Midwest High School Sig Conference - Welcome and opening remarks

for the meeting this is the third is series of four meetings that our sponsor co-sponsored by the national uh... comprehensive centre network in the regional comprehensive centers and uh... the dip u_s_ department of education uh... uh... this is the only one that's focusing on high schools we originally had intended to play in this meeting and in march the department asked us to move it because of a scheduling conflict we know that this put us in a situation that bumped up against many of your end of the year plans in high school and we apologize for that and we certainly appreciate the extra efforts of people made ticket here on time uh... i'm as i said here to talk about the then i'm using new technology by the way that you should be uh... so let me see if i can bring it back up of course all of my script all of the slides and everything that i can see because i can't see either of the screens are right here in front of me i have to keep moving my finger so it doesn't shut down today sorry about that so as i mentioned uh... all for the meetings that are held by better are being planned in collaboration with each other but have focused on for topics that you see on the screen in front of these are the four SIG topics um... or what we call the SIG buckets that address the main areas of uh... the SIG requirements so you'll see a stalking throughout the meeting about different type parts the meeting that reflect these areas uh... in addition therefore official high school of priorities that uh... that we've uses organizers not only for this meeting but for the activities that we're going to be planning as we move forward we view this meeting like you like many of you do in the in the graduation uh... ceremonies talk about commencement exercise we view this meeting is a commencement exercise the start of what we hope to become a national high school restructuring or or high school improvement uh... network so were welcoming all the viewers founding members of that network the meeting today is coz hosted by the great lakes eastern great lakes west regional contests and centers by the national teacher quality sent content center and by the national high school center i want to take a moment to thank although those co sponsors and ask you to a raise your hands and um... although all the people from the uh... sponsoring centers if and for those that you also see that many of us are wearing staffing and a staff staff who have been so if you have any questions feel free to stop anybody that's where his staff step-by-step and when i think also the other national content centers in the other regional comprehensive centers who have hoeveler sponsored some of the speakers here will be presenting over the next day or two and lat and certainly i also want to thank the department of education we have ask the department of education folks to raise your hands we have quite a crew that crew from the department from the office of elementary and secondary education from the office of special education programs and from the office of the of the secretary's welcome uh... and we also have other centers that are joining us and if you check out your program on pages two thru five those of the list of all the various centers that are somehow involved uh... in this meeting everyone thank all of them for their contributions off but we also want to take a moment before get started to get a better sense of who's in the room because this is a meeting that is grounded in networking you're going to hear issues the word networking over and over and over again and uh... so it's helpful to think about and recognize some of the other folks you may know some folks already uh... in the room but um... we want to make sure that you're aware that there are other colleagues what we call role alike colleagues that are here as well from uh... from thirty-five states and lots of school districts and and lots of schools themselves so let's take a moment to ask those of you are here from high schools to raise your hand and becomes the from schools are high schools raise your hands please but it was again thank you because they know this is a tough time of year for you to be here and appreciate your uh... being able to adjust your schedules about people from my state offices out but i think that's the aids and what about uh... district offices as well cc wherever really good cross representation the folks from all different offices but we also have some representatives of various high school improvement networks let me ask uh... i'm sorry if i a m high school improvement specialists and ta providers anderson some from some of the centers that i've mentioned let me ask you to raise your hands as well and so nobody feels left out when we also ask anybody who has a raise your hand yet go ahead and raise your hand so that again we're all inclusive and everybody's had a chance of bank again out to all of you for being here i'm going to take a moment to introduce my colleague and good friend apartment younger and powell who will be talking told be sharing with us some of the house keeping tabs thank you jill good morning everyone and welcome from the great lakes each comprehensive center as well uh... i'd just want to take a few minutes to uh... over some hotel things kind of logistics all over the program that you have just to help you kind of get the label and you're a little bit but first i have to say the times it's hard for me to contain myself might my son and daughter in law are expecting twins at any moment now so i may be leaving and if you seek to baby show up on the screen then you'll know they came to see i'd just thought i would share that with the is very good anyway we have some wonderful folks here with staff ribbons on who can uh... help you with any of your needs the hotel staff is very very gracious and on any or or damned if you take your program there's a hotel layout the red dot are the rooms we will be using and there are signs in the hall to help you get to those break-out session rooms also the program uh... introduces uh... d_c_ conference armed with a letter from doctors tell mama lenders and then you you see um... paragraphs about all the federally funded centers that have helped us but this program and conference together we will have some resources uh... later out key out in the foyer area that you can arm and you can get to know from some of these federally funded centers then you have the agenda and after the agenda i'm not gonna read this to you then you had the agenda and then you have the breakout sessions and you have the featured speakers bios and then the presenters bios and then in the back we put together elitist of all of all of the participants here we only put the organization and your email address is now some of you may not be on the list because of last minute switches all those uh... on the waitlist that because of printing timelines we couldn't quite get this get this organized enough so uh... if you're not analyst let us know and we can add you to the master and uh... will hamper our fault list of participants here for networking purposes as well and i think that'll be a great thing also the break-up sessions and will be and five different rooms right now you're in the guggenheim ballroom across the for your area is of the loop ballroom that's divided into three rooms live one two and three a little bit of the registration table and down another corridor are the tyler's and the field the rooms for the breakout sessions so you should be able to find those uh... easily and then for the state sessions and for your state conversation time on later on today and tomorrow we will be breaking the guggenheim room with the air walls so they'll be serene three more smaller rooms for some of the state sessions and the conversations that were having on also when we have the q and a sessions please speak closely into the microphones pop artists are uh... uh... we're going to report up all of the sessions and the questions and answers for posting on the website we do have a website that has that will have and has now some of the resources and materials posted to it so you should be able to finite easily you can go to the website today it should be up on the screen the first one is the actual high support center website for all the materials amma uh... audio uh... who will be posted all of on the resources and materials will also be posted on the u_s_ department of ed website is well and if you would like to tweak with us today you have the tweeter cash tag right there also now let me tell you we do have internet access down here you can't pull up this is uh... different server them up in the hotel rooms but we don't have internet access everywhere down here your username is high school and your password is high school so you should be able to log on on easily and you should be able to get on the internet dept you if you need to find anything on if you haven't found the restrooms yet the restrooms uh... manage al and uh... teens ladies and gentlemen the ladies' restroom is opposite the lou and the gentleman's restaurant his office at the guggenheim area and then there's a handicapped one also those of you who may need that as well we also have com a time keeper up in the front is who will be getting the speaker's some prompts to kind of help them our schedule is happily acted so we really want want to try to stick to the schedule is closest possible and megan is getting up in the front and she will be holding up your signs all the time so that speakers well no and what they have i think stats all if you have any questions please don't hesitate to see me or someone with a red staffer ribbon on and we would be happy to help you first every time i devised by both government technology but fails me i did what i had uh... one other point that uh... uh... two parts uh... discussion and that is if you have in real life you get this at this hotel is also somehow uh... very extensive in art collection that's displayed all over the hotel and if you have been dana i don't know what the uh... the uh... the female the women's restroom looks like but the men's restroom pet is almost like sculpture as well it's it's quite uh... quite entertaining so make sure to visit the restrooms without gentlemen i'd say visited gentlemen's restroom 'cause that's very interesting and maybe at one point that someone could tell us what the ladies' restroom looks like as well don't stay too long now admire anyway uh... again i want to thank everybody for being here has barred indicated we have a very tight schedule we recognize and and therefore wanted to share with you some tips for getting the most out of the meeting starting with the fact there's more content in this meeting than any one person can absorb we recognize that and we also recognize that there's still a lot of content that's high school related that we weren't able to cover just because of the the time constraints and and the like but there's a lot to see and hopefully if you're part of the team you've already divided in concord the the various uh... spa break-out sessions and we uh... hoping you'll be able to attend those whose layout spilled out among yourselves and then at the end of the day during the team meeting she'll have an opportunity to share some of the the lessons learned and and the like we've got we've got some really great speakers every single one of them could fill an entire session and possibly even the whole two days of the meeting so we're just getting what i would call a taste of the play school reform with the idea that we're building momentum and we're giving you an opportunity to see all the resources that are out there to make the connections with your peers to make the connections with the various high school improvement specialist and then for us at the end of the meeting to get from you some feedback on how we can continue to provide those kinds of of uh... additional opportunities like webinars and and others uh... activities that will continue to provide you the types of information to help you with your the challenges of turning around your schools and and assisting dot though others that are turning around uh... schools unlike any meeting the more you invest in terms of your energy and your time the more you get out of the meeting i really think they were all convinced that the way we've tried to design this that the real benefit is in a lot of the informal networking that can take place uh... we have some at that we have some of ants like a recess resource reception this afternoon um... we have breakfast transfer tomorrow morning but but it's really talking to the people at the table talking to the people in the sessions and