Mission Possible: Bringing Life to the Wisconsin Personnel Development Model WPDM

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Mission Possible Bringing Life to the Wisconsin
Personnel Development Model (WPDM)

• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
• February 26-27, 2008
• Sheraton Inn, Madison, Wi.

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WPDM

• A model adapted from the Iowa Professional
  Development Model by Wisconsins Regional Service
  Network (RSN) to provide guidance when designing,
  implementing, and evaluating professional
  development opportunities, events or experiences.
• A structure for professional development that is
  focused, collaborative, and that directly
  supports a school improvement process and goals
  for student achievement.

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Food For Thought
Districts spend much more on professional
development than they think, and most of it is
neither actively managed nor explicitly linked to
a district strategy
Odden, 2005
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More Thoughtful Food

• The ultimate indicator of effective professional
  development is improved student outcomes.
  (NSDC, 2001)

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And whats with all the dinosaurs?
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So.
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Then History/Background

• The State Personnel Development Grant
  Wisconsins Personnel Development System (WPDS).
  
• Focus to improve education results for children
  with disabilities through the delivery of
  research based professional development that is
  implemented and sustained by statewide and local
  training and technical assistance systems which
  include communities and family organizations,
  institutions of higher education, CESAs, and
  early intervention agencies.

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WPDSs Three Identified Goals

• Goal 1 Increase the application of a
  scientifically based personnel development model,
  WPDM, in identified core content areas through
  both preservice and in-service for educators and
  early interventionists in targeted LEAs and
  communities
• Goal 2 Sustain implementation of new knowledge
  and skills through regional infrastructure that
  provides and supports ongoing learning utilizing
  trained mentors, communities of practice and
  other proven strategies.
• Goal 3 Increase participation of communities,
  families and youth in the system change process
  that results in organizations with the capacity
  to engage, support, and transition children with
  disabilities birth-26.

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These structures are in place to meet the goals
of the WPDS

• 5 Hubs-
• Early Childhood Collaboration
• Responsive Education for All Children or REACh
• Transition to Post-secondary
• Parent Leadership and Involvement
• Institutes of Higher Education
• WPDS will utilize the 5 hubs to deliver, support
  and provide impact data on targeted professional
  development opportunities at a regional,
  community or district level.

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More Food for Thought

• Districts spend a lot of to buy teacher time
  for pd, however there is little accountability
  for the use of or impact on student achievement.
• In most districts a few departments control the
  majority of the district-level spending on pd
  with efforts usually not coordinated and
  inconsistent.
• With heavy reliance on federal, special program
  and private funds, pd in most districts lack long
  range planning.

Odden, 2005
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We Begin.How Do We Bring Life and Meaning to
the WPDM?
And prevent extinction?