1. Social Studies Coalition Professional Development Cohorts 2016-2017
May 20, 2016

2. Goal
Establish and maintain a teacher training program that focuses on building capacity at the building level and provides professional development in improving content knowledge, instructional practices, and assessment literacy.

3. Expected Outcomes
Participants will increase their own content knowledge in a social studies discipline
Participants will increase the use of literacy strategies to build content knowledge in students
Participants will contribute to the continued development of the Delaware Recommended Curriculum

4. Cohort Participants Memorandum of Agreement
attend the five (5) face-to-face training sessions scheduled for the Cohort
arrive at each session on time and remain until the end of the session
participate in Schoology group discussions and post student work
complete post-meeting electronic surveys within one week of receipt
contribute to the development of two social studies item clusters that includes multiple assessment items aligned to the standards. Item clusters are to be completed by April 15, 2017.

5. Changes to design for 2016-17 MOA for facilitators
District/charter recruitment in May-June 2016
Summer kick-off meetings to set expectations and begin training
Participants will field test 2016 lessons
No meals or paid speakers (except facilitators)
No evening sessions

6. PD Design
Existing group invited back for year 2 – new members also
Deepens learning in the content area; continues to build capacity
Increased instructional focus in training
Pilot instructional and assessment resources
Develop assessments in social studies and CCSS
Paid for products – will also have an MOA
Assessment resources used locally so that PLCs can target specific student learning and can respond to student strengths and weaknesses

7. Cohort Participants Calendar
Two (2) day summer session
– all content areas
Aug 10, DSTA Smyrna, DE
Aug 11, CRHS Camden, DE
Three (3) schoolday meetings
CIVICS
ECONOMICS
GEOGRAPHY
HISTORY
Oct 10 – Collette
Nov 28 – Collette
Feb 13 – Collette
Oct 17 – Collette
Dec 12 – Collette
Feb 27 – Collette
Feb 21 – Collette

8. Assessment expectations
Develop two item clusters that can be used locally to create formative and benchmark assessments. Collect student work for review and posting with items.