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Haddonfield School District

Goals 20-21

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Strategic Goals

Superintendent Chuck Klaus

Cultural Responsiveness

Dr. Carmen Henderson

Contemporary Learning

Dr. Colleen Murray

Social Emotional Learning

Dr. Gino Priolo

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Strategic Goals

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We nurture. We inspire. We empower.

The Haddonfield School District nurtures, inspires and empowers every learner. In collaboration with our community, we nurture unique abilities and foster a climate conducive to taking risks in pursuit of excellence.​ We inspire lifelong learners to excel in their endeavors. We empower each other to be inclusive, flexible and critical thinkers in a global community.

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Social Emotional Learning

We will nurture self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, relationship skills, and responsible decision making to ensure the social and emotional well-being of our learners.

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Overview of SEL Implementation

Phase I: Readiness and Planning

May 2019-Dec. 2019, ongoing

Phase II: Panorama SEL Survey Implementation

Winter 2019 (Nov/Dec)

Phase III: Faculty and Staff Personal and Professional Learning

January-December 2020

Phase IV: Classroom Implementation and Family Engagement

January 2021

Phase V: Sustainability and Innovation

September 2021 and beyond

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Summary of What Has Been Achieved

Oct 2019

District Team RULER Training

Dr. Priolo, Dr. Leren, and Mrs. Bushey completed 2-day RULER training @ Yale University

Nov 2019

SEL Baseline Data Collected

1 staff and 2 student SEL surveys administered.

Jan 2021

Staff Overview Training

All district staff provided overview training on SEL and the RULER approach

Feb 2020

School RULER Teams Created

3 person teams from each of our 5 schools completed the virtual 6- week RULER Training

March 2020

Partnership with TUCAADC

HSD partners with Temple U’s Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Virtual parent workshop on recognizing anxiety conducted.

May 2020

Teacher Training

School based RULER teams facilitated 2 teacher training sessions on 2 of the 4 RULER tools of Emotional Intelligence. School Charters created.

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Highlights of the Continuation of Phase III

Staff Training

  • Online RULER Training
  • School-based PD

Mental Health

  • Partnership w/ CAADC
  • Consult/Training & Direct Student Services
  • Staff Asst. Program

Data Collection

  • Student Dist. Lrng. & Well-Being Survey (3-12)
  • Staff Well-Being Survey

Homework

  • District Action Team to review Homework Policy 2300

Classroom Implementation

  • Developmentally appropriate and comprehensive curriculum that develops students’ emotional intelligence

Family Engagement

  • Establish ongoing communication with families about RULER in multiple ways, ex. letters, emails, and integrating RULER into events that families already attend.

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Cultural Responsiveness

Haddonfield School District will adopt culturally responsive and sustaining practices throughout the district that are equitable, inclusive, radically transformative and deviate from western perspectives.

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Partnerships for Educational Equity & Research (PEER)

Core Values

We believe that to truly engage in equity work, we must:

  • Start with ourselves
  • Develop a plan based on data
  • Include all stakeholders
  • Build local capacity
  • Measure outcomes
  • Adjust and Refine
  • Live in the tension
  • Meet people where they are
  • Commit to the long term
  • Work at the individual and systems levels

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Accomplishments

LGBTQIA + Curricular Integration

Administrative Retreat

Town Hall Meeting

July 23, 2020

August 2020

August 2020

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Next Steps In Our Equity Work

Identify Equity Council: October 2020

Student Action Research Project: December - May 2020/2021

Identify Leadership Team: October 2020

Hold Series of All Staff PD Sessions: 8 hours 2020/2021

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Vision

To ensure learners to advance their understanding of our interconnectedness in order to engage meaningfully and respectfully with people of diverse identities, experiences, and points of view.

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Outcomes

Look critically at structural conditions

Look critically at individual attitudes

Look critically at individual behaviors

total transformation schools

total transformation of our hearts

total transformation of our minds

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Contemporary Learning

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INTRODUCTION

We will empower learners to engage critically in a globally connected world through relevant content, innovative technology, flexible learning environments, and purposeful experiences.

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Action steps

Visioning

Portrait of a Graduate

Teacher leadership teamwork

Curricular design

Hybrid learning, G/T, Social Studies & Math committees, PBL

Needs assessment

Focus groups, student and community research

Curricular assessments

PBL, Administration Professional Learning Networks, Coaching

Data-driven

Administrative Professional Learning Networks, PD

Professional Development

Rutgers, Yale, Rowan, Teacher Leader teams, just-in-time learning

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Visioning

Local professional development committee (LPDC)

Portrait of a Graduate

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Curricular Design

Hybrid learning

Back-to-school PD

Units of Study, Screencastify

600 hours summer writing

Gifted and Talented

Knowledge creation and sharing, balance among domains

Math

Criterion referenced

Inquiry Research

Social Studies

Cultural Responsiveness

Interdisciplinary

Contemporary

Culturally Responsive

Inclusive, learner-oriented lesson design

Project-Based Learning

Social, relevant, knowledge creation and sharing

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Hybrid Learning

Lesson re-design

Integrating tools that allow for heavier focus on interaction and assessment

Collegial collaboration

Back-to-school

Lesson study

Relevance

Every minute of facetime with students is being carefully examined

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Gifted and Talented

Summer drafts

Integrating tools that allow for heavier focus on interaction and assessment

Expert review

Back-to-school

Lesson study

Ongoing data collection

Students, parents, expert consult, administrator and teacher expertise

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Math

Inquiry Research

Needs assessment

Lesson design & implementation

Data collection

Assessment

Pinpointing the data that matters

Review

Expert developed protocol

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Needs assessment

Student research

Based on the Portrait of the HSD Graduate

Community outreach

Social studies and math committee work

Focus Groups

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Curricular assessments

Project-based learning

The project is the assessment

Professional Development

CC Professional Learning Networks

Coaching

Criterion referenced

Authentic measures

Open source

Project-based

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What counts as data?

Examining data to improve

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Data-driven

Benchmarks

Common assessments

Formative

Relevance and engagement

Student voice and choice

Learner responsibility

Standards-based

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NJSLA Computer Science and Design Thinking Core Idea

Engineering design is a complex process in which creativity, content knowledge, research, and analysis are used to address local and global problems.

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NJSLA Computer Science and Design Thinking • 8.2.12.ED.1

Use research to design and create a product or system that addresses a problem and make modifications based on input from potential consumers.

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PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

Admin team

Fundamentals review

LPDC

Fundamentals introduction (or review)

GL/Depts

Collaborate to create unit

Implement

September 2021

Expo: November 2021

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Professional Development

Project-Based Learning

Rutgers CMSCE

Social-Emotional Learning

Yale RULER

Cultural Responsiveness

Rowan PEER

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Summary

Social-Emotional Learning

Learning is social

Cultural Responsiveness

Listening to learn

Contemporary Learning

Collaborating to create knowledge

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