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Ready, Set, Go Regional PD Leads

Ready, Set, Go Regional PD Leads. March 8, 2011. Purpose and outcomes:. To establish a collaborative team with the knowledge, skills, and capacities to deploy the professional development priorities of RttT statewide (specifically, those articulated in section D5.)

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Ready, Set, Go Regional PD Leads

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  1. Ready, Set, GoRegional PD Leads March 8, 2011

  2. Purpose and outcomes: • To establish a collaborative team with the knowledge, skills, and capacities to deploy the professional development priorities of RttT statewide (specifically, those articulated in section D5.) • Outcomes are listed on the agenda

  3. Introductions Briefly share with the group… • Your name and current region • The job you just left • One professional passion • One personal passion

  4. Transforming a Group into a Team “Teams need to have conversations about ‘how to do the work’ instead of just plunging in to do the work. They need to spend time building trust and relationships with each other. If they don’t do this in the beginning, teams will have to stop and do this eventually.”

  5. Developing Norms • Purpose: To develop a set of norms or ground rules that will govern individual behavior, facilitate the work of the team, and enable the group to accomplish its tasks. • Norms should: • Ensure that all individuals have the opportunity to contribute in the meeting; • Increase productivity and effectiveness; and • Facilitate the achievement of its goals. • Agree on 5-6 group norms

  6. Directions for Developing Norms • Each team member reflects on and records behaviors they consider ideal behaviors for the group. • Silently each writes one behavior per card (3minutes) • Cards are collected, shuffled, discussed, and grouped using the affinity diagram

  7. Directions for Developing Norms • Like ideas are charted • Multi-vote to determine the norms with the most energy • Agreed-upon norms are charted and adopted by the team

  8. RT3NC@wikispaces.com • What is it for? • Travel summary • Work plan summary • Contact information Robert Sox

  9. Ready, Set, GoRegional PD Leads March 9, 2011

  10. NSEW Compass Points Protocol Purpose: To help team members understand how preferences related to group behaviors affect group work.

  11. NSEW Compass Points Protocol • What are the strengths of your style? (4 adjectives) • What are the limitations of your style? (4 adjectives) • What style do you find most difficult to work with and why? • What do people from the other “directions” or styles need to know about you so you can work together effectively? • What do you value about the other three styles?

  12. NSEW Compass Points Protocol • Processing Questions • Note the distribution among the “directions”: what might this mean? • What is the best combination for a group to have? Does it matter? • How can you avoid being driven crazy by another “direction”? • How might you use this exercise with others?

  13. To develop a common vision of the scope of work for this team • Race to the Top overview • Detailed Scope of Work Dr. Lynne Johnson

  14. Mary Russell and Joyce Gardner Common Core

  15. NC State Superintendent Dr. June Atkinson

  16. Strategies for Success as a DPI Employee • Groupwise Calendar • Email expectations • Agendas • Time off & Beacon • Dress Code • DPI templates

  17. Ready, Set, GoRegional PD Leads March 10, 2011

  18. Fears and Hopes Protocol • Purpose: To acknowledge the fears and hopes that participants bring to a setting and by doing so to build a sense of shared expectations. • Steps • 1. Write your greatest fears/your greatest hopes for leading PD across the state • 2. One fear/hope per stickie note • 3. Chart fears and hopes • 4. What did you learn from this activity? Did you notice anything surprising?

  19. Strategies for Success as a DPI Employee • Working from home • Kenan Fellows Savon Willard

  20. Andragogy The art and science of helping adults learn Knowles, M. S. (1980). The modern practice of adult education: From pedagogy to andragogy (2nd ed.) New York: Cambridge Books

  21. What do excellent adult educators do?

  22. Basic Assumptions of Andragogy • Adults are self-directing meaning that they need to participate in identifying and determining their own learning needs, planning and implementing learning experiences, and evaluating those experiences • Adults draw on a growing reservoir of experience, which is a rich resource for learning • Knowledge is for immediate application and not future use • Adults are motivated to learn by internal factors rather external ones

  23. Key Features to Maximize Adult Learning Opportunities • Collaboration with dialogue • Problem centered • Action orientation • Reflective practice • Trust

  24. Key Features to Maximize Adult Learning Opportunities • Collaboration with Dialogue • Discussions help members develop common understandings and clarity about individual perspectives • Allows for continuous improvement within the group due to shared responsibility for learning; valuing process as part of learning; sharing of power; and accountability

  25. Key Features to Maximize Adult Learning Opportunities • Problem centered • Learning is most effective when it begins with a relevant problematic experience or muddy situation • Learning is also effective when learners are engaged in a problem in a collaborative context relevant to the learner

  26. Key Features to Maximize Adult Learning Opportunities • Action Orientation • Adult learning should be engaged in the situation rather than the subject • Action steps/action plans are critical to adult learners • Immediate application of learning to work life or personal life

  27. Key Features to Maximize Adult Learning Opportunities • Reflective Practice • Reflection-on-action is retrospective in nature, involving thinking about or through an experience after it has happened • Reflection-in-action describes how practitioners reflect on events while “inside them;” gives rise to on-the-spot experimentation • Reflection-for-action is thinking forward; imagining how a situation may evolve (pp. 86-87, York-Barr, et. al)

  28. Key Features to Maximize Adult Learning Opportunities Trust

  29. Key Features to Maximize Adult Learning Opportunities • Reflection, collaboration with dialogue, problem posing, and action orientation occur in a sequence or cycle but there is no clear beginning or end. They do not occur in isolation from each other. • Trust is a condition for learning.

  30. “Reflective practice is vital for the swamp. It enables people to be present and it helps them and their organizations make meaning from what are generally complex, multidimensional experiences” (Shall, 1995, p. 208).

  31. Reflection Questions • How does this information impact our work? • What features need to be included in every professional development event that is delivered by our team?

  32. Lynne Johnson Change style indicator

  33. To develop a common baseline of knowledge related to: NC Teacher Evaluation Process • What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen? • Overview • What is tight • What is loose • Future changes

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