“Systems yield the outcomes that lead to perfect”---Travis Campbell
"instill hopefulness back into the teachers---build their capacity to differentiate instruction"---Travis Campbell
I enjoyed how the presentation given by Travis tied into every session we have had this far. I believe that the Indistar plan is not something that should just be "required" from priority/focus schools. It is a great plan to incorporate shared leadership and goal/data driven instruction in ALL schools. Could this be used as a SIP?
Once again, our guest speaker added another puzzle piece to my growing vision for school improvement planning. Thank you Travis Campbell, for the Student and School Success Action-Planning Handbook and the PowerPoint! There were so many great takeaways from tonight. “We do what we ask you to do” What a powerful statement coming from a building leadership team! I also loved the philosophy that student achievement is linked to school systems and culture not the intellectual capacity of the students.
It was refreshing and encouraging to hear Travis Campbell share the systems of support OSPI has in place for our Priority and Focus schools. It really helps dispel the perception some hold that there is an "them vs. us" perception. For me, the most powerful statement he made was in the very beginning with his quote "...Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven't so far..." Amen! A sense of urgency must be present in all that we do. Complacency is our greatest enemy and we must not allow ourselves to settle for anything less than our very best. Data will create the validation we need...not our perceptions of how we think we're doing!
I am glad I had the chance to hear your perspective on that quote tonight Elissa, when I first read the quote, as I shared with you... it seemed kind of negative, but I like your positive spin, and focus on the urgency we all need to feel and strive for as we keep on with this challenging work! Is that your own quote? I love your last line here.. I am going to have write that one in my notes! :) Thanks for sharing!
Yes it was! wouldn't it be nice to get someone like Travis into a school BEFORE it was priority? I loved that initial quote. So powerful and brutally honest. We can't settle for anything less than 100%. 99% means someone didn't make it.
I agree! When OUR students are making it, it is an emergency. We need more than a sense of urgency, we need to allow the public to see the fire spreading in the school. We need to do something before it's too late.
I love the ER analogy! I think we are in a state of emergency and need to act right away. Our students are in need. If our biological kid(s) was/were in need, we would do WHAT EVER was necessary. I think America should join hands with us and start treating kids like they belong to them biologically.
Thank you Travis for coming and sharing your work with us. It was interesting to learn more about priority and focus schools. “No changes in student learning, until you change educator practice” is something we have heard/read before, and the importance of that stuck out to me tonight, after a CSIP meeting today at school and conversations with my principal today, I am beginning to think that is a huge area of focus, and can be quite challenging. Being a newer teacher, I feel like I am up for all sorts of change, it’s all new to me! More senior teachers have quite a different perspective, with their many years of experience and effectiveness, getting them on board with continued changes that need to happen could be a lot of the work we are going to be doing. I loved all the OSPI report card information, thanks for the insight and what to look for as we use that site. There is so much to look at, and think about! Thanks for a great class tonight!
One of the quotes that resonated with me tonight was, ““The wisdom to fix the school is already in the room.” I am a firm believer that there is an abundance of brilliant and hardworking teachers out there who truly want was is best for students. These teachers have the wisdom and the determination, they just need someone to walk alongside them. As Dr. Yeomans stated when referring to hiring a new administrator, “Does that person fundamentally understand that it is their job to lead and go alongside people to make them better?” Travis Campbell’s presentation tonight mirrored much of what we have been learning these past couple of months. I appreciated his willingness to share with us the role of OSPI in our journey to constantly improve the educational system.
To go along with your chosen quote Sari, I am reminded of Dr. Adrian's insight about hiring the "right people". If a team of people that are teachable and willing can be built, Fixing the school will happen.
So so so many great statements tonight. Thank you Travis for your invaluable insight, the idea of "thought partners" and the model of collaboration with OSPI and our Focus and Priority schools was insightful, I had no idea OSPI offered the additional man power. He said too, "we work in schools because we believe in kids." "The wisdom to fix the school is already in the room." "Systems yield the outcomes that they get perfectly." I only wish he could have stayed for a few more hours!
