Focused Instruction Steering Committee

February 24, 2015

Norm for our meetings

Listen for understanding
Monitor our own and one anothers language
Engage fully
Avoid distractions (e-mail, text, Twitter, FB, TMZ)
Stay on topic
Complete requested tasks
Be specific!

Focus on potential and solutions

Use your experience and role to inform your views, but
seek to practice empathy

Steering Committee Process: how we will conduct our work

OBJECTIVE- Develop improvement recommendations for each
component of the focused instruction process
Each week, well explore a different part of the continuous improvement
cycle. After exploring current challenges and collecting your best
thinking around those challenges, we will use the input you provide to
bring you a recommendation at each meeting.
Week 1- PLANNING
Week 2- TEACHING
Week 3- ASSESSING
Week 4- ANALYZING
Week 5- COMPREHENSIVE RECOMMENDATION

Leadership Message- Focused Instruction

Sharing your message- 4 minutes
Identify one colleague whom you do not know and introduce yourself.
Once you identify your partner, each of you will take turns sharing your leadership pitch
about focused instruction and why it is important.
While you are listening to your partner, please make notes where you believe his/her points or
style are particularly strong (perhaps you want to incorporate these points into your own) as
well as places where you have questions or suggestions for improvement.

Feedback- 5 minutes
After your partner shares his/her message, take a moment to provide some feedback. Repeat
this process for each person.

Critical elements of message- 1 minute

Now that you have had the opportunity to share, give feedback, and receive some feedback,
lets talk about the critical elements of the message.

Leadership Message- Focused Instruction

Did your message about focused instruction

1- include the compelling why

2- emphasize the process of continuous

improvement
3- describe the products that support the
process?

Planning Recommendations
At your table group please take 20 minutes to:
1

Evaluate the data for your 2 assigned

recommendations

Table 1 & 2- recommendations 1 & 2

2

Synthesize the data to share back with the

large group

Table 3 & 4- recommendations 3 & 4

Identify whether your group agrees with the

recommendation or not. If not, why not.

Table 5 & 6- recommendations 5 & 6

4 Decide whether you would move forward
the recommendation as is or amend it

Designate a speaker to share out with the large

group: summary, amendments, overall
recommendation

Table 7 & 8- recommendations 7 & 8

Our districts challenge around DOING quality instruction

Instructional
strategies

Rituals & Routines

for Management

Intentional grouping

Formative
Assessment/Checking for
Understanding

What does it
look like,
sound like
feel like

when teachers are supported to

improve instructional practice?

Support for continuous instructional

improvement
Current structures where
support takes place

People who provide

support

Effective when

Areas where support for instructional improvement may be enhanced: