PLGs, PLPs & PLCs: Oh my!

1. PLGs, PLPs & PLCs: Oh my! Jennifer Gates Jasmine Kullar, Ed.D. Dawn Hudson Maria Schmidt Stefany Howard

2. LKESPerformance Standard 1: Instructional Leadership • The leader fosters the success of all students by facilitating the development, communication, implementation, and evaluation of a shared vision of teaching and learning that leads to school improvement. • LKESPerformance Standard 3: Instructional Leadership • The leader effectively gathers, analyzes, and uses a variety of data to inform planning and decision-making consistent with established guidelines, policies, and procedures. • LKES Performance Standard 6: Teacher/Staff Evaluation • The leader fairly and consistently evaluates school personnel in accordance with state and district guidelines and provides them with timely and constructive feedback focused on improved student learning. • LKES Performance Standard 7: Professionalism • The leader fosters the success of students by demonstrating professional standards and ethics, engaging in continuous professional development, and contributing to the profession. Today:PLGs – Professional Learning Goals & PLPs – Professional Learning Plans What can I do to support my teachers? How does this help our students?

3. The Cast Jennifer Gates Teacher & Leader Effectiveness, Leadership Dawn Hudson Professional Learning Supervisor, Teaching & Learning Stefany Howard Evaluation System Specialist, GA DOE Maria Schmidt Evaluation Specialist, Human Resources Jasmine Kullar, Ed.D. Principal, Pine Mountain MS Alan Barge Evaluation System Specialist, GA DOE

4. Be positive • Be respectful • Contribute • Stay on topic

5. Flipped Assignment Come prepared to share potential challenges and opportunities you anticipate with the work. We’ll develop strategies to help teachers succeed with the new PLG requirement. Inadvance of April 13, please complete the following items: Read “A Big Picture Look at Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)” and review collaborative team protocol resources available through the National School Reform Faculty. Read “Professional Learning Communities Still Work If Done Right” by DuFour & Reeves (2015), and “Why Should We Articulate Collective Commitments?”.

6. NOT. ONE. MORE. THING.

9. “There’s no place like home…” PLGs + PLPs + PLCs PSC X DOE

10. SB 364 – 2016-17 62 (A) For teachers of record…the evaluation shall be composed of the 64 following: Professional 70 growth goals may include measurements based on multiple student growth indicators, 71 evaluations and observations, standards of practice, and any additional professional 72 growth measures allowed by the local school system's or charter school's flexibility 73 contract or other agreement with the State Board of Education;

11. SB 364 – 2016-17 60 Beginning with 61 the 2016-2017 school year, evaluation measures shall include the following elements: 62 (A) For teachers of record…the evaluation shall be composed of the 64 following: 67 (ii) Professional growth shall count for 20 percent of the evaluation. Professional 68 growth shall be measured by progress toward or attainment of professional growth 69 goals within an academic school year or across academic school years.

12. Need to Know • PLGs = Goal = tenured (3+ years) • PLPs = Plan = non-tenured (>3 years) • All certified must have goal(s) • CCSD requiring 2 goals (PLC goal provided) • Contributing professionals included

13. https://gadoetrain.truenorthlogic.com https://tle.gadoe.org/U/P/Tab/MyStaffTKESLKESPlans?_ct=MyStaffTKESLKESPlans&__mopari=1

14. Our Commitment to You • “Collaboration & Communication” • AKA “Redelivery & Training Packet” • Written overview (handout) of PLGs, PLPs & expectations/requirements for TKES & LKES, • -how certification fits in • Written overview (handout) of rubric & its use • Sample exemplary goals • Online format (webinar, screencast, etc.) • -explains all for teachers & suggested artifacts, etc. • Post- & Pre-planning

15. What do I know about goals, anyway?

16. 2016-17 PLGs Pilot Schools CCSD

19. What does it look like? • Each educator sets two goals for the year, askingthe 4 PLC questions, including: • 1) Where do my students need to grow this year? and • 2) Where do I need to grow to help them get there? • These two goals—and the ten standards in the TKES rubric—are the measures against which educators are evaluated.  • After educators write goals, they develop a plan that outlines the course of action they will take to attain the goals.  • This action plan serves as an opportunity to determine the time, resources, and specific steps necessary to accomplish each goal.

20. Oz “Performance and practice goal should result in improvements in knowledge and skills which will be evidenced in ratings of practice.”

21. 2015 Gallup poll 800, 000+ students nationwide Grades 5-12 50% said they were engaged 29% said they were NOT engaged 21% said they were actively disengaged Engagement decreases 5-12th grade Lowest point: 11th grade

22. 3, 300 schools; 550 districts; 46 states

23. Directions to Oz

26. Sample Goals

27. Sample Goals

28. District goal: During 2017-18, every Cobb teacher will actively engage in participating in a professional learning community (PLC).

32. Social Media Strategy Sharing • #lovetoleadhere • Strategies from the session • Feedback & curation

33. Resources, Follow-up “Helping teams translate long-term purpose into specific, measurable, short-term SMART goals, and then helping members develop the skills to achieve those goals, is one of the most important steps leaders can take in building the capacity of a group to function as a high-performing collaborative team.” -Katzenbach & Smith, 1993, quoted in DuFour et al. (2016, p. 106)

34. http://www.gapsc.com/

36. Leading the Way What can I do to support my teachers? How does this help our students?

37. References Boston Public Schools. 2017. Goals and Action Plans. http://www.bostonpublicschools.org/Page/264 Interactive Rubric. http://boston.schoolwires.net/Page/416 Connecticut Education Association. 2017. Teacher Evaluation Monthly Checklist. http://www.cea.org/professional/evaluation/resources/checklist/ EdSurge. 2017 “Brew Your Own”/Remix: How Teachers Are Learning Professional Development. https://www.edsurge.com/research/guides/how-teachers-are-learning-professional-development-remix#%23Methodology Gallup. 2015. Gallup Student Poll. http://www.gallup.com/services/189926/student-poll-2015-results.aspx Gonzalez, Jennifer. 2017. Cult of Pedagogy: Goal-Setting for Teachers: 8 Paths to Self-Improvement. https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/goal-setting-for-teachers/ Ohio State University Extension. 2017. Program Development and Evaluation. http://pde.osu.edu/performancePlanning-sampleGoals

38. References Perfitt-Nelson, Mary. 2016. The Engaged Classroom Isn’t “Managed”. https://mpmengaged.wordpress.com/ PSC/Professional Standards Commission. 2017. Professional Learning. http://www.gapsc.com/Home.aspx Renewal Requirements, GAPSC. 2017. 505-2-.36 http://www.gapsc.com/Commission/Rules/Proposed/Download/20150401/505-2-.036.pdf Senate Bill 364. July, 2016. Georgia Legislature SB 364. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/162438.pdf