I'm with you, Melissa! Travis could have talked for hours and I think he would have easily held the attention of everyone in the room the entire time. It seems like we hear so little about what OSPI does and it was fascinating to learn that they are serving schools statewide everyday, helping improve both student growth and teaching skills.
I appreciate the invaluable insights that Travis shared last night. The entry task of reading and discussing the quote by Ron Edmonds and the activity of being an applicant for Cougar Elementary was fantastic. I loved how our learning thus far was captivated in this opening activity...outline "first steps".
The quote "people who continue to try things but aren't successful become callous" is very true. How do we increase their teaching capacity if they have only been unsuccessful? Changing mindset is critical! After reading our assigned reading in Mindset, growth mindset is hard to do when you've only been taught, modeled, and told by a fixed mindset. "Not just lip service to the idea that all children can learn, but a deep desire to reach in and ignite the mind of every child," (p.202) really touched my heart. As a teacher how can we not want this for every child! Kids at Hope speaks to the idea that all students can succeed, but I still think we need to work on igniting student desire to learn.
Well Said Kristin. We do need to work on igniting that desire within each child. It's there, but how do we bring it out? How do we change the mindset of our teachers and inspire them to find the answer to that? It will be what drives change in a building that's struggling. Like Travis said, "The knowledge to change the school is in the room."
-Ron Edmonds quote...thought provoking, insightful, depth of perception, great opener In relation to this quote I found Travis's sharing about the shift in approach to intervene in struggling schools encouraging. Blaming and shaming rarely works. It was refreshing to hear that the support role from OSPI is one of serving along side. The Edmonds quote advocates a philosophy of "where there is a will there is a way". Through a "thought partner" model problem finding can effectively occur and plans can be implemented to start the "data cycle"
Two of my favorite comments from Thursday night were, " the wisdom to fix schools comes from with in." as well as, "we work with kids because we believe in them." I feel like these two go hand in hand. We are educators for a reason, and when given the opportunity groups of us working collaboratively can solve many problems. I also really appreciated the big picture of how the process for Priority and Focus works. Having lived the Focus school for what seems like forever it is nice to have a better understanding.
Also I want to say thanks again for making my day special!
Words cannot express my gratitude for the opportunity to listen to Travis Campbell. So many memorable nuggets of wisdom. "The wisdom to fix the schools is already in the room" was one of those nuggets that really motivated me. It is our responsibility to nurture our teachers with professional development that is embedded in the schedule. I feel that in order to capture the wisdom we need to honor continual growth and sharing of ideas. "ALL students and ALL teachers" I was unaware of how schools moved through the system when not performing well. The RAD tiers interested me, with additional resources, key staff members and support how is it that these schools still do not make the mark? What does a "turnaround" principal do and how do they feel about being shuffled from school to school?
Wow! Travis Cambell is full of quotable quotes. I hope to speak as eloquently as he does someday. My favorite quote of the night was, “To change student learning, you have to change educator practice.” “The wisdom we need to do the work is already in the room.” In education, the only constant is change. Helping our staff to see this as a positive will be important for us as future principals. Last night, Rick and I went to play cards with my parents and grandparents who happen to all be educators. Inevitably, the conversation almost always turns to school (poor Rick) and we started to talk about Common Core and the SBAC. There was a general sense of frustration in the room about how there always seems to be something new for us to learn and teach and just as we master that, it’s time to change again. “Yes!” I thought, “My chance to practice!!” So, I put my principal hat on and tried to change the story a little bit. Because, really, isn’t it great that we get to keep changing and learning and getting better? The SBAC and CCSS is going to be a tricky pill for us to swallow but I think that is because it’s going to require us to rethink the way that we have been teaching kids. But isn’t that a good thing? It’s giving us an opportunity to learn, improve and serve our kids even better. It was a good conversation and great practice for me to voice what I feel about a controversial topic in the world of education.
I agree... it is GREAT that we continue to improve our practice. It keeps our minds engaged and keeps us abreast with what is best practice. I love to hear others are just as excited to learn and grow to better support student achievement.
I love it!! Alyssa I feel the same way! We are in a constant state of motion because our kids have not been 100% successful, like we've heard from Glenn numerous times, we will never "arrive" at our destination. We will always be traveling, even when 100% of our kids are successful we won't arrive, because the next group of kids coming in will have different needs.
