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Professional Learning Series

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Year Two

Year One

Phase 1: Orientation to the 5Essentials

Phase 2: Understanding and Using the Data

Objectives:
o Learn about the research behind 5Essentials
o Learn about the administration process
o Learn about the 5Essentials Reports

Objectives:
o Understand and analyze 5Essentials data
o Identify root causes for measures of strength and
growth
o Generate and prioritize potential actions
o Plan to implement and communicate actions

Audience: Up to 10 school leadership teams of 6 8

people per leadership team (including teacher-leaders)

Audience: Up to 10 school leadership teams of 6 8

people per leadership team (including teacher-leaders)

Time: 2 hours pre-survey administration

Time: 4 hours after release of results

Phase 3: After Action Review

Phase 4: Completing the Cycle

Objectives:
o Review action plan and analyze formative data
o Evaluate the success of action plan implementation
o Make adjustments to action plan

Objectives:
o Analyze multi-year trends and progress on prioritized
measures
o Identify root causes for areas of strength and growth
o Develop an action plan to address the area for
growth

Audience: Up to 10 school leadership teams of 6 8

people per leadership team (including teacher-leaders)

Audience: Up to 10 school leadership teams of 6 8

people per leadership team (including teacher-leaders)

Time: 2 hours pre-survey administration

Time: 4 hours after release of results

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Workshop Objectives
By the end of the session, leadership teams will be able to
Understand the research behind and the components of the
5Essentials.
Prepare for the 5Essentials survey administration.

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Understand how to navigate 5Essentials reports.

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Agenda
Time

Activity

10 minutes

Introduction

25 minutes

Defining School Improvement

10 minutes

The 5Essentials Story

5 minutes

The 5Essentials Framework

15 minutes

Exploring a 5Essentials Report

20 minutes

Organizing Around the Framework

15 minutes

Administering the Survey

15 minutes

Predicting Your Schools Results

5 minutes

Wrap Up
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Purpose of the 5Essentials

Gives voice to teachers, students, and

families
Drives safe and candid conversations
Provides a data point beyond test scores

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Promotes school improvement planning

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Defining School
Improvement
Collaborative Activity

Improving Schools
Step 1 Brainstorm
Individually respond to the prompt: What does it take to
improve a school?
Record one idea per Post-It

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Time: 3 minutes

Improving Schools
Step 2 At your table, one person at a time:

Place each of your Post-Its on the chart paper

Clarify each item
Sort items into categories
Circle and name the categories

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Time: 10 minutes

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Improving Schools
Step 3 Gallery Walk
Visit other groups charts, noticing themes that run
across charts.
Time: 5 minutes
Instructional
Coaching

Money

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Consistent
Consequences

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Improving Schools
Step 4 Table Discussion
What themes did you notice across different charts?
What topics were new, interesting, or different?

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Time: 5 minutes

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The 5Essentials Story

Inspiration, Research, Discovery

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Tale of Two Schools

Similar Schools
Same area of the Chicago
100% African American enrollment and 100% low
income
Among 100 poorest-performing schools in reading
and math in 1989

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Different Outcomes
Hancock moves dramatically forward
Alexander stagnates
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Essential Question

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Why did Hancock

improve while
Alexander
stagnated?
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Observation

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Discovery
A comprehensive set of practices and conditions
that made schools much more likely to improve
student outcomes emerged

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5 Essential Supports
Ambitious
Instruction

Supportive
Environment

Effective
Leaders

Collaborative
Teachers

Involved
Families
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Culmination

20 years of research, 15 years of data

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Schools strong on at least three of the

5Essentials were 10 times more likely to
improve student growth in test scores and 30
times less likely to stagnate than similar
schools that were weak on these supports.

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Continuation

The essential supports are positively

related to:

Test scores in math and reading

Test scores gains in math and reading
Attendance rate changes
Graduation rates

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The essential supports with the

strongest associations with student
outcomes are supportive environment
and ambitious instruction

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The 5 Essentials
Framework
A Closer Look

Unpacking an Essential
5 Essentials

Items

Measures
Measures

The teacher asks difficult

questions in class.
This class challenges
me.

English Instruction
Math Instruction
Academic Press
Quality of Student
Discussion

This class requires me to

work hard to do well.
The teacher expects us
to become better
thinkers, not just
memorize things.

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The teacher expects me

to do my best all the
time.
The teacher expects
everyone to work hard.

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Ambitious Instruction

Are classes challenging and engaging?

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English Instruction
Math Instruction
Academic Press
Quality of Student Discussion

Ambitious
Instruction

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Effective Leaders

Are principals and teachers

implementing a shared vision for
success?
Teacher Influence
Program Coherence
Teacher-Principal Trust

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Instructional Leadership

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Collaborative Teachers

Do teachers collaborate to promote

professional growth?

