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Do Now

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Download a copy of today’s session and

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Professional Learning Series

Phase 1: Orientation to the 5Essentials

Objectives: o Learn about the research behind 5Essentials o Learn about the administration process o Learn about the 5Essentials Reports

Audience: Up to 10 school leadership teams of 6 – 8 people per leadership team (including teacher-leaders)

Time: 2 hours pre-survey administration

Phase 2: Understanding and Using the Data

Objectives: o Understand and analyze 5Essentials data o Identify root causes for measures of strength and

growth

o Generate and prioritize potential actions o Plan to implement and communicate actions

Audience: Up to 10 school leadership teams of 6 – 8 people per leadership team (including teacher-leaders)

Time: 4 hours after release of results

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Phase 3: After Action Review

Objectives: o Review action plan and analyze formative data o Evaluate the success of action plan implementation o Make adjustments to action plan

Audience: Up to 10 school leadership teams of 6 – 8 people per leadership team (including teacher-leaders)

Time: 2 hours pre-survey administration

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Phase 4: Completing the Cycle

Objectives: o Analyze multi-year trends and progress on prioritized

measures o Identify root causes for areas of strength and growth

o Develop an action plan to address the area for growth

Audience: Up to 10 school leadership teams of 6 – 8 people per leadership team (including teacher-leaders)

Time: 4 hours after release of results

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Workshop Objectives

By the end of the session, leadership teams will be able to…

Understand the research behind and the components of the

5Essentials.

Prepare for the 5Essentials survey administration.

Understand how to navigate 5Essentials reports.

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Agenda

Time Activity

10 minutes Introduction

25 minutes Defining School Improvement

10 minutes The 5Essentials Story

5 minutes The 5Essentials Framework

15 minutes Exploring a 5Essentials Report

20 minutes Organizing Around the Framework

15 minutes Administering the Survey

15 minutes Predicting Your School’s Results

5 minutes Wrap Up

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Purpose of the 5Essentials

Gives voice to teachers, students, and

families

Drives safe and candid conversations

Provides a data point beyond test scores

Promotes school improvement planning

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Defining School Improvement Collaborative Activity

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Improving Schools

Step 1 – Brainstorm • Individually respond to the prompt: What does it take to

improve a school? • Record one idea per Post-It™ Time: 3 minutes

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Improving Schools

Step 2 – At your table, one person at a time:

• Place each of your Post-Its™ on the chart paper • Clarify each item • Sort items into categories • Circle and name the categories

Time: 10 minutes

Resources

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Improving Schools

Step 3 – Gallery Walk

• Visit other groups’ charts, noticing themes that run

across charts.

Time: 5 minutes

Consistent Consequences

Money Instructional Coaching

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Improving Schools

Step 4 – Table Discussion

• What themes did you notice across different charts? • What topics were new, interesting, or different?

Time: 5 minutes

The 5Essentials Story Inspiration, Research, Discovery

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Similar Schools

• Same area of the Chicago

• 100% African American enrollment and 100% low income

• Among 100 poorest-performing schools in reading and math in 1989

Different Outcomes • Hancock moves dramatically forward

• Alexander stagnates

Tale of Two Schools

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Why did Hancock improve while

Alexander stagnated?

Essential Question

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Observation

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A comprehensive set of practices and conditions that made schools much more likely to improve

student outcomes emerged

= 5 Essential Supports

Supportive Environment

Ambitious Instruction

Collaborative Teachers

Involved Families

Effective Leaders

Discovery

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20 years of research, 15 years of data

Schools strong on at least three of the 5Essentials were 10 times more likely to improve student growth in test scores and 30 times less likely to stagnate than similar schools that were weak on these supports.

Culmination

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• The essential supports are positively related to:

– Test scores in math and reading

– Test scores gains in math and reading

– Attendance rate changes

– Graduation rates

• The essential supports with the strongest associations with student outcomes are supportive environment and ambitious instruction

Continuation

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The 5 Essentials Framework A Closer Look

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5 Essentials Measures

Unpacking an Essential

Measures

English Instruction Math Instruction Academic Press Quality of Student Discussion

Items The teacher asks difficult questions in class. This class challenges me. This class requires me to work hard to do well. The teacher expects us to become better thinkers, not just memorize things. The teacher expects me to do my best all the time. The teacher expects everyone to work hard.

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• English Instruction

• Math Instruction

• Academic Press

• Quality of Student Discussion

Ambitious Instruction

Are classes challenging and engaging?

Ambitious Instruction

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Are principals and teachers implementing a shared vision for success? • Teacher Influence

• Program Coherence

• Teacher-Principal Trust

• Instructional Leadership

Effective Leaders

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Do teachers collaborate to promote professional growth?

