1. Case Study
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Marion County Public Schools, KY
“Foremost, I am interested in improvement and PD
360 provides everything for positive educational
growth. It is handy, timesaving, and available all year
while continuing to evolve by adding up-to-date pro-
grams and features.” SOLUTION
Diane Evans When MCPS Professional Development Coordinator Diane
Professional Development Coordinator
Evans came across PD 360, she was delighted to find the
Marion County Public Schools, KY
affordable online resource as well as its companion tools,
Observation 360 and Common Core 360.
DISTRICT PROFILE
ABOUT PD 360
Marion County Public Schools (MCPS) is a small Kentucky
district with eight schools and 3,226 students in grades
PK through 12. Beginning with its first school in 1865, this PD 360 is an on-demand library of professional teacher
county has long had a strong commitment to providing a development resources that leverages technology to make
quality education for every student in its varied population. professional learning more effective, convenient, and
sustainable. With over 200 hours of research-based video
content, plus tools for follow-up, tracking, reflection, and
FOCUS group training, PD 360 is the most comprehensive solution
to your professional teacher development needs.
MCPS administrators know that outstanding teacher profes-
sional development (PD) is critical to student achievement. More than 700,000 educators across North America
To advance teacher and student growth, district focuses already use PD 360 to access individualized support on
include: the most relevant topics, like differentiation, minority
student achievement, English language learners, classroom
• All teachers will be trained in deconstruction of the new instruction that works, leadership, assessment, and many
Common Core Standards in reading and mathematics. more. PD 360’s content is divided into hundreds of indexed
and searchable segments that make it easy for teachers,
• All professional learning communities will be focused administrators, aspiring leaders, coaches, mentors,
on analysis of student work and improved instruction paraprofessionals, and professional learning communities
based on identified student need. to find the answers they need. New content is continually
added to keep teachers up-to-date. See a demonstration at
• Student performance on state assessments will be www.pd360.com.
improved enough to meet all targets identified on the
No Child Left Behind, Adequate Yearly Progress Report
for all schools.
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2. ABOUT OBSERVATION 360 “A few weeks in the planning, every teacher in our
district saw and heard via PD 360 Rick Stiggins’
story about his own reading problems when he was
Observation 360 is the world’s only classroom observation
in school as well as beginning to establish our own
tool with prescriptive technology that automatically
assessment beliefs. Everyone had the exact same
recommends training content based on observation results.
training! It went off without a glitch! Accomplishing
Observation 360 is fully integrated with PD 360, one of
what we plan to accomplish in 4 one-hour sessions,
the world’s largest on-demand professional development
would have been disastrous if all 250 certified
platforms. This observation tool helps instructional leaders
employees were in training in nearly any other way.
share information and follow up with educators by sending
This way, small group discussions went on and all
the report directly to a PD 360 account. Teachers can then
principals facilitated the professional development. In
log on and access the observation statistics, comments,
one hour, all our teachers had the same information
and recommended training while leaders receive reporting
and were on the same page district wide.
information on the teacher’s progress.
“I am looking forward to a wonderful success story.”
ABOUT COMMON CORE 360
Diane Evans
Professional Development Coordinator
Common Core 360 is the first tool to help educators Marion County Public Schools, KY
implement the Common Core Standards and show how
they can be successfully taught at every grade level and Educators in MCPS are also successfully employing PD 360
implemented for every standard. This is only the beginning in these other areas:
of the most complete Common Core solution from the top
experts including curriculum mapping and will progressively • Classroom Evaluation Goals
add new content featuring expert opinions, case studies, • New Teacher Training and Objectives
and classroom application in conjunction with PD 360 and • Recommendations for Individual Professional Growth
School Improvement Network’s suite of award-winning Plans
products. • Individual Corrective Action Plans for Struggling Teachers
PD 360 IMPLEMENTATION AND DRIVING BENEFITS
USAGE
MCPS is experiencing many benefits from PD 360,
Ms. Evans has stated that PD 360 made all the difference including:
when she organized an outstanding Common Core training Recognized Experts
for teachers.
