Why Should Principals Invest in Professional Development?

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Why Should Principals Invest in Professional
Development?
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DEKROWø
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• Conversation with Principals
• Core Leadership Behavior vs.
  Outsourcing
• Research, p.1-2
• Best PracticeISLLC

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Effective Professional Development Improves
Student Learning

• NOT ALL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS EFFECTIVE

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Black Box
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Student Achievement
Professional Development
Student Achievement
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At your table, list the components that need to
be considered inside the box.
Glass Box
1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5.
_____ 6. _____ 7. _____ 8. _____ 9. _____ 10.
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Student Achievement
Professional Development
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At your table, list the components that need to
be considered inside the box.
Glass Box

• Long-term, sustained 49 hours
• Follow-up
• Classroom coaching
• Based on student learning
• needs
• 5. Curriculum, instruction,
• content knowledge, assessment
• Plan for support of
• implementation
• Collegial support and learning
• Aligned with schools curriculum,
• textbooks, assessments
• Active learning
• Collective participation

Student Achievement
Professional Development
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Conversation

• Pair with a colleague
• Discuss your reaction

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National Staff Development CouncilNSDC

• Standards for Staff Development
• Chapter 1, Page 10
• Rationales, pg 11-22

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Content- What knowledge, and skills must
educators learn to produce higher levels of
learning for all students?
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CONTEXT STANDARDS
Place a good person in a bad system, and the
system will win every time!
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PROCESS STANDARDS
TRAINING WITHOUT FOLLOW UP IS EDUCATIONAL
MALPRACTICE!
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CONTENT STANDARDS
NOT ALL CONTENT IS CREATED EQUAL!
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Conversation

• Pair with another colleague
• Discuss your reaction to what you just heard

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Skill Improvement
Integrated
Consciously Skilled
Awkward
Beginning Awareness
Growth
Implementation Dip
Practice over time
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Chapter Format

• List of Tools
• Self-Assessment Questions
• Overview of topic
• Reflection Questions
• References
• Tools and Activities

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• Redefining Professional Development
• Planning Results-Driven Professional Development
• Effective Professional Development
• Scheduling Time for Effective Professional
  Development
• The Role of the Principal and Central Office
  Staff
• Evaluation of Professional Development
• Collaborative Cultures
• Understanding the Process of Change

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Improved Student Learning
STEP 7 Implement, Sustain, Evaluate
Professional Development Intervention
STEP 1 Analyze student learning needs
Pathway to Increasing Student Achievement
STEP 2 Analyze School/District Context
STEP 6 Select Intervention and plan
Implementation Evaluation
STEP 3 Develop Student Improvement Goals
STEP 5 Review Results-Based Staff Development
Interventions
STEP 4 Identify Educator Learning Needs
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Implement Evaluate
Improved Student Learning
STEP 7 Implement, Sustain, Evaluate
Professional Development Intervention
STEP 1 Analyze student learning needs
Pathway to Increasing Student Achievement
STEP 2 Analyze School/District Context
STEP 6 Select Intervention and plan
Implementation Evaluation
Diagnose Focus
STEP 3 Develop Student Improvement Goals
STEP 5 Review Results-Based Staff Development
Interventions
STEP 4 Identify Educator Learning Needs
Plan
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ISLLC Toolkit, p. 9-10
1 Shared Vision 2 School Culture 3 Management
of Operations
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Culture is the playing field of innovation.
Unless the culture honors ideas and supports
risk-taking, innovation will be stifled before it
begins.
Culture is like our immune systemits job is to
kill intruders before they can harm the body.
Culture can change, but it is a slow process.
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• Explore
• Pick one ISLLC standard you are interested in
• Explore the materials in the toolkit related to
  that standard
• Discuss what you saw/liked with someone at your
  table

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Optional Starting Point

• Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI), p. 11
• Assesses school-based processes related to
  effective professional development
• Provide data to help you plan for more powerful
  professional development

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SAI

• 60 item perceptual survey
• Based on NSDC standards
• On-line
• Receive results averages, frequency counts,
  graphs, charts
• Training in state on how to analyze and use data

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Innovation Configuration Maps

• Innovation in operation
• Teacher, Principal, Central Office,
  Superintendent, School Board
• What are the responsibilities, expectations,
  behaviors for each group

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IC Maps

• Start with the end in mindLevel 1, on left is
  ideal, desired practiceChange is Best Understood
  in Operation
• Describes a Progression of Ideal Use to
  Non-UseChange is Developmental
• Use to provide support and assistance in the
  change processNon-Evaluative

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Practice

• Take one standard
• Read all the levels described
• Circle, star, check ? the level that best
  describes your current practice
• Pg. 268
• OR Central Office, Pg. 286

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National Commission on Teaching and Americas
Future, 1996

• Investments in teacher knowledge and skills net
  greater increases in student achievement than
  other uses of an educational dollar

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Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 2004

• Research confirms repeatedly that a significant
  factor in raising academic achievement is the
  improvement of instructional capacity in the
  classroom. A strong professional community among
  educators is a key ingredient in improving
  schools.

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Marzano, 2005

• A meta-analysis of 35 years of research indicates
  that school leadership can have a substantial
  effect on student achievement when appropriate
  leadership skills are employed.

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Leadership is second only to teaching among
school-related factors in its impact on student
learning (Leithwood, Seashore Louis, Anderson,
and Wahlstrom, 2004)
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Deborah Coffman

• Arkansas Department of Education
• Associate Director
• Professional Development

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When you go back to school
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Create Quality Professional Development by

• Sharing vision with others
• Professional development in Arkansas is
  purposeful, connected and sustained to support
  adult learning resulting in high student
  performance.

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Create Quality Professional Development by

• Exploring tools in collaboration with others in
  your building
• Toolkit for Quality Professional Development
• Innovation Configuration Maps (IC Maps)

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Create Quality Professional Development by

• Assessing your current professional development
  practices
• Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI)

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Create Quality Professional Development by

• Planning for quality professional development
• ADE, Cooperatives, Centers, ERZ, and other
  dedicated partners

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