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Collaboration for Growth: Working with Colleagues to Enhance Collective Capacity
Dr. Melissa Wlodarczyk-Hickey, Alicia Willett, Erin Wilson, Candice Irwin, Meaghan Carroll, and Autumn Baltimore
WELCOME
• Dr. Melissa Wlodarczyk-Hickey– Director of Literary Arts
• Alicia Willett– Director of Humanities
• Erin Wilson – Instructional Coach, Annie Fisher STEM Magnet School
• Candice Irwin – Literacy Coach, Environmental Sciences Magnet School
• Meaghan Carroll– Literacy Coach, Betances Early Reading Lab Magnet School
• Autumn Baltimore– Instructional Coach for the Arts, Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy
Norms
1. Promoting a Spirit of Inquiry and Balancing Advocacy
2. Pausing 3. Paraphrasing 4. Probing 5. Putting Ideas on the Table 6. Paying Attention to Self and Others 7. Presuming Positive Intentions
Outcomes
• I CAN collaborate to develop a shared understanding of how learning teams can assist in moving all students forward.
• I CAN use protocols and materials provided today to assist me in developing learning teams.
• I CAN give feedback on Content Crosswalk: Where Literacy Gets the WRITE of Way.
• I CAN see how the work of the HPS LLT LTs are assisting in the development of a districtwide repository of best practices.
Who is in the Room
• Teachers– Elementary –Middle School – High School
• Administration– Building– Office
• Other
Who is in the Room (part II)
• Get up, find a partner. Assign yourselves letter A or B.• When I give the signal, those who are letter A will have 60 seconds to share:– My name is...– My school/district is…– My relationship to this topic is…
• When I give signal again, B will have 60 seconds to share. • For final round, each of you have a minute to answer: What do you most want to get out of our meeting today? Start with B. When I give final signal, thank your partner and return to your seat.
Professional Learning is…
1. The primary strategy that school systems have to ensure that all educators continue to improve their effectiveness.2. The vehicle to improve individual, team, and school wide performance.3. The glue that fosters collective responsibility for the success of all students.4. The system for engaging all teachers in learning teams committed to continuous improvement.5. The great equalizer that ensures that all—not just some—students experience great teachinghttp://www.gtlcenter.org/sites/default/files/docs/ConcurrentSession2_KillionLearningForward.pdf
Connecticut State Department of Education
• Per Public Act No. 12-116 AN ACT CONCERNING EDUCATIONAL REFORM job-embedded professional learning opportunities are to be “conducted among educators at the school and facilitated by principals, coaches, mentors, distinguished educators”.
• Per Public Act No. 12-116 AN ACT CONCERNING EDUCATIONAL REFORM: for the school year commencing July 1, 2013, and each school year thereafter, each certified employee shall participate in a program of professional development. Each local and regional board of education shall make available, annually, at no cost to its certified employees, a program of professional development that is not fewer than eighteen hours in length, of which a preponderance is in a small group or individual instructional setting (from http://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/act/pa/2012PA-00116-R00SB-00458-PA.htm).. Additionally, these professional learning opportunities need to be frequent and “include a repository of best practices for teaching methods developed by educators within each school that is continuously available to such educators for comment and updating”.
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Jigsaw
• http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning_forwards_pd_watch/2014/05/3_principles_for_authentic_plcs.html
• http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a=2641&q=320428
• Learning Forward Standard Learning Community
Rationale
“Professional learning team meetings have one primary purpose: improved teaching and learning in an area of identified student need” (p. 23).
-Anne JollyTeam to Teach, 2008
Forming Learning Teams
• I can identify– Individual work I would like to bring to the group.– Topics I would like to process together as a group.– School or district-wide issues I would like to
address as a learning team.
HPS LLT Learning Teams
1. Research Folders: From Frenzy to Focusa. Develop a shared understanding of the topic selected by your Learning Team.
2. Collaboratively Set Goals (Anne Jolly, Team to Teach, 2008)a. TOOL 1: Examine BELIEFS AND ASSUMPTIONSb. TOOL 2: Reflect on CURRENT REALITYc. TOOL 3: Establish PRIORITIES/ACTIONSd. TOOL 4: Plan with Team
PRESENTATION
Content Crosswalk: Where Literacy Gets the Write of WayAutumn Baltimore, Candice Irwin, Erin Wilson,
and Meaghan Carroll
Our Story, Our Process
• Our story begins in 2013…• Four coaches, four schools, four themes, one goal.
From Frenzy to Focus
• Reviewing related research• Filtering out redundant, outdated, and irrelevant information
• Frame our understanding of what “Content Area Literacy”
Collaboratively Set Goals
• Choose a platform– From blog to website
• Ongoing research and refining (organizing) our work• Sharing with staff and using in professional development
• Cycle of professional learning (providing, receiving, and sharing) related to content area literacy– 4 coaches for the price of 1
• Content area literacy is a broad umbrella
Impact on Teaching and Learning
• Engage in continued improvement and learning– Shared resources- Articles, PD, Curriculum Materials, Strategies– Teambuilding, and opportunities to discuss needs and strength of individual schools and coaches among colleagues in similar positions across the district
• Align professional work among large district• Strengthened our practice
– Using new protocols with teachers– Using new technology and resources– Recognize our own strengths and develop others by working with new people (forcing selves out of a comfort zone)
Website Review
• Go to www.contentcrosswalk.weebly.com• Please take some time to explore our work• We would love your feedback!• You can leave your comments by going to the “Contact” page in the navigation menu.
Teaching and Learning Repository
Thank You!• Dr. Melissa Wlodarczyk-Hickey
– [email protected]• Alicia Willett
– [email protected]• Erin Wilson
– [email protected]• Candice Irwin
– [email protected]• Meaghan Carroll
– [email protected]• Autumn Baltimore