The importance of teacher collaboration, sharing best practices, and developing processes that help target instruction is a ‘no brainer’, but getting from the ‘What’ to the ‘How’ is a different story. In this session, you will listen to the journey of a principal who experienced the ups and downs of this messy, yet important work, while exploring ways technology can serve as a catalyst and productivity tool to lighten the burden on teachers while improving outcomes for students.

1. Working Smarter not Harder!
Using Technology to Empower the Work of PLCs
Dr. Nathan Buhl
Chief Academic Officer
FocalPointK12, Inc.

2.  All students can learn at high levels and be successful?
 And if they are not learning at high levels, that
educators (teachers, admins, support) have the
responsibility and capability to improve student
achievement?
Do you believe?

3. The Noise & the Challenges

4. “How do you know Dr. Buhl? How do you know that
learning is taking place in your building?”
School Quality Review

5. Teacher Keys Effectiveness System

6. Good to Great & Then Some!

7. The Plan…Option 1

8. The Plan…Option 2

9.  All students can learn at high levels and be successful?
 And if they are not learning at high levels, that
educators (teachers, admins, support) have the
responsibility and capability to improve student
achievement?
The Plan…Option 3 which asked an all too familiar
question. Do you believe?

10. Believing with Action…

11. Data Analysis Plans

12. Data Analysis Plans

13. Data Analysis Plan

14. Data Analysis Plan

15. Daniel R. Venables
Education Consultant and author of
The Practice of Authentic PLCs (Corwin, 2011)
How Teachers Can Turn Data Into Action (ASCD, 2014)
Facilitating Teacher Teams and Authentic PLCs: The Human Side of
Leading People, Protocols, and Practices (ASCD, forthcoming in 2018)
Founding Director,
Center for Authentic PLCs
Home of The Grapple Institutes
803 / 206 - 3578
The Journey to PLCs

16. The Journey to PLCs

17. The Journey to PLCs

18. The Solution…
“Technology will not replace great
teachers but technology in the hands
of great teachers can be
transformational”—George Couros

19. The Solution…
Technology won’t replace
teachers…but teachers who
use technology will probably
replace teachers who do not.”

20. “We need to identify and support early
innovators and learn as much as we can
so that later adopters can have a
roadmap to guide them.” –Holly Walsh,
Director of Instructional Technology
Rhode Island Department of Education.
The Solution…

21. From the ‘What to the How’

22. Data Saturation (Qualitative Research Term) can be a
very good thing but also a very bad thing!
Actionable Data?

23. Organizing Apps & Data

24. Organizing Apps & Data

25. Organizing Apps & Data

26. Building Common Assessments

27. Building Common Assessments

28. Data Analysis: A Better Way to
identify root causes on CFAs.

29. Data Analysis: A Better Way to
identify root causes on CFAs.

30. Data Analysis: A Better Way to
identify root causes on CFAs.

31. Data Analysis: A Better Way to
identify root causes on CFAs.

32. Data Analysis: A Better Way to
identify root causes on CFAs.

33. Instructional Planning

34. Instructional Planning

35. Self-Directed Learning: Personalized!

36. Self-Directed Learning: Personalized!

37. Self-Directed Learning: Personalized!

38. Self-Directed Learning: Personalized!

39. Student Learner Profiles

40. Student Learner Profiles

41. Student Learner Profiles

42. Teacher Collaboration!

43. Teacher Collaboration!

44. Teacher Collaboration!

45. Professional Learning

46. To Learn more about FocalPointK12, visit us at:
www.focalpointk12.com
Follow us on Twitter at:
@FocalPointK12
Email/Call me directly at:
Nathan.buhl@focalpointk12.com
770-633-6176
Thank You!