Professional Learning Communities and Collaboration as a Vehicle to School Transformation - presented by Partners in School Innovation and Alum Rock Union Elementary School District at the California Department of Education Title 1 Conference in March 2014.
Rolffs, Deanna & Murphy, Mary Kay. Concrete Steps to Transform Teacher Collaboration for Increased Student Learning. Presented at the AdvanceED Conference of the Michigan Department of Education in April 2014.
Raise Your Hand Texas funds the tuition expenses for a selective group of campus leaders from Houston-area school districts to participate in REEP at Rice University.
The Rice University Education Entrepreneurship Program is for current and aspiring school leaders in the Houston area who want to dramatically impact public education at a deeper, more systemic level.
This unique program combines a world-class business school education with an innovative educational leadership curriculum that results in transformative experiences for local K-12 leaders.
Professional Learning Communities and Collaboration as a Vehicle to School Transformation - presented by Partners in School Innovation and Alum Rock Union Elementary School District at the California Department of Education Title 1 Conference in March 2014.
Rolffs, Deanna & Murphy, Mary Kay. Concrete Steps to Transform Teacher Collaboration for Increased Student Learning. Presented at the AdvanceED Conference of the Michigan Department of Education in April 2014.
Raise Your Hand Texas funds the tuition expenses for a selective group of campus leaders from Houston-area school districts to participate in REEP at Rice University.
The Rice University Education Entrepreneurship Program is for current and aspiring school leaders in the Houston area who want to dramatically impact public education at a deeper, more systemic level.
This unique program combines a world-class business school education with an innovative educational leadership curriculum that results in transformative experiences for local K-12 leaders.
The School Improvement Formula : Four simple steps for spurring educator growth.
From improved student achievement to lowered dropout rates to fewer discipline issues, districts across the US are using the School Improvement Formula to improve almost everything in their schools.
Plenary: Group Report Part 1
Teacher working Conditions and Motivation (at School Level)
Presentation to 9th International Policy Dialogue Forum
5-7 December 2016 Siem Reap, Cambodia
Personalizing curriculum, pace, and support for learners can improve retention, satisfaction, and learning success while reducing time to completion and tuition costs. The successful implementation of personalized learning programs, however, requires careful coordination of data and communications and ongoing collaboration among faculty, enrollment managers, success coaches, and students.
Turning Around the Nation’s Lowest-Performing Schools:
Karen Baroody explains how districts can make fundamental changes in the way they think about and provide support for schools.
'Building a culture of Professionalism: a local authority perspective.' (Nati...GTC Scotland
'Building a Culture of Professionalism: A Local Authority Perspective.' Association of Directors of Education (ADES)
, Workshop 12, GTC Scotland National Education Conference, 28 May 2009.
The workshop will allow those attending to consider the changing nature of professionalism in the light of Curriculum for Excellence and consider how that might best be addressed. It will look, in particular, at the work that has been done through the LNCT in Stirling leading to an agreement around an extended version of Annexe B of the National Agreement and will give them the chance to consider and discuss the usefulness and relevance that this might have in their own context.
Alexander Fölling, Christian Grimme,
Joachim Lepping, and Alexander Papaspyrou: The Gain of Resource Delegation in Distributed Computing Environments
15th Workshop on Job Scheduling for Parallel Processing ; April 23, 2010 - Atlanta, GA, USA
Presentation by Wendy Forbes of Wendy92, LLC given to the La Luz Chapter of the American Business Women's Association on November 17, 2011 at the MCM Elegante in Albuquerque, NM
The School Improvement Formula : Four simple steps for spurring educator growth.
From improved student achievement to lowered dropout rates to fewer discipline issues, districts across the US are using the School Improvement Formula to improve almost everything in their schools.
Plenary: Group Report Part 1
Teacher working Conditions and Motivation (at School Level)
Presentation to 9th International Policy Dialogue Forum
5-7 December 2016 Siem Reap, Cambodia
Personalizing curriculum, pace, and support for learners can improve retention, satisfaction, and learning success while reducing time to completion and tuition costs. The successful implementation of personalized learning programs, however, requires careful coordination of data and communications and ongoing collaboration among faculty, enrollment managers, success coaches, and students.