Our last session was another informative evening. It was great to listen to Travis Campbell and the information he had to share. It is reassuring to hear all of the resources that the state has built into the system to support schools who are designated as priority and focus. Throughout this class we are being exposed to so much information and being made aware of a plethora of resources we will be able to tap into in the future. I appreciate the practicality of this class.
I enjoyed Thursday night class (as I always do) and I appreciate the relevance and critical information each speaker brings to us. Travis understands that it is about changing teacher effectiveness. Indistar is based on best practices. However, there is not a tool or checklist out there that will make the change. The leadership and the work of the adults in the building must choose to make the change. So, I find the toll helpful but without understanding the second ordered change that needs to occur (and not just doing a bunch of technical change) the dance floor is not evolving.
It was so nice to hear about all of the proactive things that OSPI is doing for struggling schools. It was also nice to hear Travis talk about how realistic OSPI is as they try to help schools throughout the state. I love the fact that they realize that there is no quick fix or magic pill to make everything better overnight. I also like the fact that OSPI recognizes that most students already possess the capacity and intelligence background to succeed and that it's the teachers ("The solution found within your building") who are responsible for extracting this knowledge. Every week we are so fortunate to keep getting incredible guest speakers to teach and prepare us not only for the future but for our current teaching situations as well.
I enjoyed all the quotes you guys already mentioned in addition to the teaching strategies that Travis modeled. Providing time for us to share with our partner throughout the presentation was a great way for us to process the information that he wanted us to take in. Also, allowing us to be in the driver seat as a "new principal" was powerful. I also appreciated the time Glen took to show us the OSPI report card. I think that will be a valuable resource.
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“Systems yield the outcomes that lead to perfect”---Travis Campbell
ReplyDelete"instill hopefulness back into the teachers---build their capacity to differentiate instruction"---Travis Campbell
I enjoyed how the presentation given by Travis tied into every session we have had this far. I believe that the Indistar plan is not something that should just be "required" from priority/focus schools. It is a great plan to incorporate shared leadership and goal/data driven instruction in ALL schools. Could this be used as a SIP?
Thanks Travis again!
Once again, our guest speaker added another puzzle piece to my growing vision for school improvement planning. Thank you Travis Campbell, for the Student and School Success Action-Planning Handbook and the PowerPoint! There were so many great takeaways from tonight. “We do what we ask you to do” What a powerful statement coming from a building leadership team! I also loved the philosophy that student achievement is linked to school systems and culture not the intellectual capacity of the students.
ReplyDeleteIt was refreshing and encouraging to hear Travis Campbell share the systems of support OSPI has in place for our Priority and Focus schools. It really helps dispel the perception some hold that there is an "them vs. us" perception. For me, the most powerful statement he made was in the very beginning with his quote "...Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven't so far..." Amen! A sense of urgency must be present in all that we do. Complacency is our greatest enemy and we must not allow ourselves to settle for anything less than our very best. Data will create the validation we need...not our perceptions of how we think we're doing!
ReplyDeleteI am glad I had the chance to hear your perspective on that quote tonight Elissa, when I first read the quote, as I shared with you... it seemed kind of negative, but I like your positive spin, and focus on the urgency we all need to feel and strive for as we keep on with this challenging work! Is that your own quote? I love your last line here.. I am going to have write that one in my notes! :) Thanks for sharing!
DeleteI had thought the same thing, Lauralee! After hearing everyone else's perspective, though, I changed my mind:)
DeleteYes it was! wouldn't it be nice to get someone like Travis into a school BEFORE it was priority? I loved that initial quote. So powerful and brutally honest. We can't settle for anything less than 100%. 99% means someone didn't make it.
DeleteI agree! When OUR students are making it, it is an emergency. We need more than a sense of urgency, we need to allow the public to see the fire spreading in the school. We need to do something before it's too late.
DeleteI love the ER analogy! I think we are in a state of emergency and need to act right away. Our students are in need. If our biological kid(s) was/were in need, we would do WHAT EVER was necessary. I think America should join hands with us and start treating kids like they belong to them biologically.
