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8:00 Welcome and Announcements

8:15 What’s Essential for 21st Century Learners? AND Finding our Focus

11:15 Lunch

12:15 Clay Leadership Café’

1:15 Break

1:30 Breakout Sessions

3:15 Closing Session/Reflections

2. Furthering our understanding of the essentials to Leading in the 21st Century

Goals

1. . Deepening our understanding of our role in preparing the College and Career Ready Student

Norms

• One conversation at a time• Stay Focused• Defer Judgment• Encourage wild ideas• Build on the ideas of others

Think

BACKWARDS

What kinds of experiences will the child you visualized need to have in school?

What skills will she or he need to be prepared to work and live in the 21st century?

What does it really mean to be ready for college and career in the 21st century?

Teams Discuss

Following are five descriptions of the kinds of people industry leaders are looking to hire.

Listen as I read them, and be prepared to choose one that intrigues you.

Facebook

We’re making the world more open and connected. Want to help?

Working at Facebook means doing what you love. We hire trailblazers, hackers and pioneers. We want people who can solve challenging problems, make a real impact and build something big. You should join us.

We don’t have rules. We have values.

Apple

Creativity from every corner:

When you imagine the creative process at Apple, at first you may not picture someone in HR. Or operations. Or finance. But we expect creative thinking and solutions from everyone here, no matter what their responsibilities are. Innovation takes many forms, and our people seem to find new ones every day.

:Simplicity isn’t simple

Ask anyone here. It’s hard work. It means forever asking, “Why is it this way?” and “How can it be better?” It means rethinking every customer experience until the clutter has fallen away — until all that remains is what’s essential, useful, and beautiful….

Accenture

We believe that diverse ideas and representation add value to our community, helping us deliver innovative solutions for high performance businesses. With Accenture people serving clients in more than 120 countries around the world, understanding cultural differences, values and beliefs is essential. We seek and nurture diverse talent…

TalentCulture Consulting Group

When I began my career, the most important things were mastery (education and experience), talent, work ethic, character, intelligence and flexibility. Today it’s different and it’s exciting and it’s challenging and it’s never going to be the same. Those factors are still critical, but they’ve been disrupted by the forces of social connectedness, communication, and collaboration.

Megan M. Biro, Founder & CEO

Mayo ClinicCulture and people. Our culture of caring first for others is rooted in the ideals of our founders, Drs. William J. Mayo and Charles H. Mayo, who valued teamwork, collegiality, professionalism, mutual respect and a commitment to continual progress.

Teamwork. At Mayo Clinic, you'll find a supportive, team-oriented environment that encourages diverse viewpoints. Your opinions are valued as you work together with your colleagues to make decisions and deliver the best outcomes for patients…..

Teams Discuss• Choose a company. Read the rest of the

description. • Identify the most important words and

phrases. • What does each one look like in action?

What skills and/or qualities would a person have to have to be the top candidate for hire?

• How are your classrooms preparing students for this kind of work?

What else does it take?As you watch the following video, write down

words, phrases, ideas, “rules” that capture the spirit of what it takes to work in this kind of an environment.

What else does it take?As you watch the following video, write down

words, phrases, ideas, “rules” that capture the spirit of what it takes to work in this kind of an environment.

Nothing matters until it matters

21st Century Skills…are not new, just newly important

Elena Silva

The leaders we need

“We need leaders whose expertise is more invested in helping a group create the shared knowledge necessary for sustained improvement rather than in being the certain source of the answers and solutions.”

-Tony Wagner

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Committing to Achieving Results

Takes…

FOCUS

FOCUS by Mike Schmoker

Three elements to focus on with simplicity and diligence:

•What we Teach

• How We Teach

• Authentic Literacy

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ACT ASSESS & REFLECT

“Deep implementation at the 90 percent level of teaching practice is associated with strikingly higher levels of student achievement.”

-Douglas Reeves

A-NY Protocol

Number off 1-5 at your tables.

Read a portion of text for the time allotted. You may or may not finish your section.

Annotate with an A, statements that align with what you perceive are happening in your school.

Annotate with a NY, statements that you perceive are not YET happening in your school.

When time is determined to begin conversation, 1s will go first, summarizing for about 3 minutes , his/her portion of

the reading and discussing ONE A and ONE NY statement. Then 2s will go and so on…

Jigsaw1s: Read from Plain old Reading and Writing in the 21st Century on p. 34 - p. 37

2s: Read from How to Select essential standards on

p. 46- p. 49.

