Hastings Public Schools 2012-2013 PLC Staff Development Planning & Reporting Guide

Enter your connected building goal here. District Goals Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA) Mathematics, Reading and Science NWEA MAP Measures of Academic Progress Reading, Mathematics and Language Usage DIBELS NEXT: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Kindergarten and Grade 1 Differentiation State, National and Local Standards Standard Based IEP Individual Educational Plan Common Assessments Common Curriculum Building Goals Enter your connected building goal here. PLC Goal Enter your Professional Learning Community goal(s) here.

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA) Hastings schools will perform in the top 25% of regional schools as measured by the average score on the MCA tests (2010-2015). Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA) Hastings Schools will strive to have all students ready for instruction at the 50th percentile or above on the NWEA MAP tests. Setting a successful baseline for academic growth. NWEA MAP Measures of Academic Progress Hastings Schools will monitor progress on reading growth through DIBELS in Kindergarten and Grade 1 benchmark (reaching 95% for all levels in 2014). DIBELS NEXT: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Hastings Schools will incorporate and plan for differentiated instruction to meet the needs of student learning using multiple types of data, multiple instructional strategies and active collaborative planning. Differentiation Curriculum and Instruction will be based on state, national and local standards connecting the expected learning to the standards. Collaborative back mapping and curriculum mapping will become common practice for instructional planning and setting the goals of learning in Hastings. State, National and Local Standards Curriculum and Instruction will be based on state, national and local standards connecting the expected learning goals to the standards. Standard Based IEP Individual Educational Plan Learning will be assessed by common assessments in Hastings to include all forms of assessment and multiple assessment practices linked to the scope and sequence of learning and the local, state and national standards. The common assessments will be used to measure learning and inform instructional practices. Common Assessments Active collaborative curriculum planning will link the current technologies, instructional practices, evaluation of learning and assessment to the sequential learning in the classroom and across grade levels or courses to create a dynamic curriculum meeting the needs of learning for every student in Hastings. Common Curriculum

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Writing your PLC goal(s): Writing the goal(s) for your PLC seems to be an area that both defines your work, but also seems to cause the most frustration for teams. Your goals should represent the work of the PLC/Department/Grade Level/Building and District. Your PLC goals should represent both student learning and the impact on instructional professional practice. Your goals should be an honest representation of the work you intend to complete, study, and refine as you go through the academic year. The goals should be a part of a bigger picture as a continuous improvement process – think about the connection and draw out the bigger connection over two to three years. Examples: You may need to complete a study of your standards and complete a KUDO’s document before you can work on refining the measures you use to assess students. You may have your standards defined but find there are students not performing as expected on MCA, NWEA or Common Assessments in the classroom. You may need to study the data to see where students are not meeting the standards and create checkpoint assessments in your curriculum to measure more frequently specific areas of learning. You may have your standards and assessments in a solid place and may return to refining curriculum and lessons to deepen the learning experiences for students and look for high performance via the rigor and depth of lessons. You may be working to refine the quality of a unit or lessons to meet the academic needs of students, refining your curriculum mapping of units or specific lessons.

Specific: What specifically will I achieve? . Measurable: How will I measure it? . Achievable: Steps to Achieving the goal(s). Relevant: Is it relevant to my larger goals? . Time-framed: By what dates will I achieve it? Goal(s) Examples: We will work with students to promote a more successful outcome on Science MCA Summative Assessments, increasing the number of students at the proficiency levels of meets and exceeds from 51% to 60% for the 2012-2013 academic school year. We will study the strand level data, and standards to determine lessons that must be targeted for increased learning and proficiency. We will focus on the academic standards in reading and writing to refine our curriculum in order to meet the new requirements of the Common Core Standards. We will develop common assessments to provide evidence of learning by all students in this rigorous standard review, examining common assessments and finally by reviewing the MCA III test data at the end of the year to determine our next steps. We will review our standards, curriculum maps and lessons to determine the focus area for improvement as we determine how to integrate the practice and use of Learning Targets and Student Learning Plans with Student Self-Assessment, creating student self assessments for each unit by the end of the 2012-2013 academic year. We will review our curriculum and student data to determine the best focus area to design and build a high quality digital lesson or unit. Incorporating all the best practices of Learning Targets, Lesson Design with common assessments both formative and summative. We will complete two major units during the 2012-2013 academic year. We will Diary Map our curriculum and apply the Cognitive Growth Targets to determine and review the rigor level of activities or lessons to help determine instructional or curricular adjustments to provide deeper learning experiences, measuring the results both in assessments and observation of engagement in the classroom via a rubric and classroom observation.

