Winter Principal Literacy Meeting

Resources to guide our conversation:

● Data located in building IST folders:
○ NWEA grade level ELA reports
■ % proficient at 60%ile by grade level in reading
Fall Winter

1st 20% 35%

2nd 33% 40%

3rd 47% 45%

4th 56% 54%

5th 45% 47%

○ NWEA Quadrant reports for ELA

● SIP Activity Tracker
● K -3 Essential Literacy Practices
● 4 - 5 Essential Literacy Practices
● Atlas Rubicon (MAISA Units)

Please bring evidences that will support our conversations about your literacy work since our
last meeting such as:
● Agenda/notes from pd
● PLC minutes
● One-on-one teacher follow up conversations

Reflection questions prior to meeting:

● How has your leadership supported literacy instructional practices and student
achievement?
○ How I plan- I know where I want us to go, I share it
○ Talking to parents- getting to know them and understanding how to help their
kids
○ Keeping the pulse, not losing the momentum
○ Learning how to avoid a system that is adult centered
○ Personal building with myself and my staff
○ Marty Chafey- Collaborative Inquiry work with leadership team, as well as book
study Coherence
Work going on in the buildings
○ Clear target with PLCs and literacy being the focus
○ 35% of the staff is new
○ Being intentional about our work- conversation about our units (preparing and
planning), collaborative inquiry
○ Getting into PLCs to refine communication
○ Document to help discussion about the 4 essential questions
○ Walking around with Julie
○ Google hangout for literacy
○ Thinking outside of the box for coaching
 ○ George, contact Mike Yocum at OS about entry level teacher induction work.
● Based on your winter NWEA data, what will your focus be for the remainder of the year?
● When we talk in June, what do you hope to see in place?
○ Proficiency marking at 54% or higher in Spring
○ A plan in how we can address systemically the social emotional challenges within
our building- 3 trainings for staff around trauma
○ Teachers to have a firm understanding on the MAISA units, essential standards
○ Each classroom running and sustaining effective workshop models (reading,
writing and math)
○ Scheduling- structure to accommodate a block
○ We won the fight
● What supports have you found beneficial? What additional supports would you like to
see in place?
○ Help principal message to the staff to alleviate the stress on staff
● What specific feedback would you like to receive?
○ Am I being clear and concise in all of my messages?

Meeting agenda:
Celebrations
● What has moved forward in your building for literacy instruction?
○ Parent involvement
○ Literacy workshops
○ After school tutoring
○ Partnering with PTA
○ Getting better attendance than last year
○ Leader in Me
○ PBIS- newly developed- evidenced in growth and achievement and excitement
● What are positive trends (growth and/or achievement) within your school ELA data?

Data review: NWEA key noticings

● Growth in 1st and 2nd
● 3rd, 4th, 5th- flat
● Message to staff: Story of the Taj Mahal- don’t forget the “why”
● Complaining may come- the agenda still has to move forward
● Refine our vision again, and not get caught up in the whirlwind

MTSS
● Tier 1 Key noticings (curriculum/pacing, essential practices)
○ 80/20 rule with Title interventionists. 80% push in, 20% pull out
○ Ownership is in pockets- a lot of the kick back is because we don’t know how to
do it
● Tier 2 Key noticings
○ Ownership is in pockets- a lot of the kick back is because we don’t know how to
do it
● How does your SIP support your goals within the area of literacy? What revisions might
you want to consider for next year?
● How are your literacy coach and other district personnel supporting your work within the
area of literacy? Are there additional ways we can support you?
○ Julie is helping plan
 ● How are your Title resources supporting your work within literacy?

Additional Challenges / Concerns

● Would like 2 literacy coaches (K-2...1.0), (3-5….5)
● Staff that have not been trained in Marzano, but have been evaluated in Marzano- what
can we do to correct this?
● Collective efficacy work information for principal

Next Steps

Resources/Support Needed
● Exemplars from the district for schedules with lab classrooms for teachers