Progress Indicators Project

On December 7, 2006, the Wallace LEAD Team met with Cheryl King from the Educational Development Center (EDC), the consultant Wallace has provided to assist the final wrap-up of the grant. In collaboration with the Eugene School District 4J LEAD Team, EDC wil participate in the development of a set of critical indicators to be used to meassure the progress of the Wallace funded K-12 Learning Communities efforts to prepare leaders who are equipped to:

1. Strengthen regional and district articulation and program coherence;
2. Increase availability and use of regional and district data in decision making to inform instruction;
3. Strengthen student transitions from elememtary to middle and middle to high school;
4. Implement a righorous and coherent district-wide curriculum
5. Increase access to opportunities to learn for all students beginning with kindergarten learning experience and continuing through high school graduation.

Before the group started their work session, Cheryl reminded them of Stephen Covey's guideline: "Begin with the end in mind," and reviewed the Vision Statement for the work of the K-12 Learning Communities, a leveraging strategy for closing the achievement gap:

Vision Dynamic K-12 regional learning commmunities which collectively and collaboratively indentify and own the student achievement gaps across regional and grade levels for every school and work together with their staffs to find and implement meaningful and effective solutions that close the gaps.

	Cheryl challenges each member to think about "how do you know" that you are making progress?
	Cheryl sums up current issues: change as a process the achievement gap cultural diversity ground-up leadership, teacher leaders