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Build Professional Capacity
Across the Learning Community
https://www.naesp.org/prek3-leadership
Leading Pre-K-3 Learning Communities
Competencies for Effective Principal Practice
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Learning Objectives
Build Professional Capacity
Across the Learning Continuum
Professional learning and the early childhood workforce Developmentally appropriate practice Job-embedded professional learning opportunities Professional learning communities
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Professional development is a continuum of learning and support activities designed to prepare individuals for work with and on behalf of young children and their families, as well as ongoing experiences to enhance this work. These opportunities lead to improvements in the knowledge, skills, practices, and dispositions of early childhood professionals. National Association for the Education of Young Children NAEYC https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pd
Professional Development
http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2015/Birth-To-Eight.aspx
https://www.isbe.net/essa
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learningforward.org
The Standards
Learning Communities Leadership Resources Learning Designs Data Implementation Outcomes
https://learningforward.org/standards
https://learningforward.org
https://il.learningforward.org
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Leading Pre-K-3 Learning Communities
Competencies for Effective Principal Practice
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Why is Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Important?
Quality instruction can be a key factor in a child’s success
Significant during early childhood when mastering foundational skills, dispositions toward school and attitudes and beliefs about themselves as learners
Essential to providing a high quality early childhood education experience
https://www.naeyc.org/resources/topics/DAP/resources
Knowing about child development and learning
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Knowing what is individually appropriate
Knowing what is culturally important
https://illinoisearlylearning.org/
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How evident is this indicator? Build principal professional knowledge about what is age – and developmentally- appropriate across the continuum.
Job-embedded Professional Development
Teacher learning that is grounded in day-to-day practice and designed to enhance teacher’s content specific instructional practices with the intent of improving student learning. Darling-Hammond & McLaughlin, 1995; Hirsh, 2009
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Job-embedded professional
development is centered on
issues of actual practice
In the classroom, in real time
In the classroom, in nearly real
time, away from students
In the school, shortly before or after instruction
Job-embedded Professional Learning
Action research
Case Discussions
Professional Learning Plans
Coaching
Lesson Study
Professional Learning Communities
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED520830.pdf
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How evident is this indicator? Support ongoing, job-embedded professional learning opportunities for teachers all along the continuum.
The powerful collaboration that characterizes professional learning communities is a systematic process in which teachers work together to analyze and improve their classroom practice. Rick DuFour
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Celebrate
Plan Work Reflect
Learning Communities: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment.
Overview of the teacher learning team cycle
Source: Becoming a Learning Team: A Guide to a Teacher-Led Cycle of Continuous Improvement
learningforward.org
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How evident is this indicator? Support professional learning communities that focus on authentic work.
Building Professional Capacity
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https://learningforward.org/docs/default-source/commoncore/establishing-time-for-professional-learning.pdf?sfvrsn=8
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PFA/E Administrator Webinar Series
Embrace the Pre-K-3 Learning Continuum https://center.adobeconnect.com/p04t4yqoivph/
Ensure Developmentally-Appropriate Teaching https://center.adobeconnect.com/p21cvf5m0qk5/ Provide Personalize Blended Learning Environments https://center.adobeconnect.com/p3b7ryv4nxt4/ Use Multiple Measures of Assessment to Guide Growth in Student Learning https://center.adobeconnect.com/ptt42y9c8z35/ Build Professional Capacity Across the Learning Community Make Your School a Hub of Pre-K-3 Learning for Families and Communities
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Resources
Early Childhood Professional Learning
www.eclearningil.org
Illinois B-3 Continuity Project
http://education.illinoisstate.edu/csep/b3
Illinois Early Learning Project
www.illinoisearlylearning.org
Learning Forward
https://learningforward.org
Resources
NAEYC Developmentally Appropriate Practice
https://www.naeyc.org/resources/topics/dap
NAESP Pre-K -3 Leadership
https://www.naesp.org/prek3-leadership