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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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