Join Ricky Robertson and the Arizona Department of Education for two FREE 4-part virtual learning series. These highly sought-after series will lead individual educators and school teams through an intentional professional learning sequence on educator well-being, understanding behavior, and trauma-informed social emotional learning (SEL).
Each session is two (2) hours long, from 9:00-11:00 AM for the morning session and 12:30-2:30 PM for the afternoon session, and will be offered twice at two different times to ensure some flexibility in your participation. Please register individually for each session below:
Please CLICK HERE to see/ download the flyer. Each session is worth two (2) recertification clock hours. If there are questions, please call (602) 364-3303 or email Christina Aldrich at [email protected] and we look forward to your participation!
All Arizona students are empowered to create limitless futures.
Mission
Transform LEA and school systems ensuring equity, excellence, strengths based leadership and innovative continuous improvement.
Theory of Action
If the SSI Unit provides:
high-quality professional learning to empower and support schools and LEAs by offering evidence-based practices, equity centered decision-making, and a multitude of resources;
training and ongoing support of the CNA, RCA, and IAP continuous improvement process and implementation; and
the opportunity for the co-creation of high expectations and accountability measures
And the LEA and school sites:
conduct a thorough and reflective data analysis to determine needs;
implement necessary systems change with evidence-based practices throughout the continuous improvement process;
Then, equitable, strength-based LEAs and schools will increase system and individual capacity ensuring equity, excellence and innovation resulting in increased student outcomes.
So that, All Arizona students are empowered to create limitless futures.
The Comprehensive Needs Assessment, Root Cause, and Integrated Action Plan for all Title I Schools
Title I, II, III, IV-A, School Improvement and Move on When Reading schools will use the 6 Principles, Indicators and Elements to identify strengths and needs in order to increase student achievement and strengthen school systems leading to sustainable improvement. The primary needs identified in the Comprehensive Needs Assessment become the foundation for the Schools Integrated Action Plan. The LEA Integrated Action Plan is based on the School/s’ Comprehensive Needs Assessment findings. It supports the implementation of the School Integrated Action Plan.
ARS §15-241 requires the Arizona State Board of Education to adopt a methodology to assign letter grades for Arizona schools each year. District and Charter Schools assigned a letter grade of D or F must meet the following requirements, per ARS §15-241.02
Comprehensive Support and Improvement - CSI Low Achievement
Title l schools with student proficiency/percent passing, ELA and Math combined, in the lowest 5% on the statewide assessment plus all “F” schools.
ESSA requires states to identify Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) schools based on a single set of criteria regardless of the school’s population or mission.
Title 1 schools with student proficiency rate in the lowest 5% on AzMERIT.
The combined ELA and Math proficiency/passing rate was calculated using the following formula
Vision: ELEVATE seeks to improve LEA and school systems in order to significantly increase and sustain quality outcomes for all Arizona Students.
Mission: ELEVATE develops and empowers LEA and school leaders to focus on equity, improving teaching and learning that results in rapid and significant gains in student achievement
ELEVATE Theory of Action
If we develop equity-focused leaders’ skills and competencies to facilitate systemic change by creating and sustaining a high quality, cohesive instructional infrastructure a strong culture of learning and high expectations for all, a strategic, evidence-based talent management system
Then student achievement significantly improves, and student subgroup achievement gaps are eliminated.
COHORT 6 IS NOW FULL. We will post when Cohort 7 is available.
ELEVATE is a two-year executive leadership program developed and supported by the Arizona Department of Education and WestED. The program focuses on developing the knowledge, competencies and skills of leaders as they work toward systemic change within schools and LEAs.
How is the Program Structured?
The two year program includes a two day LEA Leadership Team Boot Camp and four two and a half day LEA and School Leadership Team convenings each year.
Participants:
LEA Leadership Team, Superintendent plus key LEA leaders, SPED, Teaching and Learning, Federal Programs as meets the needs of individual contexts
School Leadership Teams, Principal plus a 3 or 4 person school leadership team
ELEVATE focuses on the levers of LEA and school systems
MTSS is an instructional system with a tiered infrastructure that uses data to help match academic and social emotional supports to address the needs of the whole child.
Universal Support – All students in All settings
Highly effective Core academic instruction and social emotional learning
Additional Support
Rapid response small group evidence-based academic and social emotional learning
Intensified Support
Individualized high intensity evidence-based academic instruction and social emotional learning
Additional and Intensified support is in addition to Universal support
PD Opportunity: Join Ricky Robertson and the Arizona Department of Education for two FREE 4-part virtual learning series Building Resilience, June-July, 2021.
The School Support and Improvement (SSI) Unit, in partnership with Project AWARE, is proud to provide Youth Mental Health First Aid virtual learning opportunities with a live facilitator.
