PLC Tips And Traps Galileo Leadership Conference August 8, 2012

1. PLC Tips And TrapsGalileo Leadership ConferenceAugust 8, 2012 Katie Fitzpatrick marykate.fitzpatrick@fraserk12.org Heather Rumley RumleyH@wwcsd.net

2. FLUFFY AGENDA • Who are we • Key Working Agreements (KWA) or Norms • Parking Lot • Who you are • What is a PLC • Begin to transform your meetings • Setting a fluffy agenda and KWA • SMART goals • Test Data • Unit Planning • Review

3. Who are we • Katie Fitzpatrick • Heather Rumley • Wayne-Westland at John Glenn HS • Secondary math teacher • Department chair • Secondary Math Content Leader • Mother of 3 cats and 1 dog

4. Start and end on time • Stay on task/topic • Parking Lot for other ideas • No judgment • Listen and share air time • Minimize distractions • Electronics • Side conversations K W A Key Working Agreements

5. Parking lot • Sticky notes • Include your email if we do not get a chance to answer your question

6. check-in your reality Poll everywhere….

7. Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.

8. Are you ready to take a trip on the plc bus?

9. PLC Questions Used to Guide Your Meetings What do we expect students to learn (essentials)? How will we know if they have learned it? What do we do with struggling students? What do we do with the students who have learned already? What methods of instruction are working best for all of our students?

10. What meetings have been • Grading papers • Talking • Reading • Cell phone games • More than Tuesday at 2:00 • Everyone invited to participate • Common goal Begin to change that state of mind

11. How to begin that transformation • KWA • Re-Direct • Code Word

12. ?check-in? KWA or Norms *Do you have KWA’s or Norms for your meetings? *Do the members of your team follow them? *Pick 2 code words and share them with your neighbor

13. Still heading to that transformation • Fluffy agenda • Get it out there and visible • SMART goals • S pecific, strategic • M easurable • A ttainable • R esults-oriented • T ime-bound

14. ?check-in? SMART goals *Do you useSMART goals?

15. Why SMART goals? • Goals are something that you want to achieve in the future • SMART goals assist in “getting focused” on what to focus efforts toward • SMART goals help define exactly what the “future state” looks like and how it will be measured • SMART goals show others how their work “aligns” and relates to the focus of the school

16. Goals allow teachers too…. • more rapidly identify those students who need help. • challenge the students in the middle to reach a little bit higher. • move students who have mastered the materials on to new skills and competencies. • have quick feedback which allows continuous adjustments to instructional strategies.

17. SMART goal examples: • 80% of all sixth grade students will score a 4 or higher on a 6 point MEAP rubric when responding to a personal narrative prompt. • 80% of first grade students will read at a level 16 or above by the end of first grade. • 80% of third grade students will score an 80% or higher on the third grade math essential summative assessment • 80% of eighth grade students will increase their lexile score by 100 points by the end of eighth grade.

18. SMART non-examples: • 80% of fourth grade students will score a 4 or higher on the writing MEAP. • First grade students will improve listening skills. • 80% of seventh grade students will use a child-friendly writing rubric.

19. ?check-in? Revise goal Every student will show evidence of one year of growth in mathematics.

20. You know the WHY now lets work more towards the WHAT and HOW

21. So what do you talk about? • “Data should be used as a means to an end,not as a means to a grade”Steve Tunnicliff Carman- Ainsworth Assistant Supe

22. Fast forward to your first common assessment • Invite everyone to bring their test results • Non-judging environment • Begin with the positive • Share top 3 questions • Identify commonalities and differences • Discuss and document

23. ?check-in? Test data discussion *Identify your first assessment this year you will use this process *Make note of 2 concerns you have

24. Continuing with same test data • Share bottom 2 questions • Team leader shares results first • Everyone share results • Record information for review • Look for commonalities and differences

25. Common missed questions • Analyze the question and decided what to do • Isolated topic • Instruction for next year • Note in valuable location • Continuing skill • Re-teach & re-assess • Communicate info to all involved

26. Continuing with test data

27. Non-common missed question • Put yourself out there • Ask for volunteers with higher results • Share and record strategies used • Thank all that offer support • Proceed through the rest of the low results

28. ?check-in? test data discussion *Look at your previous concerns, share one (or add an additional one) with your neighbor

29. Example data displays

30. Elementary goal tracking

31. Sample HS Learning Data ReportUS History – 11 essentials – 5 teachersY axis = ScoresX axis = performance on ea essential by teacher

32. Fraser Example Using Data DirectorTracking Team Learning Databy Essential and by Teacher

33. Unit planning • Ask for tips from the pro’s • Read section heading or topics • Record and distribute all ideas • Obtain permission before including names

34. Hear crickets? • No eye contact? • Sally-Show-Off has learned to talk without breathing • No worries Unit planning silence

35. Unit planning - get the ball rolling • Online resources • Jig-saw and discuss the merits • Personally ask each person to bring something to the next meeting (this helps with Sally too) • Pick your favorite topic and talk about it • Pick the most difficult • Then brainstorm as a group strategies

36. WHY Test data & unit planning • Talk about teaching and learning • Share ideas • Lessen individual workload • Encourage each other and celebrate

37. ?check-in? unit planning *Write down 2-3 of your own strategies that you will share with your peers for your first unit this year

38. Don’t miss the bus

39. Our MIP’s • Fluffly agenda, SMART goals and KWA’s • Code word or re-direct • Put yourself out there • Test data 3 positive and 2 negative • Invite everyone to participate & share/distribute ideas • One’s ordinary is another’s extraordinary

40. PLC is more than a meeting Find out how your world can change by taking part

41. Don’t let this be your school… your meetings…your class… you

42. ?check-in? your current plc reality *What are we great at? *What do we need to get better at? *What do we need to start doing? *What should we stop doing? *What should we celebrate?

43. Katie Fitzpatrick & Heather Rumley