Greene+County

Critical Balance Hedgehog
 * Infrastructure: What good is it if it doesn't work
 * Content:What good is it if it isn't educational?
 * Staff Development: What good is it if teachers don't use it

Vangard Team

Goals:
 * Set Expectations
 * Begin with End in Mind
 * Provide a Framework
 * Allow for creativity and consensus-building in accomplishing goals

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 * Staff Development that is ..
 * Sustained
 * on-going
 * Standards Based
 * Relevant
 * Timely
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 * School Based Staff Development

Sustem-wide initiatives Delivery
 * Literacy
 * Curriculum
 * Technology Integration
 * Comprehensive Counsing/College Access
 * Numeracy
 * Creativity
 * School Improvement Goals
 * North Carolina Standard Course of Study
 * Modeling Best Instructional Practices
 * Blending content and pedagogy
 * Evaluation by participants
 * Smart Sheets for Reference

Surveys:
 * STNA every year,
 * LOFTI (Jeanny Corn)
 * Starting and end of each year

Smart Sheets
 * Sequential Steps
 * Pictures/Screen shots
 * Arrows for Emphasis
 * Specific Information

Communication
 * Monthly Instructional Newletters from media literacy, and technology
 * School-to School Sharing (teacher show casing: short 5 minutes is all it tacks)
 * iCal Scheduling (all schools schedule electronically)
 * Web 2.0
 * Wikis
 * Blogs
 * Discussion Boards
 * Class Pages
 * Parent Alerts
 * Calendar
 * Surveys
 * Lesson Planner

Shared Leadership > Everyone has the right, responsibility, and ability to be a leader.
 * Leadership is the professional work of the everyone in the school
 * How we define leadership influences how poeple will participate.
 * Building leadership capacity is a necessary.

Challenges
 * Convincing teachers to share instructional leadership with students
 * Coaching students to become active in and responsible for their own learning
 * Providing quality staff development and planning time
 * Supporting teachers with a sensitivity to comfort level and experiance
 * Provding benchmarks and guidelines

Evaluate:
 * Inspect what you expect
 * Engage in on-goinh collaborative evaluations
 * Relating continuously

> Engage all participants in active inquiry
 * Nurture the leaning community
 * Make administrators, teachers, students, and parents actively engaged
 * Encourage innovation
 * Share and celebrate successes (show case to board teachers, students)

The Process of Change: Systemic change is a multi-year process keeps you engaged in continuous inquiry for improvement

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