•Collective Responsibility

•School Commitment

•Teacher-Teacher Trust

•Quality Professional Development

Collaborative Teachers

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Does the entire staff work to build strong external relationships?

•Parent Influence on Decision Making

•Teacher-Parent Trust

•Parent Involvement in School

Involved Families

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• Peer Support for Academic Work (ES) • School-Wide Future Orientation (HS) • Expectations for Post-Secondary Education (HS) • Academic Personalism (ES)

• Student-Teacher Trust

• Safety

Is the school safe, demanding and supportive?

Supportive Environment

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Bringing the Pieces Together

The real power of the 5Essentials is in their combined strength.

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Parent/Family Survey

• Developed through collaboration with Illinois State Board of Education and University of Chicago Charter Schools

• Administered since 2013

• Does not affect 5Essentials performance

• Data is not scored; frequencies only

• Questions are not centered around constructs

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Exploring a 5Essentials Report A Collaborative Activity

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Understanding the System

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Online Diagnostic Reports

Explore 10 minutes With a partner, explore a 5Essentials sample report. Take notes about what you notice. https://demo.5-Essentials.org

Learn 5 minutes The facilitator highlights key characteristics.

Activity Time Guidance

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Critical Components

• Response rates

• Essential and measure scores

• Items

• Trends

• Downloads

• All Measures

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Actionable Information

Organizing Around the Framework Creating Coherence

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Coherence Activity

Think 3 minutes Write all of your school and district initiatives, committees, structures, or programs.

Sort 8 minutes On poster paper, with the 5Essentials at the top, group each post-it note under its respective Essential.

Discuss 9 minutes Discuss which Essentials you are prioritizing and why.

Activity Time Guidance

Ambitious Instruction

Supportive Environment

Involved Families

Collaborative Teachers

Effective Leaders

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Coherence

“There’s not really anything that you do as a

school leader that can’t fit in to [the

5Essentials] framework…it’s now a

meaningful frame to the staff – it’s how they

live.” - Amy Rome, former Director of School Leadership, AUSL

Administering the Survey Requirements, Access, Messaging

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• Survey of all teachers, teacher’s aides, and paraprofessionals (50%

response rate and at least 8 valid respondents)

• Survey of grade 4-12 students (50% response rate and at least 15

valid respondents)

• Survey of all families (20% response rate)

• Survey Window: February 1st – March 1st

• Recommendation: Provide 30 minute block for completion

• Analytic process (Tested by University of Chicago researchers)

The 5Essentials System

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Messaging the 5Essentials

• Explain value of school participation

• Focus on the importance of voice

• Set your goals for teacher/student participation

• Provide details of survey administration

• Reinforce confidentiality of survey

• Demonstrate what results look like

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Getting the Message Out

5Essentials Communication Kit

• School community press release

• Teacher announcements and survey reminders

• Family letters and survey reminders

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Access to Survey

Administrators • Email invitation to access survey administration site

• Provides Access to: – Rosters

– Real time response rates

– Assign a survey coordinator

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Access to Survey

Teachers

• Receive email invitation

• Log-in with username and password provided

Students

• Go to: https://survey.5-essentials.org/delaware/survey/student/ (Link will activate when survey goes live on February 1st)

• Log-in using state student id and birthdate

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Access to Survey

Parents

• Go to: https://survey.5-essentials.org/delaware/parent/student/ (Link will activate when survey goes live on February 1st)

• Begin typing school name

• Select school from the list that appears

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Taking the Survey

• Answer all relevant questions

• Questions can be skipped at any time

• May stop, resume later (students and teachers only)

• Submit completed survey

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Browser Requirements

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 or +

Apple Safari 5 or +

Google Chrome

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or +

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Resources

• FAQs

• Communication Kit • Teacher letters

• Parent letters

• Student consent form

• Report Demo Site

• Survey Administration Manual

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Predicting Your School’s Results Collaborative Activity

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Prediction Activity

Think 1 minute What do you think is your school’s strongest

Essential? What Essential presents the greatest opportunity for growth?

Pair 7 minutes Share your thinking with a person from a different school.

Share 7 minutes Share your thinking with your team.

Activity Time Guidance

Wrapping Up Next Steps, Questions, Feedback

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Our Next Interaction

Phase 2: Understanding and Using the Data

Objectives: o Understand and analyze 5Essentials data o Identify root causes for measures of strength and growth o Generate and prioritize potential actions o Plan to implement and communicate actions

Audience: Up to 10 school leadership teams of 6 – 8 people per leadership team (including teacher-leaders)

Time: 4 hours

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Questions

What questions do you have?

For future questions,

contact 5Essentials:

5essentials@uchicago.edu

(866) 440-1874

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Feedback

Please take five minutes and go to http://goo.gl/PIZOXK to fill out a feedback form, letting us know:

• What worked well?

• What didn’t work well?