Facilitators: Claudia Wheatley and Mindy Hoffar
Recorder: Lynn Noel
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Based on what we currently doing in professional development in writing …
- What should we be doing?
- Who should be doing this?
- How should this be accomplished?
Discussion notes
Significant Issues From Morning Discussions
- Educating the leaders and administrators about needs
- Ongoing focused Professional Development
- Professional development needs to be ongoing and sustained
- Best Practice aligned (Show us the evidence)
- Documentation of growth for teachers and students
Transcript
- What should we be doing?
- Pockets of money need to be pooled or coordinated.
- State monies and Title II is professional development money tied to school improvement
- Some discussion about a possible” Individual Teacher Professional Development Budget” but most participants did not feel this was very feasible.
- Model Kentucky schools which have a writing resource teacher in each of 9 regions of the state.
- Work with ESC/DOE
- Have a coach/mentor available at each service center to oversee a district-based cadre of professional development teachers.
- Be careful not to overload school/district literacy coaches. They become the do all for everything.
- Collaborating with higher education.
- Rooting our success in best practice.
- By replication of models that already exist.
- PD monies could be used for replication of existing projects such as National Writing Project.
- Also collaborate with preferred providers from higher ed, professional organizations, etc.
- What disempowers teachers?
- The emphasis on the high-stakes testing
- Set curriculum
- Not being given the goals of the program and allowed to meet those goals in their own way without a script
- Plans – the need for school improvement and staff development needs to be aligned
- There are no incentives to work together
- Across districts
- Within districts
- Between K-12 schools, Preschools and the Universities
- What action is needed?
- Identifying and make available models
- Which articulate best practices
- Have evidence of success
- Where there are changes of belief and instruction
- Capture the success stories especially the children’s stories
- Use ESC structure as base for training & collaborating with higher ed and other projects
- Administrator Training
- National presenters for administrators
- Administrator academy
- Take to model school
- Teach how to do walk thru
- Work with IASP and IPLA
- Model writing project staying in touch with Administrator groups
- Adopting Indiana Educator Rights and Responsibilities of..
- Ongoing training, modeling and support
- Differentiated Professional Development
- Resources
- Time
- Materials
- Access to information on model site and best practices
- National and local experts
- Right to focus – not be overwhelmed
- Increase leadership capacity and teacher efficacy
- Shared decision making
- Action-research
- Coaching
- Professional Learning Communities
SOLUTIONS AND ACTIONS - PRESENTED
- We need to develop and adopt an Educator Bill of Rights
- Provides differentiated professional development (different needs, times, etc. for different folks)
- Gives access to resources
- Time
- Coaching
- Experts
- Professional resources
- Increases educator leadership capacity through
- Action research
- Professional Learning Communities
- Administrator Academy
- Working with Indiana Principals Leadership Academy and Indiana Association of School Principals to provide ongoing administrative training
- Administrator mentors
- Online resources
- Development of and dissemination of a database of model sites
- Systemic professional development through
- State leadership
- Regional writing coordinators (ESC)
- Coaches/Mentors
- Alignment of school/district improvement plans
- Assessment models and recommendations for assessment
- Infrastructure to support PD
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