READY FOR SOME HEAVY LIFTING?

How do you provide High Quality Professional Development that

ensures curriculum implementation to the highest fidelity while walking the

balance of required and optional development

opportunities?

The essence of reform is to STOP the “that can’t be done” “that can’t be done” talk and think carefully about the WHAT IF…

WHAT IF we all agreed to agree about certain

principles of PD in Parkway and what exceptional PD was?

When a boat tips sideways in one direction, the keel prevents it from going completely over.

A structural keel is a large beam around which the hull of a ship is built. The keel runs in the middle of the ship, from the bow to the stern, and serves as the foundation or spine of the structure, providing the major source of structural strength of the hull.

The keel is generally the first part of a ship's hull to be constructed, and laying the keel, or placing the keel in the cradle in which the ship will be built, is often a momentous event in a ship's construction--so much so that the event is often marked with a ceremony, and the term lay the keel has entered the language as a phrase meaning the beginning of any significant undertaking.

Keel. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved September 10, 2008, from Reference.com website: http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Keel

A structural keel is a large beam around which the hull of a ship is built. The keel runs in the middle of the ship, from the bow to the stern, and serves as the foundation or spine of the structure, providing the major source of structural strength of the hull.

The keel is generally the first part of a ship's hull to be constructed, and laying the keel, or placing the keel in the cradle in which the ship will be built, is often a momentous event in a ship's construction--so much so that the event is often marked with a ceremony, and the term lay the keel has entered the language as a phrase meaning the beginning of any significant undertaking.

Keel. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved September 10, 2008, from Reference.com website: http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Keel

Without a keel, a sailboat will drift with the currents and be thrown off

course by shifting winds.So, too, with schools.

Zmuda, McTighe, Wiggins and Brown

What are we striving for in Professional Development?

How will we know when we are there?

How high can we possibly set the bar?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway included a focus on student achievement and an opportunity to try out new learning with support?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway included a focus on student achievement and an opportunity to try out new learning with support?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was planned to cause participants to want to go back to their school and get going and inspire connections between teachers and students?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway included a focus on student achievement and an opportunity to try out new learning with support?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was planned to cause participants to want to go back to their school and get going and inspire connections between teachers and students?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was applicable to participant needs and designed to push on knowledge, confidence and current practice?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway included a focus on student achievement and an opportunity to try out new learning with support?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was planned to cause participants to want to go back to their school and get going and inspire connections between teachers and students?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was applicable to participant needs and designed to push on knowledge, confidence and current practice?

What would it take to have participants leave every PD opportunity in Parkway and say it was meaningful and practice changing?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway resulted in implementation and informed teachers making students the focus of instruction?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway included a focus on student achievement and an opportunity to try out new learning with support?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was planned to cause participants to want to go back to their school and get going and inspire connections between teachers and students?

What if every PD opportunity in Parkway was applicable to participant needs and designed to push on knowledge, confidence and current practice?

What would it take to have participants leave every PD opportunity in Parkway and say it was meaningful and practice changing?

What are we striving for in Professional Development? High quality PD for every staff member.▪ Job embedded▪ Research based▪ Driven by data

How will we know when we are there?How high can we possibly set the

bar?

Induction to Parkway and into Teaching

Social Justice and EquityLeadershipCurriculum

Induction to Parkway and into Teaching

Social Justice and EquityLeadershipCurriculum

Induction to Parkway and into Teaching

Social Justice and EquityLeadershipCurriculum

CURRENT REALITY

Part time diversity facilitator

Only development for teachers is Honoring All Voices 3 days Summer Year 1 teachers

CURRENT REALITY

Part time diversity facilitator

Only development for teachers is Honoring All Voices 3 days Summer Year 1 teachers

PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS 2009-10

Full time Staff Development Facilitator Diversity

HAV Social Justice Student HAV to

include a teacher development component.

Identifying partner schools outside of Parkway to learn from.

CURRENT REALITY

Part time diversity facilitator

Only development for teachers is Honoring All Voices 3 days Summer Year 1 teachers

PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS 2009-10

Full time Staff Development Facilitator Diversity

HAV Social Justice Student HAV to

include a teacher development component.

Identifying partner schools outside of Parkway to learn from.

“A sudden, bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.”

— Francis Bacon, early 17th century British philosopher

Probing questions about the proposed structural changes to HAV Social Justice

In summary, good probing questions:

• are general and widely useful• don’t place blame on anyone• allow for multiple responses• help create a paradigm shift• empower the person with the dilemma to solve

his or her own problem (rather than deferring to someone with greater or different expertise)

• avoid yes/no responses• are usually brief• elicit a slow response• move thinking from reaction to reflection• encourage taking another party’s perspective

Redo current 3 summer day structure to create multiple cohorts/ally groups ½ day kick off (multiple offerings) 1 full day (off site, experiential) ½ day follow up 2- two hour after school sessions Job embedded support Connected to year 2 cohort leaders

Discuss the proposed structural changes at your table and craft one or two PROBING questions about the proposed structural changes to HAV Social Justice.

Induction to Parkway and into Teaching

Social Justice and EquityLeadershipCurriculum

CURRENT REALITY

Falls under Path C umbrella tenure

PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS

Establish a scholarship process open to those who fit the criteria for the certificate they are pursuing.

Scholarship application would be parallel to the actual NB process. Similar rigor Read by 3 blind readers

GREEN: Narrative of proposalPINK: Application for scholarshipYELLOW: Administrator checklist

Changes: Abstract prior to proposal for approval and

feedback (handout) Timeline:

MARCH 23: Registration for Coordinator Summer Workshops OPEN in PEERS

Abstracts due to Coordinator by April 10 Abstracts returned by April 17

Window to propose PDC Workshops closes April 30 May 6: Scoring of PDC Workshops May 22: Notification of PDC Workshop funding

completed

What does this data suggest about the structures of Path B and Path C?

What questions does it raise?

Social Justice & Equity for teachers Changes to HAV

National Board Certification Scholarship Proposal

Path B and Path C data

Conflict is inevitable in a team…in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict.

Susan Gerke, IBM Leadership Development