Midwest High School SIG Conference--Leading Successful High School Turnarounds: Learning from Research and Practice.

Agenda: Day 2 – AM

Thursday, May 19

7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast Sessions: Discussions With U.S. Department of Education and Experts; Role-Alike Sessions Presenter: Carlas McCauley Education Program Specialist, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education
8:30 am - 8:45 am	Reflections on Day 1 and Plans for Day 2 Presenter: Linda Miller Director, Great Lakes West Comprehensive Center Presentation: Reflections on Day 1 and Plans for Day 2
8:45 am - 9:30 am	Tackling the Universal Challenges of Recruitment, Retention, and Leadership Development for High Schools This session will focus on some the universal challenges that high schools face in recruiting, retaining, and building the leadership capacity of high school principals and teachers. Presenters: Sabrina Laine Director, National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality Mike Feinberg Co-Founder, KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Foundation Presentation: Proving the Possible (Feinberg) Presentation audio (45 min. \| 43 MB)*
9:30 am - 10:00 am	Break and Move to Topic Discussion Groups Hotel Checkout and/or Arrange Plans for Team Meetings Later in the Day
10:00 am - 11:30 am	Effective High School Teachers and Leaders This round of breakout sessions focuses on various components of effective leadership and teaching at the high school level. a. High School Distributed Leadership This interactive session focuses on practical ways to distribute instructional leadership tasks in high schools so that support, planning, and oversight are not the sole task of the principal. Presenters will discuss the changing roles of principals and chairpersons, the roles departments play, and administrative structures in the schools. Panelists: Paul Bredeson Professor, School of Education, University of Wisconsin–Madison Carolyn Kelley Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin Moderator: Melissa Brown-Sims Researcher, National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality Presentation: Distributed Instructional Leadership in Action: Improving Instructional Practices and Student Learning in Urban High Schools Presentation audio (1 hr., 30 min. \| 85 MB)* Handouts: Advancing Student Learning Through Distributed Instructional Leadership: A Toolkit for High School Leadership Teams Online Resource List b. Assessing Principal Effectiveness: Designing Leader Evaluations Principal performance assessment is an integral part of school improvement and accountability efforts. How should new performance assessments be designed? What are the critical elements of a principal performance assessment system? This session will provide a framework for thinking about and designing principal performance assessment as part of a comprehensive human capital management strategy. Pittsburgh Public Schools’ ongoing work to evaluate and support principals will be discussed in depth as well as research on performance assessment design. Panelists: Alyssa Ford-Heywood Project Manager, Pittsburgh Principal Incentive Program, Pittsburgh Public Schools Steve Kimball Assistant Scientist, Wisconsin Center for Education Research Moderator: Matt Clifford Senior Researcher, National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality Presentation: Assessing Leadership Effectiveness in High Schools (Ford-Heywood, Kimball, and Clifford) Presentation audio (1 hr., 24 min. \| 80 MB)* Handouts: Building School Leadership that Drives Student Achievement (Ford-Heywood) Pittsburgh Urban Leadership System for Excellence Performance-Based Compensation System: Administrator Performance Standard Rubric (Ford-Heywood) Evaluating School Principals (Clifford) Measuring Principal Performance: How Rigorous Are Commonly Used Principal Performance Assessment Instruments? (Clifford) Assessing Learning-Centered Leadership: Connections to Research, Professional Standards, and Current Practices Assessing the Effectiveness Of School Leaders: New Directions and New Processes North Carolina School Executive: Principal Evaluation Process Assessing the Promise of Standards-Based Performance Evaluation for Principals: Results from a Randomized Trial New Leaders for New Schools Publications Kimball, S. (2011). Strategic talent management for principals. In Allan Odden (Ed.), Strategic management of human capital in public education: Improving instructional practice and student learning in schools. New York, NY: Routledge Press. c. Job-Embedded Professional Development: Cultivating Communities of Practice This session will describe the characteristics of high-quality job-embedded professional