Eanes Independent School District
2016-2017
Professional Learning Guide
For elementary and secondary general and special education
teachers and teaching assistants
Spring 2016
Eanes ISD Professional Learning Steering Committee*
Barton Creek
Ginny Druart (3)
Mo Greulich (GT)
Bridge Point
Jenny King (K)
Kim McLaughlin (IP)
Hill Country
Laura Haneman (6 SocSt)
Kathleen Sullivan (Principal)
Cedar Creek
Elizabeth Dainton (Counselor)
Debbie Smith (TIP)
West Ridge
Dawn Brown (ELA/ESL)
Rebecca Frammolino (6 Sci)
Eanes
Elizabeth Hudgins (5)
Lauren Murphy (1/NT)
Westlake
Janet Espinosa (IP/SocSt)
Valerie Taylor (IP/ELA)
Forest Trail
Sarah Hubbard (SpEd)
Ashley Krause (1)
Central Administration
Betty Brace Co-chair
Molly May Co-chair
Valley View
Nancy Abell (4)
Ryan Sanderson (PE)
*Committee formed and operationalized
guide during the 2010 – 2011 school year
Table of Contents
Introduction
2
Standards for Professional Learning
4
Professional Learning Norms
5
Personalizing the Professional Learning Plan
6
Professional Learning Framework K – 2
7
Professional Learning Framework 3 – 5
11
Professional Learning Framework 6 – 12
15
Professional Learning Framework Campus Support Specialists
19
Professional Learning Framework Special Education Teacher
22
Professional Learning Framework Special Education Teaching Asst
26
Individual Professional Learning Plan & Flex Day Documentation - Teachers
27
Individual Professional Learning Plan
30
Professional Learning Reflection
31
Professional Collaboration Proposal
32
GT Update Professional Learning Requirements and Proposal
33
Accessing Eduphoria for Registration and Documentation
34
Guidelines for EISD Professional Learning Presenters
35
Mandatory Training Guidelines
37
Introduction
Mission
The Eanes community is vitally committed to educational excellence that prepares and
inspires all students for life-long success by engaging each student in rigorous academic
experiences and enriching opportunities.
The Eanes Independent School District is committed to providing and supporting high quality,
challenging, and meaningful professional learning experiences for all staff members, while
allowing staff options to construct their own learning situations.
We believe professional learning should be data-informed, learner-centered and provide direct
positive educational benefits for all students. This professional learning guide is an evolving
document that will change to meet the needs of our learning community.
According to Learning Forward, formerly the National Staff Development Council, professional
development serves four purposes:
 Individual, targeted development to enhance individual competencies related to
performance standards and individual results.
 Team-based (grade level, subject area, vertical team, course) to ensure consistency and
quality in instruction, curriculum implementation, assessment, and student results.
 School-wide to ensure school-wide consistency and quality aligned with the school’s
instructional framework and student support systems.
 Program implementation to ensure high fidelity of implementation with district
programs such as curriculum, social skills, etc.
Background
In the fall of 2009, the Eanes ISD Strategic Planning Committee created a mission statement to
guide our district. This committee of employees and community members established five
critical student objectives that would be our district’s goal to achieve. Strategies were identified
to help our district in this endeavor. Seven Strategic Action Teams made up of staff members,
community members and students worked to create Action Plans to lead the way.
We will provide time and support for relevant and innovative professional learning to ensure
ongoing improvements in teaching and student learning.
This was the task of Strategic Action Team 5. This team analyzed the strategy and its
connections to the other strategies and the mission statement. They gathered information about
legal requirements, best practices, professional learning in other districts and what has worked
well in the past for Eanes. Common themes were identified and result statements were written.
In April 2010, an Action Plan was submitted to the Eanes ISD Strategic Planning Committee.
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The Professional Learning Steering Committee began meeting in the fall of 2010. Led by Betty
Brace and Molly May, this committee was made up of two staff members from each of the nine
Eanes ISD campuses. Their primary goals were to do the following:
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Create a framework which identifies district, campus, and individual professional
learning responsibilities
Establish a system that includes Individual Professional Learning Plans (IPLP)
Promote a future use of on-demand, on-line training for professional learning
As a result, the Professional Learning Steering Committee has created a K-2, 3-5, 6 -12, and
Special Education framework. These frameworks each have required and recommended
components of professional learning. The courses offered will be differentiated by experience
and job assignment. The frameworks will serve as guides for teachers to build IPLPs that will
inspire and empower educators to impact learning.
Updates 2015 and 2016
In the spring of 2015, CIA conducted a survey of district instructional leadership, principals,
educational technologists and instructional partners to clarify our progress on district
expectations. The framework was subsequently updated with terminology more closely aligned
with those expectations and adjusted to reflect our philosophy of continuous improvement and
culture of learning. District instructional staff will find that the column designated Hours has
been removed, the column for Recommended or Required is replaced by Requirements, and
clearer references to target areas have been added to the notes. District instructional leadership
reviewed the revisions and discussed a cycle of professional dialogue to support effective
implementation. The 2016 updates reflect district goals approved in March including a new
appraisal system.
Cycle of Professional Learning and Dialogue
Celebration and Goal Setting
Summative Conference
Eanes Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System
(PDAS or LCAP Spring 2016)
Teacher Growth and Appraisal System
2017
Request Professional Learning
for Target Areas
Continual Growth
Eanes Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System
On
Ongoing Discussions,
Feedback, and Reflection for
Continual Improvement
Celebrate Success
Set Learning Targets
Select Summer Learning
Share in Learning
Attend Events
Focus on Your Targets
Develop Implementation
Plans for 2016-17
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Standards for Professional Learning
Learning Forward (formerly National Staff Development
Council)
The following standards outline the characteristics of effective professional learning. The 2011
edition is drawn from research and based on evidence-based practice.
Learning Communities: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results
for all students occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement,
collective responsibility, and goal alignment.
Leadership: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all
students requires skillful leaders who develop capacity, advocate, and create support systems for
professional learning.
Resources: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all
students requires prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating resources for educator learning.
Data: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students
uses a variety of sources and types of student, educator, and system data to plan, assess, and
evaluate professional learning.
Learning Designs: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all
students integrates theories, research, and models of human learning to achieve its intended
outcomes.
Implementation: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all
students applies research on change and sustains support for implementation of professional
learning for long-term change.
Outcomes: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all
students aligns its outcomes with educator performance and student curriculum standards.
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EISD Norms for
Professional Learning
Norms are the standards or expectations by which individuals or a group have agreed to operate
while working together. Norms help to maximize the productivity and effectiveness in a positive
setting and ensure that individuals are respected. They place responsibility on individuals for
expected behavior helping to build community in your group, and, at the same time allow for risk
taking (TSDC, 2006).
To ensure productive, student-focused sessions, please follow these norms for professional
learning activities.
These ideas help to:
 Ensure all individuals have the opportunity to contribute
 Increase productivity and effectiveness
 Facilitate the group’s ability to achieve its goals
 Encourage “good behavior” in every meeting
Be Prepared
 Arrive on time and stay for the entire session.
 Bring required technology, updated, charged and with required applications
 Always bring something to write on and something with which to write.
 Let your friends and family know that you will not be available during your session
times. Turn your cell phone to vibrate or off. No texting.
Stay Focused
 Give your best attention to the session.
 Ask the right question at the right time.
 Do not bring papers to grade, lesson plans to write, newspapers to read or your knitting!
Focus on Student Success
 Participate actively.
 Get involved with the information.
 Take this chance to learn!
 Share solutions, not complaints.
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Personalizing the Professional Learning Plan
The subsequent pages contain frameworks outlining professional learning activities for
elementary and secondary general and special education teachers and teaching assistants and
campus support specialists. The frameworks are designed as tools to help staff reach
professional learning goals based on the number of years in the field and number of years in
Eanes ISD. The frameworks layout a learning plan intended to be achieved and/or regularly
revisited over a period of three to five years.
