yvette Stewart RttT Project Coordinator for Professional Development ystewart@dpi.state.nc.us Dr. Eliz Colbert Professional Development Lead Consultant ecolbert@dpi.state.nc.us PD Lead contact information: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/profdev/directory/

  21. Questions? Do you know what other RttT-related support DPI will offer between now and August? Do you know what you need to in order to move forward with your plan? Do you understand what you need to do to submit a complete local DSW by August 2011 that DPI can approve? • Are you clear what the State will be doing in 2011-12 related to: • Professional Development • Strategic Staffing

  22. Webinar Summary • Reiterated General RttT Requirements & Process for LEAs/Charters (“Local”) • Clarified State Plan & Implications for Local Plans • Professional Development • Strategic Staffing • Addressed Questions Key Take Away = Know how to move forward with your local RttT plan!

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