Summer Leadership Institute

Summer Leadership Institute Overview of PD360 Jon Redding, Online Specialist Professional Development August 9-10, 2012

Common Board Configuration Date: August 9 or 10 , 2012 Vocabulary: On Demand, focus groups, communities, groups, colleagues, admin tab Bell Ringer: We will watch a short video from PD360 and discuss with shoulder partners prepared questions. Agenda: Gradual Release Review Video, pair-share Login explore Review resources Create reports Create a group Create profile Learning Goal:Participants will have an understanding and working knowledge of the resource PD360 and create a collaborative connection with peer participants. Benchmark:: A hands on training in the computer lab will be used as a walkthrough of the program to gain understanding of the capabilities of PD360 and how it will benefit student achievement. Summarizing Activity: Facilitating Professional Learning and Instructional Resources through hands on training of the PD360 resource building a network of collaborative learning Objective:Teachers will become familiar with the resource PD360 and how to gain knowledge and collaboration with peers. Homework: Sign into PD360 and view the introduction to PD360 video and invite a colleague to collaborate. Essential Question: How can PD360 help me to improve my teaching skills to further advance student achievement?

Lake County Schools Vision Statement • A dynamic, progressive and collaborative learning community embracing change and diversity where every student will graduate with the skills needed to succeed in postsecondary education and the workplace. Mission Statement • The mission of the Lake County Schools is to provide every student with individual opportunities to excel. • Lake County Schools is committed to excellence in all curricular opportunities and instructional best practices. This focus area addresses closing the achievement gap, increased graduation rate, decreased dropout rate, increase in Level 3 and above scores on the FCAT, achieving an increase in the number of students enrolled in advanced placement and dual enrollment opportunities and implementing the best practices in instructional methodology.

21st Century Skills Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Collaboration and Leadership Agility and Adaptability Initiative and Entrepreneurialism Effective Oral and Written Communication Accessing and Analyzing Information Curiosity and Imagination

High Effect Size Indicators “The Department’s identified set of indicators on high effect size instructional and leadership strategies with a causal relationship to student learning growth constitute priority issues for deliberate practice and faculty development.” -Florida Department of Education, 2012

Classroom TeacherHigh Effect Indicators School LeadershipHigh Effect Indicators • Learning Goal with Scales • Tracking Student Progress • Established Content Standards • Multi-tiered System of Supports • Clear Goals • Text Complexity • ESOL Students • Feedback Practices • Facilitating Professional Learning • Clear Goals and Expectations • Instructional Resources • High Effect Size Strategies • Instructional Initiatives • Monitoring Text Complexity • Interventions • Instructional Adaptations • ESOL Strategies

Pre Video Discussion • Discuss the following Question with your shoulder partners: • What opportunities do you miss out on if you are not collecting data about how well your students are responding to your teaching methods?

PD 360 Video • PD 360 Video on Making Decisions Based on Data • “Making Decisions Based on Data • 3:15 in length

Making Decisions Based on Data

Additional Resources:

Additional Resources: • Discuss with your shoulder partner One of the following questions and prepare to present to the larger group your discoveries. • 1. How can you use data collection and evaluation in a PLC to improve your teaching methodologies? • 2. How could having a unified, district-wide RTI system, help you and your PLC make data-based decisions to help struggling students? • 3. How clear are our district goals pertaining to: • Developing benchmarks of achievement • Creating assessments that track students’ progress toward the benchmark group • Helping teachers become proficient at monitoring student progress • Using the data you gather to make decisions that would ensure maximum student success

Time for each of you to login! You can reach it from your web browser: www.pd360.com

Hands on walk-through: • We will now demonstrate a walkthrough of the PD 360 program. • Searching for videos • Reports • Community

If you have your computer remember your PW, then following a link will continue without entering a password again.

This is your PD360 Dashboard. You will start your research here. The tiles change to show up-to-date information on recent videos, communities, groups, and other related items.

Your Dashboard is the starting point with your home button and key tabs.

The PD Videos are searchable by Program, presenter, and topic

When you expand the folders, the resources will appear.

Video Icons have different functions:

Focus Areas

The additional resource from the video related tab, may bring up more videos, communities, groups or colleagues .

Creating groups can help you view targeted videos and collaborate with others.

Principals and Assistant Principals have demand rights to view and edit users. Some other site coordinators have these rights as requested by your site administrators.

Summer Leadership Institute