Greeneville City Schools Opening Convocation August 5, 2010

1. Greeneville City SchoolsOpening ConvocationAugust 5, 2010 Support Systems for Success

2. Classroom Supports • Exemplary Leadership • Family & Community • Teaching & Learning • Rigorous Curriculum • AcademicCoaches • Benchmarking and Formative Assessments • Highly Competent Educators • Professional Learning • Instructional Support • Textbooks • Materials/Supplies • Working Environment • Differentiated Instruction • Data Analysis for Instructional Decisions • Instructional Technology

3. Teaching & Learning • AcademicCoaches Use of ARRA to Support Teaching and Learning: Academic Coaches

4. Academic Coaching • Use of ARRA funds to invest in our most valuable resource: our educators • Use of school-based academic coaches to support teachers as they learn and grow • Ability to build capacity within our faculty and to develop a culture of learning in each building that will remain long after the funding goes away

5. Teaching & Learning Supporting Teaching and Learning: Differentiated Instruction • Differentiated Instruction

6. Why this? Why here? Why now? Student-Focused Content Teacher-Focused Process

7. Teaching & Learning • Benchmarking and Formative Assessments Supporting Teaching and Learning: Benchmarking and Formative Assessments

8. Purpose of Benchmarking and Formative Assessment • National comparison • Regular check on growth and progress • Tools to inform and guide instruction

9. Teaching & Learning Use of Race to the Top to Support Teaching and Learning: Data Analysis for Instructional Decisions • Data Analysis for Instructional Decisions

10. Data Analysis for Instructional Decisions Identified Needs • Student – based Decisions • State/Local Assessment Demands • TVAAS Challenges • Formative Assessment Design and Implementation • New Teacher/Principal Evaluations • Principal Requests for Assistance

11. Race to the Top (RttT) Plan • Data Specialist • Virtual/Online Learning Specialist • Benchmark Assessment Training • Professional Development • Academic Coaching • Differentiated Instruction • Benchmarking and Formative Assessment

12. Family & Community • Teaching & Learning Supporting Teaching and Learning: Family and Community

13. Family and Community Engagement • New addition to Board of Education goals • “Cultivate family and community engagement.” • Purpose • Focusing on improving and expanding current avenues of communication • Achieving true engagement of families and community in the learning process • Working together, all stakeholders in a student’s life can realize their desire to see him/her become an informed and engaged citizen.

14. Family and Community Engagement • Input on Board Goals • Focus groups • Facebook • Issue-specific blogs • Guest columns in The Greeneville Sun • Complaint management system available soon • Family Friendly Schools Survey administered in Spring 2010 to identify needs

15. Teaching & Learning Spotlight on InstructionalTechnology • Instructional Technology

16. Virtual/Online Learning • New Team • Team Goals • Identify best practice models • System Vision: High School; Middle School; Elementary School • Timeline and Benchmarks • Measures of Success • Resource Needs: Personnel; Time; Funding; Equipment/Software • Curriculum Development • Policy Recommendations • Integration with Differentiated Instruction

17. Teaching & Learning • Rigorous Curriculum Spotlight on Rigorous Curriculum

18. Commitment to Rigorous Curriculum • Elementary High Achievers Program • Middle School Programming Changes • High School culture of challenge and support • Differentiated Instruction • For each and every student it is – • Getting them to do the most they can do, not the least they can get by with

19. Classroom Supports • Exemplary Leadership • Family & Community • Teaching & Learning • Rigorous Curriculum • AcademicCoaches • Benchmarking and Formative Assessments • Highly Competent Educators • Professional Learning • Instructional Support • Textbooks • Materials/Supplies • Working Environment • Differentiated Instruction • Data Analysis for Instructional Decisions • Instructional Technology

20. Educator Supports Solid Working Environment Foundation Professional Development Curriculum & Instruction Family Support Services Human Resources Finance Student Services Technology Maintenance Transportation School Nutrition Health Services Custodial Services

21. Next Steps • Raise student expectations at all levels • Continue to broaden curriculum at middle and high school levels • Incorporate a national and global perspective into curriculum • Expand student support systems • Expand the use of new technologies

22. Next Steps • Utilize facilities beyond the regular school day • Implement methods of extending learning time • Expand professional learning opportunities • Revise “educator” selection process • Revise grading practices and reporting

23. Next Steps • Expand methods of assessment to inform the teaching and learning process • Initiate a community engagement effort at school level • Create a day-care program for educators and community

24. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” William Arthur Ward