Where we have been and where we are going...
District-wide Professional Learning Focus Areas
Site-Led PDD District-Aligned Priorities
Lead with Vision
- Culture & Climate Building
- SPSA Goals
- High Impact Instructional Leadership
Empower Instructional Excellence
- MTSS
- Curriculum Frameworks /Standards
- Data Analysis with Equity Lens
- PLC/TLC
- High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS)
- Visible Thinking Routines
- Collaborative Structures
- Integration of Educational Technology
Advance Equitable & Inclusive Practices
- MTSS
- Behavioral
- Mental Health
- SEL
- C.A.R.E.S./Identity and Community
- PBIS
- Classroom Environments
- SEL/Tier 1/Tier 2
- Student Groups
- English Learners
- African American
- Foster Youth
- Socioeconomically Disadvantaged
- Homeless
- Students with Disabilities
Drive Systems for Success
- MTSS
- Intervention
- SSTs
- 504s
- IEPs
Site Agenda Submission
- Clear Outcomes & Essential Questions
- Aligned to District Priorities
- Models Strategic Storytelling
- Provokes reflective thinking
- Evidence there will be follow-through
- Evidence of implementation
- Teacher leaders as presenters
- Actions/Outcomes are principally directed to our focus Student Groups
- Closure/Reflection/Debrief
- End of Session Survey
- Submit site Agenda 4 weeks prior to PDD for feedback cycle
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAYS AT-A-GLANCE
ELEMENTARY
Site-Led
Full Day
- Select focus areas from the district-aligned priorities listed above to ensure coherence and impact
September 11
District-Led
Half Day
- WFTB & B
Site-Led
Half Day
- Select focus areas from the district-aligned priorities listed above to ensure coherence and impact
August 7
District-Led
Half Day
- WFTB & B
Site-Led
Half Day
- Select focus areas from the district-aligned priorities listed above to ensure coherence and impact
November 4
District-Led
Half Day
- Math
Site-Led
Half Day
- Select focus areas from the district-aligned priorities listed above to ensure coherence and impact
August 8
District-Led
Half Day
- Science
Site-Led
Half Day
- Select focus areas from the district-aligned priorities listed above to ensure coherence and impact
January 22
District-Led
Half Day
- WFTB & B
Site-Led
Half Day
- Select focus areas from the district-aligned priorities listed above to ensure coherence and impact
August 11
Site-Led
Full Day (Teacher Work Day)
- Mandated Trainings (Per HR)
- Workplace Violence Prevention Plan
- Safety Plan (Inclusive of Wildfires)
- Great Shakeout
- Employee Handbook
- Workplace Violence Prevention Video
- Active Shooter Video
- Safe and Supportive Schools SB85
June 1
Site-Led
Full Day (Teacher Work Day)
- Mandated Trainings (Per HR)
- IEPs
- Check out List
SECONDARY
August 6
Site-Led
Full Day
- Select focus areas from the district-aligned priorities listed above to ensure coherence and impact
September 11
District-Led
Full Day
- Content Specific
August 7
District-Led
Full Day
- Content Specific
- World Languages-Adoptions
- MS iReady Math
- HS ALEKS Math
November 4
Site-Led
Full Day
- Select focus areas from the district-aligned priorities listed above to ensure coherence and impact
August 8
Site-Led
Full Day
- Select focus areas from the district-aligned priorities listed above to ensure coherence and impact
January 22
Site-Led
Full Day
- Select focus areas from the district-aligned priorities listed above to ensure coherence and impact
August 11
Site-Led
Full Day (Teacher Work Day)
- Mandated Trainings (Per HR)
- Workplace Violence Prevention Plan
- Safety Plan (Inclusive of Wildfires)
- Great Shakeout
- Employee Handbook
- Workplace Violence Prevention Video
- Active Shooter Video
- Safe and Supportive Schools SB85
June 1
Site-Led
Full Day (Teacher Work Day)
- Mandated Trainings (Per HR)
- IEPs
- Check out List