1 Engage, Connect, Learn: New Approaches for Professional Learning October 22, 2013 MASSP Fall Conference

Mission, Outcomes, Goals GOAL: Provide professional learning opportunities GOAL: Promote strategies that support student achievement GOAL: Provide visible leadership and advocacy for professional learning GOAL: Create a culture to encourage and sustain effective professional learning and growth Provide vision to build educator capacity Provide leadership to build educator capacity Provide support to build educator capacity Promote continuous student learning and school improvement Organizational Outcomes Project Outcomes Learning Forward MD’s Mission, Outcomes and Goals Learning Forward MD’s Mission, Outcomes and Goals

What are the Standards for Professional Learning? How can the standards improve the quality and effectiveness of professional learning? What do the standards look like in practice? ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

Leadership Resources Learning Communities Learning Designs Implemen- tation Outcomes Data Standards for Professional Learning

Purpose of professional learning is for educators to develop knowledge, skills, practices, and dispositions to help students perform at high levels Guide the design, implementation, and evaluation of professional learning WHY

Learning Communities Leadership Resources Data Learning Designs Implementation Outcomes 6 What could happen if …?

Learning Communities Leadership Resources Data Learning Designs Implementation Outcomes 7 What could happen if …?

Learning Communities Leadership Resources Data Learning Designs Implementation Outcomes 8 What could happen if …?

Standards- based professional learning Changes in educator knowledge, skills, and dispositions Changes in educator practice Changes in student results

Relationship Between Professional Learning and Student Results Standards- based professional learning Changes in educator knowledge, skills, and dispositions Changes in educator practice Changes in student results

11 Becoming a Learning System: Standards in Practice

Conventional System Learning System

What is the relationship between the Standards for Professional Learning and student results?

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Based on teachers’ individual professional growth plans. Differentiated based on teachers’ needs and interests. Flexible enough to adapt to new areas of focus over time. Standards in Practice Our PD Needs

Ensure faculty and department meetings model best practices for instruction. Aggressively eliminate meeting time spent on issues not directly related to instruction. Minimize after school meetings and re-purpose that time to implement the Patapsco University professional learning plan.Patapsco University Standards in Practice Our PD Plan

Great opportunities for aspiring leaders to organize meaningful professional learning in an authentic way. Can earn an MSDE credit. Some folks will look for “credit” everywhere and not truly engage in professional learning. Standards in Practice Pros Cons / Challenges

People in schools are generally working at or near their maximum levels of skill and knowledge. In order to do the work better, they need to know how to do things that they currently don't know how to do, and, in order to do that, they need to operate in workplaces designed to develop their practice. - Richard Elmore from the Foreword of A Playbook for Professional Learning 19

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