1. NSDC Purpose: Every educator engages in
effective professional learning
every day so every
student achieves.
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2. Professional Learning
Effective
Professional Learning
Results-driven
Standards-based
Job-embedded
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3. Results-Driven What are students expected to know and be able to do?
What must educators know
and be able to do to ensure student success?
What professional development must be
offered to enable educators to develop the
knowledge and skills needed to produce
the results they want for students?
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4. Standards-Based Content-what knowledge
and skills must educators learn to produce higher levels of learning for all students?
CONTEXT/CULTURE
LEARNING PROCESS
Process-how is learning
structured to support adult
acquisition of new knowledge
and skills?
CONTENT
Context- how is the
organization structured
to support adult learning?
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5. Content Standards 10. Equity 11. Quality Teaching
12. Family Involvement
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6. Content Standards Not all content is created equal.
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7. Process Standards 4. Data-Driven 5. Evaluation 6. Research-Based
7. Design
Learning
Collaboration
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8. Process Standards Training without follow up is malpractice.
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9. Context Standards 1. Learning Communities 2. Leadership 3. Resources
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10. Context Standards Place a good person in a bad system and the system
will win
every time.
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11. Learning Teams Accept responsibility. Examine data.
Clarify learning needs.
Establish adult learning priorities.
Establish learning agenda.
Access appropriate external assistance.
Design powerful lessons and assessments.
Reflect on the results and recycle.
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12. Job-Embedded Learning
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Job-Embedded Learning
At school everyone’s job is to learn.
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