Welcome to Lesson Study
Introduce yourself to others at your table.
Get ready to embark on an exciting
professional journey with your colleagues!
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The DSC Mission
To help children
develop
to their full potential
academically,
ethically,
socially,
and emotionally
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Workshop Agenda
 Team Builder
 Lesson Study Overview
 Reflection
 Facilitator’s Kit Review
 Lesson Study Protocol Experience
 Orange County Public School Model
 Implementation Planning
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Group Line Up
Think about where you were born.
Form a line in order of birthplace beginning
with the person born closest to our current
location.
End the line with the person born furthest
from our current location.
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Line Up Questions
What brings you here today? – Why are
you interested in Lesson Study?
Think of a powerful professional
development experience that impacted
your work. – What about the staff
development made it so powerful and
successful?
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Debrief Teambuilder
What did you notice about the
teambuilder?
Why are teambuilders such as this
important for a professional learning
community?
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Research on Teacher Development:
 Professional development should be intensive,
ongoing, and connected to practice.
 Professional development should focus on student
learning and address the teaching of specific
curriculum content.
 Professional development should align with school
improvement priorities and goals.
 Professional development should build strong
working relationships.
Bullets Taken from the NSDC publication: Professional Learning in The Learning
Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and
Abroad (Hammond, Chung Wei, Andree, Richardson, Orphanos 2009)
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Workshop Goals
• Become familiar with the purposes of Lesson
Study
• Learn about the Lesson Study Cycle
• Understand DSC’s approach to implementing
Lesson Study
• Experience components of the Lesson Study
Facilitator’s Kit
• Become familiar with the Lesson Study
Facilitator’s Kit
• Prepare to implement Lesson Study
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What is Lesson Study?
Lesson study is really as much of a
culture as it is a professional
development practice.
Tad Watanabe, Kennesaw State University
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Where are you with lesson study?
1. Just heard of the innovation
2. Beginning to gather information
3. Know enough to try it out
4. Fully implemented and working on
making it better
5. Ready to work on helping others so
that it becomes culturally embedded in
our practice
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Prepare to watch lesson study video:
 As you watch, pay attention to
information that intrigues you and
information that you wonder about.
 What supports do you think were in
place for the research team in the video?
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Video Discussion Questions
 What did you see that intrigues you?
 What did you see that you wonder
about?
 What supports would have to be in place
for Lesson Study to be successful?
 What thoughts do you have about
undertaking Lesson Study in your
district?
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Why do Lesson Study?
Lesson Study helps us:
 Design better lessons that get students engaged in thinking
 Deepen our content knowledge
 Examine the cause and effect relationship between teaching
and learning
 Discern more and less effective teaching strategies
 Become more astute observers of students
 Build supportive collegial relationships and enrich our
professional lives
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Getting started
• Create the team
• Build community and set
group norms
• Agree on outcomes
1. Lesson Planning
• Plan the lesson together
• Select the teacher
• Identify the classroom
3. Data Analysis
• Reflect on student data.
• Reflect on group learning and
discuss implications.
• Agree on next steps.
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The Research Lesson
Teach the research lesson.
Observe the lesson.
Collect student data.
Teacher Researchers Ask Themselves
When things go well, we ask ourselves:
What in my teaching made that happen?
When things don’t go well, we ask
ourselves the same question.
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Think about it…
• How is lesson study similar to or different from
other professional development experiences
you have had?
• How does Lesson Study fit with other state
initiatives such as Florida’s Continuous
Improvement Model (FCIM), Professional
Learning Communities (PLCs), ProblemSolving and Response to Intervention
(PS/RtI)?
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Set Team Norms for Lesson Study
In what ways might learning together in
lesson study require taking risks?
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Set Team Norms for Lesson Study
Imagine planning a lesson together as a
team. There are several different ideas
about how to approach a part of the lesson.
How would you want to interact as a team
during this discussion?
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Set Team Norms for Lesson Study
Imagine that you are the one teaching the
research lesson for your colleagues to
observe. The lesson, for whatever reason,
does not go well. What would help you feel
supported by your team in that situation?
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Set Team Norms for Lesson Study
Imagine that you have an idea that differs
from what seems to be the majority
opinion. Why is it important that you speak
up? What would help you voice your idea?
How would you want your idea to be
received?
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Set Team Norms for Lesson Study
What kinds of things will you do to contribute
to a feeling of safety and community in this
team?
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Team Norms for Lesson Study
We will…
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Debrief Team Norms for Lesson Study
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What was the experience like for you?
•
What questions does the process of
creating these norms raise for you?
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Lesson Study Support Kit
A two-year course of learning,
 led by a facilitator,
 designed to prepare teams of teachers to
implement ongoing lesson study as a
regular part of their professional and
school lives.
The kit provides materials for the facilitator and
and for each of the teachers, (teacher
researchers) participating in lesson study.
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Goals and Design of the Lesson Study Support Kit
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Learn the process and purposes of Lesson Study
•
Build understanding of how students become engaged,
learn, and develop
•
Cultivate skills and methods for collecting analyzing, and
applying student data
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Cultivate discernment about more and less effective
instructional strategies
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Spread lesson study participation in the school by sharing
experiences
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Build a professional learning community that puts student
learning at the center
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Lesson Study Support Kit for Facilitators
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QuickStart Guide for facilitators
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Facilitator's Kit, Grades K–12
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Facilitator's Manual, Grades K–12
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Lesson Study Overview DVD
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The DSC Way DVD
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Order form for teacher’s kits
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Five data collection instrument pads
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Facilitator’s Kit Reproducible Materials CD-ROM
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The Lesson Planning Handbook
Teachers’ Kits, Grades K–2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Jigsaw Facilitator’s Manual
(1)
Number off 1-4 with your table group.
