1. Polk Elementary Staff Development
August 7, 2017

3. Welcome to our new Polk Family members!
Alicia Burrell - Assistant Principal
Lindsey Palat - 2nd grade Math/Social Studies
Jillian Page - 3rd grade ELA/Social Studies
Jessica Ochoa - 3rd grade bilingual
Joe Pintavalle - PE Aide

4. Building high levels of learning together!
Our Theme

5. Lego Movie Clip

6. Think about this.... Why does a TEAM need to collaborate?

7. Which team of Legos would you want to be?

10. Turn and Talk What does this mean to me?
Why is this important to our school?
Turn and talk….share out!

11. Table Supplies

12. Team Building Center Pieces

13. Polk 2017 Celebrations

14. Preliminary Data % approaching grade level
3rd Grade Math - 93%
(13 point growth)
3rd Grade Reading - 83%
(10 point growth)
STAAR 2017
Preliminary Data
% approaching grade level

15. Preliminary Data % approaching grade level
4th Grade Math - 83%
(3 point growth)
4th Grade Reading - 83%
(maintained)
4th Grade Writing - 81%
(8 point growth)
STAAR 2017
Preliminary Data
% approaching grade level

16. Our STAAR Longitudinal Growth
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
ALL Math
58%
63%
Did not count
82%
88%
ALL Reading
77%
74%
83%
Writing
59%
66%
62%
81%
Growth, gaps, and trends (GGT) Tell me what you notice. Now, everyone stand up and clap, high five, celebrate music.

17. Attendance 2016-2017 95.8% student attendance rate
(.2% growth)
93.8% Staff Attendance
Attendance

18. Student Discipline Referrals
47 total referrals
(slight increase from previous year, but still well under the average!)
Discipline
Student Discipline Referrals

19. Master Schedule 2017 One hour RtI daily
LLI/TEMI for T3 - not missing core instruction
PLC collaboration time in addition to planning time
SpEd RTI and Inclusion - not missing core instruction
Master Schedule
2017

20. Staff Retention 2016-2017 Low staff turn-over
Four resignations due to moves and family changes
One retirement
Five new staff members this year
Staff Retention

21. PLC Collaboration 2016-2017 Weekly meetings for grade levels
Identified RTI needs/plans
Reviewed summative assessments
Collaborated on plans
PLC Collaboration

22. Guided Reading 2016-2017 Leah Whitton training DRA in place
Received Leveled Library grant for leveled books
Guided Reading

23. Guided Math 2016-2017 Sent another team of teachers to Tabor training
Glenna Tabor sends her congratulations on our growth!
Guided Math

24. What were my greatest accomplishments of 2016-2017? Share with table.
Reflections
What were my greatest accomplishments of ? Share with table.

25. What is our focus this year?
High levels of learning for ALL
PLC lite to PLC tight
Consistent Guided Reading
Consistent Guided Math
Learning targets for each unit
Essential outcomes
Common Formative Assessment
What is our focus this year?

26. Campus Goals SET BY BISD EVALUATED BY BISD
3rd, 4th - STAAR 90% or better across the board
K, 1st, 2nd - 82% reading on grade level by EOY

27. Campus Goals SET BY BISD EVALUATED BY BISD
Embedded, sustained PLC’s on campus (rubric)
Embedded, sustained RTI on campus (rubric)

28. Campus Goals SET BY BISD EVALUATED BY BISD
95% staff attendance rate (rate at EOY included on Polk’s evaluation)

29. Mason Jar Activity
What did you do last year that was successful in your class?
How will you enhance it?
What will be in your jar this year?

30. BREAK TIME
15 minutes

31. Polk Campus Improvement Plan
Campus Plan Goals
Polk Campus Improvement Plan

32. Campus Improvement Plan Activity
Locate your Campus Plan in your PLC binder
Skim the plan
Highlight the areas that directly relate to your responsibilities on campus
We will dive into the Campus Plan during our Committee Meetings (CEIC, Parent Involvement, PBIS, Hospitality, PLC Guiding Coalition)

33. Polk is a PLC Campus
Going to the next level!

34. What is a PLC? Turn and talk to your table partners. What is a PLC?
Share out.
What is a PLC?

35. What is a PLC? Definition:
“A PLC is an ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.” - DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, Many, Mattos, Learning by Doing (2016)
What is a PLC?
Definition:

36. “PLC is a lifestyle, not a meeting.” Anthony Muhammad
All Things PLC - All About PLC's
Each table take a paragraph.
Read and discuss.
Highlight key points on chart paper.
Share out key points.
Let’s look deeper.
“PLC is a lifestyle, not a meeting.”
Anthony Muhammad

37. Mission - Why do we exist? Vision - What do we want to become?
Our Mission
The mission of Polk Elementary is to ensure all students learn at high levels and are future ready.
Our Vision
A culture of collaboration focusing results.
Our Mission and Vision
Mission - Why do we exist?
Vision - What do we want to become?

