Collaboration for Professional Learning

SCCSD Leadership Academy 2010

“Efforts to improve student achievement can succeed only by building the capacity of teachers to improve their instructional practice and the capacity of school systems to advance teacher learning.”

Professional Learning in the Learning Profession:A Status Report on Teacher Development in the U.S. and Abroad, NSDC,

2009, p. 1.

“Studies of successful school improvement efforts have repeatedly shown that good results depend on the building of a collaborative community of adult learners who accept joint responsibility for student achievement.”

Turning Points 2000, p. 111

“Some of the most important forms of professional learning and problem solving occur in group settings within schools and school districts. Organized groups provide the social interaction that often deepens learning and the interpersonal support and synergy necessary for creatively solving the complex problems of teaching and learning.”

NSDC Standards: Collaboration Skills, www.nsdc.org/standards/collaboartionskills.cfm

What is Collaborationfor Professional

Learning?Collaboration for professional learning improves teaching and learningby providing educators the time,

structure, and opportunity to engage in ongoing, meaningful

dialogue that directly impacts instruction in the

classroom

Collaborationfor Professional

LearningTypical

Team Meetings

Manage

Maintain

Carryout teaching

Professional Learning

Team Meetings

Lead

Grow

Improve teaching

Collaborationfor Professional

Learning… improves teaching and learning

PURPOSEFULby providing educators the time,

structure, and opportunitySTRUCTURED

to engage in ongoing, meaningful dialogueCONVERSATIONS

that directly impacts instruction in the classroomCHANGE practice & IMPACT students

Your BLT collaboration for professional

learningIN A NUTSHELL, your team will…

Answer the questions: Did we reach our goals this year? What are the areas of need for next year? What will we do to address those needs?

And complete: Summative update of 2009-2010 PD Plan

Due Friday, June 11, to Janet & Gloria 2010-2011 PD Plan

Complete draft due June 30 to Janet & Gloria

Your BLT collaboration for professional

learningProfessional learning teamsProfessional learning teams engage in purposeful, structured conversations that lead to change in practice and

impact on students.

Our Common Target: Lead change and improvement through data-based decision-making and application of principles of change and quality professional development Draw evidence-based conclusions about the impact of

2009-2010 improvement efforts (& document as Summative Update on 2009-2010 Building PD Plan)

Analyze data to diagnose learning needs, identify improvement goal(s), and detail plans for 2010-2011 (& document as 2010-2011 Building PD Plan)

Your BLT collaboration for professional

learningProfessional learning teamsProfessional learning teams engage in purposeful, structured conversations that lead to change in practice and

impact on students.

Our Structures (time, structure, opportunity): Monday PM, Tuesday PM, + 14 hours on own Follow SALSA norms Agenda developed by the team—based on the

common target BUT tailored to the individual needs of the team (differentiated)

Log minutes to document team’s work & next steps Supported by guiding questions’ documents and LEAD

Team, AEA staff, & Dr. Stewart

Your BLT collaboration for professional

learningSupporting Resources for Teams: BLT collaboration notes BLT collaboration agenda & log Data analysis guiding questions chart Poster/chart for data analysis notes Change initiative tool PD Plan document

Did you collaborate for professional learning?

If your teamwork today results in… simply checking a task off your to do list feeling glad we got that job done

then you have likely NOT engaged in collaboration for professional learning.

Did you collaborate for professional learning?

If your teamwork today results in… Deep dialogue that Challenges &/or changes your current

thinking, Applies learning from this AM, this past

year… AND will impact what or how you lead

improvement

then you have engaged in collaboration for professional learning.