All staff members should consult with their supervisors, instructional coaches, and/or
educational technologists to assist in identifying the areas that should be addressed on the
Individual Professional Learning Plan (IPLP).
New to Profession
New to profession teachers will be expected to complete all of the required professional learning
activities within the first five years of employment in Eanes. Some of the activities will be
included in the New Teacher Institute (NTI).
New to Eanes
Experienced teachers who are new to Eanes will need to document any professional learning
they have completed in the last three years that might satisfy the requirements listed, pending
supervisor’s approval. For those requirements not already satisfied, all required professional
learning activities must be completed within the first five years of employment in Eanes.
New to Assignment
Teachers who change teaching assignments will need to make sure they have completed all of
the training requirements for that grade level, content area or course. The requirements also
involved addressing the needs of specific groups of students such as ESL or Dyslexia services.
Experienced Eanes Teachers
Experienced Eanes Teachers should use the guide to identify areas where updated professional
learning is needed or areas of interest. For any required professional learning activities that have
been completed recently, preferably within the last three years, please check to see that those are
documented in Eduphoria.
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EISD Professional Learning Framework
Target Audience: K-2 Teachers
Content Area
General
Topic
Requirements
Notes: District Goal Area, Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System Standards, Provider Information
Orientation to Eanes ISD
Eanes ISD Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System
Required for newly hired teachers
Required for ALL teachers summer 2016,
new to Eanes in subsequent years
EISD curriculum tools
(Language Arts, Math, Science,
Social Studies, Technology)
Student-Centered Instructional
Design and Strategies
Required when designated instructional
strategies or resources are introduced and
for new hires
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement
EISD new hires; EISD New Teacher Institute
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, All STANDARDS
Fall 2016- Eanes Professional Learning Conference, Campus
Professional Learning; Subsequent Years - New Teacher Institute
EISD new hires and new to assignment provided through New
Teacher Institute, IP and mentor on-going support
Multi-tiered System of Student
Support
Required Annually
Campus Based- ongoing and embedded
Addresses Special Needs, Dyslexia, ESL
Social Emotional Learning
Strategies
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement,
Guaranteed and Viable
Curriculum
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement
Assessment for Learning
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement
Professional Learning
Communities at Work
Ongoing, embedded curriculum,
instruction and assessment work
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA STANDARDS 1, 2-EISD
summer professional learning, designated conferences, and
embedded learning opportunities throughout the yeardifferentiated instruction, Project-Based Learning, Universal
Design for Learning, Understanding By Design, SAMR cont.
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA STANDARD 4-EISD summer
professional learning, designated conferences, embedded ongoing
learning opportunities throughout the year-both academic and
behavior support strategies must be addressed
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 4 - EISD summer
professional learning, embedded ongoing learning opportunities
throughout the school year
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 1 - EISD summer
professional learning, embedded ongoing learning opportunities
throughout the school year, PLCs, horizontal and vertical
alignment teams
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 3 -EISD summer
professional learning, designated conferences, and embedded
learning opportunities throughout the school year- formative and
summative assessment design, DOK level of rigor, unwrapping of
TEKS, SAMR continuum
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 5, 6 -summer
professional learning, designated conferences, and embedded
learning opportunities throughout the year, Three Big Ideas: focus
on learning, culture of collaboration, focus on results; Four
Guiding Questions for PLCs are district expectations
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Mentor Training
GT Academy
GT Update
Technology
ESL Academy and Certification
Recommended for Classroom Teachers
Required-Tier II Campus Support Spec.
Administrative Tools
Required for new products
New Technology Training
Required prior to receiving any new
device, technology tool, classroom
hardware, etc.
Recommended for Classroom Teachers
Higher-Order Thinking through
immersive, meaningful
technology integration
Productivity Tools
English
Language Arts
Required for mentors of new-toprofession teachers
Required for campus GT specialist
Required annually to keep current
Required for new products
Phonics Instruction and other
research-based phonics courses
Recommended for Classroom Teachers
Required -Tier II Campus Support
Specialists
Handwriting Without Tears and
Keyboarding Without Tears
Writer’s Workshop Overview
Required for new to EISD or grade level
assignment
Required within five years of hire (6th
year of requirement) and attendance must
have been since 2008 for all staff)
Advanced Writer’s Workshop
or CTWP Reunion
Pre-requisite: Writer’s Workshop
Overview
Central Texas Writing Project
Cohort
Embedded during school year-application
required with prerequisite of summer 3day overview
EISD summer during New Teacher Institute and ongoing after
school sessions during mentor year
EISD summer professional learning
EISD summer professional learning conference, any day of the GT
Academy, Writing Workshop Overview, designated conferences
Region XIII; State certification assessment and addition of
teaching certificate done by individual
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD
professional learning & EISD New Teacher Institute
EISD - Ongoing whenever new devices are received.
-summer
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA 1 - As part of the Educator and
Student WHEEL, integrated with summer professional learning
and throughout the school year via job embedded training cohorts.
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD -summer
professional learning, designated conferences and embedded
ongoing learning throughout the year, progress on SAMR
continuum of integrating technology
EISD summer professional learning with EISD Phonics
Continuum, Fountas and Pinnell, Fundations, LETRS, BLIS, and
Wilson Language System, Region XIII Online Reading SeriesStrengthening Tier I
EISD summer as part of New Teacher Curriculum Institute
(offered every other year)
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -National
Writing Project sponsored through UT-Heart of Texas or Texas
State- Central Texas Writing Project, EISD summer professional
learning
EISD summer every other year and annual reunion during school
year includes genre workshop, embedded mechanics instruction,
and digital writing opportunities
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4
Cohort sponsored by Texas State; meet monthly throughout the
year and with culminating project, results in NWP mentor (CTC)
certification, (yearly)
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Math
Science
Guided Reading or Advanced
Guided Reading (with Eanes
ISD Phonics Continuum)
Required within three years of hire
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4
Summer professional learning and embedded support for
implementation
Resources-DRA, Daily Five Routines, leveled readers, Next Step
in Guided Reading, Comprehension Toolkit
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for Humanities
Integrated with Social Studies, ongoing
embedded professional learning and
curriculum work
Texas English Language
Proficiency Assessment System
(TELPAS) & English Language
Proficiencies (ELPs) training
Required for teachers of ESL students
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4
Professional Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and
national workshops/conferences, district professional learning;
Inquiry-based strategies with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st
century critical and creative thinkers strong in communication and
collaboration
Resources: PBL, Reading/Writing Workshop, interactive
notebooks, inquiry-based research, authentic projects and products
District-based for New Raters prior to assessment
Campus-based training and calibration in the spring.
