RESEARCH REPORT
Northern California Charter Schools
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Best Practices
 Parent-Teacher-Home Visitations
 High Expectations Classroom Environments—College
Prep/Attainment Mindset
Recommendations
 Develop and implement new, innovated parent engagement
opportunities
 Increase parent involvement by mainstreaming them in
system educational strategies
 Generate college-readiness classroom cultures by integrating
college planning in instructional patterns
 Create a culture of academic success
Harlem Children’s Zone
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Best Practices
 Peacemaker
 Pipeline Approach
 Parent and Community Involvement
 Accountability of Administration and Board
Recommendations
 Individualized learning plans for all students
 Home and social circumstances are considered
 Data-driven educational philosophies
 Educators held accountable for the performance of each student
 The greater community participation and support
Norfolk Public Schools District
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Best Practices
 Data-Driven Systems
 Professional Development
 Administration Accountability
 Educational Environment
Recommendations
 System-wide in-service mechanisms for educators
 Exploration of student-driven academic practices by
educators
 Rigorous test taking strategies
 Performance-driven accountability for classroom
instruction
SITE Visits: Questions to Consider
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How do we review, compare, and analyze site
findings with current FCS practices/procedures?
How do we determine what other evidence based
stories we might also want to examine?
What is the mechanism, structure, or process for
making such decisions?
Who should be included in the decision making
strategy to ensure successful engagement of
community voices?
MEAP Metrics
MATH - MEAP -- Fall 06 -- Fall 10
Grades 3 - 8 - Pct Meets/Exceeds Standards
100%
90%
80%
Flint
Michigan
95% 95%
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89% 90% 88%
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GISD_Wide
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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
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MEAP Metrics
READING - MEAP -- Fall 06 -- Fall 10
Grades 3 - 8 - Pct Meets/Exceeds Standards
GISD_Wide
Flint
Michigan
100%
90%
90%
87% 86% 86%
80% 85% 84% 84%
87%
84%
88%
73% 74% 72%
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88%
85% 84%
83% 84% 84%
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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
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MEAP Results: Beginning Questions
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Though progress is always good news, are we
closing the gaps fast enough?
How do we accelerate closure of the gap to
become at least competitive on local and state
levels?
What is the downstream impact on the FCS
graduation rates?
More importantly, how will dreams of higher
learning selection and placement be affected?
www.flintfact.org
CREATING A WORLD
CLASS EDUCATIONAL
CULTURAL IN FLINT
Proposal to the Community
Educational Beliefs of Residents
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The importance of all students having the best
opportunity possible to excel.
A system committed to quality instruction, student
safety, parent involvement and after school support.
Flint students have as much aptitude for success as
others.
Teachers, educators, parents, students and other
citizens together can create a context to maximize
student potential.
Challenges
Facing the reality that much more
work is needed to improve
performance
 Avoiding the tendency of engaging in
the blame game
 Gaining the individual commitment
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FACT’s Proposal
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The FCS in partnership with the community to
implement a district-wide process improvement
strategy.
Three initial process teams:
 Academic
performance (such as enhanced teacher
effectiveness and parent engagement)
 School safety
 Resource support
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Team membership comprised of a cross section of the
community.
Process Improvement
Initiative
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What is Process Improvement?
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Focuses on processes and systems instead of people.
Research shows:
 85 to 95% of organizational challenges/failures are
related to process/system issues.
 5 to 15% of those challenges are related to people or
personnel issues.
Process examination provides the greatest opportunity for
organizational improvement.
Process improvement occurs via teams.
Process Improvement
Initiative
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What is a process or system?
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Set of steps or procedures that result in an
outcome(s).
For example: the steps a teacher takes in
developing a lesson plan would be a
process.
For example: the processes to develop a
curriculum for high school graduates would
be a system.
Process Improvement
Initiative
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How will team members be selected?
Commit for at least one year
 Meeting schedule flexibility
 Concerned about our youth
 Available for best practice site-visits
 Capacity to work with others with
different views and opinions
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Process Improvement
Initiative
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How will students, parents, teachers, administrators
and the community benefit?
 Identify process and system gaps
 Move more toward benchmarked, evidence based
solutions
 Engage the collective genius of the community
 Restore the Flint story of educational excellence
Process Improvement
Initiative
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Implementation Strategy
 Team selection within the next thirty (30)
days
 Team orientation and appointment in
September 2011
 Team startup October 2011
 Midterm report November 2011
 Team progress report due March 2012
Process Improvement
Initiative
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Concept Support:
FCS Superintendent Linda Thompson
 FCS Board President Harold
Woodson
 City of Flint Mayor Dayne Walling
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Process Improvement
Initiative
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Community Commitment:
 Will
you support this improvement initiative to examine
processes and systems related to:
 Academic
performance
 School safety
 Resource support
 Will
you agree to be part of this process improvement
effort?
 If your answer is yes, please stand and remain
standing.
www.flintfact.org