Turning Around the Nation’s Lowest-Performing Schools:
Karen Baroody explains how districts can make fundamental changes in the way they think about and provide support for schools.
'Building a culture of Professionalism: a local authority perspective.' (Nati...GTC Scotland
'Building a Culture of Professionalism: A Local Authority Perspective.' Association of Directors of Education (ADES)
, Workshop 12, GTC Scotland National Education Conference, 28 May 2009.
The workshop will allow those attending to consider the changing nature of professionalism in the light of Curriculum for Excellence and consider how that might best be addressed. It will look, in particular, at the work that has been done through the LNCT in Stirling leading to an agreement around an extended version of Annexe B of the National Agreement and will give them the chance to consider and discuss the usefulness and relevance that this might have in their own context.
Alexander Fölling, Christian Grimme,
Joachim Lepping, and Alexander Papaspyrou: The Gain of Resource Delegation in Distributed Computing Environments
15th Workshop on Job Scheduling for Parallel Processing ; April 23, 2010 - Atlanta, GA, USA
Presentation by Wendy Forbes of Wendy92, LLC given to the La Luz Chapter of the American Business Women's Association on November 17, 2011 at the MCM Elegante in Albuquerque, NM
Presentation given to the Santa Fe Community Foundation's Marketing Peer Group. Think of Facebook like a sandwich, always start with the bread first. The bread is your customer and fan base.
The eBook reveals the latest best practices, strategies and tools being used by auto dealerships to track and improve performance of all their marketing channels.
Today's customer journey from awareness to sale happens across numerous touch points. A consumer may conduct research on one web site, then move from a search engine to a blog to a review site, then click on an ad, all over the course of weeks or months. Your dealership brand may appear to a customer multiple times along their shopping journey, so how do you know what specific marketing effort leads to the sale?
Marketing attribution is your roadmap to success – It gives insight into your customers' shopping behavior.
More than 90 percent of customers begin their shopping process on the Internet. The ability to track IP address activity, interpret behavioral data and draw meaningful conclusions from that data is transforming the marketing landscape. Attribution is the digital roadmap that helps dealerships successfully navigate this new environment. Marketing Attribution: The Auto Dealer’s Digital Roadmap from Awareness to Sale covers how, when armed with accurate attribution data, dealerships can confidently try new strategies and tools to improve marketing performance.
Supervision as Professional Development and RenewalAllison Mackley
Professional development can be used to build the capacity of teachers. There are effective best practices in leading teachers through continual learning opportunities.
This multimedia presentation was created to highlight and review the different responsibilities of educational leaders, such as principals and assistant principals. This presentation works as a reflection of my completed coursework through the American College of Education.
Presentation by Dr Lawrence Ingvarson, ACER and Ed Roper, Brisbane Grammar School at the 2015 ACER Excellence in Professional Practice Conference.
The ACER Professional Community Framework describes the five domains that characterise schools with strong professional culture, as defined by the Australian Performance and Development Framework, together with key elements, indicators and rubrics. The Professional Community Questionnaire provides a confidential online survey of all teaching staff in a school, based on the framework. Initial trials indicate that the questionnaire has high levels of internal reliability.
School leaders can use the framework and questionnaire to identify key areas for action and measure changes over time. Participating schools receive a comprehensive report
based on the survey results. This session will report on the results of administering the Professional Community Questionnaire in one school.
What Impact Does School Environment Have on Student Achievement?noblex1
A professional learning community is more than simply a collection of teachers working in the same building. A learning community comes together around people from every part of the school working collaboratively at all levels. That collaborative work is founded in what we call reflective dialogue, meaning staff conversations about issues and problems related to students, learning, and teaching.
Professional learning communities are characterized by:
- a principal who shares leadership, power, and authority and participates collegially by encouraging staff involvement in decision making;
- a shared vision developed from staff's unswerving commitment to students' learning and consistently articulated and referenced for the staff's work;
- opportunities for teacher-to-teacher visitation and observation accompanied by feedback and assistance as needed;
- sharing of personal practice;
- sharing of success stories and celebration of achievements.
What Are the Benefits of a Professional Learning Community for Teachers?