Multisensory Math Strategies
K-2
Guided Math
Recommended for Classroom Teachers
Required -Tier II Campus Support Spec
Required within five years of hire
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for STEM
Integrated with Science, ongoing
embedded professional learning and
curriculum work
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for STEM
Integrated with Math Problem-Solving
Strategies, ongoing embedded
professional learning and curriculum
work
EISD summer professional learning
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -summer
professional learning and embedded support for implementation
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 1-4 -Professional
Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and national
workshops/conferences, district professional learning; Inquirybased strategies with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st century
critical and creative thinkers strong in communication and
collaboration
Resources: PBL, Investigations, interactive Notebooks including
expository reading and writing across curriculum
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 Professional Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and
national workshops/conferences, district professional learning
with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st century critical and creative
thinkers strong in communication and collaboration
Resources: Foss Kits, PBL, Investigations, interactive Notebooks
including expository reading and writing across curriculum
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Social Studies
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for Humanities
Integrated with ELA Workshop
Strategies, ongoing embedded
professional learning and curriculum
work
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 Professional Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and
national workshops/conferences, district professional learning;
Inquiry-based strategies with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st
century critical and creative thinkers strong in communication and
collaboration
Resources: History Alive, Studies Weekly, PBL, Reading/Writing
Workshop, interactive notebooks, inquiry-based research,
authentic projects and products
Special Areas
Best Instructional Practices in
Special Areas
ongoing professional learning and
curriculum work
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -Embedded
in district professional learning days collaboratively developed by
special area teachers and professional area conference attendance
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Eanes ISD Professional Learning Framework
Target Audience: 3-5 Teachers
Content Area
General
Topic
Requirements
Notes: District Goal Area, Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System Standards, Provider Information
Orientation to Eanes ISD
Eanes ISD Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System
Required for newly hired teachers
Required for ALL teachers summer 2016,
new to Eanes in subsequent years
EISD curriculum tools
(Language Arts, Math, Science,
Social Studies, Technology)
Student-Centered Instructional
Design and Strategies
Required when designated instructional
strategies or resources are introduced and
for new hires
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement
EISD new hires; EISD New Teacher Institute
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, All STANDARDS
Fall 2016- Eanes Professional Learning Conference, Campus
Professional Learning; Subsequent Years - New Teacher Institute
EISD new hires and new to assignment provided through New
Teacher Institute, IP mentor support
Multi-tiered System of Student
Support
Required Annually
Campus Based- ongoing and embedded
Addresses Special Needs, Dyslexia, ESL
Social Emotional Learning
Strategies
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement
Guaranteed and Viable
Curriculum
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement
Assessment for Learning
Ongoing embedded professional learning
and curriculum work
Professional Learning
Communities at Work
Ongoing, embedded professional learning
and curriculum, instruction and
assessment work
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA; STANDARDS 1, 2 -summer
professional learning, designated conferences, and embedded
learning opportunities throughout the year-differentiated
instruction, Project-Based Learning, Universal Design for
Learning, Understanding By Design, SAMR cont.
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA; STANDARD 4 -summer
professional learning, designated conferences, embedded ongoing
learning opportunities throughout the year- both academic and
behavior support strategies must be addressed
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA; STANDARD 4 -summer
professional learning, EISD designated workshops, embedded
ongoing learning opportunities throughout the school year
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 1 - EISD summer
professional learning, embedded ongoing learning opportunities
throughout the school year, PLCs, horizontal and vertical
alignment teams
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA; STANDARD 3 -summer
professional learning, designated conferences, and embedded
learning opportunities throughout the school year- formative and
summative assessment design, DOK level of rigor, unwrapping of
TEKS, SAMR continuum
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA; STANDARDS 5,6 -summer
professional learning, designated conferences, and embedded
learning opportunities throughout the year, Three Big Ideas: focus
on learning, culture of collaboration, focus on results; Four
Guiding Questions for PLCs are district expectations
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Mentor Training
Required for mentors of new to
profession teachers
Required for campus GT specialist
Required annually to keep currentembedded-EISD August conference
Recommended for Classroom Teachers
Required- Tier II Campus Specialists
EISD summer during New Teacher Institute & ongoing after
school sessions during mentor year
EISD summer professional learning
EISD summer professional learning, any day of GT Academy,
Writing Workshop Overview, designated conferences
Region XIII; State certification assessment and addition to
teaching certificate done by individual
Administrative Tools
Required for new products
New Technology Training
Required prior to receiving any new
device, technology tool, classroom
hardware, etc.
Recommended for Classroom Teachers
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD
professional learning & EISD New Teacher Institute
EISD - Ongoing whenever new devices are received.
GT Academy
GT Update
ESL Academy and Certification
Technology
Higher-Order Thinking through
immersive, meaningful
technology integration
Productivity Tools
English
Language Arts
-summer
Required for new products
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA 1 - As part of the Educator and
Student WHEEL, integrated with summer professional learning
and throughout the school year via job embedded trainingcohorts.
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD -summer
professional learning, designated conferences and embedded
ongoing learning throughout the year, progress on SAMR
continuum of integrating technology
Handwriting Without TearsCursive, Keyboarding Without
Tears
Writer’s Workshop Overview
Required for new to EISD or grade level
assignment
EISD new hires and new to assignment -summer as part of New
Teacher Institute (offered every other year)
Required within five years of hire (6th
year of that requirement and attendance
must have been since 2008 for all staff)
Writing Workshop: Grammar in
Context
Required summer of 2013 6-12, 2014 for
grades 4-12, continued expectation for
learning and implementation grades 4-12
Pre-requisite: Writer’s Workshop
Overview
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4
National Writing Project sponsored through UT-Heart of Texas
or Texas State-Central Texas Writing Project, EISD summer;
Genre Focus- Informational and Persuasive Communication
STANDARD 2, EISD designated workshop with Jeff Anderson,
EISD provided workshop based on Mechanically Inclined (book
provided), Jeff Anderson workshop on grammar and syntax
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4
EISD summer every other year and annual reunion during school
year includes genre workshop, embedded mechanics instruction,
and digital writing opportunities
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4
Cohort sponsored by Texas State; meet monthly throughout the
year and with culminating project, results in NWP mentor (CTC)
Advanced Writer’s Workshop
Central Texas Writing Project
Cohort
Embedded during school year-application
required with prerequisite of summer
overview
12
Math
Science
Guided Reading or Advanced
Guided Reading
Required within three years of hire,
ongoing, embedded professional learning
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for Humanities
Integrated with Social Studies, ongoing
embedded requirement
Texas English Language
Proficiency Assessment System
(TELPAS) & English Language
Proficiencies (ELPs) training
Required for teachers of ESL students
Multisensory Math Strategies
Grades 3-5
Guided Math
Required -Tier II Campus Support
Specialists
Required within five years of hire
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for STEM
Integrated with Science, ongoing
embedded requirement
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for STEM
Integrated with Math Problem-Solving
Strategies, ongoing embedded
requirement
certification, (yearly)
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4
EISD summer professional learning and embedded support for
implementation
Resources-Fountas and Pinnell, Next Step in Guided Reading,
Daily Five, leveled readers & Comprehension Toolkit
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4
Professional Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and
national workshops/conferences, district professional learning;
Inquiry-based strategies with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st
century critical and creative thinkers strong in communication
and collaboration
Resources: PBL, Reading/Writing Workshop, interactive
notebooks, inquiry-based research, authentic projects and
products
District-based for New Raters prior to assessment
Campus-based training and calibration in the spring.
EISD summer professional learning, embedded professional
learning through push-in support/demos
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -summer
professional learning and embedded support for implementation
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 Professional Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and
national workshops/conferences, district professional learning;
Inquiry-based strategies with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st
century critical and creative thinkers strong in communication
and collaboration
Resources: PBL, Investigations, interactive Notebooks including
expository reading and writing across curriculum
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 Professional Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and
national workshops/conferences, district professional learning
with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st century critical and creative
thinkers strong in communication and collaboration
Resources: Foss Kits, PBL, Investigations, interactive Notebooks
including expository reading and writing across curriculum
13
Social Studies
Special Areas
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for Humanities
Best Instructional Practices in
Special Areas
Integrated with ELA Workshop
Strategies, ongoing embedded
requirement
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 Professional Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and
national workshops/conferences, district professional learning;
Inquiry-based strategies with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st
century critical and creative thinkers strong in communication
and collaboration
Resources: History Alive, Studies Weekly, PBL, DBQs,
Reading/Writing Workshop, interactive notebooks, inquiry-based
research, authentic projects and products
ongoing professional learning and
curriculum work
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 1-4 -Embedded
in district professional learning days collaboratively developed
by special area teachers and professional area conference
attendance
14
EISD Professional Learning Framework
Target Audience: 6-12 Teachers
Content Area Topic
General
Requirements
Notes: District Goal Area, Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System Standards, Provider Information
Orientation to Eanes ISD
Eanes ISD Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System
Required for newly hired teachers
Required for ALL teachers summer 2016,
new to Eanes in subsequent years
EISD curriculum Tools
(Language Arts, Math, Science,
Social Studies, Technology)
Student-Centered Instructional
Design and Strategies
Required when designated instructional
strategies or materials are introduced and
for new hires
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement
Multi-tiered System of Student
Support
Ongoing, embedded requirement
Campus Based- ongoing and embedded
Addresses Special Needs, Dyslexia, ESL
Social Emotional Learning
Strategies
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement
Guaranteed and Viable
Curriculum
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement
Assessment for Learning
Eanes Professional Learning Conference
Ongoing embedded professional learning
and curriculum work
Professional Learning
Communities at Work
Ongoing, embedded professional learning
and curriculum, instruction and
assessment work
EISD new hires; EISD New Teacher Institute
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, All STANDARDS
Fall 2016- Eanes Professional Learning Conference, Campus
Professional Learning; Subsequent Years - New Teacher Institute
EISD new hires and new to assignment; EISD new hires and new
to assignment provided through New Teacher Institute and mentor
support
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1, 2 -summer
professional learning, designated conferences, and embedded
learning opportunities throughout the year-differentiated
instruction, Project-Based Learning, Universal Design for
Learning, Understanding By Design, SAMR cont.
