2011-12 Annual Report - Partners in School Innovation

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Our CommitmentContinuously Improve the CoreInstructional ProgramAs educators, we believe that classroom teachers whoare supported by high-quality instructional leadershipand professional learning opportunities will dramaticallyimprove outcomes for their students. Promoting goodinstruction in alignment with a school’s vision andmaintaining high expectations, we partner and work withschool educators to think strategically about the designof their instructional program. We help teachers definewhat students need to learn, implement best practicesfor instruction, and use assessments to identify learningneeds and monitor progress.Strengthen Systems for TeacherProfessional LearningWe partner with district leaders, school leaders, coachesand teachers to develop and strengthen the systemsand structures for teacher professional learning. Wehelp school leaders develop a professional learningplan that aligns the focus and content of professionaldevelopment, grade level collaboration and instructionalcoaching. We then partner with instructional leaderswithin the school to design and deeply engage in highqualityand collaborative professional learning.Develop Results-Oriented LeadersIn order to drive sustainable and successful outcomesfor the district, teachers, leaders and students, we focuson the essential leadership practices needed to createa school environment where high-quality teaching andlearning can take place. Effective leadership is notachieved by completing a simple checklist of actions;rather, leaders must develop particular mindsets and arelentless focus on results.SET GOALSResults-Oriented Cycleof InquiryREFLECT& ADJUSTRESULTS-ORIENTEDCYCLEOF INQUIRYPLANThe most powerful means wehave found for building schools’capability for continuousorganizational learning andimprovement at all levels of thesystem is the Results-OrientedCycle of Inquiry (ROCI).ACTASSESS2011–12 Annual Report 7
Once these conditions are met, we:ENGAGE Multi-Year PartnershipsPartners works with school and district colleagues overa 3-5 year period, building a strong core instructionalprogram in literacy and English language development.Evidence of our impact can especially be seen in the testscores of schools that have worked with us for two years.Overall, these schools:How We WorkOur experience has shown that certain keyconditions increase the rate of transformationthat we are able to achieve through ourintensive partnerships. Partners thereforeexamines a number of key conditions whenselecting new sites at which to implementour approach. We conduct a readinessassessment that determines the:• Potential for impact and success, especiallyin the first year, with given staffing• Stability of the leaders who will likely be inplace for the entire partnership• Foundation of a positive adult culture asdemonstrated by an openness to partner,learn, grow and improve practice• Willingness of the leader to partner in buildingadult capacity and their commitment toproviding protected time for teacher collaboration• Basic level of safety in the school and classrooms• Decreased the percentage of Far Below Basic andBelow Basic students by 6.2 percentage pointson the 2012 California Standards Test - EnglishLanguage Arts (CST-ELA), which is triple the staterate of only 1.9 percentage points• Increased the percentage of Proficient and Advancedstudents by 6.9 percentage points, which is morethan double the state rate of 2.9 percentage pointsFocus on Existing Human CapitalWe strengthen the capability of the dedicated leadersand teachers who are already in the system because webelieve that all teachers can deliver excellent instruction.ENSURE Data-Driven, Results-Oriented,Continuous ImprovementPartners builds the capacity of district leaders, teachersand school leaders to use data. We help them set goals,plan, implement, assess, reflect and adjust in a Results-Oriented Cycle of Inquiry (ROCI).ROCI focuses everyone’s attention directly on studentlearning; stimulates people to learn from their successesand to diagnose and problem-solve their shortfalls; andthen leads them to implement their provisional solutionsand monitor outcomes. In this way, ROCI engagesteachers and leaders at every level as practitioners ofsustained organizational learning and improvement.8.48 Partners In School Innovation4.7CALIFORNIAPARTNERSIn 2011-12, Latino studentsin Partners’ middle schoolsoutpaced the state rate ofgrowth significantly on theCST-ELA
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