Professional Learning
Opportunity
Tailored, ongoing, evidence-based professional learning for educators at all levels of a school system, designed to build knowledge and skills that transform practice to ensure each student has opportunities to meet challenging state academic standards.
Engage
DESIGNING DISTRICT SYSTEMS OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ALIGNMENT | |
District leadership teams conduct a needs assessment of current professional learning practices, mid-year, and post-assessment of impact: | Three per year |
District leadership teams study research and cases of districts that have aligned and differentiated professional learning and create a plan of action customized to their school district: | One per year |
District leadership teams implement the plan, assess progress, and address challenges of implementation through collaborative study: | Two per year |
DESIGNING SCHOOLS FOR JOB-EMBEDDED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING |
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School leadership teams conduct a needs assessment of current professional learning practices, mid-year, and post-assessment of impact: | Multiple meetings (e.g., Quarterly) |
School leadership teams study research and. cases of schools that designed their school for job-embedded professional learning, and create a plan of action customized for their school: | 1 time per year |
School leadership teams implement the plan, assess progress, and address challenges of implementation through collaborative study: | Several meetings (e.g., Monthly) |
ENACTING DIFFERENTIATED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING |
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District and/or school leadership teams conduct a needs assessment of current differentiation professional learning practices, mid-year, and post-assessment of impact: | Multiple meetings (e.g., Quarterly) |
District and/or school leadership teams study research, and cases in practice of schools that differentiated professional learning, and create a plan of action customized for their school: | One per year |
District and/or school leadership teams implement the plan, assess progress, and address challenges of implementation through collaborative study: | Several meetings (e.g., Monthly) |
MASTERING SKILLS FOR COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, AND FACILITATION |
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District and/or school leadership teams conduct a needs assessment of current collaborative practices, a mid-year, and post-assessment of impact on collaborative practices: | Multiple meetings (e.g., Quarterly) |
District and/or school leadership teams build skills for communication and facilitation that will result in increased collaborative practices, study cases of collaborative practice of schools, and create a plan of action to implement at their schools: | One per year |
District and/or school leadership teams implement the plan, assess progress, and address challenges of implementation through collaborative study: | Several meetings (e.g., Monthly) |
EVALUATING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING |
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District and/or school-based teams administer a pre, mid-year, and post-assessment to evaluate the impact of professional learning on educator practices: | Multiple meetings (e.g., Quarterly) |
District and/or school-based teams meet to analyze data, celebrate successes, and suggest actions to address challenges of implementation: | Multiple meetings (e.g., Quarterly) |
TARGETED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SERIES |
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The following are examples of topics that have been customized to individual school needs:
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Transform
Professional Learning experiences with educators at a levels of your school district and/or school are designed to result in improvements in the following:
- Coherent, aligned, and systemic plans of action for professional learning informed by both teacher and student data that is tailored to your context
- Professional learning cultures that develops educator talents designed to be intensive, collaborative, job-embedded, data driven, and classroom focused
- Increased knowledge and skills for facilitating differentiated professional learning
- Clear definitions of professional learning roles and responsibilities to ensure shared accountability for results
- Implementation plans for effectively engaging educators in cycles of continuous improvement through collaborative, continuous problem solving based on examining data
- Evaluation plan for assessing the impact of professional learning on changes in practice
- Structures, processes, and plans for sustaining a culture of professional learning
- Communication and shared understanding of a collaboratively developed vision for professional learning
- Professional learning plans for family and community engagement, including afterschool and community school program alignment