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 4 -summer
professional learning, designated conferences, embedded ongoing
learning opportunities throughout the year, both academic and
behavior support strategies must be addressed
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 4 -summer
professional learning, EISD designated workshops, embedded
ongoing learning opportunities throughout the school year
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 1 - EISD summer
professional learning, embedded ongoing learning opportunities
throughout the school year, PLCs, horizontal and vertical
alignment teams
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 3 -summer
professional learning, designated conferences, and embedded
learning opportunities throughout the school year- formative and
summative assessment design, DOK level of rigor, unwrapping of
TEKS, SAMR continuum
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 5-6 summer
professional learning, designated conferences, and embedded
learning opportunities throughout the year, Three Big Ideas: focus
on learning, culture of collaboration, focus on results; Four
Guiding Questions for PLCs are both district expectations for PLC
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Mentor Training
ESL Certification, Sheltered
Instruction
Required for mentors of new to
profession teachers
Required for every AP and PreAP WHS
Teacher, Recommended for MS PreAP
Required annually to keep currentembedded-EISD August conference
Required- Tier II Campus Support
Specialists
EISD summer during New Teacher Institute, ongoing sessions
during mentor year
Can use Secondary Basic Training +AP Summer Institute for the
initial 30 Hours, GT Academy in district even years
EISD summer professional learning, any day of GT Academy,
Writing Workshop Overview, designated conferences
Sheltered Instruction Plus by John Seidlitz or Sheltered Instruction
Boot Camp both at Region XIII
Administrative Tools
Required for new products
New Technology Training
Required prior to receiving any new
device, technology tool, classroom
hardware, etc.
Recommended for Classroom Teachers
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD
professional learning & EISD New Teacher Institute
EISD - Ongoing whenever new devices are received.
GT Academy
GT Update
Technology
Higher-Order Thinking through
immersive, meaningful
technology integration
Productivity Tools
English
Language Arts
Required for new products
Pre-AP/AP (Advanced
Placement) Institute
Required 4-day institute as per
assignment, APSI required every 5 years
Writer’s Workshop Overview
Required within five years of hire (6th
year of that requirement and attendance
must have been since 2008 for all staff)
Writing Workshop: Grammar
in Context
Advanced Writer’s Workshop
or CTWP Reunion
Required summer of 2013 6-12, 2014 for
grades 4-12, continued expectation for
implementation grades 4-12
Pre-requisite: Writer’s Workshop
Overview
Central Texas Writing Project
Cohort
Embedded during school year-application
required with prerequisite of summer
-summer
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA 1 - As part of the Educator and
Student WHEEL, integrated with summer professional learning
and throughout the school year via job embedded training cohorts.
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD -summer
professional learning, designated conferences and embedded
ongoing learning throughout the year, progress on SAMR
continuum of integrating technology
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4, Accessed
through Rice, Texas Lutheran, UT, and other College Board
sponsored institutes and conferences during summer
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4
National
Writing Project sponsored through UT-Heart of Texas or Texas
State-Central Texas Writing Project, EISD summer; Genre FocusInformational and Persuasive Communication
Standard 2, designated workshop with Jeff Anderson, EISD
provided workshop based on Mechanically Inclined (book
provided), Jeff Anderson workshop on grammar and syntax
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4, EISD
summer every other year and annual reunion during school year
includes genre workshop, embedded mechanics instruction, and
digital writing opportunities
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4, Cohort
sponsored by Texas State; meet monthly throughout the year and
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Student-Centered Instructional
Design for Humanities
Math
Science
overview or prior NWP introductory
workshop
Integrated with Social Studies, ongoing
embedded requirement
Texas English Language
Proficiency Assessment System
(TELPAS) & English Language
Proficiencies (ELPs) training
Required for teachers of ESL students
Pre-AP/AP (Advanced
Placement) Institute
Required 4-day institute as per
assignment, APSI required every 5 years
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for STEM
Integrated with Science. ongoing
embedded requirement
Pre-AP/AP (Advanced
Placement) Institute
Required 4-day institute as per
assignment, APSI required every 5 years
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for STEM
Integrated with Math Problem-Solving
Strategies, ongoing embedded
requirement
with culminating project, results in NWP mentor (CTC)
certification
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 Professional
Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and national
workshops/conferences, district professional learning; Inquirybased strategies with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st century
critical and creative thinkers strong in communication and
collaboration
Resources: PBL, Reading/Writing Workshop, interactive
notebooks, inquiry-based research, authentic projects and products
District-based for New Raters prior to assessment window
Campus-based training and calibration in the spring.
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -Accessed
through Rice, Texas Lutheran, UT, and other College Board
sponsored institutes and conferences during summer
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -Professional
Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and national
workshops/conferences, district professional learning; Inquirybased strategies with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st century
critical and creative thinkers strong in communication and
collaboration
Resources: PBL, Investigations, interactive Notebooks including
expository reading and writing across curriculum
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -Accessed
through Rice, Texas Lutheran, UT, and other College Board
sponsored institutes and conferences during summer
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -EISD
Professional Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and
national workshops/conferences, district professional learning
with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st century critical and creative
thinkers strong in communication and collaboration,
Resources: Foss Kits, PBL, Investigations, interactive Notebooks
including expository reading and writing across curriculum
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Social Studies
Special Areas
Pre-AP/AP (Advanced
Placement) Institute
Required 4-day institute as per
assignment, APSI required every 5 years
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for Humanities
Recommend *(in conjunction with ELA
Workshop Strategies) ongoing embedded
requirement
Best Instructional Practices in
Special Areas
ongoing professional learning and
curriculum work
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -Accessed
through Rice, Texas Lutheran, UT, and other College Board
sponsored institutes and conferences during summer
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -Professional
Learning Conference, district sanctioned state and national
workshops/conferences, district professional learning; Inquirybased strategies with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st century
critical and creative thinkers strong in communication and
collaboration
Resources: DBQ-based instruction, PBL, Reading/Writing
Workshop, interactive notebooks, inquiry-based research,
authentic projects and products
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -Embedded
in district professional learning days collaboratively developed by
special area teachers and professional area conference attendance
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EISD Professional Learning Framework
Target Audience: Campus Support Specialists
Content Area Topics Required Beyond
Tier I Teachers
General
Requirements
Eanes ISD Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System
Required for ALL teachers summer 2016,
new to Eanes in subsequent years
Multi-tiered System of Student
Support
Social Emotional Learning
Strategies
Required Annually
Campus Based- ongoing and embedded
Addresses Special Needs, Dyslexia, ESL
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement
Guaranteed and Viable
Curriculum
Eanes Professional Learning Conference,
Ongoing, embedded requirement
ESL Academy and State
Certification
Dyslexia Research-Based
Intervention Certification
(program, not state)
Identification Assessment
Training
Reading Comprehension and
Fluency –Researched Based
Intervention
Writing Research-Based
Intervention
Required as per job description
Multisensory Math
Required as per job description
Student Committees (LPAC,
SST) Instruction, Assessment
and Accommodations
Required as per specialized area
Required as per job description
Required annually LEP, Dyslexia, &
Progress Monitoring/Goal Setting
Required as per job description
Required as per job description
Notes
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, All STANDARDS
Fall 2016- Eanes Professional Learning Conference, Campus
Professional Learning; Subsequent Years - New Teacher Institute
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 4 -summer
professional learning, designated conferences, and embedded
learning opportunities throughout the school year
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 4 -summer
professional learning, EISD designated workshops, embedded
ongoing learning
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 1 - EISD summer
professional learning, embedded ongoing learning opportunities
throughout the school year, PLCs, horizontal and vertical
alignment teams
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 4 -Region XIII in
summer and during school year
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 4 -Region XIII
Wilson or BLS in summer with year long practicum
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 3 -Distance
Learning via Region XIII and Eanes ISD summer and embedded
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 2 -Programs
offered in Austin in summer include: Read Naturally, effective use
of digital resources-IStation, Linda Mood Bell Visualization
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 2 -Self-Regulated
Strategy Development (Vanderbilt), Offered in district every other
year
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 2 -Eanes ISD-K-2,
3-5 and pre-algebra where applicable
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-6, Embedded
during regularly scheduled sessions throughout the year
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Content Area
General (Tier I) Topics
GT Update
Assessment for Learning
Technology
Professional Learning
Communities at Work
Ongoing, embedded requirement
Administrative
Required for new products
New Technology Training
Required prior to receiving any new
device, technology tool, classroom
hardware, etc.
