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Hi fellow classmates, this is Jamie Durie and this is

my presentation for week five for you guys to look

at, for effective educational systems, E D u 7 30

with William William Woods University.

I said my last video, I've become a Prezi fan.

So that's the format I'm going to continue to choose

to use because I like it and I'm gonna give

you a little history of what's going on with me

in this paper and the school that I chose to

reach out to to talk about whether or not it

had promised or limited promise towards becoming high reliability.

I was originally going to talk with the assistant principal

at Rockwood Summit High School in the Rockwood School district

in ST louis and through I guess crazy schedules that

fell through.

So I was able to do that.

So this became two fold is what I end up

doing. Is it dawned on me that my daughter who

lives in Edmond Oklahoma works in an elementary school, she's

the administrative assistance for some awesome principles administrator.

So I thought, you know, I'm going to reach out

to them.

It's Edmond Oklahoma, but I also appreciate the perspective of

another state to learn about the similarities and it also

gave me a comfort feet comfort feeling as mama to

my grandson that goes to that school.

So what turned out to be panicked for a little

while because I lost my touch with the Rockwood assistant

principal turned into something that I actually really enjoy talking

to a principal from another state.

So the school I chose to look at was Heritage

Elementary school and that's the school that you see here

in this picture.

And I talked through basically some of those topics that

we needed to include for the purpose of this paper,

which I'll talk about as we go into my different

slides. Heritage Elementary is that promise or limited promise towards

highly reliability status and that's exactly what the purpose of

this paper is And according to Marzano, as we've learned

through this class, you know, a school that's highly high

reliability, monitor the effect effectiveness of critical factors within the

system and they immediately take action to contain those negative

effects to further any any problems that may arise.

Yeah, again, I'm still learning to use Prezi a little

bit. So please be patient with me.

There we go.

Um, so the abstract that was the purpose of my

paper and a little introduction here um for schools to

achieve that high reliability, there's many of those factors that

we've learned about those are the number one safe, supportive,

collaborative culture to the effective classroom teaching three the guaranteed

and viable curriculum for the standards referenced reporting as well

as competent competency based education.

So those are those five areas that I had some

conversations with with that building administrator, little demographics about the

school, which you will see on my slide there.

Heritage Elementary, it's a public school in the Edmund public

school system and let me throw out a little note

here. They chose to live in Edmond when they relocated

Oklahoma City because of the good word, the good things

they heard about the public school system so already had

a good feeling about it.

But after this little bit of an interview and research,

I feel even better about it.

Heritage Elementary is a pre K through grade five.

They have 876 students currently enrolled And the school right

now is offering in person and virtual learning.

Obviously with the pandemic pandemic they have 147 staff members

and their administration team consists of a principal and assistant

principal, two Counselors and two Psychologists.

And of those staff 57 are certified teachers.

There are special education department has three speech teachers, a

physical therapist to occupational therapists, three teachers that are uh

cognitive specialists and then they also have those teachers are

split between different grade levels.

Yeah we want with so I talk about the method

of how I gathered my information since it was a

distance thing, it became a um some email correspondence and

here's some questions so it kind of almost came out

the discussion board but was via email um you know

there's efforts being made to support the ongoing student and

staff growth and development.

She did indicate that that was a pretty big indicator

of areas that need to make sure that they were

adequate in that she did inform me that the school

is considered safe and secure at all times.

And they have measures in place, They have security tags,

identification badges to get access to the building.

They have the vessel well in place to prevent intruder

or guests getting into the building prior to getting through

the office for security check or safety measures.

And they have a security plan in place that their

facilities are reviewed annually to be sure that they're not

missing some, you know, hey, have you thought about this

area is not secure so that she really felt like

they had a safe and secure environment.

Um, some other considerations that were in the discussions.

They do do, they do some character education and that's

just really to try to combat some of the bullying

and the to keep the mental health status of their

students. Well, that's where the psychologists can come in place,

come into play for them.

They're also um, striving towards being a great expectations.

Schools, which is where they facilitate student learning through that

safe. Um, and supportive school culture.

Uh, they improve the best teaching practices that they can

and they involve the parents and community members, which I

thought that was very valuable.

We do that here at my school.

We always try to make sure all stakeholders are involved.

As many schools are probably feeling right now with the

whole mask situation.

Um, those other stakeholders outside the school have opinions whether

it's for or against, but it's always important to keep

those folks involved and and they feel like they have

a good grasp on that.

She did talk about, you know, all teachers obviously have

their plan times at Heritage Elementary and they also allow

for uh professional learning community time, PLC time where they

meet the administrators, try to meet with the team, one

of them joins those meetings um and these meetings allow

them to take the time to review the student data,

see what's going on, they said they're learning goals, um

they reflect on teaching practice and that's big, they learn

from each other through reflection, they explore resources to learn

new practices, whether that be through research based studies or

collaboration with each other and they apply how they plan

to have to apply new learning strategies.

The teachers, she indicated feel like they do see good

things that come out of these PLC meetings.

The teams also then examined curriculum and they determine what

the students know what they want them to learn learn

using that curriculum to develop their units and they're pacing

guides. So, all in all, you know, I'm only two

pages into the paper and presentation, I see so many

similarities in this school and what I do in my

current school and what my prior interview data released um

steps two and three to reach, eve achieve high reliability,

the examination of curriculum leads to highly effective teacher teaching

and guaranteed viable curriculum.

Those two, in my opinion still go hand in hand

if you have um a viable curriculum you probably have

effective teaching and effective teachers can make a curriculum work.

Uh The principal also talked about their media centre as

a resource.

Uh that wasn't mentioned in my last interview and I

thought that was really interesting because again comparing to where

I'm at in my school are library media center is

a huge resource.

Mhm. Um the teachers can get supported materials for curriculum

if they need something to enhance a lesson or sub

supplemental material or other learning strategies, they have all those

research tools there.

So the media centre was proven to be a very

good resource for them in their school.

Um the results of my discussion is heritage elementary, it

has the characteristics of being a high reliable, high reliability

school. Um she did talk about when they do have

things that need to be changed.

It's usually not immediate if ever immediate, especially if it

has to go through collaboration teams or things that just

have to be discussed with other buildings or in the

event that would have to be board approved but so

immediate isn't necessarily the way things happen for them which

would maybe take away the characteristic of being a high

reliability school.

However, like I said, the promise is definitely there, they

have good things going on and I, as mama, I'm

very comfortable having my grandson, they're in grade three, okay,

they're meeting the needs of the students, they're meeting the

needs of the families, they're meeting the needs of the,

of the community.

So as I said, it is definitely a school that

could achieve high reliability status.

My reference pages here.

If you want to look into anything else that I

researched and read up to get a little more information.

One area that I needed, a little thing was character

education. I want to learn a little bit more about

that. Um as well as I did find an ed

webcast on highly reliable schools that's listed at the very

bottom of references, I found that very informational and I'm

a visual or auditory learner.

So it was really nice to just listen to that

to pick up some points about high reliability, high reliability

schools. So that's my presentation for this one again, thank

you for listening.

Prezi will continue to be my format whenever I present

for these.

I, I enjoy it.

If anyone wants to try it, I encourage it, it

works well and I hope everyone has a good weekend.

Thank you

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