3s: Read from A Template for Authentic Literacy on p. 74-p. 79.

4s: Read from Modeling Higher Order Thinking on

p. 79-top of p. 84.

5s: Read from Whole Class Discussions & Debate on p. 84-p. 88

• Innovate: Using Writing in all content areas in new ways.

• Engage: Strategies that allow students to read, talk and write during the entire school day to further their understanding.

• Empower: Strengthening PLCs and Team/Department Meetings to allow for teacher leadership and job-embedded professional development

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Elementary Proficiency Percentage in Writing 2010-2013

Jr. High Proficiency Percentage in Writing 2010-2013

High School Proficiency Percentage in Writing 2010-2013

• Innovate: Using Writing in all content areas in new ways.

• Engage: Strategies that allow students to read, talk and write during the entire school day to further their understanding.

• Empower: Strengthening PLCs and Team/Department Meetings to allow for teacher leadership and job-embedded professional development

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When you get caught in the impact zone-you need to get right back up because you never know what is over the next wave and if you have faith, anything is

possible.

Let’s join together to be a part of

something bigger than our current

reality and be excited about impacting

a future that we don’t even know

exists…

Collectively, let’s get focused on the

fundamentals of talking about text,

writing about text, and reading

authentic literacy as the core to meet

the challenge of creating the student

that every innovative corporation

wants to hire…

Let’s not worry about the parts of

our job we can’t control like the

educational politics both locally

and nationally. Let’s instill in our

students that ideal of effort and

attitude overcome intelligence

any day of the week…

Let’s resist the temptation of

every new initiative and let’s

make innovation, engagement,

and empowerment our priorities…

Let’s establish a team both at the

school level and the district level

that is persistently pressing

forward, surviving the waves of

the impact zone knowing that

calmer waters are the reward…

Remember, that just beyond the

biggest challenges and struggles

lie the opportunities to truly

transform teaching and learning!

2. Furthering our understanding of the essentials to Leading in the 21st Century

Goals

1. . Deepening our understanding of our role in preparing the College and Career Ready Student

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Read pages 1-3 in the FOCUS book.

Stop at the About this Book Section

One Stay, The Rest Stray

Step 1: Determine host for table

Step 2: Question is posed

Step 3: Individual Think Time: doodling, drawing or writing

Step 4: Every discusses key ideas

Step 5: Facilitator calls “One Stay, the rest Stray” . Host remains at table and all others join a new table.

Step 6: Host summarizes discussion for the new members of the table.

Steps 2-6 are repeated with the same or different question(s).

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What would we need to do as leaders to ensure 90% implementation of the concepts introduced today in regards to – What we Teach, How we Teach, and

grounding all teaching with Authentic Literacy?

– Creating schools where innovating, collaborating, and empowering are evident

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What insights were gained through participating in the Leadership Café?

What did you like about this “Café” structure?

Breakout Sessions 1:30-3:15

Feedback Suite E

PLCsSuite D

Instructional Shifts Suite C

3: 15 RETURN TO MAIN ROOM FOR

CLOSING SESSION/REFLECTIONS

Closing Remarks/ Reflections

• Take a moment to complete page 5 in your Reflection Journal.

• Stand Up/Hand Up/Pair Up

DAY 2

Unconference Locations-begins at 2:20ish…

• School Teams: Large Room• Facebook-Breakout C• School Improv Plans-Breakout C• Implementing New Learning-Breakout C• PLC Topics-Breakout E• Writing in Secondary Schools-Breakout E• Next Steps with Professional Development-Breakout E• Data-Breakout D• K-2 Report Cards-Breakout D

Here’s What we Know to Be True

We KNOW what a sound, curriculum is…

Here’s What we Know to Be True

We KNOW- now more than ever-that structurally sound lessons will literally multiply the number of students who

will be ready for college, careers, and citizenship…

Here’s What we Know to Be True

We KNOW that students desperately need to do lots of

meaningful reading and writing…

Here’s What we Know to Be True

We KNOW that the implementation of all the slides

before this relies on our commitment to monitor that

implementation…

LET’S FOCUS ON WHAT’S ESSENTIAL AND IGNORE

THE REST.

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