Recommended for Classroom Teachers
Higher-Order Thinking through
immersive, meaningful
technology integration
Productivity Tools
ELA
Requirements
Required annually to keep currentembedded-EISD August conference
Ongoing, embedded requirement
Notes
EISD summer professional learning conference, designated
conferences and Region XIII workshops
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 3 -summer
professional learning, designated conferences, and embedded
learning opportunities throughout the school year- formative and
summative assessment design, DOK level of rigor, unwrapping of
TEKS, SAMR continuum
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 5,6 -summer
professional learning, designated conferences, and embedded
learning opportunities throughout the year, Three Big Ideas: focus
on learning, culture of collaboration, focus on results; Four
Guiding Questions for PLCs
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD
professional learning & EISD New Teacher Institute
EISD - Ongoing whenever new devices are received.
-summer
Required for new products
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA 1 - As part of the Educator and
Student WHEEL, integrated with summer professional learning
and throughout the school year via job embedded training cohorts.
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD -summer
professional learning, designated conferences and embedded
ongoing learning throughout the year, progress on SAMR
continuum of integrating technology
Required for new to EISD or grade level
assignment
EISD summer as part of New Teacher Curriculum Institute
(offered every other year)
Guided Reading
Required within five years of hire (6th year
of that requirement and attendance must
have been since 2008 for all staff)
Required within three years of hire
Texas English Language
Required for teachers of ESL students
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -National
Writing Project sponsored through UT Heart of Texas or Texas
State Central Texas Writing Project, EISD summer
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 summer
professional learning and embedded support for implementation,
resources include DRA, Fountas and Pinnell, Daily Five Routines,
leveled readers & Comprehension Toolkit
District-based for New Raters prior to assessment
*Handwriting Without Tears
and Keyboarding Without
Tears
*Writer’s Workshop Overview
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Proficiency Assessment System
(TELPAS) & English Language
Proficiencies (ELPs) training
Math
New Rater training can substitute for Tier
II requirements
Campus-based training and calibration in the spring and
verification module for specialists
Guided Math
Required within five years of hire
Student-Centered Instructional
Design for STEM
Integrated with Science, ongoing
embedded requirement
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -summer
professional learning and embedded support for implementation
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 -Professional
Learning Conference, district sanctioned state/national workshops
or conferences, district professional learning; Inquiry-based
strategies with focus on 4C’s strategies for 21st century critical
and creative thinkers strong in communication & collaboration
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EISD Professional Learning Framework
Target Audience: Special Education Teachers
Specializatio
n Area
Topic
General
ARD Process
Social/Emotiona
l Supports for
all students
Requirements
Notes: District Goal Area, Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System Standards, Provider Information
Orientation to Eanes ISD
Eanes ISD Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System
Required for newly hired teachers
Required for ALL teachers summer 2016,
new to Eanes in subsequent years
ARD Process
Newly hired teacher/ongoing, embedded
PLAAFP writing,
Goal/objective development &
data collection
REQUIRED for Secondary teachers
SUMMER 2016 working with students
receiving modified curriculum in the
general education classroom
Annual & ongoing updates
EISD new hires; EISD New Teacher Institute
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, All STANDARDS
Fall 2016- Eanes Professional Learning Conference, Campus
Professional Learning; Subsequent Years - New Teacher Institute
STANDARD 6 Including but not limited to Prior Written Notice,
Deliberations, Elements of an ARD meeting, After School Work
Sessions
STANDARDS 1-4, Lead4ward – Summer 2016
Special Education Manager
Training
Full and Individual Evaluation
SAMA
Texas Behavior Support
Initiatives
State
Assessment
Transition
Ongoing, embedded requirement
REQUIRED-SAMA 1 and 2 required
every 2 years – Refresher course maybe
taken after successful completion of
SAMA 1
One time – online modules
STANDARD 6, Job embedded with support from campus
coordinator/sped team – After School Work Sessions
Provided by district LSSP
STANDARDS 2, 6 EISD professional learning – multiple
offerings per year
Mental Health Issues for
Children and Adolescents
Student Discipline Processes
EISD professional learning, job embedded,
Region 13, out of district
Ongoing, embedded
STANDARD 6
https://www.escweb.net/tx_esc_04/search.aspx?&SearchCriteria=
TBSI
DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 4 District provided,
Region 13
STANDARD 6 District Provided, Region 13
STAAR (General, A, ALT)
Allowable accommodations,
SSI
Transition Processes and
Planning
Annual updates
STANDARD 6, District Provided, TEA, Region 13
August 2016, ongoing and embedded
Best Practices in Transition
August 2016, Ongoing, embedded
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4, Provided by
district transition specialist/transition team – August 2016 Special
Education day
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4, Provided by
district transition specialist/transition team – August 2016 Special
Education day
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Support
Systems
Compliance
Instructional
Practices
Reading
Case Manager Toolkit
Every other year, ongoing and embedded
STANDARD 6, District Provided
Supervision of Teaching
Assistants
Supporting Parents of Students
with Disabilities
Legal Updates
As needed
District Provided, Region 13
Priority Summer 2016
STANDARD 6, Dale Rudin August 2016
Annual and ongoing
STANDARD 6, District Provided, Region 13, Legal Conferences
Early Childhood Outcomes
(ECO)
Medicaid
REQUIRED if working with students 6
and under
REQUIRED for all staff
STANDARD 6, District Provided, Region 13
Universal Design for Learning
Ongoing, embedded
Specially Designed Instruction
in Academics
Ongoing, embedded
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 District
Provided, Region 13, Conferences and Workshops
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4 District
Provided, Region 13, Conferences and Workshops
Disability Specific
Characteristics, Strategies and
Interventions
Ongoing, embedded
Models of Collaboration with
Teaching Partners
Progress in the General
Education Curriculum
Cognitive Processes and
Executive Functioning Skills
REQUIRED for all general education and
special education collaborative pairs
REQUIRED 2016 for all teachers
working with modified curriculum
Priority Summer 2016
Reading Process for Students
with Disabilities
REQUIRED SUMMER 2016 for
teachers providing specially designed
instruction in reading
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 1& 2 – UT
Meadows Center
Benchmarking and Progress
Monitoring Tools
REQUIRED SUMMER 2016 for
teachers providing specially designed
instruction in reading
Ongoing, embedded
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 3 – UT Meadows
Center
District LSSP - GRADE, Dibels
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 2
District provided, Region 13, Workshop/Conference by specific
for specific resource
Examples: Fundations, Just Words, Wilson, Linda Mood Bell,
Best Instructional Practices for
Students with Reading
Disabilities
STANDARD 6, District Provided training; TASB
STANDARD 2, District Provided, Region13, Conferences and
Workshops
Including but not limited to specific learning disability, ADD,
ADHD, ED, AU, AI, VI, ID
STANDARD 5 – District Provided, Region 13, Inclusion Works
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1- 4, Lead4ward
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 2&4, LSSP
provided
