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Littlestown Area SD

Professional Education Plan

07/01/2015 - 06/30/2018

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District Level Plan

Action Plans

Goal #1: Establish a district system that fully ensures consistent implementation of standards

aligned curricula across all schools for all students.

Related Challenges:

Establish a district system that fully ensures high quality curricular assets (e.g. model

curricula, learning progressions, units, lesson plans, and content resources) aligned with

state standards and fully accessible to teachers and students.

Establish a district system that fully ensures professional development is focused,

comprehensive and implemented with fidelity.

Establish a system that fully ensures the district's resources effectively address

instructional priorities aligned with the district's vision and mission and fully ensures

that the expenditure and accounting of funds meets all legal and ethical requirements

within the parameters of generally accepted accounting practices.

Indicators of Effectiveness:

Type: Annual

Data Source: SPP score

Specific Targets: Student proficiency rates on state assessments will increase

by 10% annually.

Strategies:

Curriculum Mapping, Alignment, and Writing to the PA Core

Standards

Description:

The LASD will map K-12 curriculum in all subject areas and align to PA Core Standards or other applicable standards. Curriculum will be written using the UbD framework.

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SAS Alignment: Standards, Curriculum Framework

Professional Development to Support Curriculum Implementation

Description:

Professional Development will be provided to support the implementation of the PA Core Standards.

SAS Alignment: Standards, Assessment, Curriculum Framework, Instruction,

Materials & Resources

Implementation Steps:

ELA and Math Curriculum Mapping

Description:

ELA and Math Curriculum Maps will be created, K-12.

Start Date: 8/1/2013 End Date: 6/30/2014

Program Area(s): Professional Education

Supported Strategies:

Curriculum Mapping, Alignment, and Writing to the PA Core Standards

Curriculum Alignment and Writing

Description:

Using the Curriculum Maps, teachers will identify and address gaps, align curriculum to the PA Core Standards and write curriculum using the UbD framework.




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Description:

PD opportunities will be provided to support curriculum implementation of the PA Core Standards. Topic will include Instructional Shifts to Implement the Core Standards and Webb's Depth of Knowledge





Purchase materials and resources to support curriculum implementation

Description:

Cycle of Purchase for Resources and Technology to support Curriculum and Instruction will be established






Repeat Curriculum Mapping, Alignment, and Writing Cycle

Description:

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A curriculum cycle will be introduced in the district for mapping, aligning, and writing curriculum.

2014-15 ELA and Math

2015-16 Science

2016-17 Social Studies

2017-18 Music and Art






Goal #2: Establish a district system that fully ensures the consistent implementation of effective instructional practices across all classrooms in each school.

Related Challenges:

Establish a district system that fully ensures barriers to student learning are addressed in order to increase student achievement and graduation rates.

Establish a district system that fully ensures specially designed instruction is provided to meet the unique learning needs of children with disabilities at no cost to a parent.

Establish a district system that fully ensures professional development is focused, comprehensive and implemented with fidelity.

Indicators of Effectiveness:

Type: Annual

Data Source: School Performance Profile

Specific Targets: Student proficiency rates will increase by 10%.

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Strategies:

Professional Development to Support Effective Instruction

Description:

A Professional Development cycle will be created annually to meet the needs of teachers and students in the LASD. Needs will be ascertained from multiple measures of data including student learning data, school processes data, demographic data, and perceptual data.

SAS Alignment: Standards, Assessment, Curriculum Framework, Instruction,

Materials & Resources, Safe and Supportive Schools

Educating the Whole Child

Description:

Students learn best when they are healthy, safe, supported, engaged, and challenged. Through professional development opportunities and professional learning community endeavors, the Littlestown Area School District will embrace and implement a Whole Child approach to teaching and learning.

SAS Alignment: Instruction, Materials & Resources, Safe and Supportive

Schools

Implementation Steps:

Create a Professional Education Committee

Description:

Create a Professional Education Committee comprised of teachers, ed specialists, administrators, Board members, parents, community, and business representatives.





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Convene Professional Education Committee

Description:

Convene Professional Education Committee annually to provide input and feedback regarding professional development offerings for professional staff.






Implement Annual Professional Ed Plan

Description:

Implement Annual Professional Ed Plan developed by Professional Education Committee.






2015-16 Professional Education Plan: Student Engagement, Literacy and Language Acquisition; the Diverse Learner

Description:

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The 2015-16 Professional Education Plan was developed by the Professional Ed Committee based on multiple measures of data. PD Offerings will include best practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment.




Professional Development to Support Effective Instruction Educating the Whole Child

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Appendix: Professional Development Implementation

Step Details

LEA Goals Addressed:

#1 Establish a district system that fully ensures consistent implementation of standards aligned curricula across all schools for all students.

Strategy #1: Professional Development to Support Curriculum Implementation

Start End Title Description

7/1/2015 6/30/2018 Professional Development to

Support Curriculum Implementation

PD opportunities will be provided to support curriculum implementation of the PA

Core Standards. Topic will include Instructional Shifts to Implement the Core

Standards and Webb's Depth of Knowledge

Person Responsible SH S EP Provider Type App. Director of CIA 5.5 3 150 LASD School

Entity Yes

Knowledge Teachers will develop a deep understanding of the complexity of the core standards and gain strategies for

implementing the curriculum for maximizing student learning.

