Voices From the Field

1. Voices From the Field Rick Pardo & Donna Norley Board: Thames Valley DSB Learning Team Facilitator (Professional Learning Cycle)

2. Thames Valley District SchoolBoardLearning Cycle Kick-off Meeting Powerpoint Templates

3. Our Board’s Journey K-8 7-12 2009 – present Secondary English and Mathematics Learning Cycles mandated, with the expectation that Principals participate in one Learning Cycle 2007- 2009 TLCP’s in some schools, Literacy focus 2009 - present Professional Learning Cycles mandated, Literacy and Mathematics focus

4. Facilitators and Support Staff • Learning Coordinators • Teachers on Special Assignment • Differentiated Instruction and Assessment Task Force members

5. Preliminary Challenges • Mandated cycles – time away from classroom and reticent teachers • Understanding of the process • e.g. Moderation of student work

6. Effective Tools Ability to meet teams where they are – • Facilitation philosophy • Excellent facilitating skills • Learning Coordinators, T.O.S.A.’s • Task Force members

7. Learning Cycle Release Time Structure – 4 half days Team Meeting Team Meeting Wrap-up Meeting Kick-off Meeting (½ day) (½ day) (½ day) (½ day) • Weeks of Nov. 28th & Dec. 5th • Regional Sites • Weeks of Oct. 17th & 24th • Regional Sites • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • Bring student samples from your learning cycle, such as: • Moderated student work that you found challenging, valuable or surprising. • Student feedback - the impact of this learning cycle on their learning • Reflect on process and product • Work on Student Pathways Journal • Set next steps • Choose evidence-based curriculum area of need • Select a learning cycle focus • Plan assessments (diagnostic, summative) • Determine educator learning • Introduce STUDENT PATHWAYS JOURNAL • Moderate diagnostic • Use diagnostic feedback to finalize S.M.A.R.T. goal and summative assessment plans • Collect and/or create a pool of instructional strategies based on assessment feedback • Develop and administer formative assessments (moderate, if possible) • Administer and moderate summative assessment Web Resources: www.edugains.ca www.tvdsb.ca Programs  Student Pathways for Success

8. Effective Tools • Leveled flash cards for teacher moderation

9. Ongoing Challenges • All cycles – to change practice • Area of focus based on need • Select appropriate strategies • Follow through

10. Effective Tools • Expanding facilitating skills • Learning Coordinators, T.O.S.A.’s • Task Force members • Team Led meetings • Coordinated Administrator involvement • Pathways Journal Reflections • Posting of Learning Cycle artifacts • Teacher exit surveys

11. Pathways Journal

12. Sustainable? We (at the board) are in the middle of a learning cycle about learning cycles – that’s why we are never done but always improving. Next steps sustainability ??

13. Questions? Thank you

14. Supplementary Materials

15. Learning Cycle – Kick-off Meeting Kick-off Meeting (½ day) • Weeks of Oct. 17th & 24th • Regional Sites • Class/school/anecdotal data • Reference curriculum expectations in planning • Alignment with Dept. and School Improvement Plans • Choose evidence-based curriculum area of need • Select a learning cycle focus • Plan assessments (diagnostic, summative) • Determine educator learning

16. Learning Cycle – Kick-off Meeting Kick-off Meeting (½ day) • Weeks of Oct. 17th & 24th • Regional Sites • Leads to development of S.M.A.R.T. goal • Limit area of focus to 1-3 curriculum expectations • Choose evidence-based curriculum area of need • Select a learning cycle focus • Plan assessments (diagnostic, summative) • Determine educator learning

17. Learning Cycle – Kick-off Meeting Kick-off Meeting (½ day) • Check that assessments reflect expectations • Check correlation of diagnostic to summative • Assessment tools: rubrics, checklists, … • Plan with the end in mind • Weeks of Oct. 17th & 24th • Regional Sites • Choose evidence-based curriculum area of need • Select a learning cycle focus • Plan assessments (diagnostic, summative) • Determine educator learning

18. Learning Cycle – Kick-off Meeting Kick-off Meeting (½ day) • Weeks of Oct. 17th & 24th • Regional Sites • Sharing expertise: • between team members • other teams • program staff • other school staff (resource, SST, guidance, administration) • Choose evidence-based curriculum area of need • Select a learning cycle focus • Plan assessments (diagnostic, summative) • Determine educator learning

