A YEAR OFPROFESSIONAL LEARNING

December 2013 – February 2014

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Leadership Development and Teaching and LearningLeading Through an Appreciative Lens

# QUALITY INDICATOR FOCUS 1 Broad and Challenging Curriculum

Leading the shifts toward Common Core expectations, practices, and instruction.

2 Quality Leadership

A study and self-assessment of essential leadership practices.

3 Quality Teaching

Leading through an appreciative lens to provide relevant, needs based professional learning and support.

4 Professional Learning

Developing collaborative, high functioning, teacher led Professional Learning Communities and systemic opportunities for professional learning.

5 Closing the Achievement Gap

Developing effective and efficient systems for monitoring and improving student achievement.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL

Destination:Schools hold professional learning among their top priorities for the school community. They recognize that universal high expectations for all students require ambitious and continual improvements in curriculum, instruction, assessment, leadership practices and support systems. These improvements require effective professional learning to expand educators’ knowledge, skills, practices and dispositions. Schools demand effective professional learning focused on substantive results for themselves, their colleagues, and their students. Schools artfully combine deep understanding and cultural responsiveness to the communities they serve. Schools hold high expectations with support for adult learning by providing multiple structures for professional development in order to achieve school goals.  They embed professional learning into the organization’s vision by communicating that it is a core function for improvement and by establishing and maintaining a public and persistent focus on educator professional learning.

Instruction

al CabinetWeekly, Half

Day Learning &

Planning

Study Strong Models

Visit School Districts and Schools Demonstrating High

Levels of Implementation

Calibration WalkthroughsMonthly Instructional Cabinet Walkthroughs at School Sites

Walkthrough With ColleaguesMonthly Walkthroughs with Content Experts and

Leadership Development - provide coaching feedback and support

Walkthroughs With Superintendent and Chief of StaffMonthly, Observe and Coach Area Superintendents

Area Superintendent Learning

Instructional CabinetLearning, Planning and Calibration focused on: Quality Indicators, Leadership Practices, Improving Instruction, Walkthroughs and Common Core Implementation

Study Strong ModelsHealth Science High: 9/30, 1/22Chula Vista: 12/6

Calibration WalkthroughsLa Jolla Elementary: 9/4Health Science High: 9/30Perkins Elementary: 11/4Marshall Elementary: 1/30Leadership Practices/Walkthroughs

Walkthroughs With ColleaguesWalkthrough Study: Rosa Parks 12/11

Walkthroughs Superintendent/Chief of StaffDecember – February Site Visits:La Jolla High, Marshall Middle, San Diego High-Science and Tech., Mann Middle, Scripps Ranch, Morse, Millennial Tech, Roosevelt, Mission Bay

What We Have AccomplishedDecember 2013 – February 2014

AREA SUPERINTENDENT LEARNING

Instructional Cabinet

Calibration Walkthroughs

Learning From Other Districts

Principa

l Institute

Full Day, USD K-12Principal Institute

Half-Day at School Sites,

Grade Level

Principal Coaching Groups/ Small Group Learning

Small Group, Facilitated at School Sites,Grade Level

Principal Triad StudyPractice Walkthroughs at School Sites, Grade Level

Areas Superintendent/Principal Walkthrough

Principals Walkthrough With Area Superintendent

Principal LearningPrincipal Institutes 8/15, 10/9/, 12/9, 2/3Quality Indicators, Leadership Practices, Improving Instruction, Walkthroughs - the appreciative lens, Close Reading, and Common Core Implementation

Half-Day Principal InstitutesElementary: 9/24, 10/16, 11/7, 12/17, 1/24 Middle: 9/27, 10/2, 11/19, 1/23High: 10/2, 11/21, 1/21, 2/11Leadership Practices/Walkthroughs

Cycles 1 and 2: Walkthrough (10/1-2/1)Facilitated walkthrough of two schools following a ½ Day Conf. modelPLC PD 1/13, 1/23Leading PD 2/10,

Cycle 1 Triad Meeting (10/16-12/17)Triads walkthrough one school following a protocol modeled at ½ Day InstituteCycle 2 Triad Meeting Elem. 12/17-2/25Triads walkthrough one school with a focus on professional learning

Principal WalkthroughsPrincipals’ Walkthrough School DailyArea Sups Walkthrough Schools Daily

What We Have AccomplishedDecember 2013 – February 2014

PRINCIPAL LEARNING

Half-Day Principal Conferences at Schools New Principal Conference

Full-Day Principal Conferences at USD

Instructional

Learning Team

Whole School Professional Learning

Professional Learning CommunitiesGrade Levels and departments

Lesson Study/Cross VisitationsCycles of Learning

Principal Classroom VisitationObserve and support teachers

School BasedLearning

Professional Learning Community (PLC)

Developed a PLC framework to provide job embedded teacher collaboration focused on instructional improvement and student learning.

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Organizational Leadership

Highlights New Principal Budget Planning Master Schedule Planning Leading Professional Learning Communities Designing Professional Learning Opportunities to

Strengthen Teacher Practice