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Lead Teacher Session #2. Welcome! Please sit at any table & complete the Do Now. Wireless network: MadPkWLAN Password: 657malcolmx. October 2014. Introductions. Please introduce yourself to your tablemates & share your answers to the Do Now. Introductions.
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Lead Teacher Session #2 Welcome! Please sit at any table & complete the Do Now Wireless network: MadPkWLAN Password: 657malcolmx October 2014
Introductions Please introduce yourself to your tablemates & share your answers to the Do Now
Introductions Office of Human Capital (OHC) Alison Gross (Network A) Michelle O’Neill Turner (Network B) Gina D’Addario (Network C) Sarah Hausman (Network D) TinuAkinfolarin (Network E) Leah Levine (Network F) ChasonIshino (Network G) Christine Lee (Network G) Angela Rubenstein Kris Taylor Shakera Walker
Today’s Agenda • Welcome & Introductions • Core Actions • Professional Development Design Principles • Lunch Break • Work Time • Next Steps, Closing, & Reflection • Optional Eval / Data Support
Norms & Community Agreements • Start and end on time • Include everyone in conversations • Vegas Rule: maintain confidentiality • Limit use of technology to work time • Take an inquiry stance • Ground statements in evidence • Assume positive intentions • Others?
Role of Lead Teacher THEORY OF ACTION Improved teacher practice leads to improved student learning LEAD TEACHER SERIES OBJECTIVE Lead Teachers will support the professional learning of their colleagues, contributing to improved student learning
Session 2 Objectives Today we will: • Understand the ideas behind the Core Actions • Reflect on one of the Professional Development Design Principles • Work collaboratively to refine goals & plans for our work as Lead Teachers
Envisioning Success Last month we asked: What area of professional learning do you want to influence as Lead Teacher at your school? Today we want to know: What would success look like?
Today’s Agenda • Welcome & Introductions • Core Actions • Professional Development Design Principles • Lunch Break • Work Time • Next Steps, Closing, & Reflection • Optional Eval / Data Support
Core Actions What: Student Achievement Partners identified core actions for ELA and Math as instructional guides to Common Core aligned practice in the classroom. Instructional Research and Development has developed 2-3 core actions for each content area &included specific scaffolds &supports for English Language Learners or Students with Disabilities Why: To identify content-specific instructional practices that help students master Common Core
Core Actions Choose a content area of interest: • Gr 6-12 ELA • K-12 History/Social Studies • K-12 Mathematics • K-12 Science • K-12 Visual & Performing Arts • World Languages • WIDA
Core Actions In your table group, use the “Text Rendering Experience” protocol to examine the core actions • Choose a facilitator • Choose a scribe
Today’s Agenda • Welcome & Introductions • Core Actions • Professional Development Design Principles • Lunch Break • Work Time • Next Steps, Closing, & Reflection • Optional Eval / Data Support
PD Design Principles What: A set of guiding principles to follow when designing professional learning experiences Why: To increase the impact of professional learning experiences on student learning How: Lead teachers will help schools apply; OHC Professional Learning & Growth team will help district PD apply
PD Design Principles Choose a Design Principle: • Relevant • Inquiry driven • Led by practitioners • Demonstration of learning & growth • Opportunity for reflection • Collaborative • Equitable/anti-racist/anti-biased education • Research based
PD Design Principles Complete the “Applying the Professional Learning Design Principles” Activity • Answer the questions independently • Share with a partner
PD Design Principles Choose a Design Principle: • Relevant • Inquiry driven • Led by practitioners • Demonstration of learning & growth • Opportunity for reflection • Collaborative • Equitable/anti-racist/anti-biased education • Research based
PD Design Principles Complete the “Applying the Professional Learning Design Principles” Activity • Answer the questions independently • Share with a partner
Lunch Break! Please be seated by 12:00
Today’s Agenda • Welcome & Introductions • Core Actions • Professional Development Design Principles • Lunch Break • Work Time • Next Steps, Closing, & Reflection • Optional Eval / Data Support
Work Time Last time… • Identify an area of PD you would like to strengthen • Identify 1 or more Design Principle you would like to apply • Identify a way to measure progress Today… • Find a colleague who is working on something similar • Sit together and use the next few hours to get work done however you see fit By 2:15… • Prepare a summary of what you worked on today and your next steps
Today’s Agenda • Welcome & Introductions • Core Actions • Professional Development Design Principles • Lunch Break • Work Time • Next Steps, Closing, & Reflection • Optional Eval / Data Support
Announcements • Consulting Teacher opportunity • Goals &action plans must be approved in EDFS by November 1, 2014 • Stay tuned for Staff & Student Survey info: we are piloting surveys in each school and will ask you to work with your principal/headmaster to identify a point person for administration
Next Steps • Begin implementing your plans • Answer your colleagues’ questions and/or connect them to OHC
Deliverables • Submit logs of any work (during or outside of the school day): • Drop-in office hours • School-based PD sessions • Common Planning Time • ILT meetings • Time spent distributing info, guidance docs, data, or resources • Time spent developing resources, gathering data, or planning PD • Capstone Product (due in early June) • Work Log Collection Dates: • Dec 2nd: 4-6 work log entries • Feb 3rd: 3-5 additional entries • Apr 7th: 2-4 additional entries • Upload any documents associated with your entries to the Google Drive.
Resources: OHC website www.bostonpublicschools.org/OHC
Resources: Interactive Rubric www.bostonpublicschools.org/IR
Resources: Lead Teacher Materials www.bostonpublicschools.org/LT
Resources: Curricula www.bostonpublicschools.org/IRD
Session 2 Objectives Today we will: • Understand the ideas behind the Core Actions • Reflect on one of the Professional Development Design Principles • Work collaboratively to refine goals & plans for our work as Lead Teachers
Feedback We need to hear from you! Please fill out the survey before you leave: http://bit.ly/OctLTSurvey Thanks, see you at our next session in December! (12/2, 12/3, or 12/4, 3:30 – 6:30, location TBD) Wireless network: MadPkWLAN Password: 657malcolmx
Today’s Agenda • Welcome & Introductions • Core Actions • Professional Development Design Principles • Lunch Break • Work Time • Next Steps, Closing, & Reflection • Optional Eval / Data Support