A Year of Professional Learning

1. A Year ofProfessional Learning December 2013 – February 2014

2. Leadership Development and Teaching and LearningLeading Through an Appreciative Lens

3. Professional Development for All Destination: Schools hold professional learning among their top priorities for the school community. They recognize that universal high expectations for all students require ambitious and continual improvements in curriculum, instruction, assessment, leadership practices and support systems. These improvements require effective professional learning to expand educators’ knowledge, skills, practices and dispositions. Schools demand effective professional learning focused on substantive results for themselves, their colleagues, and their students. Schools artfully combine deep understanding and cultural responsiveness to the communities they serve. Schools hold high expectations with support for adult learning by providing multiple structures for professional development in order to achieve school goals.  They embed professional learning into the organization’s vision by communicating that it is a core function for improvement and by establishing and maintaining a public and persistent focus on educator professional learning.

4. Area Superintendent Learning What We Have Accomplished December 2013 – February 2014 Instructional Cabinet Learning, Planning and Calibration focused on: Quality Indicators, Leadership Practices, Improving Instruction, Walkthroughs and Common Core Implementation Study Strong Models Health Science High: 9/30, 1/22 Chula Vista: 12/6 Calibration Walkthroughs La Jolla Elementary: 9/4 Health Science High: 9/30 Perkins Elementary: 11/4 Marshall Elementary: 1/30 Leadership Practices/Walkthroughs Walkthroughs With Colleagues Walkthrough Study: Rosa Parks 12/11 Walkthroughs Superintendent/Chief of Staff December – February Site Visits: La Jolla High, Marshall Middle, San Diego High-Science and Tech.,Mann Middle, Scripps Ranch, Morse,Millennial Tech, Roosevelt, Mission Bay

5. Learning From Other Districts AREA SUPERINTENDENT LEARNING Instructional Cabinet Calibration Walkthroughs

6. Principal Learning What We Have Accomplished December 2013 – February 2014 Principal Institutes 8/15, 10/9/, 12/9, 2/3 Quality Indicators, Leadership Practices, Improving Instruction, Walkthroughs - the appreciative lens, Close Reading, and Common Core Implementation Half-Day Principal Institutes Elementary: 9/24, 10/16, 11/7, 12/17, 1/24 Middle: 9/27, 10/2, 11/19, 1/23 High: 10/2, 11/21, 1/21, 2/11 Leadership Practices/Walkthroughs Cycles 1 and 2: Walkthrough (10/1-2/1) Facilitated walkthrough of two schools following a ½ Day Conf. model PLC PD 1/13, 1/23 Leading PD 2/10, Cycle 1 Triad Meeting (10/16-12/17) Triads walkthrough one school following a protocol modeled at ½ Day Institute Cycle 2 Triad Meeting Elem. 12/17-2/25 Triads walkthrough one school with a focus on professional learning Principal Walkthroughs Principals’ Walkthrough School Daily Area Sups Walkthrough Schools Daily

7. Half-Day Principal Conferences at Schools New Principal Conference PRINCIPAL LEARNING Full-Day Principal Conferences at USD

8. School Based Learning

9. Professional Learning Community (PLC) Developed a PLC framework to provide job embedded teacher collaboration focused on instructional improvement and student learning.

10. Organizational Leadership Highlights New Principal Budget Planning Master Schedule Planning Leading Professional Learning Communities Designing Professional Learning Opportunities to Strengthen Teacher Practice