WELCOME BACK GCASD

District kick off for the 2016-2017 school year!

Introduction to the Pupil Service Department

Director of Pupil Services

Special Education

Psychologist/

Intervention

School Counseling

Department

Health Services

The Assistant Superintendent’s Office

• Supporting Roles and Responsibilities:• Human Resources• Curriculum and Instruction• Professional Development

Moving Forward…No matter how much you have achieved, you will always be merely good

relative to what you can become. Greatness is an inherently dynamic process, not an end point.

—Jim Collins

Learning = Educational EquityBig Ideas - Essential Skills - Essential Understandings -

Essential Questions

• Summative Assessment—Mastery of the Big Ideas with performance based evidence of conceptual understanding and ownership of skills.

• Formative Assessment—Cognitive exercise, data for differentiation, and student accountability for diagnosis.

Why are some students not building equity?• Point collecting• Not taking ownership in the learning process• Cheating• Cramming-Not Connecting• Ignoring Big Ideas• Satisfying the moment for a GRADE• Unaware of true learning goals• Misguided Rewards ?

Mortgage $$

Are the students building educational equity?

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How do we help students build equity?

Refine Current Practices

• Mastery of the Big Ideas - Refine Curriculum – map our pathways and ensure confidence in our learning targets – design lessons that target educational equity

• Connectivity and Automaticity - Cross-Curricular Collaboration – building connections for retention

• Cognitive Exercise—Instructional activities at higher levels of rigor – allow students to struggle and to construct

• Data for Differentiation—Use of data to identify and meet students’ needs

Empower Students to Take Ownership of their Education

• Help students to recognize and connect big ideas

• Support a culture of learning through Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships

• Expect students to demonstrate mastery of learning

• Rewards need to be aligned to goals

• Help students to become Designers of Their Own Learning

Big Ideas for the 16-17 School Year…• Assessment Portfolios

• A real-time collection of assessments for each classroom

• Evidence of student performance

• An articulation of formative and summative measures

• A foundation for curriculum mapping

• Introduction to Understanding by Design (UbD)• Beginning stages for our curriculum framework

• Identification of existing connections with UbD (Big Ideas-Essential Questions)

• Formative process to identify strengths and needs for Professional Development

• Stakeholder Feedback for Building Construction & Future District Programs• Introduction of our design architects – ECKLES

• Invitation for all staff members to provide input for program planning

2016 – 2017 Goal Framework:• Culture - Foster a Culture of Dignity and Respect (This goal category intentionally

targets the deep meanings of dignity and respect. It is also a category that involves the entire community in partnership with the school system.)

Dignity / Dignified - the state or quality of being worthy of honor - a high or honorable rank or position - a sense of pride in oneself - having or showing a composed or serious manner that is worthy of respect...

Respect / Respectable - a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements - due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others - regarded by society to be good, proper, or correct - of merit or importance - decent or presentable....

2016 – 2017 Goal Framework:• Academic - Develop Academic Systems for the Purpose of Growth and Achievement

at High Levels for all Students and Employees (This goal category will house our instruction, curriculum, and professional development initiatives. We will work to emphasize the value of continuous and individualized learning while recognizing the need to make all stakeholders architects of their own learning and engineers of instruction.)

Introduction of assessment portfolios

Beginning stages of UbD tools in curriculum development and instructional design

Leveraging "Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships" as essentials for learning

Comprehensively back map the math program scope and sequence from Algebra 1 in 8th grade to kindergarten

Redefine the RtII program and intervention strategies for all students

Design educational facilities that will support all levels of learners and provide a modern education as well as future flexible spaces for continued program development

2016 – 2017 Goal Framework:• Organizational Operations - Establish Systems that are Sustainable, Ethical, and

Beneficial to the Business and Academic Operations of the District (This goal category will house our operations initiatives that include communication, Board functions, management, financial functions, facilities, technology, state/federal mandates, etc...)

Pupil service department developmentWebsite developmentBudget detail/processesBoard operationsPartnerships with business, industry, and higher education institutionsHiring practicesAdministrative RegulationsEmployee flow of operations and job descriptionsContract negotiations5 year facility planningInfrastructure

Learning = Educational EquityBig Ideas - Essential Skills - Essential Understandings -

Essential Questions

• Summative Assessment—Mastery of the Big Ideas with performance based evidence of conceptual understanding and ownership of skills.

• Formative Assessment—Cognitive exercise, data for differentiation, and student accountability for diagnosis.

Why are some students not building equity?• Point collecting• Not taking ownership in the learning process• Cheating• Cramming-Not Connecting• Ignoring Big Ideas• Satisfying the moment for a GRADE• Unaware of true learning goals• Misguided Rewards ???

Mortgage $$

Are the students building educational equity?

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Who Are We?

What Do We Do?

We are the stewards of education in the Grove City Area School District. Every person in this room has the

potential to make a significant difference in the lives of children. As a family we do everything from caring

for the educational facilities - to empowering learning through thoughtful design - to supporting the social

and emotional needs of our students. We nurture them, feed them, care for them when they are sick….we

motivate them, guide them, and show them the dignity, respect and work ethic that drives success.

• We will continue the caring traditions of this family focused community.

• We will build facilities and programs that will motivate and support a moden education for our students.

• We will maintain a forward thinking vision as we continuously work to provide programs for success.

• We will demonstrate the power of continuous learning.

• We will teach our students to build educational equity.

• ABOVE ALL – We will foster a culture of Dignity and Respect..... and at all times we will BE NICE TO KIDS!

OWNIT!