Consultation and Collaboration Between Private and Public Entities

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Consultation and Collaboration Between Private
and Public Entities

• Title II, Part A
• New Coordinator Orientation
• September 2009

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Consultation and Collaboration in Planning
Professional Development

• Essential to ensuring high-quality, sustained,
  intensive, classroom-focused professional
  development activities for private school
  teachers

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Consultation and Collaboration in Planning
Professional Development

• Private schools must participate in the design,
  development, and implementation of the
  professional learning plan in which they will
  participate
• Participate in the development of the LEA
  professional learning plan
• Plan in consultation with the LEA for their own
  professional learning

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Consultation and Collaboration in Planning
Professional Development

• If the needs of private school teachers are
  different from those of public school teachers,
  a separate professional learning plan for private
  schools should be developed

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Professional Learning Plan

• Needs assessment resulting in prioritized needs
• Plan describing activities designed to meet the
  prioritized needs and how the effectiveness of
  the activities will be measured
• Documentation of scientific research base for
  each activity
• Budget

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Needs Assessment

• Determining the needs of children and teachers
  related to activities appropriate under Title
  II-A eligible activities
• Needs of children
• Achievement in core academic content areas

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Needs Assessment

• Needs of teachers
• Knowledge in core academic content areas
• Knowledge in and use of effective instructional
  strategies
• Effective integration of technology into
  curricula and instruction
• Ability to differentiate instruction to meet the
  diverse needs of students
• Ability to improve student behavior, identify and
  implement early interventions
• Use of data and assessments to improve
  instruction and student outcomes

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Needs Assessment

• How might needs be determined?
• Review data
• Student achievement
• Teacher performance
• Teacher professional development/college records
• School improvement plans
• Survey teachers, administrators, parents

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Needs Assessment

• Prioritizing needs
• Which are most important in meeting student
  achievement goals?
• Which are most important in meeting school
  improvement goals?
• Are services attainable to address needs within
  the fiscal year?

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Plan for Services

• Description of activities designed to meet
  prioritized need(s) including when and how and by
  whom activities will be provided
• Professional learning activities being provided
  for public school teachers
• Professional learning activities by contracted
  services with third-party provider
• University level coursework
• Professional conferences that are part of a
  sustained and comprehensive professional
  development plan

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Plan for Services

• Description of how the effectiveness of the
  activities in addressing the prioritized need(s)
  will be measured
• What data will be reviewed? Examples student
  performance, discipline referral, teacher
  performance
• When?
• By whom?

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Documentation of Scientific Research Base for the
Activities Planned

• Literature describing the scientific based
  research or
• Literature providing evidence of program success

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Budget

• Estimated cost for each activity planned
• Detailed by separate expenditures such as
• Contracted services consultant to provide
  training
• Registration fees for courses or conferences
• Travel to training site

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Professional Learning Plan

• Needs assessment resulting in prioritized needs
• Plan describing activities designed to meet the
  prioritized needs and how the effectiveness of
  the activities will be measured
• Documentation of scientific research base for the
  activities
• Budget

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What new understandings about private school
participation in the Title II-A program do you
have as a result of today? How will the new
understandings change the way you work with the
LEA/private school? What issues or questions do
you still need resolved? How has teacher quality
in your school increased as a result of
participation in the Title II-A program? What are
the barriers that might prevent private school
participation?