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Collective Responsibility
School Commitment
Teacher-Teacher Trust
Quality Professional Development

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Involved Families

Does the entire staff work to build strong

external relationships?

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Parent Influence on Decision Making

Teacher-Parent Trust
Parent Involvement in School

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Supportive Environment

Is the school safe, demanding and

supportive?
Peer Support for Academic Work (ES)
School-Wide Future Orientation (HS)
Expectations for Post-Secondary Education (HS)
Academic Personalism (ES)
Student-Teacher Trust
Safety

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Bringing the Pieces Together

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The real power of

the 5Essentials is in
their combined
strength.

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Parent/Family Survey

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Developed through collaboration with

Illinois State Board of Education and
University of Chicago Charter Schools
Administered since 2013
Does not affect 5Essentials performance
Data is not scored; frequencies only
Questions are not centered around
constructs

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Exploring a
5Essentials
Report
A Collaborative Activity

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Understanding the System

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Online Diagnostic Reports

Activity

Time

Guidance

Explore

10 minutes

With a partner, explore a 5Essentials sample

report. Take notes about what you notice.
https://demo.5-Essentials.org

Learn

5 minutes

The facilitator highlights key characteristics.

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Critical Components
Response rates
Essential and measure scores
Items
Trends
Downloads
All Measures

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Actionable Information

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Organizing Around
the Framework
Creating Coherence

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Coherence Activity
Activity

Time

Think

3 minutes Write all of your school and district initiatives,

committees, structures, or programs.

Guidance

Sort

8 minutes On poster paper, with the 5Essentials at the top, group

each post-it note under its respective Essential.
Ambitious
Instruction

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Discuss

Supportive
Environment

Involved
Families

Collaborative
Teachers

Effective
Leaders

9 minutes Discuss which Essentials you are prioritizing and

why.
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Coherence

Theres not really anything that you do as a

school leader that cant fit in to [the
5Essentials] frameworkits now a
meaningful frame to the staff its how they
live.

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- Amy Rome, former Director of School Leadership, AUSL

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Administering
the Survey
Requirements, Access, Messaging

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The 5Essentials System

Survey of all teachers, teachers aides, and paraprofessionals (50%
response rate and at least 8 valid respondents)
Survey of grade 4-12 students (50% response rate and at least 15
valid respondents)
Survey of all families (20% response rate)
Survey Window: February 1st March 1st
Recommendation: Provide 30 minute block for completion

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Analytic process (Tested by University of Chicago researchers)

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Messaging the 5Essentials

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Explain value of school participation

Focus on the importance of voice
Set your goals for teacher/student
participation
Provide details of survey administration
Reinforce confidentiality of survey
Demonstrate what results look like

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Getting the Message Out

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5Essentials Communication Kit

School community press release
Teacher announcements and survey
reminders
Family letters and survey reminders

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Access to Survey
Administrators
Email invitation to access survey administration site
Provides Access to:

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Rosters
Real time response rates
Assign a survey coordinator

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Access to Survey
Teachers
Receive email invitation
Log-in with username and password
provided
Students
Go to: https://survey.5-essentials.org/delaware/survey/student/
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(Link will activate when survey goes live on February 1st)

Log-in using state student id and birthdate

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Access to Survey
Parents
Go to: https://survey.5-essentials.org/delaware/parent/student/
(Link will activate when survey goes live on February 1st)

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Begin typing school name

Select school from the list that appears

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Taking the Survey

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Answer all relevant questions

Questions can be skipped at any time
May stop, resume later (students and teachers
only)
Submit completed survey

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Browser Requirements

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Mozilla Firefox 4.0 or +

Apple Safari 5 or +
Google Chrome
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or +

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Resources
FAQs
Communication Kit
Teacher letters
Parent letters
Student consent form

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Report Demo Site

Survey Administration Manual

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Predicting Your
Schools Results
Collaborative Activity

Prediction Activity
Activity

Time

Guidance

Think

1 minute

What do you think is your schools strongest

Essential?
What Essential presents the greatest
opportunity for growth?

7 minutes

Share your thinking with a person from a

different school.

Share

7 minutes

Share your thinking with your team.

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Pair

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Wrapping Up
Next Steps, Questions, Feedback

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Our Next Interaction

Phase 2: Understanding and Using the Data
Objectives:
o Understand and analyze 5Essentials data
o Identify root causes for measures of strength and growth
o Generate and prioritize potential actions
o Plan to implement and communicate actions

Audience: Up to 10 school leadership teams of 6 8 people per leadership team

(including teacher-leaders)

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Time: 4 hours

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Questions
What questions do you have?

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For future questions,

contact 5Essentials:
5essentials@uchicago.edu
(866) 440-1874
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Feedback
Please take five minutes and go to
http://goo.gl/PIZOXK to fill out a feedback form,
letting us know:
What worked well?

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What didnt work well?

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