2006 PRE-CONFERENCE SUMMER INSTITUTE

The Delaware Valley Minority Student
Achievement Consortium

And

The Minority Student
Achievement Network

Present

"DE-TRACKING WITH VIGILANCE"

Sunday June 25, 2006
8:30 am-3:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Hotel at Penn's Landing
Philadelphia, PA

Come join Dr. Oakes, a nationally recognized scholar and student advocate, and the educational team from the Rockville Centre School District for a stimulating institute that will:

• inform you of what current research suggests about the effects of tracking and detracking practices

• provide a proven model of school district reform that has positively and significantly improved achievement for all students, and

• challenge your district's current student grouping practices

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2005-06 GOALS AND ACTIVITIES

After one year of engagement with the Consortium, individual districts have identified their own unique goals/action plans for addressing the needs of their underperforming students and closing the gaps. Consortium activities in 2005-06 will focus on supporting collective and individual districts in accomplishing their shared as well as district-specific goals and action plans for closing the gaps.

2005-06 GOALS

• Enhance All Districts' Management and Utilization of Student Demographic, Outcome and Perceptual Data to Guide Instructional Program Improvement
  
• Enhance the Quality of Student Teacher Relationships by Attending to the Cultural Competencies of District Staff and Attending to School Culture and Climate/Expectation Factors That Impact on Student Performance
  
• Instill Higher Performance Expectations for All Students and Enhance Greater Rigor in Course Content and Curricula
  
• Continuing to Examine and Adjust District and School Policies, Structures, Grouping and Student Placement Processes In Order to Assure Underachieving Students' Access to Rigorous Courses, Curriculum and Support

2005-06 ACTIVITIES

• School Board and Superintendent Dinner And Workshop
  “Leading Change: District Leadership for Overcoming Barriers to Equity” with Glenn Singleton, Pacific Educational Group

Penn Center for Educational Leadership
University of Pennsylvania
3440 Market Street 5 th Floor
Philadelphia , PA 19104-3325
October 25, 2005 5:30-8:30

• DVMSAC Fall Institute
  University Sheraton Hotel
  University of Pennsylvania
  November 29-30, 2005
  
• DVMSAC Summer Institute in Partnership with the Minority Student Achievement Network Annual Conference
  June 2006
  
• Closing the Gaps District Team Seminar Series at Penn
  Penn Center for Educational Leadership
  University of Pennsylvania
  3440 Market Street 5 th Floor
  Philadelphia , PA 19104-3325
  
  “Leading Change: Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Equity” with Glenn Singleton, Pacific Educational Group
  October 25, 2005

"Digging Deeper: Developing Startegic Efforts to Reduce Disparities in Student Achievement" with Pedro Noguera, New York University, November 7, 2005

“Enhancing Cultural Competencies” with Barbara Moore-Williams
January 18, 2006

“Raising Our Expectations for the Success of ALL Students” with Barbara Moore-Williams
February 15, 2006

“Ability Grouping and Detracking: Culturally Appropriate Assessment and Placement Practices”
March 15 , 2006
Seminar to be determined
April 26, 2006

• Workshops: Data Analysis for Continuous Improvement and Program Evaluation
  TBD
  
• Workshops: Facilitating District and Community Dialog Around Race and Achievement
  TBD
  
• Superintendent Steering Committee Meetings
  Penn Center for Educational Leadership
  University of Pennsylvania
  3440 Market Street 5 th Floor
  Philadelphia , PA 19104-3325
  
  
  September 21, 2005 9:00 am - Noon
  October 19, 2005 12:30 pm- 1:30 pm
  January 18, 2006 12:30 pm- 2:30 pm
  February 15, 2006 12:30 pm- 2:30 pm
  March 15, 2006 12:30 pm- 2:30 pm
  April 26, 2006 12:30 pm- 2:30 pm
  
  
• Consortium Task Forces/Work Groups
  
• Building Common Consortium Data Set and Data Analysis Practices
• Enhancing Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty, Administrators and Staff
• Engaging School Counselor