Professional Learning Teams

1. Professional Learning Teams Shelly Rider AMSTI-USA Director

2. Outcomes for Today • To understand the effects of the Common Core State Standards on mathematical classroom instruction • To recognize the importance of embracing the key role of a Math Leadership Team • To understand the power of a Vertical- Math Professional Learning Team

4. Purpose “What would it be like to work in a culture that encourages teachers to work together regularly on cutting-edge instruction and personal growth?” “What would happen if teachers worked collectively to increase their capability and update and change teaching practices?”

5. Build the Foundation Tool 1.7 What Does the Research Say?

6. PLT Big Ideas

7. Big Ideas Have Consequences

8. PLT Big Ideas

10. Big Ideas Have Consequences

11. PLT Big Ideas

12. Big Ideas Have Consequences

13. PLT Big Ideas

14. Best Practices

15. Tool 1.4: Will Collaboration Work? • Design a skit based on the information on the card. • Prepare to share your skits.

20. Common PLT language PLT Language Match Game! Tool 2.2

21. PLT TERMS

23. To give you tools, tips, and information: • Laying the groundwork for PLTs • Planning and implementing productive PLTs • Guiding successful team meetings

25. Prepare & Organize

26. Decisions, decisions… • What kind of team will our PLT be? • Who will be on our PLT? • When will our team meet? • Where will our team meet? • What resources will our team need to begin? • Who will be team facilitator & recorder? • What methods of communicating our work will we use?

27. Meeting Overview Checklist

28. Team logistics

29. Norm!

30. Pausing Paraphrasing Probing for specificity Putting ideas on the table Paying attention to self and others Presuming positive intentions Promoting a Spirit of Inquiry Are you looking in the mirror or out the window? Seven Norms of Collaboration DuFour, Richard, et. al. Learning by Doing. Bloomington: Solution Tree, 2006. (p. 104)

31. Facilitator ToolDevelopment of Group NormsSeven Norms of Collaborative WorkWhich of these norms might be most important for your full participation in the group?1 minute self-reflection2 minutes group processing Popcorn report out

32. Facilitator ToolDevelopment of Group NormsSeven Norms of Collaborative WorkConsidering these seven norms, which might you find most challenging?What strategies might you use to focus in on the ones you might find most challenging?

33. PLT Decision-Making cycle for developing goals

34. What? PLT Goal Statement What can we do differently in our classrooms to increase our knowledge and skills in facilitating purposeful practice of the Common Core Math Practice Standards in order to increase student mathematical discourse? About? Why?

35. PLT Example agenda

36. Quotes from teachers I am learning lots of great research-based strategies in my learning team! I am always excited to come back to the classroom and try them. We have great discussions about how the strategies can be used at a variety of grade levels. I also have a better understanding of school-wide needs and what students are expected to do at all grade levels. Overall, I feel like our PLT meetings help me grow professionally, and I can truly say I am learning from my fellow teachers.

37. Professional Learning Teams Shelly Rider AMSTI-USA Director