encouraging you the way we designed the breakouts this to have half of the session be devoted to some kind of uh... uh... interaction between the presenters and uh... bearish other participants in the session at the last thing i wanted to suggest is to be sure to come collect as many lessons learned as you can we're going to be sharing some with you today and then we're also going to be uh... uh... cataloging numbed and putting on the website is well throughout the meeting so with that all said were ready to really officially get started and in order to do that i'm really pleased to www introduce to you uh... carl harris cross the deputy essay assistant secretary of the office of elementary and secondary education and it in starting a practice that were used throughout the meeting his but his biography is on page twenty two so i don't need to talk a lot about where he's been in what he's done but i do need to say that as a former superintendent of german franklin county north carolina he's walked the walk of high school reform for quite a while solimene proudly introduced caller okay i was a one this morning there you know i expect their response great shall be great because you're in for a an exciting two day uh... session here let me stop i think in our gel involving i want to say uh... excited also not that uh... i'm expecting twins but i'm excited uh... i just from the fact that there are so many of you here this morning and it's my understanding that there were so many others who wanted to be here this morning but due to lack of space uh... we had to to limit the number of people who can attend the session source talk about thank you jill involved for your leadership in bringing uh... this conference to reality today uh... the work at the top ranks of settlers along with the contents owners lies you on that has been really really powerful in helping us to get the message out and really get some expertise uh... into ours states and districts uh... around turn around our schools uh... also what they care one year who is a presenter uh... who could bring in knowledge and expertise to this our conference today and i want to say to those of you here are simply on the state and know that it was not easy to leave your state your school district or uh... or your school at this time of year because i know how many activities take place at the end of the school year so uh... appreciate more than you can imagine the fact that you make this a priority are for your so over the next two days you'll be participating in sections were you would think through the issues of turnaround lope reform in high schools and you know as i thought about my message this morning how i would term to work that we're doing the word will perform in high school just kept coming up and you know for me it was sort of a negative uh... tere lope reform in high schools so i thought about is there another word i can use that would describe the work we're doing as short a full circle with the reality of hideous what it is utils high schools that a performance fall below what they should and what we would expect them to perform so for the time being were actually dealing with low performing high schools and we have to accept it and move along but the reality behind every little perform in high school is the face of excel and it's not the face of a child who wants to be elope reforming student and so within each one of you you have been given the opportunity you have also been given the responsibility to change the perception well what is behind that negative turn alone performing so as you all know for too long two ministers mostly students being poor and minority students have been educated indeed low achievement schools and we all know him i'll tell ya sincerely believe that we filth generations of children due to the to their situation as you also know this administration for the very beginning believe it was absolutely critical that we rewrite the story of film schools that is present into many of our neighborhoods throughout our country so with the infusion of the are funding in two thousand the department of education dedicated four billion dollars to turn around our countries laws persistently uh... lois process the schools we get this through what we call a revitalized school improvement bring a program and you will hear throughout the trip uh... today the term c good in education we get a name and we've quickly put it back to him to it so lester's live with the and so i'm going to refer to it it's a uh... in this audience and so was clear that this administration wanted to make disc tremendous commitment that one of the cornerstones of the work would be turnaround these low performing schools in creating a brighter future uh... for young people we have enough history did know that i lost it even schools would accept an option to implement rigorous reform barely made a difference in the past in fact the schools at the at the side to take on this rigorous challenge did not make it fought down the pathway in fact many of these arctic situations never really came to a place where one felt like they completed the journey so with the new re revitalize sick program will make it clear that he deals time football reform were also making a statement the school turnover how is not school improvement plus you know school improvement plus a little bit of this and a little bit of that that school improvement is really turnaround schools in a more comprehensive systemic and a more dramatic which really raised the expectations for every single student every single payer every single educator every single community person this is fundamentally different so its leaders we must *** then how is this different and what has been done before we'll assess the question always using these unprecedented resources to improve teaching and learning in our lowest performing schools and we must ads all we've never been all the potential we have to improve our schools i know that many of you are leading the way for this transformational change that's why you're here today i want to know that i respect the work that you do and i'm on the courage that you have are provided because let me just say this this is not easy work this is not work for one who believe that you can simply get this done without a lot of challenge without a lot of frustration without a lot of commitment i saw what thank you for raising the expectations for your sales first of all within being able to raise expectations for students and four schools in for the families that they represent as i mentioned earlier this conference uh... is also a job mentioned the third uh... for conferences that will take place this morning but this conference is unique unique from the standpoint to mention this conference focus specifically on our high schools like elementary schools are middle schools high schools come with all set of challenges and opportunities necessarily greater or lesser tel aviv's but different at the same time we all know that we have a small number of our high schools across the country about two thousand of the schools that have been turned in many instances as uh... across the bar dropout factories and where did name came from a national but i have *** me too many times and this time comes with these hospitals a graduate fewer than six percent availing freshman class in the first four years we all know all of these high school that i have to americans and and i latino students graduation rate as far below those of their white and an asian counterparts sola highlight one conf key component of what i believe a successful turnaround model whoop whoop would definitely include and that is the need for intellectual rigor and our schools they remote ways of addressing rigor in a high school but i wanna mission just three this morning and first of all i would say that our high school should really make sure that they have what we what our with chairman this morning's capstone courses you all know with these courses are these are the courses that usually are reserved for what we've become a almost gifted in brightest students uh... but also i want to make sure that we're clear that these capstone courses should be the courses that we engaged uh... all of our students enough to be part of but i've no from our own experience is that in most of these hospitals we off a few of these advanced courses this was true in the school district where our students and i really had to push in our schools that we exclude these types of courses because there was this perception that these key is in the schools we're not prepared to take this kind of and these types of courses we must do a better job of ensuring that these courses are imbedded in the curriculum within the schools second we need to make sure they rushed rigorous instructional pathways we cannot expect the students to be successful in these courses if we simply just call for the court's at a given time in the high school curriculum we know that we must give them the the uh... the uh... to make sure that they can be successful in these courses so what about term uh... as a really primary focus about these courses that we offer a high schools well with a high school principal that i work with one of the superintendent i would always say to them status only take the course is that we offer in our course offering those are the courses that they select from so there's power annual ability to change the landscape or what sue disengaging because that's what you put me in your course offering and then finally in this course offered peace or just dimension this whole issue of remediation because we know that in school turnaround we have to focus on remedial part kids who will fall behind making sure that we give them the support system that helps them catch up because that's part of that nature they all baron but as we think about the real peace and how we help our kids catch up let us not focused too much on the remediation that's also think about acceleration in fact the acceleration can be the same as remediation because it's elevation is about my definition of a cell racial where you start and were you hate it c i'll believe you can have a celebration no matter where you start and filming the as you heard me mention earlier on wall which try to look for more positive turn and so i'll always think about it as acceleration verses remediation less think about how can we excel rate the learning our students have the remedial connotation that talk that really speaks to a much more ball are billeted in you know that this is not be the work they work for the ship in the way we operate in some cases the ship in the culture and the expectations that we have for students and also the expectation that many of our parents half of their own children this does require a bowl reform it does require courage critics use leaders have shown because you have accepted this this undertaking to transform the schools in your state your district and school but is also require support support from our families educators administrators community and businesses any elected in governmental fish their officials including those of us that the u_s_ department of education and i noticed this morning that many of our colleagues from the u_s_ department of education but here this morning they're here this morning because they see themselves also as a partner in this work with you so i want you to know that we are fully committed sis to support in the hospital turnaround efforts included this like this conference we know how important the technical assistant sales and we want to make sure that we play our role to ensure that this would they let the in the implementation of your school improvement clients so we'll continue our partnership with the proper hits the settlers the national character sellers and i f is to support you so that in turn you can better serve every single student that you have the capacity to do amoco classical turnaround is a unique challenge were working at ways to provide high school technical assistance focus and don't go away we had a very unique time unpublished cation particularly in high schools i believe we now have the expertise to turn around out fill in our schools i believe we have a cut in the house around our hospitals and would say um absolute confidence we now have the resources to get this job done but the real question for me at this time is do we really have the commitment until we all say we do but do we really have a commitment do we really have the courage and i know we say we do but when it comes time to make those real hard decisions do we really have the culture i mean the courage the courage to transform the schools and to some of the world class teaching and learning that