Pratt USD 382 Handout

Professional Learning for Principals:
Assessment and Accreditation
Pratt USD # 382!
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Kirsten Blankenship, Asst. Principal!
Southwest Elementary School
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About Our School
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K-4 Approximately 430 students!
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4 Classrooms Per Grade, 5 Classrooms in 1st Grade!
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20 students per class average!
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Music / PE Daily!
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Progressive Technology (5 iPad carts, 5 laptop carts, Smartboards, document cameras)!
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MTSS Math and Reading!
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62% free/reduced lunch!
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10% ELL!
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23% IEP (Resource, Speech, GATE)!
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Grade Level Collaboration
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Mondays & Thursdays for 20 minutes
each!
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During Recess!
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Teachers meet in one of the grade level
classrooms. When necessary they meet
in library or conference room.
Recess and bathroom/drink break is
covered by Title I paras and building aide.
No MTSS tier groups during this time.!
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Why Collaborate?
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Sharing Ideas!
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Team Building / Unity!
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Accountability!
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Student Interventions!
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Pacing!
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More Rigorous Instruction!
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Planning!
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Administrator / Teacher Communication!
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Built-in Mentor Time!
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Discussion of New Curriculum
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Key Factors of Collaboration Success
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Topics are mostly teacher led. !
Administrator Attendance!
Teacher feedback on Google doc!
Accountability!
Time is scheduled and anticipated
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Recess Google Doc
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Superfrog Assemblies/ Professional Development
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Occur once per month for approximately an hour!
Part of the building-wide discipline program!
Games, prizes, character development, songs and slide show!
Ineligible students attend character part then report to library!
Professional development during the assembly
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Superfrog Assembly
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Superfrog Professional Development
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Whole staff professional development!
Topics that support rigor and relevance in the classroom !
Teachers sharing with teachers!
Grade levels presenting to other grade levels!
Teachers as “experts” sharing learning from conferences!
District administration may attend to address the whole staff
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Teacher Leaders
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One teacher per grade level/ department (K-12)!
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Teacher leaders meet with the Curriculum Director to plan district
professional development days.!
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Agendas typically include 1/2 day of district time to support district
wide goals, and 1/2 day of building time to focus on professional
development specific for the needs of a school.
Training began in the summer with Bobby Ashley to support rigor
and relevance in the classrooms.!
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District Goals
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Rigor, Relevance, Relationships, Responsive Culture, Results!
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“Buy in” by staff because professional development is created
through shared leadership and vision.
“Bumping up lessons” for a Quadrant D experience !
Instructional strategies that support the use of technology and
engage students.!
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Southwest Focus
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2013-2014 Grade level writing plan (Incorporate narrative,
persuasive, opinion, and expository writing projects)!
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2014-2015 Grade levels create “Quadrant D” activities to go with
each “Topic” in the new math series, “Envision, Pearson.”!
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2014-2015 Technology as a tool to create learning opportunities
that are rigorous and relevant to their lives today. Projects should
be engaging and of interest to students.!
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Academic rigor what is it?
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Collaboration!
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Challenging learning experience!
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Higher-order thinking!
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Real-world application!
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Variety of strategies and resources!
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Project-based learning
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Bloom’s Taxonomy
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Teachers Observing Teachers
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Beginning January of 2015!
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Focus was selected by the observing teacher.!
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Organized by the co-building improvement team.
All teachers will observe for 30 minutes in another teacher’s
classroom.!
Administration covers classrooms and does a character education
lesson with students.!
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Teachers Observing Teachers
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Each teacher in the building has a slide and all
teachers have access to add comments to the
board.
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