Monday

=MONDAY'S SESSIONS=  Type you name and notes here ** 1B - Making Advisory/Advocacy Relevant for Students and Faculty ** Mr. Jean (Zen)--According to understandings in adolescent development the middle school years are pivotal in the overall growth of students. At this stage of development without proper support and guidance many of our students will fall through the cracks. We know that many of our students need an adult that will serve as a mentor, guide, and advocate. This year at Talley we are implementing an advisory time during homeroom that I feel have the potential to improve our school if implemented properly. They need someone who knows them well and works closely to them in a nonjudgmental way. The relationships established alone will decrease behavior concerns, raise attendance, raise self-esteem and thereby raise test scores. I hope that the first step is professional development for the program. It is very important to discuss out the “what it looks like” guidelines.  ** by Howard Miller
 * Monday 10:15 a.m. – 11:25 a.m. ** 
 * 1A – Using Differentiated Instruction to Nurture a Community of Learners**
 * Tips for Building Strong Advisory Programs **
 * ** Advisory groups should be kept small, perhaps 10 to 15 students. Administrators, counselors, and other staff should be thought of as potential advisors, along with teachers.  **
 * ** Administrative tasks, announcements, and disruptions should be kept to a minimum.  **
 * ** Consider having cross-age advisories that allow older students to serve as leaders and "big brothers and sisters" to younger ones.  **
 * ** If advisories are the place for learning specific skills like note-taking or speed reading, make sure to provide adequate training for advisors.  **
 * Advisors and advisees should have the flexibility to plan the direction for their particular group. The less prepackaged the advisory program, the more successful it is likely to be.

**1C - Multi-Faceted Guidance and Support Services ** Type you name and notes here **1D - Building Your Skills: Tips for Becoming an Effective Middle Level Leader ** Kunz's notes: What habits are essential to make you an effective leader? Be flexible; Be consistent; Reflect daily/weekly (journaling); Create a "safe", open environment where teachers AND students can take responsible risks; Communicate effectively; Have a clear and well-communicated Vision; FOLLOW THROUGH; High expectations, focus on students, shared decision making, high visisbility

Things to pursue:  ·  The Habits of the mind  ·  5 dysfunctions of a team  ·  Covey's 8th habit - "Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves."  ·  Collins - "Good to Great" <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  Munhall (sp?) "FLOW" <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  Tom Wagner - Change Leadership Great quote: "You can't be burned out if you have never been on fire!" Mike Dietz

Type you name and notes here 2B - Courageous and Collaborative Leadership for Administrators ** Type you name and notes here 2C - Closing the Achievement Gap - Research and Reality ** Type you name and notes here Kunz's note Think, pair, share: Signal Light (G, Y, R) using GYR to monitor student performance based on state tests (Excel), share with theachers. Have students monitor their own progress by tracking their own performance data
 * Monday 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #002c55; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">
 * 2A – Teachers As Leaders: Accepting Courageous Challenges**
 * 2D - Developing Data-Literate Teachers as Part of the School Improvement Process **

Types of Data: Summative (DSTP, AYP, etc.) Interim (Bechmark) - Common Assessments, NWEA, etc. Formative - Teacher data