repair every single student for college and career we talk about college and career in the schools there's a different conversation again i know i've been in the schools i worked in the schools as an administrator provide oversight in the schools as a superintendent so this is a very different conversation that was thought to have in the schools we talk about colin and career readiness foot every single student celebre lookout among you this morning and i'm surrounded by leaders like you i'm encouraged numbing courage with the answers to the question that i dispose as a yes yes i believe that you have a commitment yes i believe you have the courage yes i believe you have the will to make the decisions that would turn around the schools two years from now three years from now five years from now it is my hope that you all look back on your work and that you will be able to reflect all one how you did it to why you did it and you'll be able to see the results the results to be in that more vicki is attributed and when i say more we're talking about ald accusing the school prepared to go to college prepared to go to work prepared to live out their american dream just like you and uh... i have no opportunity to some really sad about the next few days there's so much potential in this room potential for you to learn from each other potential for you to learn from the experts who here and potential for you to think about things that you can go back and learn a different way in your home local context i wish each of you and very productive conference and i look forward to continuing this work with you him i'll roll at the department of education and i think i speak on behalf of my colleagues from the u_s_ department of education thank you for being here this morning and i look forward to engage in with you throughout the day thanks so i'm holding two things to remind me about the two things that bar asked me to come to talk to you about that she forgot to mention 'cause she's a little nervous about her uh... upcoming entry at the world of grandparents i would say to you the ethic as they already confirmed grandparent it makes you realize that uh... the on the reason for having children is or who have grandchildren uh... so the first of these is a uh... reflections page it's actually a note taker and a note organizer that we want to invite you to use that you're going through the various sessions to be able to jot down not only some key ideas but some ideas for next steps and then secondly it's my cellphone which is not like your cell phone and makes noise when it shouldn't make noise so let's take a moment to ask everybody to double check your cell phones make sure they're either offer on vibrator on airplane motor with ever so that we can uh... enjoy some silence and some opportunities over the next uh... couple hours to talk together you know of a lot of as we've been thinking about him getting ready for this meeting and i was just thinking i was trying to figure out how do i reinforced message about the urgency in the importance of old school reform while simultaneously transitioning into the introduction to our heart to heart plenary speakers you know should i quote the sobering statistics seven thousand dropouts today a million a year or the societal impact of three trillion dollars in in costs to the two the nation over the next decade or should i mentioned the dropout factories um and the like and as i was going to thinking about what options i should use i was also shot uh... in my spare time looking through some family artifacts uh... that my mother had given me recently and ironically i came across my father's transcript from nineteen thirty two and that turned out to me to be one of the most compelling reasons to share uh... to to think about why we need some urgency of school reform so i thought i'd share with you just a couple things from that transcript because it's uh... treasure trove of information his name was leonard carl terrace um... so uh... and and uh... he he's a graduate of uh... fifth avenue of high school in pittsburgh in looking at his transcript there was a lot of information because they were all the courses that were offered the once he took the grace of god there were notes at the bottom about how long the class periods were in the light so looking at it and and uh... putting it all together we saw a few things that came out of that process bought the school that he attended we could produce was organized around the factory model another words the graduates were assembled over a four-year period subject by subject which were taught separately to students and they were organized by age cohorts see they didn't know anything about the cognitive science stuff we know now and and keeping in mind also that this was nineteen thirty two in which he graduated right after the depression t_v_s were just starting to these something not there was no wars world war two yet that i mean there was none of the things we think about and take for granted everyday really existed at that time they followed an agrarian calendar for some reason up forty five minute classes for five days a week for forty weeks or contact time of a hundred and forty hours car at the carnegie unit was just coming in in being adopted across the country and the carnegie at the carnegie unit i'm not sure whether the uh... this school use the carnegie unit yet because the corner unit really only required a hundred and twenty hours of face-to-face type or city busy time over and divided into a thirty six week period the wreckage demic general in vocational courses and there were more vocational courses that you would see in a comprehensive but there were more that you would see in a comprehensive high school today and another interesting fact i found out just looking at and looking at the school itself within was that it was the birthplace of the national honor society there were a thousand chapters this was chapter number one it is cool i'm not sure if you that was tapped into it but i do know that he did uh... he was an honor student even though we had a two point nine grade point average overs for years he was considered an honor student which to me says they probably did not inflate grades in those days if you look at the uh... if you look at the credits that were available at the time and it and you compare them to the similar graduating credits students in the same school district who are now in ninth grade errors and would be great will be graduated in twenty fourteen you see that there's now a half ago credit more of math required there's of additional credit acquired and and science and social studies and and there are more credits although again i'm not sure if it's a hundred and fifty verses a hundred twenty or so they may balance out a little bit if you look at it more close and you think about it right as i looked at it i cited to print shop high-tech printing intent for four years in copy in high school uh... there were a lot assimilation trip german i took spanish the only thing ever talk to me about was that he really appreciated knowing german because he used it when he was in the military police are guarding german prisoners in world war two they also i went links but said he regretted that he'll because he loved chemistry and a lot of edit it didn't take biology as well he wasn't required to any use that chemistry uh... knowledge to go because he got out of school couldn't afford to go to college became a pickle maker and then became used his chemistry knowledge to become a food technologist working in tcs career the point is and sharing that information is if you think about it it's not much different than what i went through in the sixties what his grandchildren as went through in the nineties and what is great grandchildren are going through now in twenty eleven and that's a compelling reason for reform the point is that the last eighty years haven't changed much which means the next decade we've got a really work in changing a lot we've got it wouldn't work move away from the old practice of equating teaching with with talking and learning with listening we've got to act boldly because high school reform which cause it isn't easy instruction requires instructional cultural and structural changes to an institution that's ingrained in all of the horror memories our lives as a rite of passage i thought one of the most probably different things between his year and and and his great-grandson is the music was probably very different at the problem so what we've what we you'll hear say over and over again what we hear all the time when we're talking about reform is there are no silver bullets and what research says that even if there are several bullets they may not apply to other situation besides the situations in which they're spending but i have some good news for you there may be no silver bullets but there are lots of lone rangers out there and i want to take at times a day trip to introduce you to two lone rangers who've gone out of their way fit to fight the system because of their beliefs in the fact that all kids can learn because of their beliefs that no matter what structures their schools are in that they can make changes and we've got out of her way to show you two very different models won a large comprehensive high school one a small community school that grew its that groups that place but at the elementary in and extended elementary school in high school we had a teacher uh... rubakalva ansari we had a high school student who became came back as a teacher became a uh... restructuring leader and is now the principal and then the other case we had up principal who became the central administrator and then came back to be a principal again to grow a high school so it's an interesting stories but we also have as a way of introducing them to you some very nice videos because these guys have been on national television over and over again um... and these are two nice little video clips we want to share so what the way we're gonna do this plenary session to an issue of quick video of one of the schools and then uh... pass sees act which to come up and talk a little bit about her school and then we're going to show a quick video uh... of carlos uh... carlos the school and then asked him to come up as well outfit to briefly talked about the school and then we're gonna open up the foreperson to women afterwards let's go ahead and see if we can get started with the video if all goes well we do have to go on to the issue bs in n_b_c_ websites to pull the video cam because they're both copyrighted and copy protected uh... within which they should be but they i think they're graded introductions dot at hotmail com doctors that disturbances in fact which is brought to life styles of member kelly crowe handwriting force behind it academic turned around the experts say it could not be done because the school there's just too big i'd believe people expect us to feel a large urban high school four thousand two hundred physically chimacum from great poverty five want them to fight for the didn't know adult began in nineteen ninety-eight domestic massachusetts introduced in exam that off high school students had to pass in order to gradually we had forty four percent filling english and seventy five percent filling up so schools of thought that he desperately sakowitz came up with a plan on a small committee teachers meeting on saturday warnings that engineer to back-to-basics curriculum they call it the literacy initiative uh... at its core reading speaking wallis reasoning and most importantly writing writing is thinking once they started they started learning arriving doesn't stop an english class the jonathan canal demanding gymkhana doesn't make sense so strong every class notes sections felicia not everyone love the idea and i would say i was a doubting thomas but as you can see for test scores of it's really made a difference instant background over twelve years the improvement has been inundation of forty four percent failure rate dropped to five percent africa seventy seven percent failure rate dropped a fifteen percent these students were needed couple crap on the phone from wiped out of fools basketball player in every martial rises purposeful religious world whenever she says that he did not turn hanging out on all fronts everything clear actually where and found them on the part implanted in the day have faded latest headache is gettin approval by it the purple lasting peace prepared me all for a life in general and how to communicate tiana initially described her teachers at greg's long nightmare modalities that was a very female college band what i it was anvil who i became like planned parenthood self-confident that missing there are