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Small Suburban System Addresses Differentiation, Assessment, and Compliance

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT, NEW JERSEY

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“PD 360 is a great professional development tool. It is cost effective and reaches the needs of all educators. Moreover, as teachers implement it, the benefits carry through to the students.” Joetta Surace Director of Human Resources Egg Harbor Township School District, New Jersey

A small suburban system located in Atlantic County, Egg Harbor Township School District (EHT) includes seven schools serving 7,822 students in grades PK through 12. The 300-year-old township promotes twenty-first century standards and best practices, while carrying on a long tradition of providing an outstanding education for its children.

Recent district highlights:

• All schools are High Achieving under the New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.

• Students met 94% of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) indicators for mathematics and language arts literacy.

• 91% of the 2011 graduating seniors are continuing education at colleges and universities.

• Over 9 million dollars in scholarships were earned by the 2011 graduating class.

• EHT created more efficient school schedules to provide instructional periods for students to get additional tutoring and enrichment support and for teachers to have more opportunities for Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).

Already a high-achieving district, EHT steadily strives to improve. Some of its most important issues include:

• Classroom assessment• Proficiency scores• Cost-saving, high-quality professional development (PD)• Differentiated instruction• Professional Learning Communities

EHT Director of Human Resources, Joetta Surace, first became acquainted with PD 360 at an ASCD conference. While visiting the School Improvement Network booth, she was intrigued with the online accessibility and large library of content that included the topics EHT required. She knew it would be an ideal addition to the EHT PD program.

PD 360 is an on-demand library of professional teacher development resources that leverages technology to make professional learning more effective, convenient, and sustainable. With over 200 hours of research-based video content, plus tools for follow-up, tracking, reflection, and group training, PD 360 is the most comprehensive solution to your professional teacher development needs.

More than 700,000 educators across North America already use PD 360 to access individualized support on

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the most relevant topics, like differentiation, minority student achievement, English language learners, classroom instruction that works, leadership, assessment, and many more. PD 360’s content is divided into hundreds of indexed and searchable segments that make it easy for teachers, administrators, aspiring leaders, coaches, mentors, paraprofessionals, and professional learning communities to find the answers they need. New content is added continually to keep teachers up-to-date. See a demonstration at www.pd360.com.

Together, the teacher with the principal develops a yearly Individual Professional Improvement Plan. It includes areas of strength and weakness, progress of objectives set forth in the previous plan, pupil assessments, and growth toward program objectives. PD 360 videos and segments in needed areas are part of the improvement plan.

The district mandates forming PLCs, along with time specifically set aside for implementation. As a tangible study resource, PD 360 solidifies PLCs in EHT and encourages collaborative conversations. Groups identify a need, watch a video segment, and discuss classroom application.

EHT teachers use PD 360 Interactive Learning Communities to communicate and collaborate with each other and with other groups of teachers around the country. Through it, educators share best practices, learn from one another, and eliminate classroom isolation regardless of location. Learning Communities can be created as public or private domains.

The district’s training program provides ongoing mentoring, observations, evaluations, and formal instruction for new teachers to help them adapt to EHT goals and standards. PD 360 is shown in the training meetings to illustrate common practices.

Each EHT teacher is required to complete 100 clock hours of continuing PD and/or in-service every five years and PD 360 usage can be applied toward the needed hours.

EHT in service meetings are held on the district and school levels to improve teacher skills. PD 360 video segments are shown to instruct, illustrate, and start discussions.

“PD 360 is on the cutting edge of today’s topics, the ones we are interested in such as differentiation, assessment, and the compliance series. It is accessible, well organized, easy to maneuver, and puts a teacher in control.” Joetta Surace Director of Human Resources Egg Harbor Township School District, New Jersey

When asked about PD 360 benefits, Ms. Surace cited:

Principals are very pleased with PD 360, showing videos during group trainings and often suggesting applicable segments to teachers.

Teachers are also happy with PD 360. They are investigating and utilizing it on their own as shown by the increase of usage minutes.

Egg Harbor Township School District, New Jersey PD 360 Usage

Programs Viewed

Segments Viewed

Minutes Viewed

Average Minutes Viewed

Per UserMar. 2010- Dec. 2010

2,671 5,057 25,712 234.5

Jan. 2011-Oct. 2011

4,934 17,936 107,857 949.5

PD should not be identical for each teacher, but be responsive to daily needs. As questions and situations arise in classrooms, EHT teachers instantly find answers in PD 360 instead of waiting for district workshops. The wide variety of content guarantees that teachers will find the assistance they require.

Teachers can follow their own growth curve by using the tracking tools and reflection questions at the end of each segment while administrators use PD 360’s integrated tracking, reporting, and follow-up to ensure that PD happens consistently.

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Interactive Learning Communities

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)

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Teachers can follow their own growth curve by using the tracking tools and reflection questions at the end of each segment while administrators use PD 360’s integrated tracking, reporting, and follow-up to ensure that PD happens consistently.

A wide variety of real classrooms from across the country is shown in every PD 360 program. EHT teachers can actually see how to implement education’s best practices in their own classrooms.

PD 360 is uncomplicated and user friendly. With one price, EHT educators have easy access to view programs as many times as they wish and as often as they need.

EHT is aggressively tackling its focus issues and PD 360 is there to assist and encourage educators to take charge of their own PD with pertinent programs and experts. As a result, students will enjoy the benefits of a great education for years to come.

“I have talked to other districts about PD 360. I tell them that it has addressed our focuses and provided the topics and experts we want for our teachers. I highly recommend it.” Joetta Surace Director of Human Resources Egg Harbor Township School District, New Jersey

School Improvement Network is the leading provider of teacher education and teacher training, specializing in on-demand, research-based professional development anytime, anywhere. As the home of The Video Journal of Education, PD 360, and the Leadership and Learning Framework, School Improvement Network’s education training resources focus on the most relevant topics, such as classroom management. The resources also feature top experts such as Michael Fullan and Douglas Reeves, and show how to put theory into practice. With its focus on long-term improvement, sustainability, and greater internal capacity, School Improvement Network helps its clients close achievement gaps, meet high standards and increase student learning for both elementary education and secondary education. To learn more about School Improvement Network’s dynamic resources, visit www.schoolimprovement.com.

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