38. Digital Learning Coach Contact Info
Molly Schoener
@SchoenerTECHie
(text/call)

39. Mission/Vision Activity
As a table team, draw a picture on chart paper to represent both our Mission and Vision statements.
Share out
What do we all see in common?

40. Everything we do must filter through the lens of our mission and vision.

41. Education Foundation

42. Lunch Time
Have fun!

43. Collective Commitments
What do we ALL believe in?

44. What are collective commitments?
Our beliefs.
Commitments we all make together.
The things for which we will hold each other accountable.
What makes us who we are.
What are collective commitments?

45. They are the beliefs and commitments that will guide our collaboration together.
They are the beliefs and commitments we make to our students, our parents, and ourselves.
Why do we need them?

46. Collective Commitment Questions to Answer
What is our primary purpose in education?
What do we want our classrooms to look like for students and for us?
What assessment practices will we use to enhance student learning?
What does great instruction look like?
What is our plan for intervening when students struggle?
How can we extend/enrich our student’s learning?
What’s keeping us from becoming the school we want to become?
Why are some students failing?

47. Collective Commitments Activity
Each table group go stand at one poster.
Use sticky notes to record ideas for your answer to the question and place on poster.

48. Collective Commitments
Remove duplicate sticky notes.
Remove things we can’t control.
Groups writes a summary statement at the bottom of the poster.
These are our belief statements.

49. What does research say?
John Hattie’s research in Visible Learning says this about effect on learning:
Teaching clarity .75
Providing formative evaluation .90
Feedback .73

50. What does research say? Response to Intervention 1.07
Student Self-Reported Grades/Self Confidence 1.44
Collective Teacher Efficacy (belief that our intervention is the key to their success) 1.57
Teacher estimates of achievement (Teacher’s perception of how the student will perform) 1.62

51. Teachers have the biggest EFFECT on student learning outcomes. Period.
What does this mean?
Teachers have the biggest EFFECT on student learning outcomes. Period.

52. Know your WHY...

54. BREAK TIME!
15 minutes

55. Groups vs. Teams

56. What is a group? Definition of group
1: two or more figures forming a complete unit in a composition went there as a group
2a : a number of individuals assembled together or having some unifying relationship a study group
Webster

57. What is a team?
A team is a group of people working interdependently to achieve a common goal, for which members are held mutually accountable (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, & Many, Learning By Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work). Collaborative teams are the fundamental building blocks of PLCs.

58. How would you rate your team?

59. Watch as we demonstrate...
What’s a 1, 5, or 10?
Watch as we demonstrate...

60. Remember, you can’t be a 3, a 7, or a 9.5…..
Now rate your team...
Remember,
you can’t be a 3, a 7, or a 9.5…..

61. What kind of team do you want to be?
If you didn’t answer “10”, you don’t want be part of a true PLC.

62. What is holding your team back?
Write one word on a sticky note that answers this question.

63. What can we do to change that?
Write one word on a sticky note that answers this question.

64. PLC Collaborative Meeting Schedule
Polk PLC Collaborative Team Meeting Agenda
PLC Collaborative Meeting Schedule
Weekly - 40 minutes
Not LESSON PLANNING, but COLLABORATING

65. Why do we need team roles?
Every member of the team has a purpose.
Facilitator
Time Keeper
Recorder
Data/Assessment specialist (can be two people)
Why do we need team roles?

66. Why do we need norms? Same reason you need “Classroom Expectations”
Established by each team
Everyone is on the “same page”
Commitments on how we will act
Need to be internalized - review them until they are
Less is more
Violation of norms - how will we, as a team, address this?

67. Start thinking about roles and norms for your team.
We will establish them tomorrow!

68. BREAK TIME!
10 minutes

69. Staff Expectations

70. Cruising through the Employee Handbook
Caribbean cruise music.

71. Refreshing end to a great Cruise!
Sherbert ice cream - orange or lime.(4) Pineapple juice (3 cans) , ginger ale (3 -2liters)

72. Reflections
Exit Ticket