kids that think it's cool to be smart in the market is supported by the teacher's union is being studied by harvard university the bottom line for brockton students is a brighter future systems don't have a right to fail week we have an obligation to make sure they don't is sanctioned performers on the c_b_s_ news ho remind everybody what you need to know is have to just figure this out here if ten years ago oh anyone ever told us that c_b_s_ p_b_s_ would be coming to the school because of certain achievement we would have said you had your crazy so everybody in this room needs to know that what happened in brockton is replica ble and sustainable and and in fact that when i heard uh... carl harassing about um... low performing schools in massachusetts where all these elitists right so we can call the low performing we just call them failing you just failing okay so that's all you are i'm so sorry i can't state long and mingled i can say for a bit we ask max in the middle of our state testing right now haha yesterday was day one today is day two so on and probably like having you know i don't eat cheating scandals while i'm not there but ah... everything's going well bob okay let me i'm going to take out a tour of what we did and all of this is up on the website and i she had lost of our handouts and materials so you have access to all of this buddy type gifts are a little bit of julia by the way there was no band moment that's like a c_b_s_ thing means so we didn't elect them we have an idea no no no no it is the most awesome school all and it wasn't it was a massive uh... brockton is a the city of about a hundred thousand uh... very poor we are leaving the same massachusetts in foreclosures uh... most of us students uh... most elementary schools about ninety nine nine percent some a hundred percent of free reduced price lunch and we are demographics are uh... and it's it's challenging so i think by the end of the time you should hear that if there was an excuse to be made we had it so you need to hear me say that and by the way it is in about a principle you can hear me say over and over again i was in principle it was about a team of teachers so i'll come to that so we have a and jaggi enta comprehensive urban high school our enrollment as of the time i left was four thousand two hundred sixty one but of course any of you in oregon environments no that changes on the day to day period by period moment um... we are about seventy two percent now free reduced price lunch at the high school but seventy three percent minority lots of diversity in the school more than half of our kids don't speak english as their first language uh... we have about twelve percent in transitional bilingual education meaning they are and new to the united states at about eleven percent in special education and so glad these kids they're cool look at the faces aren't they cute they're not always cute some of them get ugly to me but that's just where sometimes it happens amount but we are about fifty seven percent black but that includes african-american kid very impatient jamaican it's a wide diversity of kids i'd also need you to know on cape verde in is that one of our lives as populations and i don't know if you've got many caper eighteen kids out here does that sound familiar to any of you icy lots of people don't like this fight quick mental mapping geography lesson off the west coast of africa a small uh... country at ten islands escape pretty announcing his land and parents would say to you that at the cape verde and kids are most challenging population because in cape very you are not mandated to go to school after the six grade it's rare that they even go that far depending on what island you're from and so it is not uncommon for us to have a sixteen seventeen eighteen and nineteen-year-old come to the counter to register who hasn't been to school for eight years and we say welcome to the m kasa massachusetts is a little shakespearian anthology for your pop anyway i'm not quite we were in trouble as you heard me say a mess and we had a massachusetts and cast but if you haven't seen it you need to look at it yet if i didn't put this in here because we limited the time but it truly is due to as the most challenging contests in the country will like i think it goes back to like whip your tunes and program so we have to be like really elitist what will reconsider my desk i'm actually one of the few people that will welcome the common core hot maybe our students will have a chance so um... weight uh... we were in trouble and um... we have they are very high failure rate as you can see an english language arts forty four percent in a mass seventy five percent and you must pass in order to graduate period case close now it's english math and science history is on the horizon and if you broke out at special ed numbers of failure it was even worse seventy eight percent failed english is ella and ninety-eight percent failed math so you have got to hear me say if there is anybody in this room going back same code yeah well that's different because take the lessons learned and yard out them i don't think you can do the same thing i believe every school has its own d_n_a_ and you have to do what works in your own school but there are certain lessons that i would say to you aren't usually replica validity school if we could do it in brockton anyone could the biggest problem we had the wasn't escorts it was the view that uh... kids had a right to fail principle the first principle at work for uh... and was assuming arv used to say that all the time agin principles and such a thing by the way they exercise that right freely ha all the time they knew that right in fact you walked by our classrooms and you'd see every kid with the back row with heads down in each teacher which they could get up in the kid go override to bill and uh... and the kid would be sent back to the classroom so it was tough all right now let me get to what we did because this is why you hear you only need three number four things haha is if you can do it in for steps but no i mean you try to break it down like what did we do all right here's what we did well let me tell you what we didn't do for us we didn't fire all teachers weekend fire the principal although nevermind it's being taped we worked with the principal um... the principal uh... we can bring in a outsiders like weeping navy seals coming into the building we um... yet but we didn't break down into teeny tiny schools and so what did we do hard at that infec of herself hard work i've worked hard work every day every day every day uh... but there are some things i can actually share with you that we did there are four steps if you can take away in this like i said this is all the website the first was it started with a team it was about a restructuring committee on this year that in a minute and we consciously used the word restructuring unlike other said we did you know you beyond the title of this beyond tinkering we couldn't we were a mass we were we were failing and that is what it is so it was true it was a team of teachers and i'm gonna tell you who and how we focused on literacy everyday everyday no exceptions and they say what literacy means we defined it which i don't think schools do who knows what literacy means right does that mean you can read the paper does it mean you can't does what does it mean everybody's in favor of it yes i'd like a literacy what what does it mean but we did find it we aren't implemented with fidelity in a way that ron ferguson at harvard university said he has never seen a school do with this meticulously and share with you that process and we monitor like crazy because i actually believe that what gets monitors what gets done i know myself as a teacher if i was left to my own devices i was a history teacher and when i first started you know cell cyclical in massachusetts so i thought whatever i liked and i went through phases you know you don't feel like really into chinese dynasties right now maybe i'll do that now you know so that doesn't work annexed kids should not be have to focus on what lucky teacher they get to get a good education so anyway let me share with you what we did when is that with the first one empowering the team we are brought together a group out because i love this song and how do i get the right people on the bus the wrong people off the bus in the right people in the right seats uh... and we need to do that and we developed what we called a restructuring treaty which is i think tanks still work with it now i was not the principal i was a history teacher the culture of the restructuring committee was not but principal he was but we had he and i quote tied together he was an english teacher uh... and a friend uh... we now now and by the way guess who was on the first restructuring treated any friends we had that we could beg and the principal who was not a leader called us and said he was being pressured by the superintendent could could you get a group of people together and try to do something about these crappy scores again and you think anyone wanted to be part of the restructuring committee hello we'd like you to be on exchange team at the school aryeh celebrates tax it was not the committee that anyone wanted to be on it was whoever we could drag i was our friends and at no outfit is the pocket is viewed as the power brokers in the school last year we had eighty two applicants further restructuring committee before we had two dead people with danish and cookies quick story about finding this just so you know on because the for anyone that is arm that has access to the purse strings uh... we do pay people for this it's a contractual hourly rate we have a very strong union and in brockton and it's a contractual hourly rates uh... and here's how it was funded the superintendent at the time was very visionary in this way he believed people should be paid for work like this we consciously made a decision to meet on saturdays because after school is not productive time everybody either get my kid at soccer i gotta go he right attitude as i have someone making up the test we need on study mornings people are paid for that uses regular professional development dollars that he puts aside the fun called cfc challenge for change principals have to apply for that money in order to support the change affect india school it is local p_d_ dollars it wasn't based on any grant that goes away it was based and we have a we still find it so that's how we've that's how we find it we meet on saturday is because it's thoughtful time every department is represented and we have great fights as you can imagine but here's what we did that was the most important started asking questions what are we teaching how we teaching it how do we know the kids are learning it we also a very political what can we control what can we control we can't fight battles that we knew we couldn't win we have a strong union i can't even hold well accent now the culture is different but at that time i could even hold of voluntary beating the union grieved at might become associate principal and the and a union presidents my office going we uh... grieving the voluntary meetings icici harry help well it makes those people who don't look bad so if we had an excuse for the evening we could make it but most importantly what could we use better we kept two goals at the forefront only to all need to only two i would call it often subversive leadership whenever the whenever superintendent say i would like you to write six goals i'd write the same to six times we needed to improve academic achievement and personalized abhi and the school was gay and infested and probably and it was a nasty environment so those two goals i'm never achieved really either so we needed to stay with them the second step is the most important one we focused on literacy now i could do all holes our presentation just on what that means and i'm not i'd just want you to look at it you've got it in uh... on the website i gave you are literacy initiative but here's what we didn't use the data and we said what it's not just about it and cast by the way because when you look at our admission tickets reading writing speaking and reasoning there is no speaking component in the end cast you all know teenage urban speak we can't stand it on and so it is about learning to present yourself anyway uh... so we absolutely focus on this every day but here's what we did we defined it soul literacy in reading me means you will do this you will do this you will do this you will do this you will do this literacy in writing means you'll do this you will do this you will do this it's very focused these charts are in everyone try to speak clearly cuz i woulda said shots but