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Handwriting without Tears, Read Naturally, My Sidewalks,
Reading A-Z, Writing A-Z
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 1 & 2 – Voyager
Sopris
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 2
Writing Processes for Students
with Disabilities
Best Instructional Practices in
Writing for Students with
Disabilities
Priority Summer 2016
Benchmarking and Progress
Monitoring Tools
Best Instructional Practices in
Math for Students with
Disabilities
Ongoing, embedded
Science/Social
Studies
Best Instructional Practices in
Science and Social Studies for
Students with Disabilities
Ongoing, embedded
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 2 -District
provided, Region 13 – Examples: Content specific training,
supplemental aids and services, Science A-Z
SDI for Social,
Emotional &
Behavioral
Needs
Behavior Support Academy
Annual
STANDARD 4 – District provided
Self-Regulation, Social Skills,
Executive Functioning,
Independence and Advocacy
Ongoing, embedded
Functional Behavioral
Assessment and Behavior
Intervention Plan
Structure and Routine
Ongoing, embedded
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 2&4 -professional
learning, job embedded, Region 13, out of district
Examples: self-management regulation systems, social stories,
task analysis, prompting and fading, Reinforcement Systems
EISD professional learning, job embedded, Region 13, Workshops
and Conferences
Specially Designed Instruction
in Communication
Ongoing, embedded
Pre-school developmental
milestones
Kindergarten Readiness Skills
Ongoing, embedded
STANDARD 2 – Region 13
Ongoing, embedded
STANDARD 1 – District provided, Region 13
Community Agencies and
Annual updates
STANDARD 4
Writing
Math
PPCD
ATS
Ongoing, embedded
Ongoing, embedded
Ongoing, embedded
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 3
Example: GRADE
EISD DISTRICT GOAL, STANDARD 2
Examples: Number Worlds, Making Math Real, Equals, IXL
STANDARD 2&4
Examples: Visual Supports, Structured Teaching, Discrete Trial
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD 2 -Examples:
PECs, core vocabulary and other assistive technology applications
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Adult Resources
Examples: DARs, CLASS, SSI, HCS, Eanes Transition Specialist
Non-Teaching
Professionals
Licensure
Specific to position
STANDARD 6 District, Region, State and National Professional
Learning
Technology
Administrative Tools
Required for new products
PRIORITY Summer 2016
Required prior to receiving any new
device, technology tool, classroom
hardware, etc.
Recommended for Classroom Teachers
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD -summer
professional learning & EISD New Teacher Institute
EISD - Ongoing whenever new devices are received.
New Technology Training
Higher-Order Thinking through
immersive, meaningful
technology integration
Productivity Tools
Grade Level/
Content/
Subject Specific
Required for new products
PRIORITY Summer 2016
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA 1 - As part of the Educator and
Student WHEEL, integrated with summer professional learning
and throughout the school year via job embedded training cohorts.
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD -summer
professional learning, designated conferences and embedded
ongoing learning throughout the year, progress on SAMR
continuum of integrating technology
See General Education
Frameworks above
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EISD Professional Learning Framework
Target Audience: Special Education Teaching Assistants
Specializatio
n Area
Topic
Requirements
Notes: District Goal Area, Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System Standards, Provider Information
Classroom
Expectations
Data Collection
Ongoing, embedded
District or Region 13 Provided
Structures and routines
Cueing/Prompting/Fading
Models of Inclusion
Universal Design for Learning
Ongoing, embedded
Ongoing, embedded
Ongoing, embedded
Ongoing, embedded
District or Region 13 Provided
District or Region 13 Provided
District or Region 13 Provided
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4
Specially Designed Instruction
Disability Specific
Characteristics, Strategies and
Interventions
SAMA
Ongoing, embedded
Ongoing, embedded
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARDS 1-4
District or Region 13 Provided
REQUIRED-SAMA 1 and 2 required
every 2 years – Refresher course
maybe taken after successful
completion of SAMA 1
One time- online modules
STANDARDS 2, 6 EISD professional learning – multiple offerings
per year
Instructional
Strategies
Behavioral
Strategies
ARD Process
Technology
Texas Behavior Support
Initiative
ARD Process
Administrative Tools
New Technology Training
Higher-Order Thinking through
immersive, meaningful
technology integration
Productivity Tools
Ongoing, embedded
REQUIRED for New Products
Summer 2016
Required prior to receiving any new
device, technology tool, classroom
hardware, etc.
Recommended
for
Classroom
Teachers
REQUIRED for New Products
Summer 2016
STANDARD 6
https://www.escweb.net/tx_esc_04/search.aspx?&SearchCriteria=TBSI
District or Region 13 Provided
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD -summer professional
learning & EISD New Teacher Institute
EISD - Ongoing whenever new devices are received.
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA 1 - As part of the Educator and
Student WHEEL, integrated with summer professional learning and
throughout the school year via job embedded training cohorts.
EISD DISTRICT GOAL AREA, STANDARD -summer professional
learning, designated conferences and embedded ongoing learning
throughout the year, progress on SAMR continuum of integrating
technology
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Individual Professional Learning Plan
& Flex Day Documentation
School Year 2016-2017
Teachers and Teaching Assistants
The Eanes Independent School District is committed to providing and supporting high quality professional learning
experiences so that staff can meet district requirements as well as have options to construct their own learning
situations to better meet the needs of their students. The district has established flex days for the purpose of fostering
individualized professional growth. The Individual Professional Learning Plan is the process used to plan and
document these learning experiences. The following explains the IPLP process:
Develop a Plan
 Each year, staff members will identify targets for professional growth. Data from PLC work, EISD Teacher
Growth and Appraisal System feedback, student testing, District Goals, Campus Goals and
personal/professional goals guides the identification of individual targets.
 Each year, staff members will develop desired outcomes centered on an identified need. These outcomes should
be aligned to campus, district and/or program goals and objectives.
Get Your Plan Approved
Staff members will develop their Individual Professional Learning Plan including their desired outcomes, activities
to help them achieve their outcomes, and measures for achievement of their plans. Based on the EISD Teacher
Growth and Appraisal System time line, plans will be submitted to supervisors. Submission is REQUIRED prior to
participation in summer training.
Participate in Professional Learning Activities
Staff members will select learning activities that will help them achieve their goals based on identified needs. For
the 2016-17 school year, it is expected that staff members will be utilizing non-contract time that would be
comparable to at least three full days of training (18 hours.) This is a school year to school year process, so eligible
activities will begin June 1, 2016.
Complete the Forms
When a professional learning event has been attended, staff members will complete a reflection (on each of their
IPLP activities), provide certificates or documentation of participation/attendance, and upon return in the fall,
discuss their plans for implementation with their supervisors. Staff members are responsible for confirming all staff
development is accurately documented in Eduphoria.
Submit the Forms for Flex Time Approval
 Completed IPL Plans must be signed by your supervisor, who will maintain a copy of all forms. Those
individuals completing their plans will be approved for the flex days that are identified on the district calendar.
