1. A Day of Collaboration and Growth
Welcome to the Hamilton County District In-service:
A Day of Collaboration and Growth
Welcome teachers as they enter.
Teachers should sit in School Teams
Start on time! Introduce yourself (1-2 minutes)
January 8, 2013

2. Choose a science concept, term, or principle that describes your department and be prepared to share how or why it does.
Give schools time to come up with a science related concept, principle, or word that describes their school. (2-3 minutes)
Allow schools to publicly share their description and why they chose it (2-3 minutes)
Record them on a Public Record (could be chart paper or a dry erase board)
Example: Inertia describes our department. It takes a lot to get us moving. But once we get started, we don’t stop.

3. Purpose and Vision Create an atmosphere of openness,
collegiality and true professionalism
through:
Shared Norms and Common Language
Promoting Professional Growth through Collaboration
Engaging Students through Research-based Best Practices
Encourage Reflective Practice
Go over this slide. Ask teachers to purposely look for these throughout the day.
Facilitators—Each of these will be represented throughout the day. Below shows some of the places where these purposes tie into the day. These are just for your information.
Shared Vision and Common Language: Common District-wide Norms, Common Habits of Practice, and Common Literacy Standards (Common Core)
Promoting Professional Growth Through Collaboration: Focused sessions on Common Core and the Habits of Practice with collaborative/networking time built into the day in both school teams and grade level/course teams
Engaging Students Through Research-based Best Practices: Habits of Practice, sessions focused on research-based strategies/routines, Common Core Standards
Reflective Practice: Reflection Sheet, built in time devoted to reflection, small group discussions, and Practices Rating Sheet

4. Structure of the Day 8:30-9:55 The Habits of Practice in the NGSS
9:45-10:05 Break/Transition
10:05-11:30 Common Core’s Standards in Science
11:30-1: Lunch
1:00-2: Elective Sessions
2:35-2: Wrap Up and Final Evaluations
2:45-3: School Level Team Time
2:45-3: Science Leaders Meeting
Briefly go over the schedule for the day.
Be sure to point out that the Science Leader’s Network will have a short meeting at 2:45 in the library.
Schools are encouraged to meet as departments to share their learnings and take care of any other departmental stuff from 2:45 – 3:30

5. Secondary Science District Norms
Be respectful of other’s time — Begin and end on time
Maintain an open and safe atmosphere for communication and collaboration
Remain positive, task/purpose-focused, respectful, and courteous
Actively participate and bring requested materials
Share a sense of responsibility for student learning
Be professional at all times
Be the student you want in your class
Be sure that the District Norms poster is visible in the room. These were developed by the science teachers in district-wide PD last year. They will be our common norms at all district meetings and professional development. Encourage them to use them in their department and school meetings.

6. Reflections and Important Moments Sheet
Briefly point out that this sheet is to be used as a reflection and notes tool throughout the day. Although there will be a few set times to utilize this tool, encourage everyone to jot down things in the moment instead of just waiting for those times. It is on Bright Yellow Cardstock.

7. Session Goals:
Positively Impact Student Learning by Supporting Their Growth as Science Practitioners
Provide an overview of the Scientific and Engineering Habits of Practice
Connect the Practices to Your Classroom
Connect the Practices to a Common Goal for your Department
Collect Formative Data to Help Shape Future Professional Development and to Promote Networking
Briefly go over the goals for this session. This session is designed to provide an overview of the Practices and is the launch to more in-depth training for the future. Elective Sessions in the afternoon were designed to provide teaching strategies and routines that will promote the development of these Habits of Practice in their students.

8. A Framework for K-12 Science Education
Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
This slide is just to show a visual of the actual Framework book and to launch into the activity. Remind participants that the Framework is operational and that we have begun working with the NRC Habits of Practices this school year in Hamilton County. These have been the focus of the SLN meetings this year. (1 minute)
In Hamilton County, we are going to focus on both Habits of Interaction and Habits of Practice. The Habits of Interaction are more of the norms of the class. It is how students and teachers interact with each other. These are common for math and science. The Habits of Practice are the 8 from the NRC Framework and Metacognition (9 Total). These represent the habits that we want to build in our students to help them become successful practioners of science. They are student behaviors, not teacher behaviors (although teachers should constantly be modeling these behaviors themselves). We are going to focus on teacher actions and classroom structures that will promote the development of these Habits in our students. Note that there are no posters for the Habits of Interaction in the PowerPoint. This session focuses only on the Habits of Practice. ( 2-3 minutes)