i'm trying to help you understand me could you tell brockton disclosed the boston could you tell that probably not right i should have said that at the beginning uh... anyway we and to find it very clearly these are in every room you heard nephew say on that weekend she was interviewed with i work with none of us were in the room so we had no idea what the kids are going to say and nasty when she said these literary literacy objectives gets you that creep up on you vic kids know them if i want to see ya school and i said to the kids tell me what the most important learning objectives are in your school could the kids tell me and i would say to you if they can't you had a problem you ask our students they will tell you they know them it's everyday every class all the time we focus this is an example of the writing one we begin with writing because we believe writing is thinking lest you think and see how we define that and what we wanted to make sure is that teaches knew that whatever they taught what every utah this is uh... how you do it so you get the same process in every class content is the fact here science teachers about science if you're a math teacher it's about math but the cut the contacts the structure is the same we uh... so we defined it we can get age the faculty by asking them to look at these over and over and over again didn't they agreed now lest you think what about by end of the faculty you got the kid me i think we would telling science teaches that they had to tell phys ed how about the phys ed department they were going to writing do you think they went leaking out enjoy you were heard one of our science to just say i was an on board we just kept saying this is this the best we can be is this the best we can be is this the best we can be and we also trained them in-house now in answer to that question what about by and i would say this all of you if you wait for by end of your faculty you will still be waiting you have to go forward with something you believe in now by the way i i i believe you get by and when you get results we didn't believe me trains people though so they knew what to do now here's my tactical suggesting for you all that you just read that for a moment well we started doing as people started discussing etc i know you like half but it worked because what would happen is we'd have teaches talking about things and then they would then you know the negative ones would go like man a man i a m x and we saw a polite and our profession we don't say shot opt you gas bag and so we just get beaten down subway like all my god oh my god and so one night my buddy and i were talking about it was so frustrated by the loud voices of the few pains we call the pete is and so we will sell frustrated by them we said doctor which they her could he have insults we started to put them together and you know what happens they have all bailout whining with each other and the agenda move forward everywhere else now can you all thinking ahead to loosen those groups i've know you can okay money go to third step in the on here's where on undetected this i'm not going to spend a long time on because it would take a very long time to explain this the key to what we did here was adult learning began by training people and how amuse myself as a bad example i didn't know how i was a history teacher a new history if somebody asked me how do you teach reading i would use a primary source document was somebody a kid i would say for the chemical judges that this is hard and here's how i talk reading read it again awhile that's affective how do you do a writing assignment did you learn that you're in this class so we needed to train the teachers in hand out and that was the key to this our faculty meetings became literacy workshops will be given we still do this to the state we just didn't on someone on need visuals well so anyway we tried to yet thinking routine means into the kids' heads so when they came up on something they didn't know they knew how to attack it we implemented with the level of fidelity that again professor ferguson says he's never seen done and that mean we'd assigns teachers when they would do it we need the restructuring committee did this we had to get approval from the principle but heat we work you know we get here's how we pitch it to him what that but by this time i become the associate principal so it it it actually it was a little bit easier for me but what we picture to us you know what if it doesn't work you can blame ox stand if it does work you know we got a principal but we actually said you have to do it now and i'm gonna see what i mean and that calendar is on the website and that's just an example but here's what i want to show you week strange people in the steps of writing and then we said you're going to do this writing assignment and if you're a social studies teacher sunday during that week whatever content you using ya gonna teach the kids to do it this way using your own contact now we use the calendar for two reasons first it was the tickets follow the journey of the trial they get it in a patented structured way how do you learn something right musicians unquote practice practice practice look what happens to the kid over the course of the year he's have that assignment ten times same for now different content follow the journey of that monitoring we can't be in every class every day we surely can be in the in classes in a week so it closely monitored what was being done because we believe that what gets monetary what is what gets done on and here's how we did it when we monitor this we use we have but we have all kinds of rubrics again i did she and i was with you you got that's on the website but everybody is assessed using the same way we see the restructuring committee developed the rubrics we constantly improving them improving them we aren't implemented according to a calendar we the admin team go into the classes and observe the literacy objectives must be an everybody's daily lesson plans and taught we do walkthroughs all the time and most importantly we collect and review student work for comparison nothing changed student performance as much as that if you don't on a pack on east any structured way and review with each other student working a missing a big way to find out about saw again something uh... they call hasn't rigor it is all about rager and you know you know how the rigorous across a school it was all over the place what you can get a day in silence those class easy a so-and-so and then why is that consistent so we had a lot of work to do on those all right let me conclude my section with this it's the good news by the story and this is where this is sort of my way of saying oh my god if this could happen in brockton high it can happen anywhere uh... what can happen when the with one of the results when you take a structured school-wide action like this with everybody does the same thing by the way here's what i've heard as a criticism peoples uh... you know well that sounds so formulaic too which i accept you packs kind of a formula for success don't you think heads off school that had students come together it is about you know learned this and that you don't learn how to write well and then you can write creative portray the rescue life but for now learn how to do this this way so we have very structured about that by the way buy-in is no more of a problem because as soon as that yet came we will holding our breath trying to determine if they would be uh... result i was the associate principal i got a call from that commissioner's office i nearly had a stroke because the commissioner said you know i'm thinking oh my god i discounted the test booklets or something and he said i'm calling to tell you that you are the most improved school in the commonwealth of massachusetts and he said and i'm coming to tell the faculty that that's when when he looked out at the faculty much like this we had three hundred faculty members when he stood in for the kids and said you are a school of champions in your city of champions and then he looked at the faculty and he said it is because you talked them better than any other faculty in this commonwealth only then did we have buy-in and that's why it's still not for everybody the rest of their people that left there are people that they had to seek that's one sock science was out most greatest challenge uh... one woman said unknown english teacher i'm a scientist i don't think so you'd be working in the lab a the art teacher that happens to have a biology book and i am but i didn't say that i did not say that but anyway it was a concerted effort by everybody day after day after day to teach literacy everyday reading writing speaking in reasoning it is truly replica bowl totally sustainable and by the way i would say this we do not have listening in there do you know why there was anopheles something going on in the school we did not want to use that as an excuse for people to continue lecturing we thought we say this line all the time this is some to bring back to faculty the best worksheet is a blank piece of paper so keep that in mind uh... anyway here's he has some cool result for the make you feel good 'cause you've got to know that it's doable and all that abuse all that we were a forty four percent unfairly rate we have a five percent it matches the state and we have and as i said over half of my kids don't speak english in the front as their first language and there are no exemptions from m cast as a matter of the internet doesn't matter if you have a special ed plant doesn't matter if you're bilingual doesn't matter doesn't matter doesn't matter and these caused by the way up based on only the very first time is one of the things i think is unfair yuki yuan measure to take the test as sophomores that's what determines the scores by the time they graduate we have a hundred percent of we don't we did not have any students not graduate because of them cast but it takes to some other that some of them it takes more time so anyway we're still struggling a little bit more imap but we're getting there on and uh... but here's a cool slide this is from professor ron ferguson at harvard he did a study on and this is the uh... how schools become exemplary and i don't know if you've if you've seen this if you haven't go to his achievement gap website it's awesome in he was like a rock star to me i read his book lou and and so and then i've met him at a meeting these like overton we've just discovered you and i kinda thought like i've felt like the native americans when columbus the rocket com but anyway but i'm so glad you discover that's because look what happened pete study where you look at the eighth grade and this is all from massachusetts course he he he was asking this question who's closing the racial achievement gap and whose growing kids the most all right with that in mind he looked at us a little bit oddest schools in the state this is our eighth grade english language arts performance with another school that is almost the same demographics were a little bit bigger but almost the same demographics he refers to them as complacent high school haha and uh... and so this is in the eighth grade we have red complacent high school is blue you can see that we're pretty close right in the eighth grade so this is an about that we've built them along the way i wish we could have but we get kids from all different schools all different countries all different communities neophyte we're pretty transient that way so in the eighth grade you can see where pretty close right nominee show you this next slide is if you don't line of this obvious so hurt here's what happens when they take the test one year in nine months later india lay when they are sophomores but no i mean isn't even harlem faculty wet will happen we with sometimes rough around the edges in brockton we said something else but i want to go but he has the coolest thing of all it's not about biographical but about grasses about changing attitudes in the school we know ours our school we believe everyone is responsible for every student we weren't at school we believe that every two to canton and we have to figure out how to help uh... and and here are the real results this is what i love uh... a student who had every reason to get to his father's in jail for *** his mother is a *** addict he's they had every reason not to be successful in school anne-maree is in college right now he's finished two years and he said to a person that was studying the school you said to them at our school it's not us against them and that speaks to the teachers and then the one i really love with parents uh... who said no one here would let me fail you know because i tried to and only then do you