(2)
Review the following sections in your Facilitator’s
Manual. Mark places you want to discuss and
share with your table group.
ALL: Pages 1-19
ONES: Pages 21 – 82 (Year One Meeting Agendas and Protocols)
TWOS: Pages 83 – 117 (Year Two Meeting Agendas and Protocols)
THREES: Pages 120 – 210 ((Facilitation Techniques and Professional
Resources)
FOURS: Pages 211 - END (Data Collection & Analysis, Lesson Study
Master Protocol, Black Line Masters)
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Jigsaw Facilitator’s Manual, continued
 Meet with the other like number at your table
to discuss your section and decide what will be
important to highlight for others.
Share your section with others in your table
group and discuss the following question.
How might the design and contents of the kit
support your teachers in learning and
implementing Lesson Study?
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Lesson Study Facilitator
Training, Day 2
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Teambuilder: Inside-Outside Circle
Number Off 1, 2, 3, 4
Ones and Twos will stay in this room
Threes and Fours will go across the hall
 Form two circles, one inside the other.
 The inside circle should face out and the
outside circle should face in so that
everyone is facing someone in the other
circle.
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Inside-Outside Circle Questions
Think about what you have learned about
lesson study.
What do you expect some of the
challenges are to implementing lesson
study effectively? For teachers? For
administrators? For facilitators?
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Rotate the outside circle…
After discussing some of the challenges
you expect to face, what might be some
solutions to these challenges?
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Debrief Teambuilder
What did you discuss during this team
builder?
How might you use this activity with your
staff/school/team?
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Research Lessons in the kit…
 Provide teachers with thoughtfully
designed and well crafted lessons which
scaffold understandings of effective
instruction.
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Allow participants to focus on learning
data collection techniques and analyzing
data.
 Later teachers will integrate what they
have learned from the data into planning
teacher-selected lessons.
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Qualities of Good Lessons
What would you add to the following list?
 Students are active
 Purpose is clear
 Connects to prior learning
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Work with your table group to create your
own Qualities of Good Lessons list.
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Review Lessons in the Kit
Work with a partner…
1. Select one of the Teacher’s Kits (K-2, 3-5,
6-8, 9-12)
2. Review the contents in the Lesson Study
Support Kit Research Lessons book
3. Choose one content area to read more
carefully (Reading Comprehension,
Writing, and Mathematics)
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Review Lessons in the Kit
Work with a partner…
1. Read through the lessons you selected with
the Qualities of Good Lessons in mind.
2. Use sticky notes to mark places where there
is evidence of good instruction.
3. Share what you find with your others at your
table.
What might you say to new Research
Teams about the value of using the lessons
in the kit in their early Lesson Study cycles?
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Lesson Study Protocol Practice
Discussion Facilitation Techniques
1.
Read through the Discussion Facilitation
Techniques (p. 120) and mark those you would
like to try
2.
Talk with a partner
Which of the facilitation techniques will you try?
Why might they be important when working
with Research Teams?
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Lesson Study Cycle 1
Before starting Cycle 1, the Facilitator…
• Introduced Lesson Study to the staff using
the Staff Meeting Agenda on pages 21 – 26
of your Facilitator’s Manual
• Identified the Teacher Research Teams
• Facilitated the Preparing for Lesson Study
Team Meeting Agenda found on pages 27 31
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Lesson Study Cycle 1, Phase 1: Practice Activity
Skim and Scan the Staff Meeting and
Team Meeting Agendas (pages 21 – 31
of your Facilitator’s Manual)
How will these meetings be helpful for
Lesson Study implementation?
What else might you do to help
Research Teams be successful?
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Lesson Study Cycle 1, Phase 1: Practice Activity
1. Locate and tab Lesson Study Protocol,
Cycle 1 on pages 32 – 42.
2. Review pages 32, 33, and 34.
3. Revisit your norms and make any
revisions agreed upon by the team.
4. Agree upon a Research Lesson from
one of the Teacher’s Kits to work with
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Lesson Study Cycle 1, Phase 1: Practice Activity
Working as a Research Team
1. Number off at your table 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
2. Carefully read your assigned section as follows:
1. Step 2, page 34
2. Step 3, page 35
3. Step 4, page 36
4. Step 5, pages 36-37
5. Step 6, 7, 8, pages 37-38
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Lesson Study Cycle 1, Phase 1: Practice Activity
1. Use the kit resources (articles,
lesson, data collection tools) and
plan to try out parts of the protocol.
2. Share your section with your
teammates.
3. Try some of the facilitation
techniques to support the work of the
group.
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Lesson Study Cycle 1: Phases 2 & 3
1. Read through the steps on pages 38 – 42 to
learn more about the Observation and Data
Collection and Data Analysis and Debrief
phases.
2. Review the Behavior Scan 1 section in the Data
Collection and Analysis tools on pages 212 –
216.
How might using these tools and processes support
teachers in their data collection and analysis?
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Reflection Question
What issues came up for you during this
lesson study protocol review?
What is one thing you want to continue to
think about?
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Next Steps Considerations:
Q Who might you recommend attend the Regional Training?
Q How will you introduce Lesson Study to others in your
district?
Q How many schools or Research Teams do you anticipate
working with this year?
Q Will you have lab sites? How will you identify these?
Q Who might your facilitators be?
Q What supports will you need?
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Hopes and Intentions for Lesson Study
For myself…
For students…
For teachers…
For my school or district…
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