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Professional Learning Community
TeamsLeader Support Session 2
October 30th 2014
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•Begin and end on time
•Stay focused on the work
•Acknowledge challenges but don’t dwell
•Limit sidebar conversations,
including electronic ones
•When making decisions, silence equals
consensus
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erDistrict Initiatives
•Innovate: Using Writing in all courses to validate thinking.
•Engage: Strategies that allow students to read, talk and write during the entire school day to further their understanding through the use of the framework for intentional and targeted teaching.
•Empower: Strengthening PLCs by implementing a minimum of one hour weekly collaborative planning time in all schools for all instructional staff.
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School District of Clay County Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching
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• Learn how to provide feedback to PLC teams that moves teams forward with effective teaching practices.
• Deepen our understanding of how to support and lead PLC teams.
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• What are you hoping to get out of today?
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erGet a Visual….
Putting faces to dispositions…1.I love change and these new
standards and framework are AWESOME!
2.I think these new standards make a lot of sense, but I am pretty worried that I am not up to the challenge.
3.It’s going to pass. I will just stay under the radar until the next new initiative comes around.
4.How can I possibly figure all this out on my own?
5.How long before I can retire?
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I’m really glad to be working as part of a collaborative team so that we can figure this out together.
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Status Check…
Choose a Halloween costume that would represent your PLC teams currently.
For example,
Or
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Success…
What would success look like when it comes to the implementation of PLCs at your school?
Make a list of 2 or 3 indicators of success
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• The fact that teachers collaborate will do nothing to
improve a school. The question isn’t
“Are they collaborating?” but rather
“What are they collaborating about?”
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The purpose of collaboration-to help more students
achieve at a higher level-can only be accomplished if the
professionals engaged in collaboration are focused on
the right work.
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Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
As referenced by Robert Marzano in his book:
What Works In Schools
“the single most important initiative a school or district can engage in to
raise student achievement..”
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Guaranteed Curriculum is only guaranteed when teachers work collaboratively to do the following…
• Study the intended curriculum• Agree upon priorities and pacing within the curriculum • Commit to one another, that they will, in
fact, teach the agreed-on curriculum.
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is… • Florida Standards-either new
FS Standards or SSS.
• Framework for Intentional Teaching
• New resources to support the teaching of standards. – New ELA adoption materials– New Math adopted materials– Item Specs– Supplemental Resources
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erLooking at “Student” Work
• Take a Look at Sample 1
• Where do you see evidence of discussion around Clay Guaranteed Curriculum?
• Florida Standards-either new FS Standards or SSS.
• Framework for Intentional Teaching
• New resources to support the teaching of standards. – New ELA adoption materials– New Math adopted materials– Item Specs– Other Supplemental Resources
“Teacher”
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Feedback FormulaPractice for Sample 1
• Begin with a statement that includes evidence of success.
• Keep the focus around your vision of success.
• Be positive but be intentional
• Be nauseatingly consistent
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• Take a Look at Sample 2
• Where do you see evidence of discussion around Clay Guaranteed Curriculum?
• Florida Standards-either new FS Standards or SSS.
• Framework for Intentional Teaching
• New resources to support the teaching of standards. – New ELA adoption materials– New Math adopted materials– Item Specs– Other Supplemental Resources
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Choose 1 of your own logs
• Put your vision of success post it on the log.
• Pass your log to the right.
• Give suggestions using the feedback formula based on the vision of success for that school
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• Read your log’s feedback suggestions.
• Compile a feedback response based on the suggestions and your own thinking.
• Be ready to share.
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Success
• Classroom Walk Throughs• Conversations with Students• Conversations with Staff
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• “It’s good to have goals, to work towards goals. It doesn’t matter if if they are the perfect goals. If you don’t have any goals, you don’t go anywhere, you just coast.”
1.Set a Goal for November in terms of monitoring progress towards your vision of success.
2.Choose an accountability partner to check in with each week.
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School District of Clay County Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching
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erDistrict Initiatives
•Innovate: Using Writing in all courses to validate thinking.
•Engage: Strategies that allow students to read, talk and write during the entire school day to further their understanding through the use of the framework for intentional and targeted teaching.
•Empower: Strengthening PLCs by implementing a minimum of one hour weekly collaborative planning time in all schools for all instructional staff.
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• Learn how to provide feedback to PLC teams that moves teams forward with effective teaching practices.
• Deepen our understanding of how to support and lead PLC teams.
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Professional Learning Community
TeamsLeader Support Session 2
October 30, 2014
