WELCOME PDC!

1. READY FOR SOME HEAVY LIFTING? WELCOME PDC!

2. 10 Things We Have In Common

3. What do I mean by heavy lifting? How do you provide High Quality Professional Development that ensures curriculum implementation to the highest fidelity while walking the balance of required and optional development opportunities?

4. What if… • The essence of reform is to STOP the “that can’t be done” talk and think carefully about the WHAT IF…

5. WHAT IF we all agreed to agree about certain principles of PD in Parkway and what exceptional PD was?

6. When a boat tips sideways in one direction, the keel prevents it from going completely over.

7. A structural keel is a large beam around which the hull of a ship is built. The keel runs in the middle of the ship, from the bow to the stern, and serves as the foundation or spine of the structure, providing the major source of structural strength of the hull. The keel is generally the first part of a ship's hull to be constructed, and laying the keel, or placing the keel in the cradle in which the ship will be built, is often a momentous event in a ship's construction--so much so that the event is often marked with a ceremony, and the term lay the keel has entered the language as a phrase meaning the beginning of any significant undertaking. Keel. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved September 10, 2008, from Reference.com website: http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Keel

8. A structural keel is a large beam around which the hull of a ship is built. The keel runs in the middle of the ship, from the bow to the stern, and serves as the foundation or spine of the structure, providing the major source of structural strength of the hull. The keel is generally the first part of a ship's hull to be constructed, and laying the keel, or placing the keel in the cradle in which the ship will be built, is often a momentous event in a ship's construction--so much so that the event is often marked with a ceremony, and the term lay the keel has entered the language as a phrase meaning the beginning of any significant undertaking. Keel. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved September 10, 2008, from Reference.com website: http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Keel

9. Without a keel, a sailboat will drift with the currents and be thrown off course by shifting winds. So, too, with schools. Zmuda, McTighe, Wiggins and Brown

10. What is our Mission? • What are we striving for in Professional Development? • How will we know when we are there? • How high can we possibly set the bar?

11. Results from PDC… • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction?

12. Results from the PDC… • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway included a focus on student achievement and an opportunity to try out new learning with support?

13. Results from the PDC… • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway included a focus on student achievement and an opportunity to try out new learning with support? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was planned to cause participants to want to go back to their school and get going and inspire connections between teachers and students?

14. Results from the PDC… • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway included a focus on student achievement and an opportunity to try out new learning with support? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was planned to cause participants to want to go back to their school and get going and inspire connections between teachers and students? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was applicable to participant needs and designed to push on knowledge, confidence and current practice?

15. Results from the PDC… • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway included a focus on student achievement and an opportunity to try out new learning with support? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was planned to cause participants to want to go back to their school and get going and inspire connections between teachers and students? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was applicable to participant needs and designed to push on knowledge, confidence and current practice? • What would it take to have participants leave every PD opportunity in Parkway and say it was meaningful and practice changing?

16. Results from the PDC… • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway included a focus on student achievement and an opportunity to try out new learning with support? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was planned to cause participants to want to go back to their school and get going and inspire connections between teachers and students? • What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was applicable to participant needs and designed to push on knowledge, confidence and current practice? • What would it take to have participants leave every PD opportunity in Parkway and say it was meaningful and practice changing?

17. What is our Mission? • What are we striving for in Professional Development? • High quality PD for every staff member. • Job embedded • Research based • Driven by data • How will we know when we are there? • How high can we possibly set the bar?

18. Staff Development Programming • Induction to Parkway and into Teaching • Social Justice and Equity • Leadership • Curriculum

19. Staff Development Programming • Induction to Parkway and into Teaching • Social Justice and Equity • Leadership • Curriculum

20. Staff Development Programming • Induction to Parkway and into Teaching • Social Justice and Equity • Leadership • Curriculum

21. Social Justice and Equity Current Reality • Part time diversity facilitator • Only development for teachers is Honoring All Voices • 3 days • Summer • Year 1  teachers

22. Social Justice and Equity Current Reality Proposed Adjustments 2009-10 Full time Staff Development Facilitator Diversity HAV Social Justice Student HAV to include a teacher development component. Identifying partner schools outside of Parkway to learn from. • Part time diversity facilitator • Only development for teachers is Honoring All Voices • 3 days • Summer • Year 1  teachers

23. Social Justice and Equity Current Reality Proposed Adjustments 2009-10 Full time Staff Development Facilitator Diversity HAV Social Justice Student HAV to include a teacher development component. Identifying partner schools outside of Parkway to learn from. • Part time diversity facilitator • Only development for teachers is Honoring All Voices • 3 days • Summer • Year 1  teachers

24. Questions…by table… “A sudden, bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.” — Francis Bacon, early 17th century British philosopher Probing questions about the proposed structural changes to HAV  Social Justice

25. Probing vs. Clarifying Questions In summary, good probing questions: • are general and widely useful • don’t place blame on anyone • allow for multiple responses • help create a paradigm shift • empower the person with the dilemma to solve his or her own problem (rather than deferring to someone with greater or different expertise) • avoid yes/no responses • are usually brief • elicit a slow response • move thinking from reaction to reflection • encourage taking another party’s perspective

26. HAV Social Justice • Redo current 3 summer day structure to create multiple cohorts/ally groups • ½ day kick off (multiple offerings) • 1 full day (off site, experiential) • ½ day follow up • 2- two hour after school sessions • Job embedded support • Connected to year 2 cohort leaders

27. Questions…by table… Discuss the proposed structural changes at your table and craft one or two PROBING questions about the proposed structural changes to HAV  Social Justice.

28. SENTEO QUESTIONS

29. Staff Development Programming • Induction to Parkway and into Teaching • Social Justice and Equity • Leadership • Curriculum

30. National Board Certification Current Reality Proposed Adjustments Establish a scholarship process open to those who fit the criteria for the certificate they are pursuing. Scholarship application would be parallel to the actual NB process. Similar rigor Read by 3 blind readers • Falls under Path C umbrella • tenure

31. 3 documents for review • GREEN: Narrative of proposal • PINK: Application for scholarship • YELLOW: Administrator checklist

32. PDC Workshop Proposals • Changes: • Abstract prior to proposal for approval and feedback (handout) • Timeline: • MARCH 23: Registration for Coordinator Summer Workshops OPEN in PEERS • Abstracts due to Coordinator by April 10 • Abstracts returned by April 17 • Window to propose PDC Workshops closes April 30 • May 6: Scoring of PDC Workshops • May 22: Notification of PDC Workshop funding completed

33. SENTEO QUESTIONS

36. February 19th • What does this data suggest about the structures of Path B and Path C? • What questions does it raise?

37. HOMEWORK… • Social Justice & Equity for teachers • Changes to HAV • National Board Certification Scholarship Proposal • Path B and Path C data

38. Synergy • Conflict is inevitable in a team…in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict. Susan Gerke, IBM Leadership Development