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2020 Carnegie Summit

iLEAD Poster Session (UMD-PGCPS)

Friday, April 3, 2020

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UMD-PGCPS Team

UMD

  • Segun Eubanks
  • Ebony Terrell Shockley
  • Jean Snell

PGCPS

  • Charoscar Coleman
  • Lisa Green
  • Felice DeSouza

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Develop and sustain a deep, institutional partnership that within three years will have a measurable impact on student learning and educational equity

Improvement Science: Engage a cross section of stakeholders to target high-leverage problems of practice and implement meaningful improvement

  • Math NIC
  • Science NIC
  • SPP

Leadership Preparation and Development: Prepare education leaders to capable of leading equity-centered continuous improvement efforts in schools.

High Quality Teachers and Teacher Leadership: Improve the quality of teacher preparation by developing new programs or transforming existing programs aimed at meeting the specific teacher workforce needs

Partnership: Maintain a strong, trusting and institutional relationship that will sustain beyond and individuals currently involved.

Professional Learning and Engagement: Professional learning aimed to improve the capacity of both PGCPS staff and UMD faculty to design, plan, execute, research, and scale continuous improvement efforts

PRIMARY DRIVERS

SECONDARY DRIVERS AND CHANGE EFFORTS

  • EdD
  • Admin I
  • Post-Doc Network

  • Kirwan
  • Teacher Collab Grant
  • Teacher Leadership Certificate
  • iLEAD
  • Data Sharing
  • Funding Plans
  • Dual Appointment Staffing
  • Learning Agenda at every level
  • Summer Leaders Institute
  • Improvement Institutes
  • PDSA
  • SPP

AIM

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Partnership Highlights

  • LEA and IHE shift in mindset and culture of improvement by tackling tough issues related to school improvement
  • Developmental Progressions:
    • Program & curriculum development
    • Joint development of a targeted problem of practice
    • Professional development of district staff
    • Scholarship of Improvement

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Program & Curriculum Development (Ed.D)

  • 1st Doctoral Seminar introduces IS Tools
  • PoP focused lens throughout core coursework
  • Dissertation/Capstone organized around PoP inquiry and testing

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Program & Curriculum Development (Admin 1)

  • Rebranded as School Improvement Leadership Certificate
  • Teacher Leaders engage with PoP, Fishbone, Driver, and PDSA
  • Internship emphasizes leading continuous improvement

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Math NIC Journey

Math NIC Journey

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Data: Reasoning through Discourse

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Proposed Change Idea

Guided process supporting teachers to foster student conceptual understanding through mathematical discourse using multiple representations of understanding.

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Professional Development Plan

District Leadership

  • Improvement Science Training for Monitoring & Accountability and the Office of School Leadership
    • April 6, 15-tentative
    • Finalize School Performance Plans (SPP) to include PDSA cycles
  • Improvement Science training expands to other central offices (Academics, Professional Learning, etc.)

School Leadership

  • Improvement Science training
    • principals (May/June)
    • assistant principals (June 22-23)
  • Principal engagement at the School Leadership Institute (July 27-29)
    • Continued roll out of improvement science embedded with PDSA cycles and captured in the SPP

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Future Work

        • Professional development for the school leadership and principal supervisors around the School Performance Plans as a vehicle for implementing change ideas.
        • We are primed and ready to engage the district leadership in the improvement science principles so that we can support school teams.

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UMD-PGCPS Team

UMD

  • Lawrence Clark
  • Segun Eubanks
  • Ebony Terrell Shockley
  • Jean Snell

PGCPS

  • Charoscar Coleman
  • Lisa Green
  • Felice DeSouza
  • Kara Miley-Libby