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

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

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