SER PRISM Highlights

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• SER PRISM Highlights
• Look what youve done so far!
• September 15, 2006

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Impact of Regional Professional Development

• Professional Development (PD)
• 74 customized collaboratively designed PD
  programs in two years!
• Total amount of grants 377,363.06
• Last year over 1200 teachers participated in
  these PRISM PD programs
• This translates to over 24,000 students per year!
• 43 AASU/CGCC faculty were involved in these PD
  programs
• 39 PRISM schools have been awarded at least one
  PD grant. Many schools have been obtained 2 or
  more!

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Impact of Regional Professional Development

• LT Surveys indicate since 2003 there has been a
  significant increase in
• Voluntary participation in PD
• Quality of content based SM PD
• Number of teachers applying learning to the
  classroom
• Use of data evidence to create PD
• Use of data to assess the impact of PD

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Impact of Regional Learning Communities

• P-16 Learning communities
• 117 LCs last year!
• Nearly 1500 teachers participating in LCs
• LC Rubric Assessment Results over 50 of LCs at
  top levels
• Community Diversity
• Shared Vision
• Results Oriented Work
• Collaborative Inquiry
• 9 LCs obtained PRISM classroom research grants

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Impact of Regional Learning Communities

• Top 5 topics of study of our school LCs
• 1 Student Achievement
• 2 GA Performance Standards
• 3 Specific SM Skills
• 4 SM Lessons Inquiry-based Activities
• 5 SM Professional Development Projects

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Outdoor Math Lab at White Bluff ES
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Biology Days at AASU
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Ossabaw Planning
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Coastal Environment Field Course

• The course broadened my knowledge boundaries and
  has prepared us well for leading our own
  classes.
• More education professors should team up
  w/field experts to provide meaningful
  instruction.