Wisconsin Personnel Development System Grant

1. Wisconsin Personnel Development System Grant Audio for each slide plays automatically with each new slide. In Quicktime, press the space bar topause. To play without sound, mute the system. You may wish to follow along in your WPDM Guide. Your narrator is Kathy Laffin.

2. The WPDM Guide • Guide development funded by the Department of Education State Personnel Development Grant Funds (SPDG) • Wisconsin Personnel Development Model (WPDM) • Model designed to provide professional development activities that improve the knowledge and skills of service providers by the delivery of effective, sustained, and outcome based personnel development. • REACh Initiative supports the process as the professional development component of the REACh framework.

3. The REACh Vision . . to help Wisconsin schools establish and sustain the capacity to make systemic improvement needed to reduce barriers to learning and enable all students to experience success, including students with disabilities.

4. Expected Outcomes • Improved student achievement and reduced achievement gaps • Reduced behavior concerns/disciplinary actions • Improved referral to special education placement rates • Increased graduation rates of students with disabilities • Increased local capacity to address issues of disproportionality • Increased capacity of all educators to address the needs of students at risk for failure • Increased number of families meaningfully participating in the problem-solving process

5. Vision(what responsive schools look like), Context(who/where), Process(how), and Content (what components responsive schools implement). Shared Vision & Commitment Family & Community Involvement Leadership & Support Data Collection Implementation Universal options Professional Development & Support Environment of Collaboration Planning (strategy/ indicators) Data Analysis community community Selected options district district Responding to Individual Student Needs Resource Mapping school school Targeted options classrm classrm Data-Based Decision-Making student Student Progress Monitoring System Needs Identification & Prioritization family Evidence-Based Instruction & Intervention

6. REACh Framework Components Building Capacity • Shared vision and commitment (Prevention Focus) • Administrative leadership and support • Environment of collaboration • Resource mapping • Collaborative procedure for responding to individual needs • Evidence-based prevention and intervention • Student progress monitoring system • Data-based decision-making • Professional development and support • Family and community involvement Adopting processes Making Informed Decisions Ensuring Sustainability

7. WPDM Guide–Overview • Part 1: Strategic Overview • Part 2: What is Professional Development • Part 3: Wisconsin Personnel Development Model • Part 4: Components of the Wisconsin Model – Steps One Through Seven • Appendices • Glossary • Tools • Rubric • Wisconsin Educator Standards

8. Cyclical – Organized into 3 Areas • Seven Steps of professional development • Training components • Data-driven school improvement process

9. Wisconsin Personnel Development Model

10. Seven Steps • Collecting and Analyzing Data • Goal Setting for Student learning • Selecting Content • Designing Action Plans for PD/Training and Learning Opportunities • Collaboration and Implementation • Ongoing Data Collection and Analysis-Formative Evaluation • Program Assessment-Summative Evaluation

11. Training Components • Theory • Demonstration • Practice • Feedback • In-situation Coaching

12. Data-Driven School Improvement Process Incorporating… • Needs identification and prioritization • Action plans consisting of strategies and indicators of progress • Implementation • Data collection and analysis

13. Implementation Strategies for Each Step • Overview • Guiding Principles • Strategies for Educators and Families • Ask Yourself • Example • Rate Yourself- Rubric

14. Overview • Research Based Information • Rationale • Characteristics of the step

15. Guiding Principles • Focus on Learning-Prevention & Intervention • Shared Vision and Collaborative Decision Making • Commitment to Continuous Improvement with a Results Orientation

16. Strategies • Educators-Implementation -Strategies for educators to consider as they implement the step Example: Members work together to clarify exactly what students must learn • Families - Involvement -Strategies for districts/schools/community agencies to use in order to involve parents in the step Example:Communicate the results of data analysis to families and encourage their questions.

17. Ask Yourself • Guiding questions for a leadership team to use as they collaborate, building shared knowledge and preparing to implement the step. Example: “What do the trend lines in student performance data suggest about the effectiveness of current professional development initiatives?”

18. Example • An example of how different schools have approached the step-bridging knowledge with application. • In some cases the action planning question is used and then information is given on what the school did to address the particular step. • In some cases the information focuses on what a school could do to address the step.

19. Rate Yourself • A rubric is provided for each step. - A district/school/community agency rates themselves on a scale of 4-1 (4 being fully implemented and 1 intensive technical assistance needed) after reviewing information listed for each rating. - Evidence is provided to support the rating

20. Descriptor 2: Goals and the PD Target are aligned with data.

21. Additional Resources • References • Glossary • Tools and Resources • Wisconsin Educator Standards

22. Reflection Think about what parts of the Wisconsin Personnel Development Cycle your district is implementing!