Teachers who view their schools as professional learning communities report fewer feelings of isolation, are more likely to see themselves as "professionally renewed," and view their work as more satisfying. In addition:
- teachers are more committed to the goals and mission of the school, and they work with more vigor to strengthen the mission.
- sharing good teaching practices helps create greater knowledge and beliefs about teaching and learners.
From the perspective of staff morale, teachers report feeling energized when they have increased opportunities for professional conversations with other teachers. The existence of a professional learning community encourages risk taking and innovation by teachers, one reason improvement efforts seem to be more productive in schools of this type.
What Are the Benefits for Students?
The characteristics of a professional learning community translate into concrete benefits for students, including academic gains in mathematics, science, history, and reading. These gains tend to be greater in schools structured as professional learning communities than they are in traditional schools, and the schools tend to demonstrate smaller achievement gaps between students from different backgrounds. These schools also are reported to have lower dropout rates, fewer missed classes, and lower rates of absenteeism.
How Can Principals Create Professional Learning Communities?
Leadership is essential for professional learning communities to be effective. Principals need to provide opportunities for teachers to meet and share effective practices, develop interdependent teaching roles, and grow personally and professionally.
Source: https://ebookschoice.com/what-impact-does-school-environment-have-on-student-achievement/
The shift from ‘me’ to ‘we’: Schools with a coaching culture build individual...Christine Hoyos
Developing all staff to coach each other accelerates adult learning, which, in turn, accelerates student learning. A key factor in the process is job-embedded support.
2. A Joint Partnership between . . . Washington Education Association Educational Service Districts Association of Washington School Principals Washington Association of School Administrators
3. Educators in 100 different districts identified three broad areas of change that need to occur to improve student learning The first is to rethink and transform the current professional development paradigm. The second is to restructure the design, delivery, content, context and expectations for outcomes of teachers' professional development. The third is reculturing schools and communities in ways that create and nurture opportunities for on-going, job-embedded teacher growth and professional development. Source: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory - SEDL The first is to rethink and transform the current professional development paradigm. The second is to restructure the design, delivery, content, context and expectations for outcomes of teachers' professional development. The third is reculturing schools and communities in ways that create and nurture opportunities for on-going, job-embedded teacher growth and professional development. Source: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory - SEDL
4. Why Professional Learning Communities? Involves staff identifying their own needs and developing learning experiences to meet those needs Is school-based and embedded in daily work Is organized around collaborative problem-solving Is continuous and on-going with follow-up and support Focuses on student learning and instructional practice Provides opportunities to apply new learning within the context of the classroom Is connected to a comprehensive change process Is recognized by research to improve student learning
5. A Professional Learning Community . . . Is . . . A collaborative process Is . . . Focused on student work and student learning Is . . . Focused on Instructional Practice Is . . . An empowering infrastructure of support Is . . . Effective professional development Is . . . Connected to the context of teachers’ classrooms Is . . . Action and results oriented Is . . . Continuous school improvement
6. A Professional Learning Community . . . Is Not . . . A prescription Is Not . . . A new “Program” Is Not . . . A book study Is Not . . . Forced on educators
7. Staff Benefits Reduced teacher isolation Collective responsibility for student success Increased understanding of the roles teachers play in helping all students achieve More satisfaction higher morale less absenteeism Southwest Educational Development Laboratory- SEDL
8. Student Benefits Decreased dropout rate Less absenteeism Greater academic gains in comparison to traditional schools Smaller achievement gaps between students from different backgrounds Southwest Educational Development Laboratory - SEDL
9. What is PLCWashington? Partnership Between Educational Organizations Learning Website - PLCWashington.org On-line PLC Courses Embed authentic Learning Cycles Professional Development Supports Capacity Building in Schools and Districts
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11. PLC Modules and Resources Introduction to PLC’s Necessary Conditions Supportive and Shared Leadership Building Trust Collaboration PLC Models and Study Groups Coaching Training and Support
13. For More Information Contact Scott Poirier – WEA spoirier@washingtonea.org (360) 561-0019 Dana Anderson – ESD 113 danderson@esd113.k12.wa.us (360) 464-6721
