Race to the Top Scope of Work

1. Race to the Top Scope of Work Broward County Public Schools

2. Race to the Top Phase 2 Reform Areas • Standards and Assessment: Adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy; • Data Systems: Building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction; • Great Teachers and Leaders: Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and • Turning around our lowest-achieving schools: Turning around the State-selected three persistently lowest performing schools (lowest 5% schools)- Larkdale Elementary, Sunland Park Elementary, and Coconut Creek High School.

3. Broward’s Budget for Race to the Top

4. State Goals • High School Graduates: Double the percentage of high school graduates who go to college and achieve at least one year’s worth of college credit. • National Assessments: Increase the percentage of students scoring at or above proficient on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) by 2015, to or beyond the performance levels of the highest-performing states. • Achievement Gap: Reduce the achievement gap in half by 2015. • District goals are aligned to the State goals.

5. Scope of Work Projects Standards and Assessment • Expand Lesson Study • Expand STEM Career and Technical Program Offerings • Increase Advanced STEM Coursework • Bolster Technology for Improved Instruction and Assessment Data Systems • Improve Access to State Data • Use Data to Improve Instruction Great Teachers and Leaders • Provide Support for Educator Preparation Programs • Improve Teacher and Principal Evaluation System • Use Data Effectively for Human Capital Decisions • Focus Effective Professional Development Struggling Schools • Drive Improvement in Persistently Low-Achieving Schools • Implement Proven Programs for School Improvement Charter School Involvement • Include Charter Schools in District Planning Project Management and Oversight

6. Standards and Assessments1. Expand Lesson Study • Summary of Deliverables: The District must modify the school schedules of persistently lowest achieving schools to devote a minimum of one lesson study per month for each grade level or subject area. Optionally, the District may include additional schools. Scope of Work

7. Standards and Assessments2. Expand STEM Career and Technical Program Offerings • Summary: The District will implement at least one additional high school career and technical program that provides training for occupations requiring science, technology, engineering, and/or math (STEM). Scope of Work

8. Standards and Assessments3. Increase Advanced STEM Coursework • Summary: The District must increase the number of STEM-related acceleration courses, such as Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, Advanced International Certificate of Education, dual enrollment, and industry certification. Scope of Work

9. Standards and Assessments4. Bolster Technology for Improved Instruction and Assessment Summary: The District must ensure that each school possesses the technology to provide sufficient access to strategic tools for improved classroom instruction and computer-based assessment. Scope of Work

10. Data Systems5. Improve Access to State Data • Summary: The District must (1) integrate with the State to provide single sign-on access to state-level applications and data by their users, and (2) incorporate state-level data into local instructional improvement systems to improve instruction in the classroom and operations at the school and district levels, and to support research. Scope of Work

11. Data Systems6. Use Data to Improve Instruction • Summary: (1)The District must use systems that are easy for students, teachers, parents, and principals to use and that show growth of students, teachers, schools, and districts disaggregated by subject and demographics. (2) The District must provide requested data from local instructional improvement and longitudinal data systems to the State. Scope of Work

12. Great Teachers and Leaders7. Provide Support for Educator Preparation Programs • Summary: The District must improve the support of candidates in teacher preparation programs by collaborating with providers in assigning effective personnel as mentors and supervising teachers and using candidate performance data for program improvements. Scope of Work

13. Great Teachers and Leaders8. Improve Teacher and Principal Evaluation Systems • Summary: The District must design and conduct teacher and principal evaluations through systems that meet the requirements of law and Race to the Top requirements. Scope of Work

14. Great Teachers and Leaders9. Use Data Effectively for Human Capital Decisions • Summary: The District must use results from teacher and principal evaluations to inform human capital processes, including compensation system, differentiated pay, incentives, and recruitment strategies to recruit and retain effective teachers. Scope of Work

15. Great Teachers and Leaders10. Focus Effective Professional Development • Summary:The District must revise its professional development system to include the elements described in the Race to the Top grant, will utilize data from teachers’ and principals’ evaluations to plan and evaluate professional development, and will evaluate the effectiveness of professional development. Scope of Work

16. Struggling Schools11. Drive Improvement in Persistently Low-Achieving Schools • Summary: The District must select one of the four school intervention models in all schools identified as persistently lowest-achieving by the State. All actions must be in accordance with Differentiated Accountability. Scope of Work

17. Struggling Schools 12. Implement Proven Programs for School Improvement • Summary: The District must submit a plan that implements one or more of the following programs in each persistently lowest-achieving school and within the feeder pattern of each persistently lowest-achieving high school: • In Intervene schools, implement a schedule that provides increased learning time. • Offer pre-kindergarten on a full-day basis using Title I Full Day Pre-K model. • Expand opportunities for students to attend career and professional academies, especially STEM academies. • Expand or introduce proven programs to encourage advanced classes, positive behavior support systems, mentoring, and curriculum that provides high-need students with college-ready, career-ready, or other postsecondary skills. • Offer other approved programs that demonstrate a strong record of improving student achievement in these District schools. Scope of Work

18. 13. Include Charter Schools in LEA Planning • Summary: The District must offer charter schools located within their district the opportunity to participate in the grant on the same terms as any other district school. Consistent with federal requirements, the District must ensure that participating charter schools receive a commensurate share of any grant funds or services funded by the grant. • Ensure that all of all schools possess the technology to provide sufficient access to strategic tools for improved classroom instruction and computer-based assessment; • Access State data systems via the single sign-on portal; • Use State data from a local instructional improvement system to improve instruction; • Implement a Teacher and School Leader/Principal/Director Evaluation system that includes student growth measures • Use evaluation results to improve how teachers and school leaders/principals/Directors are hired, placed/assigned, promoted, retained, dismissed, and compensated (pay for performance – using State criteria/IPAS/APAS/learning gains formula) • Participate in Professional development focusing on the new common core standards, employing formative assessment, and employing principles of lesson study; • Evaluate the fidelity of professional development tied to student performance; and • Provide all necessary data for the evaluation of the District’s RTTT program.

19. RTTT District Committees • Technology Committee* • Professional Development Committee* • Evaluation and Compensation Committee • Sub-committee: Pay for Performance* • Sub-committee: School Improvement Grant • Sub-committee: Appraisal System Committee* • Advanced Coursework and STEM Committee • Intervention Committee • Charter School Steering Committee *means charter school representative assigned to committee