1. Professional Development and Student Achievement

2. What is professional development?
Professional development is defined as “the process of improving staff skills and competencies needed to produce outstanding educational results for students” (Hassel, 1999).

3. 2016-2017 Professional Development Opportunities
Six Days Prior To The Start Of The Year
Two Full Days (1 in October and 1 in March)
Six Late Starts (2 hours of learning time each)

4. Start of the year days:
One day is for middle school orientation, kinder camp, etc
In the remaining five days, teachers must:
Have their rooms ready for Supply Drop-off
Create their syllabus, team pages, etc
Lesson plan for the first two weeks
Team build

5. Start of the year days: In the remaining five days, teachers must:
Receive mandatory training for CPS, IC, Special Education, 504, MTSS, Handbook, Strengths Finder
CHAMPS training
Aquos training
Team & Department meetings

6. Start of the year days: In the remaining five days, teachers must:
Transition meetings
Safety training
Medical training
Character Education & RJ
Data meetings
Landing pages & websites

7. What does the research say?
Teachers who spend 24 hours during the course of the school year in intensive, sustained subject specific professional development can increase student achievement by 21 points. (Meta-analysis by REL, 2007)

8. What does the research say?
Research and experience help us recognize that high-quality ongoing professional development that deepens teachers’ content knowledge and pedagogical skills; provides opportunities for practice, research, and reflection; and includes efforts that are job embedded, sustained, and collaborative will assist in the goal to remain up-to-date (Sparks, 2002).

9. What does the research say?
Ongoing, job-embedded, collaborative, professional learning that is proven to be highly effective overseas is not widely used across the United States. (Meta-analysis by REL, 2007)

10. Contact days compared to area schools
*170 Flagstaff *173 Twin Peaks
*164 Peak to Peak *174 SVVSD

11. Using 17-18 proposed calendar days...
Elementary
Middle
Flagstaff
430 mins / day
445 mins / day
St Vrain Valley
390 mins / day
405 mins / day
Peak 2 Peak
Twin Peaks
420 mins / day

12. Over the course of the school year...
Elementary
Middle
Flagstaff
1218 hours
1261 hours
St Vrain Valley
1131 hours
1174 hours
Peak 2 Peak
1175 hours
Twin Peaks
1211 hours
Per CDE, requirements are 968 annual contact hours for ES and 1056 annual contact hours for MS.

13. Which gives Flagstaff students...
Elementary Students have 87 more contact hours than SVVSD, 43 more contact hours than P2P, and 7 more contact hours than Twin Peaks.
Middle School Students have 87 more contact hours than SVVSD, 86 more contact hours than P2P, and 50 more contact hours than Twin Peaks.

14. What do our teachers want (and need)...
TIME!

15. Time for... Vertical Department Meetings Grade Level Meetings
Instructional Training
Data Analysis

16. Professional development in...
Elementary
Math Instruction
Reading Instruction
Tier I Interventions

17. Professional development in...
Middle
Subject Specific Instruction
Tier I Interventions