Office of Curriculum, Technology, & Assessment

Program Title: The Leadership Challenge: Using Multiple Paths to Achieve Rigor & Relevance

Program Length: 2 Hours

Delivery Method: Stream Video

Program Provider: USDLC-Keynote Addresses 1

Audience: Teachers and Administrators, Adults

Additional Material: http://www.usdlc.org/pathways/morekeynote106.jsp

Overview: All schools have been called upon to move toward a more rigorous and relevant curriculum for all students. Dr. Daggett and his staff have been in a unique position to watch schools throughout the country work in a wide variety of ways to achieve this goal. The most important lesson they have learned from this experience is there is no formula. Schools need to use multiple techniques and strategies that vary from school to school depending upon the dynamics that exist in their building and community.

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There are a series of characteristics that are uniform. In this presentation, Dr. Daggett will provide vivid details on these uniform characteristics, including:

• The need for clear, consistent, and sustained leadership.
• Decision making being based upon data.
• A school and district's commitment to a K-12 reading program.
• Focused and sustained staff development.

The session will include concrete actions school leaders can immediately take in each of these characteristics. Using two recently completed research reports, participants will be able to identify specific academic requirements students need to achieve to be prepared for the immediate years head. In addition, participants will be able to identify several ways they can organize the delivery of instruction to enable all graduates to achieve a rigorous and relevant curriculum.

NSDC Standards for Staff Development

Context Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Organizes adults into learning communities whose goals are aligned with those of the school and district. (Learning Communities)
• Requires skillful school and district leaders who guide continuous instructional improvement. (Leadership)
• Requires resources to support adult learning and collaboration. (Resources)

Process Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Uses disaggregated student data to determine adult learning priorities, monitor progress, and help sustain continuous improvement. (Data-Driven)
• Uses multiple sources of information to guide improvement and demonstrate its impact. (Evaluation)
• Prepares educators to apply research to decision making. (Research-Based)
• Uses learning strategies appropriate to the intended goal. (Design)
• Applies knowledge about human learning and change. (Learning)
• Provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate. (Collaboration)

Content Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:

• Prepares educators to understand and appreciate all students, create safe, orderly and supportive learning environments, and hold high expectations for their academic achievement. (Equity)
• Deepens educators' content knowledge, provides them with research-based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately. (Quality Teaching)
• Provides educators with knowledge and skills to involve families and other stakeholders appropriately. (Family Involvement)

NOTE: Each site must audio mute upon connecting to the session to prevent voice activated moving of the cameras from site to site.

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