No Teacher Left Behind Creating Professional Development for Transfer to Classroom Practice Defining and Evaluating

Base Group Wordle Review the data from the learning data powerpoint for your school – what conclusions might you make for learning in class? Create a six word Wordle with the six most important words defining transfer and QFIC (you can not use the words quality, fidelity, intensity, and consistency). Share your work! Minimize so you can make changes

School Group Time Complete the evaluation of your PD and identify gaps Complete the planning for improvement sheet

Force Field Activity With your school team, examine the description of high quality transfer and identify the barriers and drivers for/against achieving high quality transfer Organize your barriers and drivers into categories and select your top 2 barriers and top two drivers Discuss and be ready to share ideas for bridging your barriers and maximizing your drivers

Alignment, Improvement and Integration A School Improvement Plan is your Professional Development Plan For this plan to create change/improvement, it MUST be aligned, aimed at real improvement in results, and integrated into EVERY part of the school system Criteria for Excellence in improvement include: leadership, planning, customer focus, measurement management, process, management, and results Improvement work for learning requires visionary leadership, future focused, and management for innovation It is important to keep a systems perspective in order to make improvements that systemic and systematic.

Aligned Common understanding of purpose and goals Establishes consistency of plans, processes, information, resources, actions, and results Outcomes and Processes are aligned Root cause of need aligned with strategies and measures Objectives, Tasks, and Measures of Transfer need to all align PD should be aligned to highly effective teaching

Improvement The focus is about improvement of the processes used to get the results There needs to be innovation and a focus on the future Improvement is not validation; it is change Requires the adoption of a systematic approach to continuous improvement and action planning

Integrated The degree and level of interdependency that exists between the criteria for excellence and the best practices: Criteria for Excellence Leadership Planning Customer focus Measurement management Workforce Focus Process management Results Best Practices Visionary Leadership Learning Centered Organizational and Personal Learning Value of workforce Agility Focus on Future Managing for innovation Management by fact Societal responsibility Focus on results Systems Perspective

QFIC Take time to review your expectations measures for quality, fidelity, intensity, and consistency What needs to be developed or refined Can your staff meet your expectations – why or why not?

Closure Reflect on your personal goal and create three action steps you can do this semester – Share your action steps with your base group Changes, Additions, and Deletions to Wordle – Gallery Walk Thinking Share