FIVE KEY STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPING
HIGH-GROWTH SCHOOLS
Leading the Webinar
Dr. Bobby Moore
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@BobbyMooreBFK
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About Battelle for Kids
We are a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving
opportunities for students by supporting the educators who work
with them every day. We help teachers, principals, and systems
bring clarity to their school improvement by focusing on:

The Right People—Finding, keeping, developing,
and rewarding talented educators who make a
difference in students’ lives.

The Right Measures—Identifying and using
strategic measures to inform improvement.

The Right Practices—Supporting educators to
improve their skills by responding to data and using
research-based instructional practices.

The Right Messages—Communicating with and
engaging stakeholders to champion, implement,
and support change.
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How to Participate in the Webinar
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Today’s Webinar
 Research on High Growth schools
 Hear specific practices that align with
the strategies
 All participants will receive a white
paper concluding the webinar.
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New State Standards
Principal Evaluation
Systems
Teacher Evaluation
Systems
Student Growth Measures
Graduation Rates
High Stakes Assessments
Educator Preparation
Metrics
Formative Assessments
Value-Added Analysis
AMOs
College & Career
Performance-Based
Readiness
Student Learning
Compensation
Objectives
21st Century Skills
Performance Assessments
Teacher-Based-Teams
New Accountability
Blended Learning
Systems
Gap Closing
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Our Objective for You:
Help filter everything that is going on in education and develop a
FOCUS on the Strategies and Practices that will accelerate
student learning in your building and/or district.
Compliance vs. Commitment
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Where Are Your People?
Leading change requires disturbing people, but
at a rate they can accommodate.
Fight
Comfort
Zone
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Risk
Zone
Fear
Zone
Flight
5 High-Leverage School Growth Strategies
Limit Goals and/or
initiatives to focus on
what really matters.
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Too many initiatives?
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Create a “Stop Doing” List
“Most of us have a never-ending “to do” list,
trying to build momentum by doing, doing,
doing–and doing more. And it rarely works.
Those who built ‘good-to-great’ organizations,
however, made as much use of ‘stop doing’
lists as ‘to do’ lists. They had the discipline to
stop doing all the extraneous junk.”
— Jim Collins
Author of Good to Great
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Weed the Garden
 Which are truly embedded practices or new
initiatives?
 Which ones have been in place for a long time
and have had little impact on student learning?
 Which ones replicate or are similar to other
initiatives?
 Which ones are software that is no longer
being used?
 Prioritize new initiatives that have a direct
effect on student learning.
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5 High-Leverage School Growth Strategies
Establish important
structures &
routines.
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Developing a Schedule that Allows:
 Intervention
 Enrichment
 Job Embedded Professional Development
 Longer Periods for Literacy & Math
 Additional Instructional Time for students who
need it
 Collaboration Time
 Team Planning Time
 Time to review student data
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Developing Process that:
 Monitor student learning
 Focus teachers’ collaboration time
 Identifies students who need additional time
and/or support
 Identifies students who need “stretched”
 Identifies teachers and teams that need
additional support
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Allocating Resources
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5 High-Leverage School Growth Strategies
Develop a Balance
Assessment
Approach
by embedding formative
instructional practices and
common/short cycle
assessments.
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Core Components of FIP
Using clear learning targets
Collecting and documenting
evidence of student learning
Providing effective feedback
Student ownership of learning
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Maintain a Focus On Improving High Leverage
Classroom Practices
High Quality Instruction paired with Assessment Literacy =
Formative Instructional Practices (FIP)
FIP
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How Much Do We Spend?
“A study will soon be released highlighting
that the U.S. spends about $18 billion on
professional development for educators
annual, and much of that money is spent
ineffectively.”
Barnett Barry, founder and CEO of Center for Teaching
Quality
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Need More Support for Formative Assessment?
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5 High-Leverage School Growth Strategies
Use multiple
measures of data for
improvement and
accountability
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4 Lenses of Data
Short Cycle/Formative
Assessments/FIP
Achievement
Data
Student
Growth
Qualitative Data/Surveys
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Multiple measures can help
reduce error.
Measure
#1
Measure
#2
Measure
#3
Measure
#4
Measure
#5
10%
Total Error Rate
10%
10%
10%
1%
10%
10%
5%
10%
10%
5%
10%
10%
10%
5%
10%
.05%
.01%
5%
.000003%
Lesson: When you use multiple measures you
reduce or soften the measurement error.
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Implementation with Fidelity
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5 High-Leverage School Growth Strategies
Empower
teachers
and
Develop
leaders
system-wide.
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What this looks like in schools:
 High Performing Teams
 Teachers assuming leadership positions
 Teacher Autonomy
 Principals as “Lead Learners”
 Opportunities for aspiring principals to lead
 Principals & teachers collaborating and learning
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Our Tools and Resources
 Limit Goals: Strategic Planning, Initiative & Program Audits, School
Improvement Consulting, New Standards Vertical Progression
Guides, Academic Vocabulary Guides, Unit Organizers
 Establish Structures & Routines: Leadership Academies
 Balanced Assessment: FIP Blended Learning Modules,
Assessment Literacy Courses
 Multiple Measures: Student Voice Survey, SLO Management Tool,
Student Growth Consulting, Roster Verification Software
 Empower Teachers & Develop Leaders: Coaching Academy,
Leadership Academy, BFK CONNECT
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