know would you have really made it with kids and that i would also say to you and and just yesterday i was leaving one of our students for justice just finished up a college he also came in to tell us he is the first black person as family to graduate from high school in going to college and um... he came back to show us because we hadn't yet seen it i believe in regard i believe just what you said that you don't even offer those courses in kids don't have access to this so many prerequisites no human being could even get into them in our school we now have an a_p_ program that is open to everybody we have an i_d_ international baccalaureate program if you told me ten years ago brockton high school of international baccalaureate i didn't know what it was unlike watkins aunty in fact mel riddles i've heard about it from melrose like i_d_ which is already and then i thought we could do this and he came in to show us his international baccalaureate diploma that's pretty awesome we have not received lots of awards we've got to come to school and we've been highlighted on but we've been a national model school high school summit school change now being featured by harvard and their achievement gap initiative in a secondary showcase school but on the left side you see in massachusetts they have with an kasa scholarship program and if you score in the top categories of n cast iron in the top twenty-five percent of the test takers you get a full four-year tuition scholarship any massachusetts state college university and we just gave two hundred and fifty two of them for this year's graduating class which is confirmed we've also been featured in the globe and and u_s_ news and we'll world report it gave us one of those bronze medals and i think those kinda ranking systems cuz i just think that kind of dumb until you get one by the way on this year topped all when when we ended up on the september twenty eighth two thousand ten on the front page of the new york times fun easter a true story is this my secretary uh... doesn't sheik when she found we've always struggle with her screen calls 'cause she's like the friendliest person in the world everybody says they know you're so she gets it was cheaper they said they knew you so this person calls and she said it's a reporter from the new york times and what i said if you put from someone selling subscriptions to me g_-fifty sets a reporter then hi this is sam dilemma reporter from the new york times one who has but ever again but you never abba abba what it would have thought of such a thing uh... i meant to say something that a little bit early on in a wrap up with one last night but when when you mention collagen career ended we support that but we don't say career ready at brockton high just so you know we only say college ready because if you are college ready and you go to college you'll be ready for a prayer in the reason we don't say that in brockton is practice of poor city with almost no industry and career ready to so many of our kids means i have a job a taco bell so we say college ready and payment that and last year we have got we have more than double that percentages of kids don't college but anyway get so we get this is the recap if you can remember these four steps this has been our road with hard work every day every day every day it started with the team of teachers there was not about a principal it was a team of teachers who said this isn't the best we can be no it isn't we've n adopted uh... mission for the school rhino sometimes the research just have a mission had emission uh... admission was winning the football super bowl championship that's all the mission was not school now it's about literacy everyday a every class no exceptions and you can and we had to fight some doubts about the no exceptions week implemented with a structured plan so that everybody knew what they had to do and when they had to do it we didn't leave anything to chance and finally we monitored like crazy 'cause we truly believe it's only gonna get done was monitored so that sob story up rock in high school and i'll be mingling around then no but not too long to get a administer the nason castleton that's a tough act to follow but sewage hat cindy provided lots of materials that are on the website uh... we ought there is also a longer video that's available on the website is well on the link to the video we shoudl also be available on the website so you need to look at the longer video you need to look at some of the terrorist i can say that she was the kind of person that if you want to come visit you gotta stand in line as everybody else reading than the new york time once the visitor so they do have special dates for visiting so get in touch if you need to but let's take a moment now and go and lookin and totally different direction 'cause carlos has a very important story dispel as well the one that's built on the fact that you can start with a smaller configuration and work your way up into a high school component as well focusing on a very important part that's identified within state around optimizing teaching and learning and that's a community-based education model and carlos after receiving the same kind of a claim it is advocate sending went down and spent about two seven or eight years in the central administration in a high level position i think is deputy superintendent uh... of chicago which is no small accomplishment in in and one of the largest school districts in the country but then when small again by going back just brightened community school and working to develop a community links high school so this is the small school apparent difference for because they don't operate around the regular calendar the don't use a factory model um... they don't do any of the things i mentioned in that nineteen thirty two school uh... analysis so paralyzed because that's here from you the civil rights watch the video first then they will invite pro-serb to uh... explain how bout they've done things it does that's bright community groups we're back with our series what works at a community school in chicago rule book on how can what should be educated from athens me more here but as n_b_c_'s kevin tables tells us tonight so far the results are case study and what works with every click over camera seventeen-year-old wholesale lopez focuses on the future and likes what she sees they make me believe that i could do whatever i want to know competence this budding artist didn't always have it changed a lot and i i think that i would have gone to another area high school i don't think i'll be missing person i think i'll be locked in before bobbie other student also a nine hundred other hispanic kids attend the strike community school in chicago's little village anne-marie neighborhood where dropout rates are high and opportunity for success principal carlos escort ship is trying to change that is a way of thinking whatsoever is a way of could strengthen families working with community residents this community them to use all the assets that they have so we can meet the challenge who can't be cautious an extraordinary at the same time the it's trying to do that's different pre kindergarten to grade twelve are all under one roof so the older kids commensurate with the young ones school begins later and slater younger kids attend on saturday that everyone goes year-round highschool graduation in just three years at first of four hours awake until anything that and i dislike classes are small and teachers do lots of tutoring flapping took me to focus on will call taxcut threatening infection everyone principle that it had not been for the school i don't think i would have you take out there for because another school there's just too many people from any student the teachers local businesses provide internships for the juniors and seniors are required to take morning classes at nearby colleges even mom and dad step up attendance is correct and parents must agree to monitor study habits and hear them the constant cough fortune or coast of those behavior has been went to school into the school norwood details important on the students there restaurant bar as price says it's working overall test scores are up and for the second straight year every senior will graduate compared to seventy three percent citywide finished one of them has been able to call baking powder room but they are part of it wasn't there this is something that you must go hundreds of hard work if you work are eview to what has to be done if you participate in our activities that we engage the family this is something that working income out for those who might otherwise have been left behind that hard work adding off kevin troubles n_b_c_ news departments and i think they have an article settle down here one second truly a pleasure to be here to join you today you've seen a little synopsis of what we do so i'm here to share our story and it's a pre-k for high school community school because many times in public schools we don't see this kind of model we either have high schools middle schools elementary schools k_ through eight and i think we need to develop opportunities to be able to do this to meet community needs and that's what we have attempted to do our schools in the community of little village and chicago two hundred-person low-income some immigrant community it's a mexican american community and the great chicago poet carl sandburg said am an idealist i don't know round one when i'm on my way we normally do it at that we know where we're gone and we are on our way and it's a work in progress i was a principle there from eighty nine to ninety five and it was an elementary school pre-k through eighth grade with sixteen hundred students which the neighborhood school a strong neighborhood school but the reality was fifty percent to sixty percent of the students after they finished bakery and they went elsewhere did not finish high school an aside left to go to the central office by seven wanted to the stand for and i'm going to return years past i was given this opportunity to return to the same school with our current secretary of education for whom i served truly yours as deputy superintendent so i had the opportunity to go back to the same school and my ears of the central office listening to student to teacher to parent voices out to formulate a different way of defining schooling so we can get different results and meet those community needs people at the beginning steps on work first of all where are you reading central office you know most people don't do this high school in elementary school together in one building that's unsafe as you know what i meant three teachers many times don't like high school students and vice versa we have teacher continuity and parent continuity still really there is no one to blame we accept responsibility for this success of every student and we're developing school models that many times have different approaches why don't we take a look other neighborhood public school and provided this opportunity to change that we've had this model in many private settings let's do it in a public community school well the school continues and to work in progress because very soon will have to think of pre-k through sixteen because the biggest challenge now as they leave us and would regulate on was a hundred percent college graduation community college graduation and post-secondary first of all i want to share our community school framework and what it means so i want to start by defying what characterizes us because many times to relate to community schools as offering services connected two other institutions and that's fine we do that but it's more than that is participating in the life of your community is knowing that the people who resize around the school also generate your employment so we have this commitment to meet your needs to fulfill their aspirations which are no less in any other setting so principles of community education begins with self-determination who knows better than people in your community what needs exist how do we put them as part of the plan and as part of the solution and even though i have formulated these practices in my mind aside move toward this was a pro two thousand three several community meetings with parents with all teachers of the elementary school withdrawal eighth-graders with community organizations to make sure willing to add a hundred percent buy-in what a lot of people knew we needed to do something different to get different results localization this belief indicates that one services programs and events are brought closest to where people live there will be greater potential for public participation in this whole process develop more power because of localisation