The Stars Align in School Leadership

Sarah Evans, Former Director of Special EducationSr. Product Consultant, Voyager

•Response to Response to interventionintervention

Common Core

IDEA/ESEA

• It i

• It is instruction.

• A bone-deep, institutional acknowledgement of this fact continues to elude us.

• Schmoker, 2006

The single greatest determinant of learning is not socioeconomic factors or funding levels.

Sense of Urgency•“A false sense of urgency gives action a

frantic feeling: running from meeting to meeting, producing volumes of paper, moving rapidly in circles, all with dysfuctional orientation...”

•John P. Cotter

•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXrIoF-sVi8

Relevant Data

✴Referral Rates

✴Eligibility and Services

✴Student Achievement

Our Reality

•Demographics of District:

•43% White 39% Black

District

Enrollment 9, 297

%SpEd 17%16%

Achievement Gap

40%

Brutal Reality•Referral Rates

✴37% of LD referrals were for White students

✴63% of the referrals were for Black students

✴73% of the referrals were for students qualifying for Free-Reduced Lunch

✴56% of the referrals were for Black students qualifying for FRL

• Generic Models

What is Your Reality?

Leadership

•What’s YOUR “Why”?

•I believe ALL means ALL.

•No exceptions.

•Connect DEEPLY with the “Why”

•Senge in Fullan, 2010

Fullan has shown that real

change is possible but only by

taking a truly systematic

approach.

Ready to ChangeSchool Boards

Administrators

Teachers ParentsExcellentExcellent

Immediate Fixes

✴Stop relying on Central Office

✴Be clear on non-negotiables

✴Focused accountability and monitor

✴Get the RIGHT people in the RIGHT places

“The Plan”

✴Pre-referral interventions and process

✴Curriculum and Instruction (services)

✴Progress Monitoring

✴Achievement

✴ IEP procedures (legal issues)

Here’s How to Work “The Plan”

•AT THE BUILDING LEVEL

✴Monitoring Due dates legal IEP

✴Pre-referral team reorganized (case manager)

Here’s How to Work “The Plan”

✴Services (RISE)

✴Scheduling

✴Instruction (Tier 3 interventions)

Interesting read...•All Systems Go: The Change Imperative for

Whole System Reform, Michael Fullan, 2010

•District Leadership that Works: Striking the Right Balance, Robert J. Marzano and Timothy Waters

•21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John C. Maxwell

•How Successful People Think, John C. Mazwell

•A Sense of Urgency, John P. Kotter

A student is the classroom right

now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a48fe_K6M80

Questions?

•Sarah Evans

•sarah.evans@voyagerlearning.com