A YEAR OFPROFESSIONAL LEARNING
December 2013 – February 2014
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Leadership Development and Teaching and LearningLeading Through an Appreciative Lens
# QUALITY INDICATOR FOCUS 1 Broad and Challenging Curriculum
Leading the shifts toward Common Core expectations, practices, and instruction.
2 Quality Leadership
A study and self-assessment of essential leadership practices.
3 Quality Teaching
Leading through an appreciative lens to provide relevant, needs based professional learning and support.
4 Professional Learning
Developing collaborative, high functioning, teacher led Professional Learning Communities and systemic opportunities for professional learning.
5 Closing the Achievement Gap
Developing effective and efficient systems for monitoring and improving student achievement.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL
Destination:Schools hold professional learning among their top priorities for the school community. They recognize that universal high expectations for all students require ambitious and continual improvements in curriculum, instruction, assessment, leadership practices and support systems. These improvements require effective professional learning to expand educators’ knowledge, skills, practices and dispositions. Schools demand effective professional learning focused on substantive results for themselves, their colleagues, and their students. Schools artfully combine deep understanding and cultural responsiveness to the communities they serve. Schools hold high expectations with support for adult learning by providing multiple structures for professional development in order to achieve school goals. They embed professional learning into the organization’s vision by communicating that it is a core function for improvement and by establishing and maintaining a public and persistent focus on educator professional learning.
Instruction
al CabinetWeekly, Half
Day Learning &
Planning
Study Strong Models
Visit School Districts and Schools Demonstrating High
Levels of Implementation
Calibration WalkthroughsMonthly Instructional Cabinet Walkthroughs at School Sites
Walkthrough With ColleaguesMonthly Walkthroughs with Content Experts and
Leadership Development - provide coaching feedback and support
Walkthroughs With Superintendent and Chief of StaffMonthly, Observe and Coach Area Superintendents
Area Superintendent Learning
Instructional CabinetLearning, Planning and Calibration focused on: Quality Indicators, Leadership Practices, Improving Instruction, Walkthroughs and Common Core Implementation
Study Strong ModelsHealth Science High: 9/30, 1/22Chula Vista: 12/6
Calibration WalkthroughsLa Jolla Elementary: 9/4Health Science High: 9/30Perkins Elementary: 11/4Marshall Elementary: 1/30Leadership Practices/Walkthroughs
Walkthroughs With ColleaguesWalkthrough Study: Rosa Parks 12/11
Walkthroughs Superintendent/Chief of StaffDecember – February Site Visits:La Jolla High, Marshall Middle, San Diego High-Science and Tech., Mann Middle, Scripps Ranch, Morse, Millennial Tech, Roosevelt, Mission Bay
What We Have AccomplishedDecember 2013 – February 2014
AREA SUPERINTENDENT LEARNING
Instructional Cabinet
Calibration Walkthroughs
Learning From Other Districts
Principa
l Institute
Full Day, USD K-12Principal Institute
Half-Day at School Sites,
Grade Level
Principal Coaching Groups/ Small Group Learning
Small Group, Facilitated at School Sites,Grade Level
Principal Triad StudyPractice Walkthroughs at School Sites, Grade Level
Areas Superintendent/Principal Walkthrough
Principals Walkthrough With Area Superintendent
Principal LearningPrincipal Institutes 8/15, 10/9/, 12/9, 2/3Quality Indicators, Leadership Practices, Improving Instruction, Walkthroughs - the appreciative lens, Close Reading, and Common Core Implementation
Half-Day Principal InstitutesElementary: 9/24, 10/16, 11/7, 12/17, 1/24 Middle: 9/27, 10/2, 11/19, 1/23High: 10/2, 11/21, 1/21, 2/11Leadership Practices/Walkthroughs
Cycles 1 and 2: Walkthrough (10/1-2/1)Facilitated walkthrough of two schools following a ½ Day Conf. modelPLC PD 1/13, 1/23Leading PD 2/10,
Cycle 1 Triad Meeting (10/16-12/17)Triads walkthrough one school following a protocol modeled at ½ Day InstituteCycle 2 Triad Meeting Elem. 12/17-2/25Triads walkthrough one school with a focus on professional learning
Principal WalkthroughsPrincipals’ Walkthrough School DailyArea Sups Walkthrough Schools Daily
What We Have AccomplishedDecember 2013 – February 2014
PRINCIPAL LEARNING
Half-Day Principal Conferences at Schools New Principal Conference
Full-Day Principal Conferences at USD
Instructional
Learning Team
Whole School Professional Learning
Professional Learning CommunitiesGrade Levels and departments
Lesson Study/Cross VisitationsCycles of Learning
Principal Classroom VisitationObserve and support teachers
School BasedLearning
Professional Learning Community (PLC)
Developed a PLC framework to provide job embedded teacher collaboration focused on instructional improvement and student learning.
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Organizational Leadership
Highlights New Principal Budget Planning Master Schedule Planning Leading Professional Learning Communities Designing Professional Learning Opportunities to
Strengthen Teacher Practice