Overall Goals: Cultural Competency, Literacy/English Language Arts (ELA), and closing the achievement gap.
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Regional Goal #1: To develop cultural competency throughout the North Region by providing training opportunities for all North Eugene Region Staff, and by implementation of the ELA adoption.
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Objective 1: Strengthening Regional and District K-12 articulation and leadership development program coherence.
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Year One Objectives: Regional leadership collaboration to develop a coordinated plan to fully implement the new English Language Arts adoption across grade levels in every school, with planned accommodations for special populations, and professional development for all affected staff in a culturally competent model.
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Activity
| Person(s) Responsible
| Resources Needed
| Data/Evaluation
| Timeline
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| 1.1 The group will spend at least 15 minutes each meeting sharing, using the Wallace objectives as the focus (and include technology advancements whenever possible). | All Administrators
| Regional Wallace Funds | | Ongoing
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1.2 A group will go to the Technology, Reading & Learning Diversity Conference in San Francisco, aquiring tools to coordinate the use of technology throughout the North Region community.
| Paco, Susan, Wes, Kim
| Wallace funds
| Participant Survey
| Jan. 2008
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1.3 Implement plans to improve cultural competence among students, parents, and the North Region community.
| Leadership at each building site
| To be determined at each site
| Community surveys
| Aug. 2005 - 2008
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1.4 GLAD/SIOP training provided for teacher leaders.
| Instruction Dept.
| Title Funds
| | Aug. 2007 - Sept. 2008
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1.5 Develop CSIPs that incorporate Cultural Competency at each building level.
| Site Council at each building
| Review by Carmen Urbina
| Completed CSIP /Site Council Approval
| 2007-2009 |
1.6 Implement plans to improve cultural competence among students, parents, and sthe North Region community
| Leadership at each site
| To be determined at each site
| Community surveys
| 2007-2009
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| Regional Goal #2: To magnify leadership capacity among the administrators and staff in the North Region in order to improve student achievement. |
Objective 2: Provide the context for intellectual stimulation and learning about research-related practices that transform the way teachers and principals think about and approach their work.
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Year One Objectives: Fully implemented cross-region plans for in-depth training that is linked to the new ELA adoption for both principals and teachers and includes: the development of a cadre of teacher and principal coaches; cross-region grade-level teacher study groups; and a set of assessment tools designed to determine the impact of training and coaching on overall levels of implementation by region.
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2.1 Administrators attend retreats/conferences/professional development
| North Admin. Team
| Wallace Regional Funds; Carol Ann Tomlinson
| | October 6-7, 2005- On-going
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2.2 Monthly meetings held for the purpose of building relationships, networking, and providing a forum for discussing regional improvement in student learning
| All North Region Leaders | Wallace Funds
| | On-going
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| 2.3 Administrators provided a performance evaluation tool to assess leadership strengths and areas needing improvement | District Office/ U of O
| Leadership Tool
| Results from assessment – Personal Goals
| On-going
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| 2.4 Implementatioin of the Read Right Program at the high school level and pilot at middle and elementary levels. | Building administrators and teacher leaders
| Literacy FUnds
| | 2007-2010
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| 2.5 Elementary, middle, and high schools examine ways to bring challenging curriculum to all students. (For example, IB and AP curriculum is made available for all students in participating buildings.) | Administrators and Teacher Leaders at participating buildings | Wallace Funds/Literacy
| | On-going
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