Pete Hall
April 7, 2011
Forging a Success School: 12 Conditions of Effective Schools
www.educationhall.com
If you can define it, you can achieve it.
- Strong leadership: High expectations and high support
- What does success look like?
- What do we need to accomplish it?
- Principal cultivates vision
- Shared leadership through specialists, experts, teachers. Craft mission together.
- Hedgehog/Simplexity
- What is our vision?
- What is our current reality
What are our goals and plans?
- Simplexity=we're going to focus on the actions that will actually work (feasibility vs perceived impact)
- See belief systems analysis from handouts. Everyone completes individually and then you compile w/respect to the staff. How do you use this to drive your bldg goals. What do people feel is the most important?
- Investment in human capital
- Look at buckingham model-what do people think about their schools?
- Sense of professional collaboration
- emphasis on goals/data/results
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- Agreed-upon definitions of best practices
- Look at blue ribbon practices in packet
- define teaching actions
- trained in-house
- set expectation
- Use for "evaluation"-can we all agree on what good teaching looks like and what will be looked for (use walk-throughs and Rounds: teaching
- Richard Elmore (Harvard): Everything should strengthen and support the Instructional Core
- Actice Monitoring
- Using walkthroughs
- Ongoing PD - building teachers' capacity
- instructional coaches
- teacher leaders in writing, presenting, leading
- grade level reps = point people
- schoolbased staff developers
- Streamlined curriculum
- based on standards
- Safe, orderly environment
- class management
- high standards
- SBTIS
- Lightning Club (see handout) Tier III intervention
- Immediate, Intentional Interventions
- Community Involvement
- Educational Triangle Contract (Handout---for Title I)
- Weekly principal coffee talk
- Monthly parent nights--goal: 100%
- Multiple business partners