Meeting Planner Meeting Date Time Location Roles Agenda Summary For the next meeting… Suggested Rotating Roles: Facilitator Norm & Time Keeper Data Collector Research Person Agenda Sender Note Taker Meeting Opener Location Preparer Treat Provider? Other Roles? Formal Support Roles: PLC PD Imbeds/Facilitates PD PLC IC Instructional Coordinator – Facilitates Discussion linked to teaching practice and records intentional instructional practices or insights for instructional use. PLC AC Assessment Coordinator –Records and Facilitates Assessment Discussion Additional copies of this page are available @ http://www.hastings.k12.mn.us/Important_Dates_PLC_Forms_and_More.html

Staff Development / PLC Reporting Form for 2012-2013 Reports Due to Principals: Beg. of Year: Due 10/23/2012 Mid-Year: Due 1/21/2013 End of Year: Due 5/24/2013 PLC Members: List members here. Focus of PLC Art Business Education Library Media and Technology Counseling Mathematics Family and Consumer Science Music Global Languages Health and Human Performance Science Industrial Technology Social Studies Language Arts Special Services Reading Other ________________________ Writing Please complete and submit this page and the following page to your building principal for information and approval. Complete additional copies if your PLC has more than one goal due to your building principal no later than October 23rd.

Building/Site Goal: Enter corresponding goal PLC Goal(s): Enter goal here. Important: You will need to thoughtfully respond to the following statements on the mid-year report and on the final report that is submitted to the state via your staff development site chairs and administrators: Findings of your Goal: Impact on Student Learning: Impact on Teacher Practice: Continue next year? The PLC (staff development) goal should focus on the critical questions of learning: What is it we expect our students to learn? How will we know when they have learned it? How will we respond when they don’t learn? How will we respond when they already know it?

Mid-Year Progress Report . Impact on Students and Method of Measurement Enter your goal’s impact on student achievement, interesting findings in the data or information you are studying, impact on teaching strategies and/or the classroom. Share with your administrator a current “snapshot” of your work. Findings of your Goal: Impact on Student Learning: Impact on Teacher Practice: Please submit a mid year progress report: due no later than January 21, 2013. Include this page, the membership page and the goal page. Three pages total for the mid-year report.

End of the Year Report What were the findings of this goal? Enter data here. What was the impact on student learning? Enter data here. This is an important end of the year description of your findings to include an honest reflection of your outcomes, data, observations and work this year. Your staff development site chairs and principals should have a clear understanding and will use your information to complete the state report, your findings, and reported impacts on teachers and students will be reported and posted on a state web site. Please write well and proof your work before submitting this information to your principals. Please submit all pages of your report as required by your principals to complete the entire report. You may delete this box after reading to complete the reporting on this form. What was the impact on teacher practice? Enter data here. Will your PLC continue working on this goal next year? Please submit this page and the following two pages to your building principal as your end-of-the-year status report: due no later than May 24th. (+ additional copy for site committee) Yes No

Learning Teams With Instructional Focus Off-site Staff Development Indicate which designs or strategies were used to implement the goal during the school year. Learning Teams With Instructional Focus Professional Learning Communities Study groups Lesson study Team meetings Case studies Classroom Coaching Demonstration teaching Instructional strategy modeling Individual guided practice Content/instructional coaching Coaching for continuing contract teachers Mentoring for probationary teachers Observation by trained observers Examine Student Data Examine state assessment data Examine district/school selected assessment data Examine classroom assessment data Examine student work Action research Curriculum Curriculum alignment/mapping Curriculum development Assessment development Off-site Staff Development Attend a workshop Attend a conference Graduate or continuing education course If you checked none of the above or wish to provide more detail, enter the designs and/or strategies below. Enter data here.

Indicate which high quality components were included in the activity. Designs and strategies encompassed the following high-quality components as required by state and federal guidelines (check one or more) An integral part of school board, district wide and school wide improvement plans. Included teachers, principals, parents and administrators in planning sustainable classroom focused activities that were not one-day or short-term workshops. Increased teachers’ knowledge of academic subjects and understanding of effective instructional strategies using scientifically based research. Increased teachers’ and principles’ knowledge and skill in providing appropriate curriculum, instruction and assessment to help students meet and exceed state academic requirements. Provided for professional learning communities that focus on student achievement. Included the use of data and assessments to inform classroom practice. Provided technology training to improve teaching and learning. Increased teachers’ ability to effectively instruct all students including culturally diverse learners, learners with special needs, gifted and talented students, students with Limited English Proficiency and at-risk students. Improved teachers’ classroom-management skills. Helped all school personnel work effectively with students and their parents. Evaluated designs and strategies for impact on teacher effectiveness to increase student academic achievement and improve the quality of future professional development.