development. It will illustrate how communities of practice, professional learning communities, and other forms of job-embedded professional development can be designed, implemented, and sustained in order to improve educator effectiveness and student learning. The discussion will focus on successes, challenges, supports, and solutions to real-time issues of practice. Panelists: Joanne Cashman Project Director, IDEA Partnership Claudette Rasmussen Professional Development Lead, Great Lakes East Comprehensive Center Moderator: Jenni Fetters Research and Policy Associate, National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality Presentation: Job-Embedded Professional Development: Cultivating Communities of Practice (Cashman and Rasmussen) Presentation audio (1 hr., 32 min. \| 87 MB)* Handouts: Communities of Practice: A New Approach to Solving Complex Educational Problems (Cashman) Characteristics of High-Quality and Evidence-Based Professional Learning (Rasmussen) National Staff Development Council - Definition of Professional Development (Rasmussen) High-Quality Professional Development for All Teachers: Effectively Allocating Resources (Fetters) Job-Embedded Professional Development: What It Is, Who Is Responsible, and How to Get It Done Well (Fetters) Linking Assessment and Instruction: Teacher Preparation and Professional Development (Fetters) Communities of Practice: A Brief Introduction IDEA Partnership d. Building Your Bench: Preparing Future Leaders Through Partnership Improving high school performance requires efforts by many instructional leaders, working together. How prepared is your staff to lead change? Do you have enough leadership capacity to continue change efforts should some of your school leadership team members leave? This interactive session will provide practical ideas and examples on how your school can prepare educators to lead and build leadership capacity in your building through partnerships with universities, colleges, and other agencies. Panelists: Tricia Browne-Ferrigno Associate Professor, Educational Leadership Studies, University of Kentucky Steve Tozer Professor and Coordinator, Program in Urban Education Leadership, University of Illinois Moderator: Sara Wraight Senior Policy Analyst, REL Midwest Presentation: Building Your Bench: Preparing Future Leaders through Partnership (Browne-Ferrigno and Tozer) Presentation audio (1 hr., 28 min. \| 83 MB)* Handouts: Preparing Leaders for Rural Schools: Practice and Policy Considerations Enhancing Leadership Quality Hiring Quality School Leaders: Challenges and Emerging Practices Teacher Leaders: Boosting Teacher Effectiveness and Student Achievement Paving the Path to the Urban School Principalship Improving the Preparation of School and District Leaders Additional Resources e. Assessing Teacher Effectiveness in High Schools This session will describe teacher effectiveness measures for the high school context, with implementation case studies from state and school practitioners. Panelists will guide participants through a diagnostic of current practices at their district or school, with ample time for discussion. Panelists: Dale Chu Assistant Superintendent for Policy, Legal and Communications Operations, Indiana Department of Education Phil Jankowski Principal, Armada High School (Armada, MI) Sheri Leo Senior Technical Assistance Consultant, American Institutes for Research Moderator: Jayne Sowers District and School Improvement Lead, Great Lakes East Comprehensive Center Presentation: Assessing Teacher Effectiveness in High Schools (Chu, Jankowski, and Leo) Presentation audio (1 hr., 30 min. \| 85 MB)* Handouts: Improving Instruction Through Effective Teacher Evaluation: Options for States and Districts Leading Gen Y Teachers: Emerging Strategies for School Leaders Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement Challenges in Evaluating Special Education Teachers and English Language Learner Specialists Communication Framework for Measuring Teacher Quality and Effectiveness: Bringing Coherence to the Conversation Methods of Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness Teacher Effectiveness Rubric Educator Quality Resources From the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality
11:30 am - 11:45 am	Break and Move to Plenary Session *Transcripts of presentation audio are available upon request.

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Agenda: Day 2 – AM

Thursday, May 19

Breakfast Sessions: Discussions With U.S. Department of Education and Experts; Role-Alike Sessions

Reflections on Day 1 and Plans for Day 2

Tackling the Universal Challenges of Recruitment, Retention, and Leadership Development for High Schools

Effective High School Teachers and Leaders