Testimonial 
Greetings Muskies,
I'm sending you FAN-TAB-U-LOUS Implementation Review results for the 2014-2015 school year!  Your score of a 97 puts you in the top tier of schools in the Midwest and has created a buzz about credentialing from the powers that be. Way to "Live the Vision"!  Mia


January 19, 2016
This folder contains the pics I took during the HQW protocol yesterday. I also created PDFs of the anchor charts created by staff (titled AVW HQW notes).

I was thinking about how far this school has come in such a short amount of time...a testament to your collective leadership. When I think about the leadership teams I work with, your team is right up there with the folks at Harborside. You continue to raise the bar for staff while at the same time providing the right amount of support to achieve your schoolwide vision.

Love my time with this Crew! Happy Tuesday!

Credentialing

The status of being a Credentialed EL School indicates that our school is implementing the EL model with fidelity and that we can point to a body of evidence that demonstrates we have positively impacted student achievement as a result.

Work Plan

The Work Plan is a tool that EL Schools use to plan for the upcoming school year.  The Work Plan contains goals that focus and drive all professional development for the year.  The Work Plan includes learning targets for teachers as well as actions the leadership team and school designer will follow to support staff.  The Work Plan also identifies measures that will be used to assess if each goal has been met.
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Feedback from Mid West Leadership Presentation - February 2016

Our closing circle on Friday afternoon asked leaders to reflect on conference takeaways.
These thoughts then led to gratitude stickies that leaders wrote and then distributed to other school leaders.

Below you will find the gratitude stickies that  “stuck” to our AV-W presentation.
I was humbled and honored to share our story. I am even more assured of our next steps. Thank you for your support, morning donuts, and the belief in the vision.

Please take a moment to read these takeaways from MidWest Leaders.
The reaction to our movement was extraordinary.  
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The words below are for all of you.
-----------------------------------------------------------Thank you for…
*crafting a school vision collaboratively
*sharing
*enthusiasm
*the example on how to push through the work
*the ideas and spirit on how to reboot
*being an inspiration
*pushing my thinking
*sharing the AV-W story
*helping me know that it’s okay where we are
*creating connections to my next steps and the work
*the honesty and openness of setting a path to approach next steps
*collaborating
*being an inspiration and to help others see possibilities
*being courageous and taking action
*continuing to push even though there wasn’t a clear direction
*for being brave and helping me get clarity
*earnest bravery
*sharing truths, pains, and optimism
*helping me believe in the future
*possibilities
*making us see the Detroit is where we need to take our entire staff
*your statement of wanting to take your whole school to Detroit to send/receive the clear message that we are EL
*being courageous
*loving what you do
*being a living example of possibilities
*not being perfect or pretending to be
*being able to do the work and live to tell about it

Work Plan Goals
Learning Targets

Master of Knowledge and Skills
Teacher Learning Targets
  • I can create a text plan that engages kids in close reading strategies. (4Ts)
  • I can build lessons for students to close read  that include academic vocabulary (claim, evidence, author’s, ) or content (prewriting and drafting) and writer’s craft (6 traits).
  • I can create text-dependent questions.
Student Character
Teacher Learning Targets
  • I can increase the complexity, rigor and depth of student thinking in my classroom by implementing evidence-based thinking.
  • I can plan for authentic work in student products. (product and audience)

Leadership Goal
Teacher Learning Targets
  • We can maintain school-wide implementation of learning targets and crew components with intentional focus on new staff along with  mentor/mentee teams.
  • We can develop a structure for rotating staff onto SLT.
  • We can empower staff to share expertise with colleagues.
  • We can provide staff opportunities to participate in learning walks in order to observe staff strengths and continue to cultivate a strong school culture.