Learning from the very finest authorities is no longer an
“Implementing PD 360 to be used district-wide in an infrequent or costly event for MCPS. PD 360 features
effective manner was bumped up a huge notch with over 120 esteemed experts such as Michael Fullan, Rick
this plan. Stiggins, Gayle Gregory, Rick DuFour, and many others that
are available at every teacher’s fingertips.
“Kentucky, along with many other states, is working
on getting ready to roll out the new Common Core “PD 360 gives us the opportunity to learn from re-
Standards, based on Kentucky’s work with Rick spected, well-known experts that we couldn’t afford
Stiggins. Some of us have had trainer days, etc. previously. Actually seeing and hearing them makes
to provide a foundation for the work and as you a real difference in teacher growth. It is cost-effective
can imagine along with the book and all the extra professional development at its best.”
materials, the trainers have learned a lot, but
needed a quicker more concise roll out of foundation Diane Evans
(Stiggins’) work for ALL certified employees in our Professional Development Coordinator
district. I decided we could do this by using PD Marion County Public Schools, KY
360 as our organizing tool, adding on appropriate
Real Classroom Examples
text from the Classroom for Assessment book and
appropriate activities from our training. . .write our It is an advantage for teachers in MCPS to see real
own script, train our principals as ‘experts’ in the classroom examples showing how the strategies are
area of Classroom Assessment, and have a district- implemented. Examples of a variety of classrooms, from
wide training at the same time at every school in our across the country, are essential as teachers actually
district. observe how to incorporate best practices into their own
classrooms.
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3. Job Embedded efficiency and achievement in MCPS. PD 360 is sustaining
focus goals with uncomplicated convenience and real
PD 360 is able to meet the diverse needs and abilities experts. Observation 360 is supporting classroom
of MCPS teachers, not as a one-time, one-size-fits-all evaluations. Common Core 360 is launching the Common
experience but a process that is focused on job-embedded Core Standards. Moreover, the dedicated MCPS PD
responsibilities. department has an effective agenda and is generating a
winning environment for everyone.
Accessibility
ABOUT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT NETWORK
Ms. Evans is pleased with the anytime, anywhere availability
of PD 360. Teachers can log on at home as well as at work,
allowing them control of PD on their own time schedule. School Improvement Network is the leading provider of
Educators also have unlimited access to view segments teacher education and teacher training, specializing in
and programs as many times as they wish and as often as on-demand, research-based professional development
they require. anytime, anywhere. As the home of The Video Journal of
Education, PD 360, Observation 360, and the Learning
“Pulling teachers out of classrooms to attend pro- 360 Framework, School Improvement Network’s education
fessional development activities with the resulting training resources focus on the most relevant topics, such
employment of substitute teachers is disruptive as classroom management, minority student achievement,
to student learning and expensive. It becomes a English language learners, and more. The resources also
trade-off of professional gain vs. expense and loss feature top experts such as Michael Fullan and Douglas
of classroom time. The easy access and availability Reeves, and show how to put theory into practice. With its
of PD 360 limits the time teachers are away from focus on long-term improvement, sustainability, and greater
students.” internal capacity, School Improvement Network helps its
clients close achievement gaps, meet high standards, and
Diane Evans increase student learning for both elementary education
Professional Development Coordinator and secondary education. To learn more about School
Marion County Public Schools, KY Improvement Network’s dynamic resources, visit
www.schoolimprovement.com.
Elementary and Secondary Program Options
MCPS teachers are delighted to have a PD resource offering
both elementary and secondary programs that provide
relevant instruction geared to each classroom level.
Student Achievement
A good fit within the MCPS PD program, PD 360 has proven
to be an aid to proficiency score improvement.
»» Marion County Public Schools, KY
Student Proficiency Scores
»» 2007-08 »» 2008-09 »» 2009-10
»» Math »» 63% »» 67.32% »» 68.9%
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Common Language and Practice
PD 360 usage encourages consistency in common
language and practice throughout MCPS. Customizing
Focus Objectives with district goals drives a more efficient,
centered commonality and an ongoing collective vision.
CONCLUSION
Online, on-demand professional development is improving
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