 Documentation of a total of 18 hours will be required to qualify for the 3 flex days available during the 2016-17
school year.
 Documentation of 6 hours of professional learning must be submitted to your supervisor by:
September 25, 2016 to earn a flex day for October 10, 2016
November 7, 2016 to earn a flex day for November 23, 2016
February 6, 2017 to earn a flex day on February 20, 2017
Staff members not completing flex hours before the specified deadlines will be required to use a personal leave
day or lose a day of pay
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Allowable Professional Learning Activities for Teachers
Although several options are listed below, this is not intended to be an exhaustive list. Each staff member must
work with their supervisor to determine appropriate professional learning activities and obtain approval
prior to participation in an activity in order for the hours to “count” toward the requirement for exchange
days.
 Quality professional learning in the professional’s assigned content area is the first priority. Current
methodology, leadership training and differentiation training are examples of appropriate professional learning
hours for a portion of the required hours.
 Certain activities may be required depending on your role.
 EISD workshops/activities that are aligned with the employee’s job assignment & professional learning goals
may be used to fulfill individual goals and required flex day hours. These include summer workshops, after
school workshops, professional learning communities/study groups and on-line courses.
 Professional learning opportunities outside of Eanes ISD and graduate level college courses may be used to
fulfill individual goals. These learning opportunities must be approved by the staff member’s supervisor. These
would include, but not be limited to, conferences, AP training and ESC workshops.
 Presenting a full day, 6 hour EISD training can count as 2 flex days for the presenting staff member if this is a
new workshop requiring initial preparation. If this is a workshop that has been presented before and requires
only updated preparation, then it can count as 1 flex day. In both of these cases, if the presenting staff member
receives payment, neither can count as flex time.
 Staff hired in the spring or summer before the start of the 2016-17 school-year are required to attend the New
Teacher Institute in August. This can count as 2 flex days.
 GT Academy, Basic Training or Update can count toward flex day hours.
 ESL Academy can count toward flex day hours.
 College credit hours may count toward flex days with the following guidelines:
o 3 college credit hours within the teacher’s professional assignment = 12 hours of flex time.
o 3 college credit hours toward additional certification outside of instructional assignment = 6 hours of
flex time
o Transcript or grade report will serve as documentation of completion
Restrictions:
 Coaching school may only count as one flex day.
 Bus driver training does not count for teacher flex time.
 CPR training can count for 3 hours of flex time for those staff members requiring the certification by policy.
This includes the school nurse, athletic coach or sponsor, physical education instructor, marching band director,
cheer leading coach, special education teacher (when needed) and any other employee specified by the
commissioner.
 Any workshop, training or professional learning event for which the staff member receives a stipend, extra duty
pay or an honorarium will not count toward the district requirement of 18 hours.
 Professional learning activities completed during contract hours do not apply to flex day credit.
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Allowable Professional Learning Activities for Teaching Assistants
Although several options are listed below, this is not intended to be an exhaustive list. Each staff member must
work with their supervisor to determine appropriate professional learning activities and obtain approval
prior to participation in an activity in order for the hours to “count” toward the requirement for exchange
days.
 Quality professional learning in the assigned content area is the first priority. Current methodology, behavior
management, specific disability and differentiation training are examples of appropriate professional learning
hours for a portion of the required hours.
 SAMA 1 and SAMA 2 training are required every two years for special education teaching assistants.
 Texas Behavior Support Initiatives Training (via on-line modules) is required one time education teaching
assistants.
 CDL training may be used to fulfill required flex day hours for job coaches.
 CPR training may be used to fulfill required flex day hours for special education teaching assistants.
 After hours trainings or staffings related to specific student issues (educational, behavioral, health) may be used
to fulfill required flex day hours. Approval from the classroom teacher and campus administration prior to the
training is required. Twelve (12) hours are required as part of the 18 needed for 2016 -2017.
 EISD workshops/activities that are aligned with the employee’s job assignment & professional learning goals
may be used to fulfill individual goals and required flex day hours. These include summer workshops, after
school workshops, professional learning communities/study groups and on-line courses.
 Professional learning opportunities outside of Eanes ISD and college courses may be used to fulfill individual
goals. These learning opportunities must be approved by the staff member’s supervisor.
 Any workshop, training or professional learning event for which the staff member receives a stipend, extra duty
pay or an honorarium will not count toward the district requirement 24 hours.
 College credit hours may count toward flex days with the following guidelines:
o 3 college credit hours within assignment = 12 hours of flex time.
o 3 college credit hours toward additional certification outside of instructional assignment = 6 hours of
flex time
o Transcript or grade report will serve as documentation of completion
Non-allowable/Restricted Activities
 After hours activities such as bus duty, classroom/materials preparation, or clerical tasks may not be used
to fulfill required flex day hours
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EISD Individual Professional Learning Plan
School Year 2016-17
Teachers and Teaching Assistants
Name_______________________________________________________________________________________
Campus: __________Assignment: ____________ Plan Approved: _________________________
Supervisor’s Signature
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Date
State your desired goal(s) for summer professional learning:
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Identify the EISD Teacher Growth and Appraisal System Standards for your professional learning choices:
 Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum: _________________________________________________________
 Best Instructional Practices: _______________________________________________________________
 High Quality Assessment (AFL) : __________________________________________________________
 Student Centered Learning Environment (SEL):_______________________________________________
 Continuous Improvement and Professional Learning (PLCs):_____________________________________
 Other: ________________________________________________________________________________
List your plan of activities/learning experiences to support achievement of your goals:
Flex Day #1: Title of Workshop or Event: __________________________________________________________
To receive a flex day for October 10, 2016 documentation of 6 hours must be submitted to supervisor by September 25, 2016.
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____________________________________________________: Professional Learning Framework Requirement met
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____Documentation (transcript or certificate) of professional learning attached or in Eduphoria with reflection questions.
Flex Day #2: Title of Workshop or Event: __________________________________________________________
To receive a flex day for November 23, 2016 documentation of 6 hours must be submitted to supervisor by November 7, 2016.
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____________________________________________________: Professional Learning Framework Requirement met
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____Documentation (transcript or certificate) of professional learning attached or in Eduphoria with reflection questions.
Flex Day #3: Title of Workshop or Event: __________________________________________________________ To
receive a flex day for February 20, 2017 documentation of 6 hours must be submitted to supervisor by February 6, 2017.
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____________________________________________________: Professional Learning Framework Requirement met
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____Documentation (transcript or certificate) of professional learning attached or in Eduphoria with reflection questions.
Employee’s signature ______________________________________________Date Submitted_________________
Cycle of Professional Learning and Dialogue
Celebration and Goal Setting
Eanes Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System
Request Professional Learning for
Target Areas
Continual Growth
Eanes Teacher Growth and
Appraisal System
On
Ongoing Discussions, Feedback,
and Reflection for Continual
Improvement
Summative Conference
(PDAS or LCAP Spring 2016)
Teacher Growth and Appraisal System
2017
Celebrate Success
Set Learning Targets
Select Summer Learning
Share in Learning
Attend Events
Focus on Your Targets
Develop Implementation
Plans for 2016-17
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Professional Learning Reflection Questions
Name: __________________________
Campus ____________________ Date: ________
1. How did attending/participating in this activity/conference benefit the students in your
school?
2. What did you learn from this event?
3. How will you use what you have learned?
4. How will you share what you have learned with others on your campus?
Here are some possibilities:
Share with one other teacher in the same grade level or department.
Make a presentation to the next staff meeting regarding what you learned at the workshop/conference.
Prepare a set of lesson plans and unit designs for your team/department/campus to use.
Model a lesson based on what you learned during the activity/conference and invite interested teachers
to observe.
Video record a model lesson that could be shared with all teachers in the district.
