Monday C Concurrent Sessions 10:50 a.m. ‐ 11:50 a.m.

C101
Using Data to Focus Improvement
Schools that successfully improve student achievement use data regularly to guide decisions about instruction, student support and professional development. Easy‐to‐use processes are taught, and participants learn how data is vital to the school improvement process. Join Dr. Smothers on a transformational journey from the position of being data "providers" and "storers" to being data "users" and "analyzers."

Presenter(s): Roderick Smothers
Domain 6.0: Accountability & Systemwide Performance

C102
Advancing Teachers and Leaders through School‐wide Professional Development
Examine school‐wide initiatives to develop teacher leaders and instructional leaders. Presenters will discuss strategies for increased student learning. Participants will develop an action plan to monitor teaching, learning and leadership through national standards and the National Board’s Five Core Propositions. Participants will be introduced to National Board's Advanced Certification for Education Leaders (ACEL).

Presenter(s): Margie Katz, Charles New and Will Parker
Domain 5.0: Professional Growth/Development

C103
Using Formative Assessments at All Levels to Drive Instructional Improvement
Atlanta Public Schools uses formative assessments at all levels to drive instructional improvement. This session provides a clear understanding of the purpose and benefits of using a data protocol process, teaching expectations and innovative technology solutions as a way to formatively assess and support classroom practices and student learning. Modeling and coaching are utilized to provide professional development and support for identifying gaps, intervention strategies and monitoring student progress.

Presenter: Michael A. Pitts
Domain 6.0: Accountability and Systemwide Performance

C104
Roadmap to Success: An Overview of the Five Year Professional Development Plan
In this session, participants will take an in‐depth look at Memphis City Schools’ Five Year Comprehensive Professional Development Plan and how it has impacted district administrators and schools.

Presenter(s): Myra Whitney, Felicia Fowler, Marilyn Taylor, Ellis Goss and Margie Katz
Domain 5.0: Professional Growth/Development

C105
Scholars’ Forum: Urban Education as a Pathway to Social Justice
The scholars will demonstrate how they use research in urban education in both traditional ways to inform knowledge about educational policy and practice, but also in nontraditional ways to advance social justice. They will address how research in urban education must be relevant to the democratic practice of questioning and challenging social inequities. Further they will illustrate how research can be used to eliminate social injustice when it is driven by local data, interests, needs and fault lines. This discussion will include how research should be collaboratively driven (e.g., with district leaders, researchers, and community members, and students) with a laser sharp focus on real local concerns and with an action agenda to create communities that assure educational equity and achievement for all children, regardless of their socioeconomic status, race, gender or ability levels.

Presenter(s): Beverly E. Cross and Martin Haberman
Domain 3.0: Diversity

C106
Charter Schools Forum
Charter schools have increased autonomy, and can work closely with communities to mobilize in new ways to achieve success. These schools can be innovative in their programming, scheduling and budgeting, as state laws afford them greater flexibility in exchange for explicit accountability for results. Partnerships between communities, parents, and charter schools are essential to positive student outcomes. Panelists will share evidence of their innovative techniques and tools.

Presenter(s): Stan Hyland
Domain 8.0: Research & Standards‐Based Curriculum/Instruction
Domain 6.0: Accountability & Systemwide Performance

C107
An Effective Leadership Team: Raising Student Achievement
This presentation will provide information on an effective leadership team that works collaboratively to ensure the overall operation of the school is a success. We will discuss the development of the leadership team, our leadership team meetings, how we developed teacher leaders and how we moved our school from low performing to a Paragon school. We will provide strategies that drive our leadership commitment to excellence where student achievement is number one.

Presenter(s): Flora Childres and Debra Martin
Domain 9.0: Transformational Leadership

C108
High Impact Leadership
Learn practical leadership strategies for high‐impact school improvement based on the research meta‐analysis of Marzano, Waters, and McNulty, School Leadership That Works (2005). In addition, learn how Shelby County Schools designed systemic structures to support and propel such high‐impact leadership through an intentional “grow our own” cohesive approach.

Presenter(s): Laura Link
Domain 9.0: Transformational Leadership