1. 2015-16 Professional Development
October 6, 2015
Board of Education Workshop

2. Administrative Retreat
Team Building Activities
Disciplines of Execution
General Stanley McChrystal’s Team of Teams
OneTROY Core Values Development

3. New Teacher Orientation
Teaching and Learning in OneTroy
Core Values Interaction
Diversity and Inclusion
Considerations with Special Education
Building Mentors & Partnerships
Technology

4. Back to School PD 1 - Secondary

5. Back to School PD 1 - Elementary

6. Back to School PD 2 - Secondary

7. Secondary PD Day 2 Continued

8. Back to School PD 2 - Elementary

9. Elementary PD Day 2 Continued

10. Peer District Meetings Continuing
Quarterly meetings
October 6 in Rochester
Ann Arbor
Birmingham
Bloomfield Hills
East Grand Rapids
Forest Hills
Grosse Pointe
Novi
Okemos
Rochester
Saline
Troy

11. New Materials Adoption Schedule

12. District Initiatives for 2015-2016
Defining Ambitious Outcomes for All Students
K-2 Writing
K-12 Mathematics
6-12 Social Studies
6-12 Science
6-12 ELA
Developing Sustainable Teaching & Learning Leadership Network
Implementing Cultures of Thinking in All Schools (Every Continuous Improvement Plan)
Integrating Technology - Schoology

13. Comparison from Last Year
Job Embedded Professional Development (Labs, coaching instructional rounds)
Promoting Social Justice
Developing Cultures of Thinking
Improved formative common assessment practice and data analysis
Response To Intervention/Multi-Tiered System of Support
Learning about data Initiatives including (common assessment/instructional maps) Student Learning Showcase
Required Training for Staff (i.e., CPR, Epi-pens, cardiac and AED, IB, AP)
Improving instruction related to teacher IDPs
Conducting Instructional Rounds/Teacher Labs
Integrating Technology
Developing curriculum and review materials for ESL, PE, Fine Arts
Understanding State Summative Assessments
Building Professional Learning Communities
Collaboration
Instructional Rounds for principals and teachers
Mentoring
Action research
Conversations about growth

14. Teaching and Learning Goals
Ensuring Ambitious Outcomes for All
Creating a Sustainable Teaching and Learning Leadership Network

15. Ambitious
Outcomes for All
Clarity of
Strategy
Highly Effective Teams

16. Ensuring Ambitious Outcomes for All
K-2 Writing Core
K-12 Mathematics Core
6-12 Social Studies Core
6-12 Science Core
6-12 ELA Core
Ambitious Outcomes for All
What do we want our students to learn?
Assessment
How will we know when they have learned it?

17. Ensuring Ambitious Outcomes for All
What do we want our students to learn?
What instructional strategies will help our students get here?
Let’s try out this common formative assessment and see how our students do…
How did they do? Now what?
Assessment
How will we know when they have learned it?
Creating a Sustainable Teaching and Learning Leadership Network

18. Creating a Sustainable T & L Leadership Network
Example: 6th Grade Math
6th Grade Math Building Team
Curriculum and Instruction Specialist
One 6th grade math leader from each middle school
6th Grade Math CAT
(Content Area Team)

19. District Initiatives for 2015-2016
Defining Ambitious Outcomes for All Students
K-2 Writing
K-12 Mathematics
6-12 Social Studies
6-12 Science
6-12 ELA
Developing Sustainable Teaching & Learning Leadership Network
Implementing Cultures of Thinking in All Schools (Every Continuous Improvement Plan)
Integrating Technology - Schoology

20. Questions?