9. Habits of Practice

10. Habits of Practice

11. Habits of Practice

12. Habits of Practice
Take a few moments of Private Think Time to read the Habits of Practice.
Pass out the copy of the Habits of Practices summary (white). We are only going to focus on the Habits of Practice today. We will officially begin utilizing the Habits of Interaction next school year. Give Private Think Time to read and highlight/mark important ideas that stand out to them on the handout. (5-7 minutes)

13. Discuss with your group the following questions:
Habits of Practice
Discuss with your group the following questions:
What really stood out to me about the practices?
How could these practices enhance student learning?
What are the benefits of implementing the same practices K-12?
Small Group Discussion around the Habits. Specifically have them discuss:
What really stood out to me about the Habits?
How could these practices enhance student learning?
What are the benefits of implementing the same practices K-12?
To promote equity, select a new person to start the conversation at each group (person sitting closest to the door, person sitting closest to presenter, etc.). Encourage teachers to utilize their Important Moments sheet to record ideas.

14. The Habits of Practice
Take a few moments of Private Think Time to reflect on your own classroom and fill out the Habits of Practice sheet.
Select the number on the scale that best indicates the extent to which your teaching routines and classroom structures develop your students’ use of each practice.
Hand out the Habits Practice sheet (Green). Briefly go over the structure of the rating sheet. This will not be collected and is their personal reflection piece on their own practice. (2-3 minutes):
- Habit-of-Practice – Teachers will select the number that best
indicates the extent to which their teaching routines and
classroom structures develop students’ use of each practice.
Give Private Think Time for participants to fill out the form. They are to rate themselves in each area and then identify one strength and one area to strengthen for the Habits of Practice. For the area of strengths, they need to record evidence of why it is strength. (5-10 minutes)

15. Use the Go-Around Protocol
The Habits of Practice
Discuss with your group the following two questions:
Which one of the practices is strength in my classroom?
Which one of the practices do I need to work more on?
Use the Go-Around Protocol
Small group discussion time around the Practices (Utilize the Go-Around Protocol). Specifically have each person share: :
- Which one of the practices is strength in my classroom?
- Which one of the practices do I need to work more on?
To promote equity, select a new person to start the conversation at each
group (person sitting closest to the door, person sitting closest to presenter,
etc.) and use the Go-Around Protocol. Take time to describe the
Go- Around Protocol. Each person shares while everyone else listens.
No discussion happens until everyone has shared. After everyone has
shared, open discussion can then occur. (7-10 minutes)

16. Discuss with your group the following two questions:
Habits of Practice
Discuss with your group the following two questions:
Based on our prior conversations, which one Habit of Practice (HOP) will our department focus on for this semester?
What would the selected HOP “look like” and “sound like” in a classroom?
Group Discussion (Open Discussion) – Utilize the Graphic Organizer (white) provided. The department head or designee will fill out the goals form based on the conversation. This will be collected and ed back out to the departments. The information will help us focus PD and will allow us to create networks of schools around common goals.
Based on our prior conversation, which one Habit of Practice will our department focus on for this semester? (Point out that the others are important and that they should still be utilizing any given Practice based on the lesson; however, this activity is to focus their work on improving one primary Habit.) (3-5 minutes)
What would this Habit of Practice Look Like and Sound Like in a classroom? (Point out that this is to help them to make sense of the Habits and proved “Look fors.”) (7-10 minutes)

17. Habits of Interaction and Habits of Practice
Share Out
Whole Group Discussion – Have each school share their Habit of Practice Focus. They should include one Looks Like and one Sounds Like when they share. Make a Public Record of their focuses on chart paper. We will post these on the website so that schools with common goals can network with each other. (7-10 minutes)

18. Morning Reflection and Ticket-Out-The Door
Practice # ____________
Evidence (one teaching routine or classroom structure that helps develop your students’ use of the selected strength)
Give Private Think Time for participants to reflect and record any thoughts on their Personal Reflection Sheet. (1-3 minutes)
Pass out Notecards. Each participant is to write one of their strengths from the Habits and what evidence (one teaching routine or classroom structure that helps develop your students’ use of the selected strength) supports that strength. This is not to include their name and they will hand it to you as a Ticket-out-the-Door.
Remind them to keep utilizing the website ( )
Pass out evaluations (Pink) during this time. They are to fill these out during the day. The forms will be the Ticket Out the Door for the last session of the day.
Announce that their next session starts at 10:05. They will be with their grade/course level fellow teachers for this session. It will focus on the Common Core’s Standards for Literacy in Science.
Be sure to collect the HOP Goal Sheet and the notecard.