Race to the Top: Louisiana's Journey to Educational Excellence

2. Historic Opportunity • Race to the Top is Louisiana’s Best Opportunity to Dramatically and Permanently Improve Student Outcomes • WE ARE POISED TO DELIVER 2

3. Louisiana’s Approach to Reform • Leverage Conditions for Reform Already Present throughout the State • Build Statewide Capacity to Improve Educator Effectiveness • Empower Trailblazers to Scale Innovation and Be Proof Points for Excellence 3

4. Conditioned for Success – Leveraging a Decade of Bold Reform Accountability Starts for All Schools and Districts; New Content Standards and High-Stakes Testing 1999 4

5. Conditioned for Success – Leveraging a Decade of Bold Reform Statewide Recovery School District (RSD) Created to Intervene in Failed Schools 2003 5

6. Conditioned for Success – Leveraging a Decade of Bold Reform RSD Expands After Hurricane Katrina – Laboratory for Innovation 2005 6

7. Conditioned for Success – Leveraging a Decade of Bold Reform Value-Added Teacher Preparation Program Assessment Model (TPPAM) Implemented Statewide 2007 7

8. Conditioned for Success – Leveraging a Decade of Bold Reform Act 54 Mandates Value-Added Teacher and Leader Evaluations 2010 8

9. Conditioned for Success – Leveraging a Decade of Bold Reform • After A Decade of Bold Reform, • Louisiana Has Made Dramatic Gains. Yet, Despite Substantial Progress, Too Many of Our Students are Being Left Behind. 2010 2010 9

10. Louisiana’s Challenge 10

11. Building Capacity to Improve Educator Effectiveness • Louisiana’s Department of Education is Actively Transforming into a Capacity-Building, • Service Delivery Entity 11

12. Building Capacity: Statewide System of Support Feedback Feedback 12

13. Building Capacity: Intervening in Low-Performing Schools • HPSI • MOU • Local Charter Building Local Capacity Re-Enter LEA Success Failing Schools Failure • Charter • Direct-Run State Intervention Success 13

14. Building Capacity: Supporting Teachers and Leaders R e d a c t e d Improved Student Performance 14

15. Empowering Trailblazers to Be Proof Points for Excellence • Race to the Top Allows Those On Leading Edge to Go Deeper, Faster, Stronger with Reform Plan • 100% Commitment • Resource Alignment • Performance-Based Compensation Systems • Principal, Site-Based Autonomy • Place Most Effective Teachers in Lowest Performing Schools 15

16. Empowering Trailblazers to Be Proof Points for Excellence • How Do We Know This Will Work? • Experience • High Performing Charter Schools • RSD Statewide Intervention • Teacher Compensation (TAP) • High Performing High Poverty (HPHP) Schools • Value-Added 16

17. Louisiana’s Game Changer With the Investment of Race to the Top, Students in Louisiana Will Have Life Changing Opportunities 2014 17

18. Historic Opportunity Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler • Who would Believe that Louisiana would be a National Model for Something Other than Food and Culture? • We Will Prove… • A State Can Rise from the Bottom to the Top. • There are No Excuses. • Every Child Can Achieve High Levels of Academic Success Regardless of Where They’re Born. 2014 18