Lead Teacher Session #3
Welcome!
Please sit at any table
& complete the Connector
Activity Sheet
Wireless network: MadPkWLAN
Password: 657malcolmx
December 2014
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Connector: Taking Stock
Revisit the work plan and goals you
developed during our first session:
•In what ways have you made progress on your work plan
and/or goals? Where are you now?
•What has happened as a result (either unanticipated or
intentional)?
•What obstacles or challenges are affecting progress
toward your goals?
•Where would you like to be in February 2015?
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Cross Table Share
Introduce yourselves to your table mates
and take turns sharing progress
toward your goals.
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Introductions
Office of Human Capital (OHC)
Alison Gross (Network A)
Michelle O’Neill Turner (Network B)
Gina D’Addario (Network C)
Sarah Hausman (Network D)
Tinu Akinfolarin (Network E)
Leah Levine (Network F)
Chason Ishino (Network G)
Christine Lee (Network G)
Angela Rubenstein
Kris Taylor
Shakera Walker
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Today’s Agenda
• Welcome & Introductions
• Choose a focus:
– Planning for Professional Learning
– Consult about a dilemma
– Leveraging a core action
• Break
• Work Time
• Closing, Next Steps, & Reflection
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Norms & Community Agreements
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Start and end on time
Include everyone in conversations
Vegas Rule: maintain confidentiality
Limit use of technology to work time
Take an inquiry stance
Ground statements in evidence
Assume positive intentions
Others?
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Role of Lead Teacher
THEORY OF ACTION
Improved teacher practice leads to improved
student learning
LEAD TEACHER SERIES OBJECTIVE
Lead Teachers will support the professional
learning of their colleagues, contributing to
improved student learning
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Session 3 Objectives
Today we will:
• Use the Professional Development Design
Principles and/or the Core Actions to
strengthen our work
• Work collaboratively to refine goals and plans
for our work as Lead Teachers
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Feedback from Session 2
What was helpful:
• Time to work
• Conversations with others
• Design principle & core action info
What would improve future sessions:
• Advance notice of agenda
• Differentiation
• Individual work time
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Today’s Agenda
• Welcome & Introductions
• Choose a focus:
– Planning for Professional Learning
– Consult about a dilemma
– Leveraging a core action
• Break
• Work Time
• Closing, Next Steps, & Reflection
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Planning Professional Learning
In your table group, use the “Text Rendering
Experience” protocol to examine the Guskey
article on “Planning for Professional Learning”
• Choose a facilitator
• Choose a scribe (record electronically)
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Consultancy
Step 1: Presenting teacher shares dilemma (3 min)
The presenting teacher discusses their plan and
dilemma without interruption. The partner
teachers listen in and jot down notes, possible
clarifying questions or questions that might
promote further thinking.
Step 2: Clarifying Questions (3 min)
Partner teachers have 2-3 minutes to ask clarifying
questions. The presenting teacher responds
succinctly.
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Consultancy
Step 3: Reflection and Analysis (4 min)
The partner teachers have a “fishbowl”
conversation among themselves discussing what
they heard. Questions, musings, and suggestions
that might extend the presenting teacher’s
thinking and are voiced
Step 4: Joint conversation (5 min)
The group engages in a two-way conversation to
discuss the feedback, share reactions and insights
and reflect on possible refinements.
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Leveraging Core Actions
• Summarize the area of professional learning you are
working on
• Identify 1-3 Core Actions that relate to this work and
choose one as a focus
• Answer questions on worksheet about how teachers will
work to meet the criteria
• Compare your answers with a colleague and review Core
Action PPT
• What kind of collaborative learning experiences could you
facilitate to deepen understanding of CAs and indicators?
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Today’s Agenda
• Welcome & Introductions
• Choose a focus:
– Professional Development Design Principles
– Consult about a dilemma
– Leveraging a core action
• Break
• Work Time
• Closing, Next Steps, & Reflection
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Break!
Please be seated by 5:05
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Work Time
• Find a colleague and share what you have
been working on
• Successes
• Challenges
• Next steps
• Use the next hour to get work done
however you see fit
• Independently or in a small group
By 5:00…
• Prepare a summary of what you worked on
today and your next steps
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Today’s Agenda
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Welcome & Introductions
Work Time
Break
Choose a focus:
– Professional Development Design Principles
– Consult about a dilemma
– Leveraging a core action
• Closing, Next Steps, & Reflection
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Takeaways
• Share a key takeaway from your work
today that will inform your work back at
school
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Announcements
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Next Steps
• Continue implementing your plans
• Answer your colleagues’ questions and/or
connect them to OHC and other
departments
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Deliverables
Work Log Collection Dates:
• Dec 2nd: 4-6 work log entries
• Feb 3rd: 3-5 additional entries
• Apr 7th: 2-4 additional entries
Submit logs of any work
(during or outside of the
school day):
• Drop-in office hours
• School-based PD sessions
• Common Planning Time
• ILT meetings
• Time spent distributing info,
guidance docs, data, or
resources
• Time spent developing
resources, gathering data, or
planning PD
• Capstone Product (due in
early June)
Upload any documents associated with your entries to the Google Drive.
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Resources: OHC website
www.bostonpublicschools.org/OHC
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Resources: Interactive Rubric
www.bostonpublicschools.org/IR
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Resources: Lead Teacher Materials
www.bostonpublicschools.org/LT
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Resources: Curricula
www.bostonpublicschools.org/IRD
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Session 3 Objectives
Today we will:
• Use the Professional Development Design
Principles and/or the Core Actions to
strengthen our work
• Work collaboratively to refine goals and plans
for our work as Lead Teachers
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Feedback
We need to hear from you!
Please fill out the survey before you leave:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DecLTSurvey
Thanks, see you at our next session in February!
(2/2, 2/3, or 2/4, 3:30 – 6:30, location TBD)
Wireless network: MadPkWLAN
Password: 657malcolmx
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