School Culture

Culture for Teaching and Learning

Strengths

• Availability of staff to help students with needs.

Strengths

• Accessibility provided to enriching academic courses without limits.

Question???

• Think-Pair-Share
• How do we determine what the needs of students are? And, once we do how do we address them?

Share out:

• What did you hear at your table?

Weakness

• We lack a system for identify needs, planning for intervention, and monitoring effectiveness.

Policies and Practices

Strengths

• Trust exists among stakeholders
• Transparency is abundant
• Overall, the building is clean and well kept

Weakness

• Utlilizing the CARDS code in a consistent manner with fidelity
• Spiraling expectations with all stakeholders throughout the year

Collaborative Staff Environment

Strengths

• Trust exists among all of us.

Weakness

• Lack the design and implementation of collaboration time.
• Lack opportunities for you all to grow from influences beyond Davison

School/District Leadership

Strength

• Students, feel listened to and have a say in our programs and policy.
• We know what our purpose is and don't hide it.

Think on this:

• What are the building goals?
• What are 3 strategies that we are implementing in our building to reach our goals?
• What PD/collaboration have we done lately to support our strategies?

Share out:

• At your table turn and talk about the three questions.
• Go around the table for each question allowing each person to share.

Weakness

• All involved know what kind of pig we want.
• We weigh the pig, but don't do anything to help him.
• We don't focus our energy and resources, including time on helping.
• Ultimately, the pig stays the same and we all continue to get frustrated!

Parent and Community Involvement

Strength

• Communication
• Community involvement
• Parent involvement and influence

But, who are we?

• Find the handout with the four demographic charts on them.
• Think about who we are as I go through them.

Who are we?

Who are we?

Who are we?

Who are we?

High-Five partner

• Find someone across the room
• Give them a high-five
• Share two things that resonated with you when you observed the data.

What did you hear?

• Surprises?
• Affirmations?
• Questions?

Weakness

• Are we reaching all of our parents?
• Who come to PTCs?
• Who are involved?

Call to action:

• We need a systematic way of identifying, attending to, and monitoring student achievement and behavior.
• MTSS
• Child Study

Call to action:

• We need to be more intentional and consistent with the CARDS code especially around bullying
• Establish a data-driven system of reteaching and proactive teaching of the code
• Commitment of staff to use the code as a true framework across the building.

Call to action:

• Needs assessment
• Plan strategies/activities
• Plan training/collaboration
• PLCs
• Monitoring of effectiveness

Call to action:

• NO MORE STAFF MEETINGS!
• Just kidding, but we have to use them more efficiently and effectively.

Call to action:

• We are teaching to the middle parents!
• We have to develop opportunities to reach out and invite in all of our diverse groups of parents.

The Opportunity is ours

• look for change soon
• be a part of the solution
• marigolds not walnuts!