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Washington State Leadership Academy
Lesson Plan
Year 1 Workshop 3—ESD 113
8:30 a.m. - 3:45 p.m.
DATE: ________________________________
REGION: ___________________________________
WSLA Strands
Goal: Improved Learning for All Students
 Why Change? (WC)
 Build Clear and Collaborative Relationships (CCR)
 Enhance Personal Leadership Skills (EPLS)
 Lead Coherent System-Wide Support For Learning (LCSWSFL)
 Focus on Learning (FOL)
 Work on a Problem of Practice (POP)/Cycle of Inquiry (COI)/Theory of Action (TOA)
Goals for the Day
1. Learn from regional colleagues (CCR)
2. Consider evidence needed to measure progress on POP (POP/COI/TOA)
3. Continue building knowledge about leadership and steps needed in your district to improve leadership (All)
4. Begin to consider the leadership needed to address the POP in your district (FOL/LCSWSFL/EPLS)
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TIME
8:30-8:50
8:50-9:00
INSTRUCTOR ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
Welcome
Introductions
Goals for the Day
Norms
Action needed:
Quick review of how WSLA
will be supporting
participating teams through
this year and next
Review the content on slide 5 – emphasizing the intent of
WSLA and what support teams can expect. Be sure to
emphasize that workshops are not only a time for process,
but also for being reminded of, or learning new content and
research that will help teams focus their systems to
become more effective at helping each and every student
achieve.
MATERIALS
STRAND
PPT slides 1-4
Handout pages 2-3
CCR
FOL
PPT slides 5-9
Handout TOP of
p.4
All
If instructors choose to do any type of welcoming
opening—PLEASE LIMIT TO NO MORE THAN 4 TO 5
MINUTES.
WSLA Journals
Move through slides 6-8 as a very quick review from
previous workshop.
Journal Reflection for Enhancing Personal Leadership
Skills
Reflection Questions: PPT # 9:
One of WSLA’s goals is to help you connect what you learn
at the workshops to your practice. Please take a few
minutes and reflect in your WSLA journals, answering the
question on the slide 9 and in your Handout Packet at the
top of page 4.
9:00-10:20
Two-Year
Outcomes/Rubrics
Deeper dive from last
workshop
Directions for Instructors:
Distribute individual data sheets for each team
from previous workshop
At the last WSLA workshop (Year 2 Workshop 1), each
team spent time reviewing the WSLA Two-Year Outcomes
and Rubrics document and determined where they believe
themselves to be at this point on each of the WSLA
strands. This activity is designed to:
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PPT slides 10
Handout Individual
Team Rubric
Rating Sheets
ALL
Handout P. 4
WSLA Two-Year
Outcomes/Rubrics
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1.
Allow teams to dig deeper into the work they will need
to complete prior to the end of the WSLA commitment
2. Develop a plan of action to complete that work.
10:20-10:35
Break
Remind teams to return in 15 minutes
PPT slide 11
10:35-10:55
Focus on Evidence
Tell participants the instructors will now share something
that teams should be thinking about when beginning to
develop their Theory of Action: Interim and Ultimate
evidence (for see slide 13 definitions). Be sure to
emphasize the difference between the two.
PPT slides 12-13
HP page 5
COI/POP/TO
A
PPT slides 14-15
Handout page 6
COI/POP/TO
A
Also share that data and evidence are not the same. Using
the medical example from the previous workshop: If
someone has a fever, the degree of fever is the data. A
fever is evidence of an illness – usually, but not always, an
infection.
When student test scores remain flat – the scores are
data. The evidence is the story that data tells us: We
are not meeting the learning needs of these students.
 How will we decide what should be done?
 Should we collect some different form of data and
determine what those data tell us?
 Should we try a strategy to collect data/evidence or
a new intervention?
10:55-11:45
Team Time
Teams now have almost an hour before lunch to:
 Think about their POP and what they will want in
their Theory of Action
 What interim evidence will they collect to determine
if they are doing the right things in their TOA?
When will the data be collected – analyzed – and
the plan reviewed?
 What ultimate evidence will indicate the work has
resulted in what was intended?
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11:45-12:30
Lunch
Please be ready to go by 12:30
PPT slide 16
12:30-12:45
Prep for Sharing
Please use no more than 6 to 7 minutes to review the
protocol purpose and steps. Then: allow teams 15
minutes to prepare for sharing—Who will speak? What
points does the team want to emphasize?
PPT slide 17
ALL
Purpose of using this protocol: for getting feedback from a
different district to have an opportunity for feedback from
others who have NOT been in your previous conversationsBEFORE you more too far ahead with your TOA.
Emphasize: The protocol should be followed exactly even
though there may be a tendency to want to change the
steps. When the protocol is followed, your team will
actually learn more and have more information to process
later.
12:45-2:00
Feedback Protocol
2:00-2:15
Break
2:15-3:15
Team Time –
Review the steps of the protocol on PPT slide 18.
 Assign teams (2 districts per group unless some
teams are large and need to be divided into 2
groups)
 Ensure each group has a time keeper and facilitator
 Ask participants to move through the protocol—25
minutes per group
Coaches should monitor time and keep teams to the
protocol time.
PPT slide 18
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3:20
Reflection
Homework assignment
Evaluation
PPT Slide 17
Refer participants to slide 19 for directions
Mention they may want to review the homework
assignment on page 8 before processing
Slide 20:
 Teams report out one thing they learned from the
feedback they received from another team
 Add the date of return needed to slide 21
 Be sure to distribute and collect evaluations
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PPT slides 19-20
Handout pages 6-7
LCSWSFL
POP
FOL
PPT slide 21-22
Handout page 7
Evaluation forms
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