DeleteThank you Travis for coming and sharing your work with us. It was interesting to learn more about priority and focus schools. “No changes in student learning, until you change educator practice” is something we have heard/read before, and the importance of that stuck out to me tonight, after a CSIP meeting today at school and conversations with my principal today, I am beginning to think that is a huge area of focus, and can be quite challenging. Being a newer teacher, I feel like I am up for all sorts of change, it’s all new to me! More senior teachers have quite a different perspective, with their many years of experience and effectiveness, getting them on board with continued changes that need to happen could be a lot of the work we are going to be doing.
ReplyDeleteI loved all the OSPI report card information, thanks for the insight and what to look for as we use that site. There is so much to look at, and think about! Thanks for a great class tonight!
One of the quotes that resonated with me tonight was, ““The wisdom to fix the school is already in the room.” I am a firm believer that there is an abundance of brilliant and hardworking teachers out there who truly want was is best for students. These teachers have the wisdom and the determination, they just need someone to walk alongside them. As Dr. Yeomans stated when referring to hiring a new administrator, “Does that person fundamentally understand that it is their job to lead and go alongside people to make them better?” Travis Campbell’s presentation tonight mirrored much of what we have been learning these past couple of months. I appreciated his willingness to share with us the role of OSPI in our journey to constantly improve the educational system.
ReplyDeleteTo go along with your chosen quote Sari, I am reminded of Dr. Adrian's insight about hiring the "right people". If a team of people that are teachable and willing can be built, Fixing the school will happen.
DeleteSo so so many great statements tonight. Thank you Travis for your invaluable insight, the idea of "thought partners" and the model of collaboration with OSPI and our Focus and Priority schools was insightful, I had no idea OSPI offered the additional man power. He said too, "we work in schools because we believe in kids." "The wisdom to fix the school is already in the room." "Systems yield the outcomes that they get perfectly." I only wish he could have stayed for a few more hours!
ReplyDeleteAgreed! Travis has many great things to say, and I am sure will be a great resource for us in the future!
DeleteI'm with you, Melissa! Travis could have talked for hours and I think he would have easily held the attention of everyone in the room the entire time. It seems like we hear so little about what OSPI does and it was fascinating to learn that they are serving schools statewide everyday, helping improve both student growth and teaching skills.
DeleteI appreciate the invaluable insights that Travis shared last night. The entry task of reading and discussing the quote by Ron Edmonds and the activity of being an applicant for Cougar Elementary was fantastic. I loved how our learning thus far was captivated in this opening activity...outline "first steps".
ReplyDeleteThe quote "people who continue to try things but aren't successful become callous" is very true. How do we increase their teaching capacity if they have only been unsuccessful? Changing mindset is critical! After reading our assigned reading in Mindset, growth mindset is hard to do when you've only been taught, modeled, and told by a fixed mindset. "Not just lip service to the idea that all children can learn, but a deep desire to reach in and ignite the mind of every child," (p.202) really touched my heart. As a teacher how can we not want this for every child! Kids at Hope speaks to the idea that all students can succeed, but I still think we need to work on igniting student desire to learn.
Well Said Kristin. We do need to work on igniting that desire within each child. It's there, but how do we bring it out? How do we change the mindset of our teachers and inspire them to find the answer to that? It will be what drives change in a building that's struggling. Like Travis said, "The knowledge to change the school is in the room."
Delete-Ron Edmonds quote...thought provoking, insightful, depth of perception, great opener
ReplyDeleteIn relation to this quote I found Travis's sharing about the shift in approach to intervene in struggling schools encouraging. Blaming and shaming rarely works. It was refreshing to hear that the support role from OSPI is one of serving along side. The Edmonds quote advocates a philosophy of "where there is a will there is a way". Through a "thought partner" model problem finding can effectively occur and plans can be implemented to start the "data cycle"
I loved the term, "thought partner". I think that will be an important way to frame ourselves as a "leader as a learner".
