Oregon Proficiency Project Phase 2 Overview

Phase 2 – July through December 2010


OBC/E3 carried out three primary activities in order to capitalize on Oregon’s policy environment, continue the networks and tools built during Phase I, and be a bridge to larger scale implementation beyond 2010. The practitioner networks focused on exploring how to develop expertise among instructional leaders to build capacity in their schools as instructional coaches of other teachers or as principals or district leaders responsible for secondary administrators’ development.
 
The activities:

  1. Continued to develop the model of applying expertise in an embedded coaching approach. Proficiency-based education sites in three districts, the Academy for International Studies (AIS) in Woodburn District, Hillsboro High School and Century High School in Hillsboro School District, and Sunset High School in Beaverton District received intensive support in teaching and instructional leadership. All three schools participated, additionally, in the instructional leadership network and/or the teacher leader network.
  2. Formed and convened networks to make and assess progress toward the development and improvement of proficiency practices and support elements. Principals from 10 selected schools, including large, comprehensive high schools, formed a network to develop skills to lead and manage the building of capacity in proficiency-based teaching and learning. In addition, 10 teacher leaders from schools in the administrators’ network received support to develop content, methods, tools and processes to implement proficiency-based teaching and learning and improve effectiveness of teachers in their schools, focusing on math and language arts.
  3. Continued to expand the role of the Phase I Practitioner and Policy Panel. The Panel followed the progression of strategies and tactics pursued during Phase I:
      Problem     →      Theory   →    Practice   →    Policies      →     Scale Implementation
     Statement           of Action         & Tools          & Systems