you develop this relational trust so your reputation on the gender become strong self-help people are best served when they are or are given the opportunity to gain the ability to help themselves so this covers the idea that leadership development will occur when individuals participate in the community education process your teachers your community leaders that's would become the focus of our community integration this principle suggest but those organizations and agencies that operate for the public good can better serve the public with a limited resources they have if we collaborate and we've done a variety of things we have to health clinic we've had immigration assistance so that we eliminate a lot of duplication of services and because we're open longer people come to us people trust us unhurried u_k_ sonoma gender is shared and of course resources are the physical financial and human resources in your community being utilized to the fullest extent and that's what we aim to maximize so having said that lesson number one schools should become the focus of community connected to david lives and experiences by focusing on this edu cation uil what it means for the school connected to the lives of family and community that's already cation with gender become stronger it is the academic and the social context i think you case and neighborly community is indispensable in a democratic society it is the hope and promise of improving the academic and the social context of education school is influenced but what happens inside and outside just why four hours a day is seven days a week so we expand the boundaries shaping and the development of the school culture among students families and community that go beyond the traditional bow injuries and if it affects learning we have to we have to see partners to make it happen so we expand the boundaries with a common plan lesson number two the greatest influence on students as a family the greatest influence on the families is the community how do we interact with that trilogy those three entities to make it work how does it become part of the intake process as teachers wanna maximize relationships with parents and community and participate in all of this lesser number three supporting and challenging students and tails supporting and strengthening families why because we have to maximize art interdependence goals cannot escape interdependence with outside factors that influence whether students learn so schools must seize opportunities to connect students and families to resources and support rather than lament the prevalence of outside negative influences it is locally developed accountability and share for academics for safety for employment for help and for a lifelong learning we are co determinants of that student success we can all its start in that community a positive influence and most of all a place related identity so it is always a work in progress so edu cation does not occur in isolation from the rest of the students life it's also about community organizing to improve the quality of life so that this message of education is reinforced forever this film school and in order to do that we develop this relational trust and more than that relational accountability because you know our accountability structures are imposed by the outside are enclosed in schools and communities once school in communities don't take over somebody else will so how do we do this by developing relationships with respect with confidence being the best that you can be sharing our work and challenging one another within the school setting with personal regard and with integrity by putting the needs of students first and how do we do this when you engage adults students family and community in the development of academic social and emotional skills and it becomes part of our message in every setting as you develop self-awareness and the ability to recognize and understand your moods and how it affects other people so you can develop self-confidence self-regulation the ability to control a redirect disrupted disruptive impulses and how do you bill trustworthiness and openness to change motivation is the passion that we'll have to have to serve a school and that's why i worked there in a community that go beyond and status is a strong desire to a team and the optimism that it takes empathy the ability to understand the emotional makeup of other people and how do we relate to one another as well as social skills so that we can become proficient in managing relationships and developing the fact that things have changed we do this by creating he sends up affirmation in a school community and how do we do this i have accepted here an acceptable and safe here physically emotionally intellectually they care endless contribution i make a difference in this place i'm speaking about adults about students about community members i bring unique values and perspectives ice share my identity there's purpose my understand what we do and icy significance give reflex me and my world power what i've learned is useful and i make choices that contribute to my success and i know what quality it looks like challenged the war compliments my ability unyk stretches when i work art i succeed if we take a look at the transfer to the teaching and learning many times we have had practices in this particular we meet the needs awful hundred-percent lincolnton low-income communities that many times in some places we have reduced expectations which means that sp teachers sometimes it's what teachers do learning this what students to therefore where engage in different activities teachers are in charge of responsible students need to develop appropriate behavior therefore we have to follow all of these directions but what is being taught and what is being learned students represent a wide range of individual differences therefore we have many challenging conditions sold ranking of some sort sandoval basic skills are purposes so directive pedagogy has to be the norm all of these things are very important however in some circles they might lead to expectations were students yield the best results we want to be able to connect that students involved finishes as vital concerns explanation of human differences major concepts big ideas students involved in planning what they will be doing applying ideals of fairness equity or justice actively involved real-life experiences heterogeneous grouping s students or engage into redoing polishing perfecting their work buttered knowledge if information access and reflecting on their own lives having said that let's talk a little bit about descriptions and demographics open we are pretty for secondary community school or a hundred percent highschool graduation and post-secondary i wanna make sure i'm in the right we have the eleven hundred students because we share a building we want to grow we have to keep our limit with two hundred high school students for all of our eighth graders who want to stay we share space with an elementary building built in eighteen ninety eight worth ninety nine percent latino students and we're a hundred percent free and reduced meals we serve breakfast we serve lunch and we serve dinner family and teacher continuity from pre-k for high school with extensive parent and community engagement it gives us the opportunity to begin to plant the seeds for polls secondary culture that begins as we've been welcome our students in preschool we finish high school in three years and three summers of hard work it senate eight-hour workday with quality teachers teachers to fulfill our mission and we have alternative scheduling which means that some teachers begin later we're a hundred percent union school and when people ask me how are you able to do that i said i'd never asked that's the way we advertised and we recruit our teachers so that has not been an issue we have longer school days it's an eight-hour day minimum we're open six days a week wearing no failure high school soldiers struggle you come in saturday morning's for additional tutoring we have been in no way to schedule with this long day and we have uh... stagger late start so our high school students begin later and then flavor you know we've heard about this practice for a long time one would listen to students what do they tell you why do i have to start at seven and seven thirty we don't have a tardy problems some of our students begin school at ten o'clock due to the start scheduling and they finish at six p_m_ we don't have an attendance problems because we follow what cohort model and students might need an additional summer if they don't do well but they'll gradually we had this alignment between the operator in high school how many times we continue to say they are not ready they are not prepared we do staff development together we know what the expectations are all of our high school students become tutors hindi elementary school true during primary grade students two hours each day last part of their high school day then they transfer those internships and out of work experience into the school community so they go to the boys and girls club bagel to the church they go to the public library and they serve these internships we use service-learning because we want to be able to get the students and families engaged in addressing community needs so our students become engaged and safety they become engaged in legislation that affects their community were having a very big campaign with the dream act illinois dream act which comes with private funding was passed by one of our legislative houses and we continue to be advocates for that process how do we date students and their families and community in the betterment of their communities we have advanced placement classes and online coursework that all students must take as part of their high school students participate in college bridge classes their third year we have about eighty percent of them who qualify of the two hundred so they've reportedly university in the morning for dual credit an s funding have seized we have sought additional funding to do this so they take the train together and they go downtown to several university cinco de community colleges we follow college readiness standards in every discipline common rubrics online tool a_z_t_ writings standards anna sui developed this post secondary culture we visit colleges starting the first year and we invite their families most cases there the first ones to graduate from high school so we must engage this whole family in developing this culture by visiting universities by engaging them in what college loans to me in terms of making uh... college attendants a reality and would begin to prepare them for that so it's barely family engagement for post-secondary preparation issue leadership development to address community issues we combine physical education with r_o_t_c_ it was a little bit controversial at the beginning we're not recruiting to serve in the army but we want to develop leadership and self-discipline since they attend school year round vacation is limited and they are in school eight hours a day we have to school-based clinic kisser families and community as a result proposal that we have submitted and we have established a postsecondary financial fund cell we make this a reality for a hundred percent of our graduates and many are documented and others are undocumented and the quality of school pastoral car four hundred percent of the students and that has to be are common definition increased its human growth hi attendance rate with almost a hundred percent regulation in a community that had supper from such a high dropout rate we have a hundred percent college acceptance the challenge becomes how do we make this community college your college graduation accessible to everyone so we keep on working on this issue breeding graduates back every single friday and sharing their ideas throughout the history of our school we have been able to get two million dollars in scholarships to make this a reality in our students normally attend our city universities but they go elsewhere attendance rate ninety six to ninety eight percent freshmen on track over ninety five percent depressed gains in reading has to take a look and reading and math in terms of students that you take them where they begin and that incremental growth of the night if it then ninety-seven percentile are dropout rate is minimal do you take a look at the impact it has in the elementary school you can see the growth estate take the i sat are benchmark data with the end of two thousand three those were the students who are meeting on exceeding standards by two thousand ten where it's seventy six point one that has an impact on high school