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Title: MSTA Grant PLC Leaders Training Session 1


1
MSTA Grant PLC Leaders TrainingSession 1
  • Julie Frame-Hansen
  • Linda Harvieux

2
Fortune Cookie Warm-Up
  • How does your fortune relate to your experience
    working in a team?
  • Professional learning community
  • Grade-level or content-area team
  • Leadership team

3
Agenda
  • Introductions and structure
  • MSTA
  • Evolution of the Professional Learning
    Community
  • Technical vs Cultural Change
  • First and Second Order Change
  • The Role of the PLC Leader and The Four PLC
    Questions
  • Structure of the PLC
  • Agendas
  • Learning Logs
  • Weekly plan

4
Scheduling
  • How will your team schedule your 4 1 hour
    meetings?
  • Ideas, suggestions, support from leadership

5
Professional Learning Communities
  • PLCs operate under the assumption that the key
    to improved learning for students is continuous,
    job-embedded learning for educators.
  • DuFour, et. al, 2006

6
Whats Different About a PLC?
  • Read, Evolution of the Professional Learning
    Community.
  • In small groups list differences between a PLC
    and a traditional team meeting.
  • List on chart tablets

7
Six Characteristics
  • Shared Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals
  • Collective Inquiry
  • Collaborative Culture
  • Action Orientation and Experimentation
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Focus on Results

8
The Four Questions
  • What is it we expect the students to learn?
  • How will we know when they have learned it?
  • How will we respond when they dont learn?
  • How will we respond when they already know it?

9
Technical Change (First Order)
  • Developing Team
  • Full participation
  • Rotating jobs
  • Collecting and sharing data

10
Cultural Change (Second Order)
  • The Believers
  • The Tweeners
  • The Survivors
  • The Fundamentalists

11
Group Process Facilitator
  • One who contributes structure and process to
    interactions so groups are able to function
    effectively. A helper and enabler whose goal is
    to support others as they achieve exceptional
    performance.
  • Group Process Facilitation
  • A way of providing leadership without taking the
    reins. A facilitators job is to get others to
    assume responsibility, to take the lead, and
    engage in meaningful collaboration.
  • -Facilitation At A Glance

12
Group Process Facilitators
  • Do not have all the answers, are not content
    experts
  • Stay neutral, if you must move out of facilitator
    role and into role as participating member of
    group identify that move.
  • Are responsible for room set up that supports
    effective teams
  • Listen demonstrate that you are by using verbal
    and non verbal cues.
  • Paraphrase or clarify for the benefit of all
    members of the group.
  • Watch the time (or appoint a timekeeper)
  • Play ping pong redirect questions by sending
    to others rather than answering yourself
  • Use humor appropriate humor!
  • Call and identify sidetracks
  • Encourage all group members to acknowledge
    dysfunctional behaviors as they occur!
  • Park it sheets record all sidetrack items
  • Use the imaginary spell check button spell
    creatively
  • Facilitators At A Glance

13
Moving teams toward success
  • The teaming goes round and round!
  • Forming
  • Performing Storming
  • Norming

14
A team is people doing something together.
  • The something that a team does isnt what makes
    it a team. . .
  • the together part is.

15
Processes for Groups
  • Everyone participate Round Robin, Go Round
  • Set the stage
  • Focus Attention How do you feel about being
    here today?
  • Check in Something positive that happened in
    your professional life since the last meeting?
  • Check the group to see where its at Round
    Robin, Go Round
  • Check for agreement Thumbs Up, Fist to Five
  • Get unstuck
  • Look for commonalities, agreement
  • Identify polar points What would it take for
    this to work for you?
  • Take a break get up and stretch
  • Move on and come back to issue
  • Check to see if it can hold until the next
    meeting. Perhaps the group needs more
    information.

