Professional Learning – Background Information / Documents
Professional Development Plan
- Professional Development Plan (district or school) including alignment to strategic priorities and READ PD plans
- Big Picture overview of PD
- Marzano PD Plan and Strategic Plan document
- Feedback is also gathered after meetings using a google form or a plus/delta
- Elementary Staff Meeting Feedback Form
- JH and HS Plus Delta Example
- New Teacher Supports-Teacher College
- On Boarding
- Mentor Program: Each new staff member is assigned a mentor for 2 years for support with logistics as well as instruction.
Learning Communities:
- Grade level teams meet at the elementary daily/weekly.
- Common plan teams (Advisory teams) meet weekly at the junior high and high school.
- Intervention teams meet at the junior high and high school weekly with instructional coach to discuss data.
- Zearn teams meet weekly at the elementary to discuss data.
- A district wide writing vertical team has planned meeting times throughout the year on professional development days.
- Professional development time is used for vertical alignment with content level teams at the junior high and high school.
- Professional learning communities are established with the BOCES and meet monthly to support: Administration, Special Education, Gifted and Talented and Culturally and Linguidstically Diverse Ed. (CLDE).
Professional Growth Plans:
- A tiered approach is given to professional growth supports through coaching cycles. Meetings range from group to individual and weekly to bi-weekly and monthly.
- Instructional Coach 1 on 1 cycles
- Cognitive Coach is available to staff monthly. Our cognitive coach is also in the district once a month to observe, give feedback and meet with staff to continue their growth in their professional area. The cognitive coach also meets with some staff as a support if they are on an improvement plan.
Resource Allocation:
- Both principals use a google classroom to house documents and share resources with staff.
- Elementary Staff Calendar
- Junior High and High School Staff Calendar
- Bullseye observation management platform
- Teacher Resource Dashboard
- District and grant funds are used to support the work of individual teachers through professional development and whole group professional development at the BOCES, with Marzano and Math on the Planes.
Data Driven:
- Professional Learning Needs are determined through observation.
- Look For Tool: Designed by the District COMTSS Implementation Team to be used in classrooms this Spring.
- Data from Look For Tool so far this Spring
- Look For Tool: Designed by the District COMTSS Implementation Team to be used in classrooms this Spring.
- Data Driven Dialog Protocol: This protocol is used to breakdown data through each system in both the elementary, junior high and high school.
- Roundings: “Roundings” in the workplace refers to a practice where managers or leaders regularly engage in brief, face-to-face conversations with employees across different levels to actively listen to their feedback, concerns, and suggestions, aiming to gain valuable insights into their work experience and identify areas for improvement within the organization; essentially, it’s a structured approach to proactively gather employee input by “rounding up” information from various team members.
- Questions: What is working well? What ideas do you have for improvement? Do you have the resources you need for your position? Is there anyone who has been especially helpful to you lately? Is there anything administration can do to be helpful to you in your work?
Evaluated:
- Marzano’s Post PD Survey Data
- On-going refinements and informed improvements of Department of Instructional Coaching and Innovation
- BOCES Professional Development Opportunity Feedback is collected on the satisfaction of the day as well as what the staff would like to see if the future.