Race to the Top Regional Leadership Getting Started Sessions ( a.k.a. Boot Camp )

1. Race to the Top Regional LeadershipGetting Started Sessions (a.k.a. Boot Camp) March 8th, 9th, 22nd, 23rd

2. Purpose: • To establish a collaborative team with the knowledge, skills, and capacities to deploy the professional development priorities of RttT statewide. (specifically, those articulated in section D5.)

3. Outcomes:By the end of “Boot Camp” team members will have a(n): • Strong sense of team • Common vision of the scope of work for this team • Common baseline of knowledge related to: • 21st Century Skills • NC Teacher Evaluation Process • Strategies for Facilitating Change • Components of High Quality Professional Development • Understanding of important housekeepingexpectations • Understanding of areas for growth/development of collaborative leadership skills • Plan for initiating regional actions that must occur prior to the Summer Institutes

4. To develop a strong sense of team • What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen? • Begin with “get to know” activities • Active icebreakers • Group Norms • North/South activity • Make learning tasks: • Collaborative • Generative

5. To develop a common vision of the scope of work for this team • What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen? • Explore current beliefs • Team Poster/Visual • Consider scope • Drivers • Restrainers • Clarify priorities

6. To develop a common baseline of knowledge related to: 21st Century Skills • What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen? • Dimensions of NC model • Team collaboration tools • Google Docs • Documents • Forms • Sharing • Wikispaces • Voicethread

7. To develop a common baseline of knowledge related to: NC Teacher Evaluation Process • What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen? • History • What is tight • What is loose • Future changes

8. To develop a common baseline of knowledge related to: Facilitating Change • What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen? • Read/Discuss The Sabertooth Curriculum • Explore The Change Model • Personal experiences • Emotional impact • Typical responses • Being proactive

9. To Develop a common baseline of knowledge related to: High Quality Professional Development • What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen? • Andragogy • Define High Quality • NSDC position/definition • NC components • PLC expectations • What is the message • Where is the message • Look at NC Documents

10. Identify important housekeeping expectations • What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen? • Formal • Travel Log • Calendar • Informal • Collaborating • Working inter-regionally

11. Ongoing Professional GrowthUnderstand areas for growth & development • What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen? • Determine strengths • Whole group • Subgroups • Individual • Identify target growth areas • Whole group • Subgroups • Individual • Explore learning opportunities • What exists? • What may need to be discovered or designed?

12. Planning for actions that must occur prior to the Summer Institutes • What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen? • Boot Camp assignments • Content Working Groups • Regional LEA networking • Institute assignments

13. Boot Camp Topic Focus RatioBegin with a focus on team building, moving to a focus on content, skills and expectations Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Team Building and Collaboration Race to the Top: Critical Content, Skills and Expectations