DeleteTwo of my favorite comments from Thursday night were, " the wisdom to fix schools comes from with in." as well as, "we work with kids because we believe in them." I feel like these two go hand in hand. We are educators for a reason, and when given the opportunity groups of us working collaboratively can solve many problems. I also really appreciated the big picture of how the process for Priority and Focus works. Having lived the Focus school for what seems like forever it is nice to have a better understanding.
ReplyDeleteAlso I want to say thanks again for making my day special!
Words cannot express my gratitude for the opportunity to listen to Travis Campbell. So many memorable nuggets of wisdom. "The wisdom to fix the schools is already in the room" was one of those nuggets that really motivated me. It is our responsibility to nurture our teachers with professional development that is embedded in the schedule. I feel that in order to capture the wisdom we need to honor continual growth and sharing of ideas. "ALL students and ALL teachers" I was unaware of how schools moved through the system when not performing well. The RAD tiers interested me, with additional resources, key staff members and support how is it that these schools still do not make the mark? What does a "turnaround" principal do and how do they feel about being shuffled from school to school?
ReplyDeleteWow! Travis Cambell is full of quotable quotes. I hope to speak as eloquently as he does someday. My favorite quote of the night was, “To change student learning, you have to change educator practice.” “The wisdom we need to do the work is already in the room.” In education, the only constant is change. Helping our staff to see this as a positive will be important for us as future principals. Last night, Rick and I went to play cards with my parents and grandparents who happen to all be educators. Inevitably, the conversation almost always turns to school (poor Rick) and we started to talk about Common Core and the SBAC. There was a general sense of frustration in the room about how there always seems to be something new for us to learn and teach and just as we master that, it’s time to change again. “Yes!” I thought, “My chance to practice!!” So, I put my principal hat on and tried to change the story a little bit. Because, really, isn’t it great that we get to keep changing and learning and getting better? The SBAC and CCSS is going to be a tricky pill for us to swallow but I think that is because it’s going to require us to rethink the way that we have been teaching kids. But isn’t that a good thing? It’s giving us an opportunity to learn, improve and serve our kids even better. It was a good conversation and great practice for me to voice what I feel about a controversial topic in the world of education.
ReplyDeleteI agree... it is GREAT that we continue to improve our practice. It keeps our minds engaged and keeps us abreast with what is best practice. I love to hear others are just as excited to learn and grow to better support student achievement.
DeleteI love it!! Alyssa I feel the same way! We are in a constant state of motion because our kids have not been 100% successful, like we've heard from Glenn numerous times, we will never "arrive" at our destination. We will always be traveling, even when 100% of our kids are successful we won't arrive, because the next group of kids coming in will have different needs.
DeleteOur last session was another informative evening. It was great to listen to Travis Campbell and the information he had to share. It is reassuring to hear all of the resources that the state has built into the system to support schools who are designated as priority and focus. Throughout this class we are being exposed to so much information and being made aware of a plethora of resources we will be able to tap into in the future. I appreciate the practicality of this class.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Thursday night class (as I always do) and I appreciate the relevance and critical information each speaker brings to us. Travis understands that it is about changing teacher effectiveness. Indistar is based on best practices. However, there is not a tool or checklist out there that will make the change. The leadership and the work of the adults in the building must choose to make the change. So, I find the toll helpful but without understanding the second ordered change that needs to occur (and not just doing a bunch of technical change) the dance floor is not evolving.
ReplyDeleteIt was so nice to hear about all of the proactive things that OSPI is doing for struggling schools. It was also nice to hear Travis talk about how realistic OSPI is as they try to help schools throughout the state. I love the fact that they realize that there is no quick fix or magic pill to make everything better overnight. I also like the fact that OSPI recognizes that most students already possess the capacity and intelligence background to succeed and that it's the teachers ("The solution found within your building") who are responsible for extracting this knowledge. Every week we are so fortunate to keep getting incredible guest speakers to teach and prepare us not only for the future but for our current teaching situations as well.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed all the quotes you guys already mentioned in addition to the teaching strategies that Travis modeled. Providing time for us to share with our partner throughout the presentation was a great way for us to process the information that he wanted us to take in. Also, allowing us to be in the driver seat as a "new principal" was powerful. I also appreciated the time Glen took to show us the OSPI report card. I think that will be a valuable resource.
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