16
Mediation/Conflict Resolution
  • Issue/Problem
  • Alternatives
  • Decide
  • Act

17
  • What the first meeting might look like
  • Clarify purpose of meeting
  • Clarify your role
  • Clarify roles of others
  • Are there specific tasks that need to be covered,
    i.e. recorder?
  • Check-in, warm up
  • Walk through meeting process
  • As a group identify norms and procedures or
    ground rules
  • Discussion of the four critical questions or best
    practice, what works!
  • Round up items not discussed including parking
    lot ideas
  • Expected activities prior to next meeting (future
    agendas)
  • Allow members to express how they felt about the
    session
  • (on a scale of 1 5, how do you feel the meeting
    went and why
  • or at the beginning of meeting ask group members
    to pick a norm to work on today. At end of
    meeting ask them to identify the norm and rate
    how they did.

18
Developing Norms
  • What are norms and why are they important?
  • Who should set the norms?
  • How should we enforce our norms?

19
Norms
  • Non-Negotiables
  • Define essential learnings and use common
    assessments
  • Everyone participates and works toward the common
    goal achievement for all students
  • Teams make individual norms and honor their team
    norms
  • -adapted from DuFour, et. al.

20
Agenda Week 1, PLC development
  • Date
    Time
  • Team norms
  • Materials needed
  • Copies of Professional Learning Communities
    Sessions weekly plan, copies of baseline
    assessment and rubric. Calendar, equal sign
    article, msta notebook
  • Tasks and topics to be covered
  • Check in, Share goal of MSTA, Norms, Structure of
    the meeting, times for meetings, assign roles,
    future tasks
  • For next meeting give baseline assessments,
    tally data and bring to the meeting, read the
    equal sign article

21
What is it we expect the students to learn?
Math Success
Its In Our Hands
22
Agenda Week 1, part 2
  • Date
    Time
  • Team norms
  • Materials needed baseline data, article,
  • Tasks and topics to be covered
  • Share results of the baseline assessment, compare
    student strategies, discuss strategies for
    teaching the equal sign including informal
    assessment strategies for gathering student to
    student data
  • Report baseline data (plc leader)
  • For next meeting
  • Teach equal sign and gather samples of student
    work (informal assessment)

23
What is it we expect the students to learn?
How will we know when they have learned it?
Math Success
Its In Our Hands
24
Agenda Week 2
  • Date
    Time
  • Team norms
  • Materials needed sample student work,
    observations, msta notebook/binder, copy of
    interview
  • Tasks and topics to be covered
  • Reflect on strategies how they worked, share
    results of informal assessments, give examples of
    students thinking,
  • Discuss the interview, steps, the rubric,
    questioning strategies
  • For next meeting conduct interview and collect
    data, continue to teach strategies

25
Agenda Week 3
  • Date
    Time
  • Team norms
  • Materials needed
  • Student interview data, interview results, msta
    binder
  • Tasks and topics to be covered
  • Discuss interview results, effectiveness of
    questioning strategies, continue to teach
    strategies
  • For next meeting
  • Give summative assessment and collate results

26
What is it we expect the students to learn?
How will we know when they have learned it?
Math Success
Its In Our Hands
How will we respond when they don't learn?
27
Agenda Week 4
  • Date
    Time
  • Team norms
  • Materials needed
  • Summative assessment data and rubric, msta
    binder,
  • Tasks and topics to be covered
  • Share results, intervention strategies, discuss
    misconceptions and successes, who was successful
    and why, how will results influence future
    teaching
  • For next meeting
  • Bring all assessments to next math training
  • PLC report all summative assessment data
  • Complete next baseline assessment for pattern
    generalization and bring collated data to next
    PLC

28
What is it we expect the students to learn?
How will we know when they have learned it?
Math Success
Its In Our Hands
How will we respond when they don't learn?
How will we respond when they already know it?
29
  • Example is not the main thing in influencing
    others, its the only thing.
  • Albert Schweitzer

30
Contact Information
  • Julie Frame-Hansen
  • julie.frame-hansen_at_metroecsu.org
  • 612-638-1508
  • Linda Harvieux
  • linda.harvieux_at_metroecsu.org
  • 612-638-1548
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