High Quality Professional Development

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High Quality Professional Development

• How it fits with the overall school/district
  improvement plan.

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Improvement Plans Elements

• District Plan
• Incorporate strategies based on scientifically
  based research to strengthen core academic
  subjects element 1
• Ensure all students are proficient in core
  academic subjects by 2013-14 - element 2
• Increases teacher principal participation in
  high quality professional development (10 of
  Title I) element 3
• Establishes annual measurable objectives for
  continuous and substantial progress to achieve
  proficiency - element 4
• Address the teaching and learning needs in the
  district
• element 5

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Improvement Plan Elements

• School Plan
• Directly addresses the reason for identification
  element 1
• Ensure all students are proficient in core
  academic subjects by 2013-2014 element 2
• Ensure the professional development needs of
  instructional staff are met by providing
  opportunities to participate in high quality
  professional development element 3
• Professional development set aside (10 of Title
  I) will improve the school status element 4
• Establish annual measurable objectives for
  continuous and substantial progress to achieve
  proficiency element 5

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1 Analyze Student Performance Data Identify
Student Learning Needs
2 Identify Target(s) for Educator Learning and
Development
5 Provide Ongoing Support for Learning and
Implementation of New Knowledge, Skills, and
Processes
Improving Student Achievement Through Staff
Development
3 Identify Results-Based Staff Development
Interventions Aligned with Target Areas
4 Design and Implement Staff Development
Intervention(s) and Evaluation
Backmapping Model from Assessing Impact
Evaluating Staff Development, Killion, 2002
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• Includes activities that
• Give teachers, principals, and administrators the
  knowledge and skills to provide students with
  the opportunity to meet State academic content
  standards and student academic achievement
  standards
• Are high quality, sustained, intensive, and
  classroom-focused to have a positive and lasting
  impact on classroom instruction. They are not
  1-day or short-term workshops or conferences

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• Includes activities that
• Advance teacher understanding of effective
  instructional strategies that are
• Based on scientifically based research and
• Strategies for improving student academic
  achievement or substantially increasing the
  knowledge and teaching skills of teachers
• Increase teacher effectiveness and improve
  student academic achievement
• Include instruction in the use of data and
  assessments to inform and instruct classroom
  practice.

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• Effective Staff Development activities may
  include
• Curriculum development
• Curriculum training programs
• Team training
• Professional Learning Communities
• Coaching/modeling lessons
• Classrooms observations of lessons
• Viewing video clips of a lesson around a strategy
• Examining student work or looking at data
• Effective Staff Development does not provide time
  for
• Field trip
• independent tasks
• -report cards
• -calculating grades
• -organizing classroom materials

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Professional Development

• Maximize all PD resources
• State 2 set aside
• Q Comp
• Federal programs
• Title IA regular Title I funds and school
  improvement set asides
• Title IIA, III, VI PD resources
• Other

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Staff Development Plan

• Minn. Stat. 122A.60 Subd. 1a.
• (a) Staff development activities must meet the
  following criteria (see handout)
• classroom and research-based strategies
• teacher practice improve instructional skills
• teacher opportunities to use student data
• teacher content knowledge and instructional
  skills
• align with Academic Standards
• build professional relationships/ collaboration/
  mentoring
• align with district alternative pay system

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Educational Improvement Plan

• Minn. Stat. 122A.413 Subd.2.
• (5) A rigorous professional development system,,
  consistent with section 122A.60, that is aligned
  with educational improvement, designed to achieve
  teaching quality improvement, and consistent with
  clearly defined research-based standards

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• Presented by Shannon McParland
• MDE, School Improvement Division
• Professional Development Specialist
• T 651-582-8318
• F 651-582-8517
• email shannon.mcparland_at_state.mn.us