because students become better prepared so we have increased the expectation ice we developed the school community culture basically is a talent we are a neighborhood school any student who graduate from eighth grade who want to stay stay some of them approach i want to be at the general high school they want a four-year program less number of hours but many of them stay and we have other neighborhood schools within walking distance that and i want to come to us and we have a plan to continue to grow but as you can see there'd be a city scores as you take a look at the movement explore to plan two-way c_t_ and how we continue to increase those numbers are a city scores continue to be average seventeen point five but students about twenty continue to increase so having said all of this to you we want to unleash the power in everyone and this school maximizes what we're all about let me share the school from one of our uh... writers gabriella mixed up many things we need to wait but the children can not now's the time bare bones are formed their minds developed to them we cannot say tomorrow their name is today we have to do it with urgency i firmly believe that commitment believe an understanding are greatly enhanced by experimental army that's the experience i'm sharing with you it is the seamless connection off what educational leaders too during traditional school hours and what happens after school with families and communities that is what school reform is about making school for students families and communities so based on this when people participate by taking part and sharing responsibilities in the light of the school community you begin to see the links to wait for section that the school is a good one your educational agenda become stronger you develop this relational trust an educational leaders teachers principles become stronger we are all coal producers of student weasels so we work hard we build and we celebrate this could be done in any place and i thank you for your attention begin another tough act to follow uh... we do have a few minutes we want to ask a few questions uh... i saw a couple nights we want to get one up here if possible so we can put it we got one i'm gonna ask a question and then will take a few from the audience as well to both of you i'd like you to comment on the fact that as you saw when we raise cans earlier that about a third of the people here from the state level and just similar from the district level coming a little bit about the state all of the district role advice you might have through two states and districts and how they can better support schools uh... in in their reform efforts well one of the things that we took advantage right away we developed a system it's not only apple doubled to charter schools but that community schools that are making progress that we get some of the economy's that are necessary to do this kind of work and i know that i work in the central office and that's certainly helped but we need to develop incentives for neighborhoods schools and community schools that are getting better to do some things different to develop some flexibility ps so we applied to become an answer school which is on a time is performance management school and be able to develop a new schedule to recruit teachers working the same number of hours but in a different time schedule your able also to apply to a lot of grants with assistance uh... from the area to be able to do many of the innovative things we're doing and i wouldn't mind would not be advised that please which would be eat to focus focused focus and way too many meetings when everybody's initiative sounds good and all of a sudden you have objectives and goals and this intense and that intent it really is about instruction and so you can change any structure i saw all that probably offending somebody that's saying this but i saw lots of gates money go because there was a belief that it had to be small debris small not you can work at the big and that i want to something else and then i went to something else and so i guess my plea would be uh... that it really needs to be focused around improving instruction in schools because nothing will change until the instruction changes okay we have a of mike over here on the left on my left them on the right anybody want to ask questions fixed-income we want to use a might please because we're recording this for everybody yes tell us your name please in where you're from my name is dateline from texas first of all congratulations to both of you outstanding job outstanding i'm very proud of the is educated on one at the price of update the and have a couple of schools that wants to do uh... high school junior high school combine to say this is delicately it's as possible the hormonal systems change in children anything that you are and you're going to make middle school and high school together you have a small number of high school which is a blessing two hundred not attn but when you played high school in middle school to get there what are some of the safety tips that you can give four the social life and that's children at that age group stylish and this model we know it's not easy so you have to work on scheduling you have to work on a staggered schedule for a high school students when they come in you wanna make sure they also have some independent i'm when we did the tutoring he was intentional but the touring with all of the up with the whole two primary students we the high school because they've reporter universe in the morning specially the seniors so when the after the elementary school is dismissed at two forty five high school students are there until seven and eight o'clock so we were able to share a facility in different ways we have not had any incident allows people to say well this model is not working if you take a look at some of the things that happens sometimes in traditional high schools our students very few discipline problems the just the the normal type of situation that occurred in terms of expulsions i think it's only one or two so and we've been in operation since two thousand three all i'm saying when you're committed to this kind of schooling when do you take this responsibility for instruction as a community pre-k through high school those details can be worked out because you develop what your school needs to make it work and at the beginning some people used to say used to talk to the principal and i had a by sorry as a principal with all high school students on a weekly basis your role models in this community your brothers and sisters attend the school everybody's looking at you it certainly can be done and it has worked i think i'd just like the i think i think i thought what if they had to get one more question you get out yell any leadership development you talked about uh... safety and the helping out that if you have to get to the schools in your building community schools communities in schools is the proper yes yes we had communities schools but we're also characterized as a community school so from parent lecture series to a whole variety of activities to bring people from the community we have home gatherings where we took the school out and we had uh... meetings into living rooms of parents and they invited their neighbors to speak about literacy to speak about safety to speak about health so it was really a community focus in that regard okay thank you so much and thank you again young lady about instructing the team because it is thank you and did you want but you know another question outlining the stairway and smile james madison active in the campus in milwaukee wisconsin was the result animal testing on a michigan wesleyan squaw creek participate and gradually uh... question for you which a flex schedule how does that impact uh... specifications to withstand descends to the change in place but you weren't those particular issues of a better specification students was a neighborhood school thing we have fifteen to twenty percent special ed students so we program students based on their on their needs and we have three starts three different start so we don't have two hundred high school students going inside of the same time nine hundred to nine hundred fifty elementary school students sold those leaks are mad and that special ed teachers as well as the other teachers coordinate their schedule to make sure that their day the ideas fulfilled it is a matter of taking a look at the needs of your students taking a look at teacher schedule some teachers come in at ten and they worked the same number of our and then later another's before so which coordinating that based on student needs it hasn't been a problem okay so those two dates you may have some students that come in at the end will they sunday dean that is correct and special ed students also participate in the college bridge programs we have developed partnership with universities so that they also get support and assistance so it's available to all the students who qualified which is about eighty percent of them said that you want them all right so what can you say we are this morning we wanted to start the conversation around planning for sustainability planning for implementation by sharing with you some examples of some successful implementations that really impact on students for the rest of the morning we're going to be looking at okay real quick though obvious question this was lost souls in my name's orlando with chicago public schools are we both attend the architect of the church rope literacy writing apartment before that my question to you as a teacher's gourmet social studies teacher off and west coast literacy and writing in every class everyday what was the process of political for help helping pay social studies teacher mac training literacy to get by both approx twelve with the football what between culture can you tell us about that it was essential because i'm a good measure of just what you al not knowing how and that's why i said that the key to our success has been the adult learning not the kids as much as the adults and what we did is we don't have professional development time it was negotiated out of our contract budweiser go see asian allies we do have contractually to faculty meetings a month and what we did is transform they wasted time frankly and so um... what we did is made every faculty meeting is now we'll calm faculty meetings the called literacy workshops and we need the restructuring committee colleague to cali on training teachers how to do with so when we begin with the writing we developed the writing format we actually script out our trainings and in fact i think i thought one of the scripts up on the on the website uh... we yet we can only be an hour because of its sixty one minute of course uh... like i said not so much now but they would in a grievance you know and but at that time we we have we go through here's this status we model it by the way we just did it cost someone recently on activators and summarizes as a way to open a class with power and close a class a power so we use up faculty meeting time as teacher training time and then as we get new teachers and every year uh... ween near the train and in the literacy strategies by if right from the very clear started for the very first couple weeks 'cause let them get settled at that we start training center so i agree with you if you just make this pronouncement it's not going to go anywhere we needed to train everybody in how and then how to assess so pros as soon as we break in a minute we're going to thirty five fifteen minute break bananas and then reassembled in the breakout sessions in your packet you should have received a card that reflects the sessions that you signed up for in online and it uh... if you did not you should have stopped by the destin signed up this morning for some of the sessions we have to ask you to honor the selections please uh... some of the rooms can hold more than the number of people that we have signed up so we had to close some of those sections as well so the rest of the morning recanted continue the conversation around planning for implementation in sustainability and meat meat back here at lunchtime for another presentation as we got as we move into of focused on optimizing teaching and learning i want to at ask you to join me in a great round of applause for our prisoners we hope to invite them back in the future to webinars and other opportunities to share some of their knowledge with you in a you know more informal up setting again thanks everybody will uh... did stop by the get the beautiful bathrooms and art but make sure you make it across the hall across the hall to the breakout session today on the carter for seattle the at lunch time here