Supportive Research

Norman Webb--Depth of Knowledge; CoreStandards.org; EngageNY; PARCC; Achieve; SmarterBalance.

Designed to Accomplish

For classroom teachers, school counselors and education specialists:

Enhances the educator’s content knowledge in the area of the educator’s certification or assignment.

Increases the educator’s teaching skills based on research on effective practice, with attention given to interventions for struggling students.

Provides educators with a variety of classroom-based assessment skills and the skills

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needed to analyze and use data in instructional decision-making.

For school and district administrators, and other educators seeking leadership roles:

Provides the knowledge and skills to think and plan strategically, ensuring that assessments, curriculum, instruction, staff professional education, teaching materials and interventions for struggling students are aligned to each other as well as to Pennsylvania’s academic standards.

Empowers leaders to create a culture of teaching and learning, with an emphasis on learning.

Instructs the leader in managing resources for effective results.

Training Format

LEA Whole Group Presentation

Series of Workshops

School Whole Group Presentation

Department Focused Presentation

Professional Learning Communities

Participant Roles

Classroom teachers

Principals / Asst. Principals

Supt / Ast Supts / CEO / Ex Dir

New Staff

Other educational specialists

Grade Levels

Elementary - Primary (preK - grade 1)

Elementary - Intermediate (grades 2-5)

Middle (grades 6-8)

High (grades 9-12)

Follow-up Activities

Team development and sharing of content-area lesson implementation outcomes, with

Evaluation Methods

Classroom observation focusing on factors such as planning and preparation, knowledge of content, pedagogy and

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involvement of administrator and/or peers

Analysis of student work, with administrator and/or peers

Creating lessons to meet varied student learning styles

Peer-to-peer lesson discussion

Joint planning period activities

standards, classroom environment, instructional delivery and professionalism.

Student PSSA data Standardized student assessment

data other than the PSSA

Classroom student assessment data

Participant survey

Review of participant lesson plans

Review of written reports summarizing instructional activity

LEA Goals Addressed:

#2 Establish a district system that fully ensures the consistent implementation of effective instructional practices across all classrooms in each school.

Strategy #1: Professional Development to Support Effective Instruction

Strategy #2: Educating the Whole Child

Start End Title Description

7/1/2015 6/30/2016

2015-16 Professional Education Plan: Student

Engagement, Literacy and Language Acquisition; the

Diverse Learner

The 2015-16 Professional Education Plan was developed by the Professional Ed

Committee based on multiple measures of data. PD Offerings will include best

practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Person Responsible SH S EP Provider Type App. Director of CIA 5.5 4 150 LASD School

Entity Yes

Knowledge Teachers will continue to develop their classroom practice in the areas of curriculum, instruction, and

assessment.

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Supportive Research

Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind, Eric Jensen, ASCD, 2013

Habits of Mind, Costa and Kallick, 2013

Differentiated Instruction, Carol Ann Tomlinson

Gifted Education, Susan Winebrenner

Reading Apprenticeship, West-Ed

Guided Reading, Fountas and Pinnell

Literacy and Language Acquisition, Fisher and Frey

Writing: Units of Study, Lucy Calkins

Universal Design for Learning http://www.cast.org/udl/

Designed to Accomplish

For classroom teachers, school counselors and education specialists:

Enhances the educator’s content knowledge in the area of the educator’s certification or assignment.

Increases the educator’s teaching skills based on research on effective practice, with attention given to interventions for struggling students.

Provides educators with a variety of classroom-based assessment skills and the skills needed to analyze and use data in instructional decision-making.

Empowers educators to work effectively with parents and community partners.

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For school and district administrators, and other educators seeking leadership roles:

Provides the knowledge and skills to think and plan strategically, ensuring that assessments, curriculum, instruction, staff professional education, teaching materials and interventions for struggling students are aligned to each other as well as to Pennsylvania’s academic standards.

Provides leaders with the ability to access and use appropriate data to inform decision-making.

Empowers leaders to create a culture of teaching and learning, with an emphasis on learning.

Instructs the leader in managing resources for effective results.

Training Format

LEA Whole Group Presentation

Series of Workshops

School Whole Group Presentation Department Focused Presentation

Professional Learning Communities

Participant Roles

Classroom teachers Principals / Asst. Principals

Supt / Ast Supts / CEO / Ex Dir

School counselors

New Staff

Other educational specialists

Grade Levels

Elementary - Primary (preK - grade 1)

Elementary - Intermediate (grades 2-5)

Middle (grades 6-8)

High (grades 9-12)

Follow-up Activities

Team development and sharing of content-area lesson implementation outcomes, with

Evaluation Methods

Classroom observation focusing on factors such as planning and preparation, knowledge of content, pedagogy and

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involvement of administrator and/or peers

Analysis of student work, with administrator and/or peers

Creating lessons to meet varied student learning styles

Peer-to-peer lesson discussion

Joint planning period activities

Journaling and reflecting

standards, classroom environment, instructional delivery and professionalism.

Student PSSA data Standardized student assessment

data other than the PSSA

Classroom student assessment data

Participant survey

Review of participant lesson plans

Review of written reports summarizing instructional activity

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