Florida Education: The Next Generation DRAFT

1. Florida Education: The Next GenerationDRAFT March 13, 2008 Version 1.0 Common Planning Time Presented by: Carole McGurk and Daniela Simic Region 1V Instructional Specialists Florida Department of Education Dr. Eric J. Smith Commissioner

2. Common Planning Outcomes To optimize common planning time by: • Establishing the team effectiveness processes • Creating common assessments, common lessons • Starting with the end in mind • Analyzing data to guide instruction

3. DA Requirements • Prevent II-D, Correct II D, F and Intervene schools are required to create common planning in the master schedule. “The district must ensure that appropriate resources are provided to support the school to redesign the master schedule to provide common planning time for data-based decision making within the Problem Solving process, job-embedded professional development, and Lesson Study.” • DA Strategies and Support Document: http://flbsi.org/pdf/Strategies%20and%20Support%20for%20DA_09-10%20rev%208.14.09.pdf

4. How does common planningalign with other initiatives? Coaching Cycle and Continuous Learning Cycle Job-embedded Professional Development Florida’s Continuous Improvement Model (FCIM) Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) Lesson Study

6. Purpose of Common Planning • Ensure that Students have equitable opportunity for learning • Build a Culture of Collaboration • Focus on Results • Determine effectiveness of instructional processes

7. A group of teachers collaboratively: unpacks standards, reviews the district pacing guide, creates common instructional calendars plans common lessons and assessments, reports student learning results, and applies information to make improvements to teaching. What will occur during our Common Planning?

8. Common Planning is an opportunity for PLCs to… • Establish learning goals for common courses. • Think carefully about the goals of a particular lesson or unit. • Locate andimprove available lessons or create collaborative lesson. • Deepen subject-matter knowledge. • Discuss and plan for instructional strategies based on student learning data. • Improve teaching through a systematic and collaborative approach.

9. Common Planning is an opportunity to… Think deeply about short- and long-term goals for students. Discuss the way students learn. Collect and analyze student learning data. Identify common student misconceptions. Improve instruction and assessment. Support the SIP goals

10. Where and when does Common Planning occur? • Among course- alike teachers • During PLCs • Within departments • Across Grade level teams

11. What is aPLC? A group of members typically from the same discipline but may include cross-discipline members. A structure of continuous adult learning, strong collaboration, and democratic participation (Hord & Sommers, 2008, p, 10). A means to continuously improve instruction and student performance (Schmoker, 2006, p. 106). A TEAM learning approach for continuous improvement through shared vision and collaboration. Professional Learning Communities

12. PLC Attributes • Supportive and shared leadership • Collective creativity • Shared values and vision • Supportive conditions • Shared personal practice Hord, S. M. Professional Learning Communities: What Are They and Why Are They Important? Issues About Change, 6(1)

13. PLC link to School Improvement • The most promising strategy for sustained substantive school improvement is building the capacity of school personnel to function as a Professional Learning Community. The path to change in the classroom lies within and through Professional Learning Communities. • Milbrey McLaughlin (1995)

14. What will happen at Department PLCs • Follow an established standard agenda. Include data collection on mini- assessments and time to analyze. • Discuss, monitor, analyze, and determine implementation fidelity of your SIP goals. Include your SIP goals as a standard agenda item • Determine improvements to the strategies and implementation. • The SIP goals should be driving your PLC!!

15. How will we do this? • Purposefully creating team processes that address norms, way of work, mission, goals, core values/beliefs about student learning. Form, storm, norm, perform! • Identifying and understanding the depth of each benchmark. • Creating common assessments and common lesson plans. • Sharing and analyzing data. • Using a continuous improvement cycle.

16. Consider this… When teachers have “opportunities for collaborative inquiry and the learning related to it, they [are] able to develop and share a body of wisdom gleaned from their experience.” Hord, S. M. Professional Learning Communities: What Are They and Why Are They Important?: Issues About Change, 6(1)

17. Building an Effective Team • Infrastructure and consensus must be built. • Develop processes for effective teaming. • Establish group norms. • Develop a standard agenda • Develop a communication plan. • Format minutes • Create mission statement and goals

18. Building Common Lesson Plans Pre-planning • Review student proficiency data of past years for tested benchmarks • Identify the areas of greatest need • Access the district pacing guide • Create the core content calendar • Unpack the benchmarks • Identify the key vocabulary for each benchmark

19. Planning Common Assessments • Determine the essential concepts to be tested. • Decide upon the testing format and number of items. • Select the testing date (refer to your core content calendar).

20. Remember… Begin with the End in Mind!

21. THANK YOU!!