19. Learning Cycle – Team Meetings Team Meeting Team Meeting • Moderation process • Outcomes of the process • Program staff involvement (½ day) (½ day) • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • Moderate diagnostic • Use diagnostic feedback to finalize S.M.A.R.T. goal and summative assessment plans • Collect and/or create a pool of instructional strategies based on assessment feedback • Develop and administer formative assessments (moderate, if possible) • Administer and moderate summative assessment

20. Learning Cycle – Team Meetings Team Meeting Team Meeting (½ day) (½ day) • Assessment FOR Learning • S – Specific • M – Measurable • A – Achievable • R – Results-based • T – Time-bound • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • Moderate diagnostic • Use diagnostic feedback to finalize S.M.A.R.T. goal and summative assessment plans • Collect and/or create a pool of instructional strategies based on assessment feedback • Develop and administer formative assessments (moderate, if possible) • Administer and moderate summative assessment

21. Learning Cycle – Team Meetings Team Meeting Team Meeting • Sharing instructional best practices • Other learning resources • Learning Classroom • Learning Classroom 2.0 • Program staff • TVDSB & EduGains websites • Monitor alignment of strategies and student needs (½ day) (½ day) • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • Moderate diagnostic • Use diagnostic feedback to finalize S.M.A.R.T. goal and summative assessment plans • Collect and/or create a pool of instructional strategies based on assessment feedback • Develop and administer formative assessments (moderate, if possible) • Administer and moderate summative assessment

22. Learning Cycle – Team Meetings Team Meeting Team Meeting (½ day) (½ day) • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • Assessment FOR/AS learning • Reflect on the effectiveness of formative strategies • Moderate diagnostic • Use diagnostic feedback to finalize S.M.A.R.T. goal and summative assessment plans • Collect and/or create a pool of instructional strategies based on assessment feedback • Develop and administer formative assessments (moderate, if possible) • Administer and moderate summative assessment

23. Learning Cycle – Team Meetings Team Meeting Team Meeting (½ day) (½ day) • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • School Based • Scheduled at team’s discretion • Summative moderation • Analyze student progress • Start reflections • Complete before Wrap-up meeting • Moderate diagnostic • Use diagnostic feedback to finalize S.M.A.R.T. goal and summative assessment plans • Collect and/or create a pool of instructional strategies based on assessment feedback • Develop and administer formative assessments (moderate, if possible) • Administer and moderate summative assessment

24. Learning Cycle – Wrap-up Meeting Wrap-up Meeting (½ day) • Weeks of Nov. 28th & Dec. 5th • Regional Sites • Wrap-up Meeting Date: Wed. Nov. 30th, 8 – 11 AM • Other items to share: • Effective instructional strategies • Developed Lessons • Posting of Learning Cycle materials • Bring student samples from your learning cycle, such as: • Moderated student work that you found challenging, valuable or surprising. • Student feedback - the impact of this learning cycle on their learning • Reflect on process and product • Work on Student Pathways Journal • Set next steps

25. Learning Cycle – Wrap-up Meeting Wrap-up Meeting (½ day) • Weeks of Nov. 28th & Dec. 5th • Regional Sites • Share teacher and student experiences impactingteacher practice • S.M.A.R.T. goal results • Bring student samples from your learning cycle, such as: • Moderated student work that you found challenging, valuable or surprising. • Student feedback - the impact of this learning cycle on their learning • Reflect on process and product • Work on Student Pathways Journal • Set next steps

26. Learning Cycle – Wrap-up Meeting Wrap-up Meeting (½ day) • Weeks of Nov. 28th & Dec. 5th • Regional Sites • Learning Cycle Team form(Student Pathways Journal) • Release-time funding forms (Secondary Learning Cycle PD Form & Cross-panel Elementary Pd Form) • Bring student samples from your learning cycle, such as: • Moderated student work that you found challenging, valuable or surprising. • Student feedback - the impact of this learning cycle on their learning • Reflect on process and product • Work on Student Pathways Journal • Set next steps

27. Learning Cycle – Wrap-up Meeting Wrap-up Meeting (½ day) • Weeks of Nov. 28th & Dec. 5th • Regional Sites • Bring student samples from your learning cycle, such as: • Moderated student work that you found challenging, valuable or surprising. • Student feedback - the impact of this learning cycle on their learning • Reflect on process and product • Work on Student Pathways Journal • Set next steps • Impact of learning cycle on future work with students and teachers • Completion and submission of Pathways Journal by principal, Wednesday, Dec. 21st