Meeting Packets and Additional Resources

Meeting Packets

June 10, 2013

• Strategic Plan Draft
• "Critical Friends" Review Form
• Task Force Review Form

April 15, 2013
Click links below for notes from task-force meetings:

• Equity
• Facilities and Finance
• Holistic Community Education>
• Transformational Teaching, Learning, and Leadership(April 4, 2013)
• Transformational Teaching Learning, and Leadership (April 9, 2013)

April 4, 2013

• Equity Overview 2

March 18, 2013

• Task Force Tool Kit
• Task Force Template
• Task Force Template Example--Holistic CommunityEducation
• Steering Committee Critical Friends Role
• Equity Overview 1

  For a Word version of the Task Force Template, click here.

February 11, 2013

• Results of February 4 Gallery Walk/Dot Activity
• Value Statements--Draft 2
• Mission and Vision Statements--Draft 2
• Goals--Draft 2
• Requested Disaggregated Results

February 4, 2013

• Draft Vision and Mission Statements
• Draft Values Statements
• Draft Goals

January 12, 2013

• "I Used to Think...and Now I Think...," by Richard F. Elmore
• Example Mission and Vision Statements
• Characteristics of Equity Exercise (revised)
• Characteristics of Holistic Community Education Exercise (revised)
• Task Force Ballot

January 7, 2013

• Focus Group Data Analysis
• Characteristics of Equity Exercise
• Characteristics of Holistic Community Education Exercise
• Characteristics of Equity + Holistic Community Education Exercise Addendum
• Post-it Note Comments from December 17
• Trapeze Editorial

December 17, 2012

• Values Analysis
• Values Analysis Raw Data
• Working Draft of Values Statement Categories
• Post-it Note Comments from December 3

December 3, 2012

• Potential Values Statements
• Post-it Note Comments from November 19

November 19, 2012

• School Climate Data
• School Climate Data, Summary Version
• Questions and Answers about Senate Bill 7 (SB7)
• Post-it Note Comments from November 5

November 5, 2012

• Finance Overview
• Facility Update
• Post-it Note Comments from October 29

October 29, 2012

• Additional Student Achievement Data

October 17, 2012

• Mission Statement
• 2012-2013 School Profile
• Student Achievement Data
• Focus Group Dates

October 1, 2012

• Strategic Planning Overview
• School Profile
• District 200 Overview

Additional Resources

OPRF Research

• The Learning Community Performance Gap--Oak Park and River Forest High School (May 2003)

Websites

• The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University
• The Illinois Interactive Report Card
• The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research

Suggested readings

• A Common Core of Readiness
• Education Week: Saving Black and Latino Boys
• College and Career Readiness: Same or Different, by David T. Conley and Charis McGaughy
• From Phi Delta Kappan,October 2012:
  • "Learning 21st-Century Skills Requires 21st -Century Teaching," by Anna Rosefsky Saavedra and V. Darleen Opfer
  • "Teaching Differently . . . Learning Deeply," by Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine
  • "Sharing the Learning," by Jeffrey P. Carpenter and Jennifer S. Pease
• Toward Excellence with Equity: An Emerging Vision for Closing the Achievement Gap, by Ronald F. Ferguson,Chapter 6, "What Doesn't Meet the Eye: Understanding and Addressing Racial Disparities in High-Achieving Suburban Schools"
• Creating the Opportunity to Learn: Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap, by A. Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera, Chapter 2, "What's Race Got to Do With It?"