Engage, Connect, Learn : New Approaches for Professional Learning

1. Engage, Connect, Learn: New Approaches for Professional Learning October 22, 2013 MASSP Fall Conference

2. Learning Forward MD’s Mission, Outcomes and Goals Mission, Outcomes, Goals Organizational Outcomes Organizational Outcomes Project Outcomes

3. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS • What are the Standards for Professional Learning? • How can the standards improve the quality and effectiveness of professional learning? • What do the standards look like in practice?

4. Standards forProfessional Learning

5. WHY • Purpose of professional learning is for educators to develop knowledge, skills, practices, and dispositions to help students perform at high levels • Guide the design, implementation, and evaluation of professional learning

6. What could happen if …? • Learning Communities • Leadership • Resources • Data • Learning Designs • Implementation • Outcomes

7. What could happen if …? • Learning Communities • Leadership • Resources • Data • Learning Designs • Implementation • Outcomes

8. What could happen if …? • Learning Communities • Leadership • Resources • Data • Learning Designs • Implementation • Outcomes

9. Standards-based professional learning Changes in educator knowledge, skills, and dispositions Changes in educator practice Changes in student results

10. Relationship Between Professional Learning and Student Results Standards-based professional learning Changes in educator knowledge, skills, and dispositions Changes in educator practice Changes in student results

11. Becoming a Learning System: Standards in Practice

13. Conventional System Learning System

14. What is the relationship between the Standards for Professional Learning and student results?

15. Standards in Practice Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts • https://docs.google.com/document/d/17_nldqyeNIrecUnhjEfjo5n33ndsYU9q4s9GCV3iWl0/edit?usp=sharing

16. Standards in Practice • Based on teachers’ individual professional growth plans. • Differentiated based on teachers’ needs and interests. • Flexible enough to adapt to new areas of focus over time. Our PD Needs

17. Standards in Practice • Ensure faculty and department meetings model best practices for instruction. • Aggressively eliminate meeting time spent on issues not directly related to instruction. • Minimize after school meetings and re-purpose that time to implement the Patapsco University professional learning plan. Our PD Plan

18. Standards in Practice • Great opportunities for aspiring leaders to organize meaningful professional learning in an authentic way. • Can earn an MSDE credit. • Some folks will look for “credit” everywhere and not truly engage in professional learning. Pros Cons / Challenges

19. People in schools are generally working at or near their maximum levels of skill and knowledge. In order to do the work better, they need to know how to do things that they currently don't know how to do, and, in order to do that, they need to operate in workplaces designed to develop their practice. - Richard Elmore from the Foreword of A Playbook for Professional Learning

20. How to Contact Us www.learningforwardmaryland.org learningforwardmaryland@gmail.com