1. Collaboration Grants Design 101 Salem November 21 st, 2013

2. Objectives What is this work all about? Understand Purpose of the Collaboration Grant Understand the Four Components of the Grant How do we get it done? Understand Design Process and Team’s Charge Understand Design Year Deliverables and Outcomes

3. Empowering Educators to Lead Collaboration Grants provide educators the opportunity to collaborate on plans for teacher professional growth and success tailored to local needs. Teachers create for themselves what every professional deserves: a clear career path, opportunities for feedback, relevant and individualized training, and recognition for leadership and results.

4. The Components

5. Meaningful Performance Evaluation A professional growth tool that relies on clear standards and advances the quality of teaching and learning. Gains in professional and student growth are measured in multiple ways.

6. Targeted and Relevant Professional Development Educators are given the resources and support they need to improve their teaching practices and stay at the leading edge of their craft.

7. New Career Paths Create significant leadership roles that support educator growth and better outcomes for students such as mentoring and instructional coaching.

8. Expanded Compensation Models Traditional salary schedules are revised to reflect how districts value new leadership roles, responsibilities and educator and student growth.

9. Career PathwaysCompensation Evaluation Professional Development Improving Outcomes for Students and Educators Another View

10. FOCUS ON HEALTHY PROCESS BEFORE CONTENT = SUSTAINABILITY OF THE WORK Shift in Beliefs > Shift in Understanding > Shift in Practice

11. Design Team Representative of all stakeholders – Levels – Generations – Roles Able to think beyond self Willing to put in the time Majority of members are teachers

12. Design Team’s Charge Set Operating Agreements – What are our group norms? – How will we reach consensus? – What do we believe about…. Student Learning and Growth Effective Educators Collaboration Compensation Retaining Highly Effective Educators

13. Design Team’s Charge Clarify Purpose and Develop a Common Knowledge Base – What will success in our district look like at the end of the Design Phase? – What does the research say about the four components? – How can we build expertise around the four components on our team to design a new way of operating in our district? Subcommittee work Shared Leadership

14. Design Team’s Charge Building Blueprints – After identifying our guiding principles and researching the components, what are our greatest hopes and dreams? – What are our priorities for how to use additional funds? – How will implementation roll out? – What is our timeline? – Who will do the work? – How will it be communicated?