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Putting It All Together Professional Development Week, August 18-22

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Putting It All Together Professional Development Week, August 18-22

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  1. Putting It All TogetherProfessional Development Week, August 18-22 Board Meeting October 7, 2014

  2. Elementary School Schedule

  3. Secondary School Schedule

  4. Monday, August 18 • “Putting It All Together”/Superintendent Bates • Built on previous year’s direction • Established focus for subsequent work • Articulated priorities • Summarized The Granite Way • Safari Montage video link

  5. Monday, August 18 • “The Granite Way in Everyday Practice”/Todd Braeger • Prezi link, zipped presentation file for download • Safari Montage video link • Script • 4 performance areas flipbook • Dream Big protocol • Professional Doesn’t Mean Autonomous excerpt • SSC Rotation Schedule • Teaming Structure Purpose form • Work Together article • Working Together info sheet

  6. Wednesday, August 20 • Networks at High Schools/District Administration, Principals • Focus on collaboration for CCR, knowing students, individualizing for needs • Menu of highly effective instructional strategies • Facilitation notes (four sessions) • Tasks • Graphic organizers • Professional articles • Resource handouts

  7. Sites for Wednesday, August 20 • GTI/YESS staffs: Cottonwood High • Connection High staff: Olympus High • Cyprus Network staffs: Matheson Junior

  8. Thursday, August 21 • Elementaries/Principals • ELA presentation: Safari Montage link, PPT • ELA handout packet • Go Math training PPT • Login instruction for teachers • Password rules, parent welcome letters • Think Central navigation • Substitute directions for Go Math • Progress monitoring summary grades 1-3

  9. Thursday, August 21 • Secondaries/GSD Teachers, Specialists, Guests • Overviews • Guest presentations • Teaching demonstrations • Video clips • PPTs, related documents • Application tasks

  10. Sites for Thursday, August 21 • Cottonwood: ELA/ESL • Connection: Music • Olympus: Fine Arts • GTI: CTE • Hunter: Math • Skyline: Science • Granger: PE/Health, Drivers Ed • Kearns: Social Studies • Taylorsville: World Language • Kennedy Jr: Secondary Special Education • Hartvigsen: Severe Special Education • Matheson Jr: K-12 Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors

  11. Friday, August 22 • Applying Your Learning/Principals • Personal and collective reflection • School wide goals • PG&E goals • PLC agendas • Classroom practices

  12. Respondents from all grade levels, content areas, in multiple ways Excellent Good Average Poor N/A Strongly Agree Agree Neither Agree nor Disagree Disagree Strongly Disagree Survey data Summary

  13. The Granite Way in Practice • Rated excellent or good • DVD welcome message: 40% • DVD foundation for working together: 44% • Facilitation by principals: 69% • Grouping in PLC’s: 65% • Conversations generated: 56% Monday, August 18

  14. The Granite Way in Practice • Generalized comments • I liked the refresher on The Granite Way. • I like my own principal facilitating the process. • I like everyone in the district hearing the same message. • I liked the clarity in district goals. • It was good meeting together with our own teachers. Monday, August 18

  15. Meeting Together as Networks • Rated strongly agree or agree • Keynote set positive tone for the day: 57% • Discussion gave me new insight into what I need to consider about each student: 59% • Knowing students’ soft skills will further inform how I scaffold student support: 62% • I will find myself checking for student understanding more effectively/meaningfully: 62% Wednesday, August 20

  16. Meeting Together as Networks • Generalized comments • Meeting in networks gave me a sense of being part of something bigger. • The information on soft skills was good. • We were brought together as networks but did no vertical teaming. • We need to have differentiated PD. • Why didn’t we work together as grades, departments to differentiate our own instruction? Wednesday, August 20

  17. Elementary/Secondary Content Day • Rated strongly agree or agree • Helped me better understand the Instructional Design we need to follow: 61% • Gave me tools to help me teach better: 62% • Good use of PD time: 57% • Chose effective presenters: 67% • Left PD with more resources than I had before: 58% • Left content with better understanding of testing expectations: 47% • Left with better sense of support from district/specialists: 45% • Use this format every year: 39% Thursday, August 21

  18. Elementary/Secondary Content Day • Generalized comments • It would have been nice if we were asked what kind of PD we want. • It was helpful to be with content teachers and have grade level conversations. • Not beneficial – health combined with PE, Go Math down nationwide. • Teachers working with teachers makes all the difference. Thursday, August 21

  19. The Week as a Whole • Yes or No • The 3 days were worthwhile: 55% yes • Would rather work fewer days than have this kind of PD: 39% yes • Am grateful Board added extra days for this PD: 72% yes • Like format just as it was: 34% yes • Like most of the week, but would revise parts: 67% yes

  20. The Week as a Whole • Generalized Comments • Like the additional pay, but need more time setting up our rooms. • Instructional preparation days should be full not half days. • Give site levels more flexibility in deciding what to do for PD. • Too much theory, not enough to try the next day. • We need more differentiation for teacher needs.

  21. I’d Like Additional Support with . . . • Using higher order questions 42% • Student engagement strategies 41% • Tier II interventions and extensions 33% • Content and language objectives 27% • Working with English Language Learners 25% • Working with Special Ed students 22% • Classroom management 18% • Tier I instructional strategies 16% • Working with students on 504 plans 14%

  22. Personalized Comments on Year • What are you most excited about . . . ? 546 responses • frequent references to students, PLC’s, collaboration • What gives you the most anxiety about . . .? 609 responses • concerns over testing, not enough time to do everything expected

  23. Even distribution in responses over grade levels, departments, job assignments conclusions

  24. Big Ideas to Govern Next Steps • Sometimes we pay too much attention to small, outspoken groups of teachers. (survey needs in advance) • The message of “knowing your student” has largely been taken as emotional/personal. Knowing students academically is a new idea intended to improve Tier I instruction; let’s move from “knowing” in terms of school climate to “knowing” instructionally.

  25. Big Ideas to Govern Next Steps • Teachers are grateful to the Board for additional days to the calendar, but many would prefer more time in their classrooms in lieu of PD. (consolidate instructional preparation time) • Overall opinions by percentages are often contradicted by comments; teachers are not always sure what they want. (base plan on year’s evidence)

  26. Big Ideas to Govern Next Steps • Theme (“Putting It All Together”) was not clear to many; different components of days were not necessarily connected for some teachers. (continually articulate connections/check for understanding) • Differentiate PD • Provide for vertical articulation

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