• Goal #1

    Maintain our professional learning focus on the Strategic Plan. 

    (Equitable learning, Empowered learning, Social Emotional Learning)

     

    Connections to the Profile of the Graduate: Self-Actualized, Empathetic, Creative Thinker, Collaborative, Culturally Conscious, Intellectually Curious

     

    Objective 1: Identify and ensure assured experiences and practices related to strategic plan.

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    Action Steps

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    Identify and communicate assured practices around equitable and social-emotional learning and continue to revise those for empowered learning including defining observable indicators in each area.

    2

    Create a model for the whole strategic plan and POG

    3

    Design and implement PL specific to the Clayton honeycomb model

    4

    Update blast walkthrough observation tools to have a focus on empowered learning and the Profile of the Graduate

    5

    Use Blast Walkthroughs to determine the extent to which empowered learning practices  are present in classrooms, students and staff

    6

    Continue to share between and within buildings - including the use of social media

     

    Objective 2: Explore and implement work around standards, proficiency scales, and/or learning progressions to bring clarity to our curriculum.

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    Action Steps

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    Send teams to training around standards, proficiency scales, and/or learning progressions

    2

    Inventory current curriculum for use of standards, proficiency scales, learning progressions

    3

    Determine district-wide definitions and level specific expectations/usage of standards, proficiency scales, learning progressions 

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    Use Blast Walkthroughs to determine the extent to which those practices are present in classrooms

     

    Objective 3: Ensure that District, school, individual plans are aligned to the strategic plan.

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    Action Steps

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    Review current templates for alignment

    2

    Ensure new templates are aligned

    3

    Buildings share how they collect, align & share EPSG and content plans with building goals to create a consistent system

    4

    Building SIPs continue to align/ support District strategic plan



    Goal #2

    Continue to revise, revamp, and implement with fidelity the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) model and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)

     

    Connections to the Profile of the Graduate: Self-Actualized, Empathetic, Creative Thinker, Collaborative, Culturally Conscious, Intellectually Curious

     

    Objective 1: Use building data to determine targeted areas of desired growth that informs professional learning and best practices

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    Action Steps

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    Develop and implement PLC training that bridges Cognitive Coaching/Adaptive Schools to PLC work

    2

    Create an assessment calendar with explicit formative data gathering and opportunities to review the data → non-negotiable

    And use PLC structure to review data

    3

    Continue to condut building Blast Walkthroughs based on SIP goals to assess growth and needs

    4

    Provide opportunities for schools to share practices to horizontally and vertically align practices and language

    5

    Explore ways to collect student input on teacher implementation of new learning



    Objective 2: Use the PLC Strategic Implementation Guide (SIG) to differentiate growth and support needs and to promote PLC best practices

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    Action Steps

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    Provide all coaching roles with PD around coaching PLCs

    2

    Building leaders continue to support and track support of PLCs

    3

    Buildings administer Strategy Implementation Guide (SIG) self-assessment twice a year to determine needs and growth of PLCs

    4

    Revise SIG (district and/or buildings) as practices grow and improve



    Objective 3: Use student data from MTSS to determine growth and support opportunities 

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    Action Steps

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    Capitalize on Umbrella or Data Days/ PLC to review  district common formative/ summative assessments

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    Continue to develop practices using EduCLIMBER to identify students and interventions - use that information to develop needed PD

     

    Objective 4: Identify and address disparate outcomes in student learning

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    Action Steps

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    Analyze identified students from each building to determine if specific groups are overidentified for support

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    Provide PD based on data analysis above to address bias & misconceptions and/or to strengthen instructional 

     

     

    Goal #3

    Create and implement an ongoing districtwide process for educators to observe practice.

     

    Connections to the Profile of the Graduate: Self-Actualized, Empathetic, Creative Thinker, Collaborative, Culturally Conscious, Intellectually Curious

     

    Objective 1: Develop a toolkit of how to observe one anothers’ practice.

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    Action Steps

    1

    Assess and strengthen or develop a safe and trusting culture within buildings

    2

    Identify current practices and create site to house resources

    3

    Develop a system for visiting colleague’s spaces


    Establish purpose and develop protocol

    4

    Create note taking documents to reinforce the non-evaluative nature of observing

    5

    Create a system to manage subs on these days

     

    Objective 2: Develop and provide ongoing administrator and evaluator coaching support

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    Action Steps

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    Ensure that all evaluators and coaches have been through Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools 

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    Provide a coaching mentor for evaluators to get feedback on and revise their practice (metacoach)

    3

    Provide opportunities for evaluators to calibrate their coaching together



    Goal #4

    Ensure all professional learning connects and supports our work and avoids overwhelming staff.

     

    Connections to the Profile of the Graduate: Self-Actualized, Empathetic, Creative Thinker, Collaborative, Culturally Conscious, Intellectually Curious

     

    Objective 1: Seek out calibration for our current practices and inspiration for expansion

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    Action Steps

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    Organize Site Visits to see how other systems/ districts are planning and allocating time for PD 

    2

    Collaborate with other systems/ districts on PD opportunities 

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    Seek out opportunities for content/ grade specific site visits and other ongoing opportunities to connect

    4

    Explore ways to communicate with families regarding the professional learning of staff



    Objective 2: Collect and use ongoing feedback from staff to monitor balance

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    Action Steps

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    Develop a Needs Assessment (purpose and use of SAI vs. Event Survey vs. Goal area vs. Individual needs) to assess ongoing needs of staff

    2

    Continue to explore how to increase response rates on KickUp and use that data most effectively including routinely sharing with staff

    3

    Making time and space within professional learning time for people to have a voice. (To share what they need from professional learning.) This can be informal, but routine. This shouldn’t be through KickUp, but should occur through conversations (prompts), exit slips, etc. (FC model)

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    Use staff survey in Panorama to collect parallel staff/ student data on belonging, self-efficacy, etc.

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    Continue to send a team to Learning Forward annually with specific sharing and implementation plans afterward

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    Monitor the time staff spends on mandatory training (How many hours? When& where does it occur?)  



    Objective 3: Provide embedded professional learning supports in the classroom

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    Action Steps

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    Continue and expand access to instructional coaching for all educators