Lead Teacher Session #3

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December 2014

Welcome!Please sit at any table

& complete the Connector Activity Sheet

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Connector: Taking Stock

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Revisit the work plan and goals you developed during our first session:

• In what ways have you made progress on your work plan and/or goals? Where are you now?•What has happened as a result (either unanticipated or intentional)?•What obstacles or challenges are affecting progress toward your goals? •Where would you like to be in February 2015?

Cross Table Share

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Introduce yourselves to your table mates and take turns

sharing progress toward your goals.

Introductions

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Office of Human Capital (OHC)Alison Gross (Network A)

Michelle O’Neill Turner (Network B)Gina D’Addario (Network C)Sarah Hausman (Network D)Tinu Akinfolarin (Network E)

Leah Levine (Network F)Chason Ishino (Network G)Christine Lee (Network G)

Angela RubensteinKris Taylor

Shakera Walker

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Today’s Agenda

• Welcome & Introductions• Choose a focus:– Planning for Professional Learning– Consult about a dilemma– Leveraging a core action

• Break• Work Time• Closing, Next Steps, & Reflection

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Norms & Community Agreements

• Start and end on time• Include everyone in conversations• Vegas Rule: maintain confidentiality• Limit use of technology to work time• Take an inquiry stance• Ground statements in evidence• Assume positive intentions• Others?

THEORY OF ACTIONImproved teacher practice leads to

improved student learning

LEAD TEACHER SERIES OBJECTIVELead Teachers will support the professional

learning of their colleagues, contributing to improved student learning

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Role of Lead Teacher

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Session 3 Objectives

Today we will:

• Use the Professional Development Design Principles and/or the Core Actions to strengthen our work

• Work collaboratively to refine goals and plans for our work as Lead Teachers

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Feedback from Session 2

What was helpful:• Time to work• Conversations with others• Design principle & core action info

What would improve future sessions:• Advance notice of agenda• Differentiation• Individual work time

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Today’s Agenda

• Welcome & Introductions• Choose a focus:– Planning for Professional Learning– Consult about a dilemma– Leveraging a core action

• Break• Work Time• Closing, Next Steps, & Reflection

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Planning Professional Learning

In your table group, use the “Text Rendering Experience” protocol to examine the Guskey article on “Planning for Professional Learning”

• Choose a facilitator• Choose a scribe (record electronically)

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Consultancy

Step 1: Presenting teacher shares dilemma (3 min) The presenting teacher discusses their plan and

dilemma without interruption. The partner teachers listen in and jot down notes, possible clarifying questions or questions that might promote further thinking.

Step 2: Clarifying Questions (3 min) Partner teachers have 2-3 minutes to ask clarifying

questions. The presenting teacher responds succinctly.

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Consultancy

Step 3: Reflection and Analysis (4 min) The partner teachers have a “fishbowl” conversation

among themselves discussing what they heard. Questions, musings, and suggestions that might extend the presenting teacher’s thinking and are voiced

Step 4: Joint conversation (5 min) The group engages in a two-way conversation to

discuss the feedback, share reactions and insights and reflect on possible refinements.

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Leveraging Core Actions

• Summarize the area of professional learning you are working on

• Identify 1-3 Core Actions that relate to this work and choose one as a focus

• Answer questions on worksheet about how teachers will work to meet the criteria

• Compare your answers with a colleague and review Core Action PPT

• What kind of collaborative learning experiences could you facilitate to deepen understanding of CAs and indicators?

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Today’s Agenda

• Welcome & Introductions• Choose a focus:– Professional Development Design Principles– Consult about a dilemma– Leveraging a core action

• Break• Work Time• Closing, Next Steps, & Reflection

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Break!Please be seated by 5:05

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Work Time

• Find a colleague and share what you have been working on• Successes• Challenges • Next steps

• Use the next hour to get work done however you see fit• Independently or in a small group

By 5:00…• Prepare a summary of what you worked on

today and your next steps

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Today’s Agenda

• Welcome & Introductions• Work Time• Break• Choose a focus:– Professional Development Design Principles– Consult about a dilemma– Leveraging a core action

• Closing, Next Steps, & Reflection

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Takeaways

• Share a key takeaway from your work today that will inform your work back at school

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Announcements

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Next Steps

• Continue implementing your plans

• Answer your colleagues’ questions and/or connect them to OHC and other departments

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Deliverables

Submit logs of any work (during or outside of the school day): • Drop-in office hours• School-based PD sessions• Common Planning Time• ILT meetings• Time spent distributing info,

guidance docs, data, or resources

• Time spent developing resources, gathering data, or planning PD

• Capstone Product (due in early June)

Work Log Collection Dates:• Dec 2nd: 4-6 work log entries• Feb 3rd: 3-5 additional entries• Apr 7th: 2-4 additional entries

Upload any documents associated with your entries to the Google Drive.

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Resources: OHC website

www.bostonpublicschools.org/OHC

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Resources: Interactive Rubric

www.bostonpublicschools.org/IR

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Resources: Lead Teacher Materials

www.bostonpublicschools.org/LT

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Resources: Curricula

www.bostonpublicschools.org/IRD

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Session 3 Objectives

Today we will:

• Use the Professional Development Design Principles and/or the Core Actions to strengthen our work

• Work collaboratively to refine goals and plans for our work as Lead Teachers

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Feedback

We need to hear from you! Please fill out the survey before you leave:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DecLTSurvey

Thanks, see you at our next session in February! (2/2, 2/3, or 2/4, 3:30 – 6:30, location TBD)

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