Create an ongoing study group on the topic that was the subject of the conference/workshop.
Write about what you learned on your blog and share with school/team.
Other:
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Professional Collaboration Proposal
Please use this form to submit proposals for professional learning activities devised by two or more staff members to
reach goals set forth in the Individual Professional Learning Plan. The principal(s) AND appropriate staff in
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment must grant permission and professional learning credit. It is the
group’s responsibility to secure both principal and CIA approval PRIOR to the event.
Grade level/department/team:
Participants:
Time (Date and Hours): remember that 6 hours = 1 flex day
Location:
Objective(s):
Agenda: Please attach
Facilitator:
Activities:
Notes: A note taker should be assigned and summary notes should be sent to each participant, as
well as campus principals and CIA staff, as appropriate to the content.
Product: Please attach any documents, assessments, etc. developed during this time.
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Principal Signature
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Date
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CIA Signature
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Date
If activity is not approved, please specify reasoning:
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Gifted and Talented Professional Learning Requirements
Initial 30 hours
According to the Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/Talented Students, a minimum of
thirty (30) clock hours of professional development is required for teachers who provide
instruction and services that are a part of the district’s defined gifted/talented services. This must
include nature and needs of gifted/talented students, identification and assessment of
gifted/talented students’ needs, and curriculum and instruction for gifted/talented students. GT
providers in EISD include elementary and middle school GT specialists and ALL PreAP/AP
high school core area teachers. All high school PreAP/AP core area teachers must complete their
30 hours of training because these subjects are considered to be part of GT services at the high
school level.
GT Providers:
K-8 must attend the 30-hour EISD GT Academy.
9-12 (PreAP/AP core) have two choices:
 Attend the 30-hour EISD GT Academy
 Day 1 and Day 2 of the EISD GT Academy (12 hours) AND attend an AP Summer
Institute (minimum of 18 additional hours) in the course
Classroom Teachers:
K-8 teachers may meet the 30-hour requirement by attending the Eanes ISD GT Academy. The
academy meets the state mandate for 30 hours of training. All regular classroom teachers will
benefit from the experience by learning ways to differentiate for the GT students in their classes.
6-12 teachers may meet the 30 hour requirement by attending the following options:
 Attend the 30-hour EISD GT Academy
 Attend a combination of the GT Academy and an AP Summer Institute
 Day 1 and Day 2 of the EISD GT Academy - Middle and high school teachers will
fulfill 12 of the required 30 GT hours in Nature and Needs, Identification, Assessing
Student Needs and Curriculum Differentiation.
 Middle and high school teachers must attend at least 18 additional hours of PreAP/AP
subject specific training to complete the 30 hours.
GT Annual Update
Teachers who provide instruction and services that are a part of the district’s defined
gifted/talented services are required to receive a minimum of six (6) hours annually of
professional development in gifted/talented education that is related to state teacher education
standards. There are several ways to meet this requirement.
1. Check course offerings in Eduphoria. There are courses specifically listed as GT
Updates that will count.
2. Check course offerings in Eduphoria for courses that may not be listed as an update,
but may carry the GT update credit.
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Accessing Eduphoria for Registration and Documentation
Eduphoria is the on-line system used by EISD for both registration and documentation of
professional learning activities. All activities whether they occur inside our outside EISD should
be documented in the system. This allows each individual and their supervisor to have access to
a portfolio of all activities.
Eduphoria can be accessed through the Eanes ISD website under staff or at
http://eduphoria.eanesisd.net Each staff member will have an account which uses the same
username and password as all other Eanes Novell systems.
Professional learning activities offered through Eanes ISD will be listed and available for
registration in the system. By clicking on the “Workshop Tab,” staff can see how activities are
organized in accordance with the Professional Learning Frameworks. Many activities are cross
referenced across multiple frameworks. Staff can also search for activities being offered by
month.
All documented professional learning activities offered by Eanes ISD will be available for
viewing within two weeks of completion of that activity in the “Portfolio” section in Eduphoria.
In addition, staff are expected to document other professional learning activities offered outside
the district by clicking the button “Add New Portfolio Entry.”
For all professional learning activities occurring in June 2016, participants must register through
Eduphoria by May 20, 2016. For all professional learning activities occurring in August 2016,
participants must register through Eduphoria by July 15, 2016.
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Guidelines for EISD Professional Learning Presenters
We believe that our own staff has great expertise and thus often ask staff to share their expertise
with colleagues, contributing to our community of learners.
Compensation:
Presenters who are not under contract on the day of the learning activity have two options for
compensation: payment or using flex days.
Payment:
Presenters who are not under contact on the day that they present will receive $400 a day. This
covers all aspects of the workshop- planning, presenting, follow up. When there is more than one
presenter/facilitator, the amount may change depending on the role of each presenter/facilitator.
For example, if there is a lead presenter with facilitative support, the lead might receive $400 per
day and the support person might receive $200. If there are two co-presenters, they each might
receive $300 per day. The EISD maximum pay for a one day learning activity with multiple
presenters is $600.
Supplemental pay forms must be filled out by the presenter and submitted to the administrator
who arranged for the professional learning activity within 2 weeks of the conclusion of the event.
Payment (less taxes, TRS, etc.) should be in the usual paycheck the following month.
Presenters/facilitators are responsible for submitting their pay forms.
Use of flex days:
Presenters who are not under contract on the day they present may select to use flex days. For a
new workshop being developed and presented, a presenter will earn two flex days. For a
previously presented session, the presenter will earn one flex day. The presenter should follow
the guidelines for a adding a workshop to their portfolio in Eduphoria.
Expectations for workshops
Successfully working with adults requires that the trainings be:
 Interactive, hands-on, useful: This includes learning to design effective lessons, assessments,
and interventions. The strategies you present should be immediately useful for the
participant.
 Differentiated for adults: The audience is at different levels of experience and expertise.
Activities should be planned accordingly and provide for these levels.
 Centered on students: Activities should be focused on what is proven to be successful with
students or to support student achievement.
 Enjoyable: Learning should be a joyful experience. We must model that for the adults if we
expect that to transfer to the classroom.
Other expectations
 Communicate with your participants. Eduphoria will send an email reminder several days
before the workshop. You can use Eduphoria email to let them know if they need to bring
anything with them.
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Arrive at least 30 minutes before your activity begins to ensure that the facilities and
technology are set up appropriately.
Start and end on time; have materials ready.
Welcome them and thank them ahead of time for their active participation.
Set norms with class as established in the Professional Learning Guide.
Take roll at the beginning of each class and after lunch. Write in names and schools of staff
who did not register but just showed up. Indicate no shows. The attendance sheet should be
turned in to the administrator who arranged for the professional learning activity.
Note participants who leave early or come late. They will be given credit for only the hours
that they attend.
Issues that might come up
 People who leave early and come late - remind them that they will receive credit only for the
hours that they participate. You can have a homework activity for them to turn in that is tied
to your workshop if they have an emergency that interferes with their full participation.
Doctor’s appointments and childcare are not emergencies. If there are problems with this,
call the CIA office.
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Mandatory Professional Training
Each year Eanes ISD employees are required to fulfill training requirements set forth by national,
state, or local standards. These trainings typically cover topics such as health, safety, discipline,
or other legal requirements. The trainings are provided through online modules on the Safe
Schools portal. Each employee will receive an email from the Eanes ISD Human Resources
Department with a link and completion dates. These trainings must be completed and
documented as part of an employee’s job responsibilities. These activities are not listed on the
Professional Learning Frameworks.
Topics include but are not limited to
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EISD Employee Handbook and Responsible Use Policy
Employee Annual Evaluation Process
Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct
Bullying
FERPA
Child Abuse
Emergency Plan Compliance
Bloodborne Pathogens
Food Allergy Symptoms, Procedures, Medication Administration
Dating Violence
Youth Suicide
Affordable Health Care
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