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Part time curriculum director in a rural school district and part time consultant.

• How to stay on top of so many content areas.
• Framework for quality curriculum
• Instructional priorities.
• Looking at research and finding what’s current.
• Best practices
• Nearly all PD was sit and get.
• Spiraling themes of professional development.
• Able to provide effective supports
• Gradual release of responsibility.
• I do, we do, y’all do, you do.
• Practice feedback reflection
• That’s what we’ve always done.
• Peer observation isn’t always received very well.
• Timeline of job-embedded PD.
• August 1/2 day with 60 teachers as a pilot on classroom questioning
• Cohorts of 4-6 teachers in each cohort - meet for 1/2 day with that cohort. Host teacher presents lesson. Facilitator asks questions.
• Review of data points that people collected after observing a lesson.
• Scripting - What did the teacher say, what did the kids say?
• Share data, review host teacher’s goals and visit a new one each month.
• Don’t invite administrators to take part in the process
• Walkthroughs at the end of the year. Leadership team looks for strengths and growths for that teacher.
• Need to make sure your professional development is making it to the classroom.
• Effective to have a coach position be able to support the group.
• Give principals patterns in aggregated data.
• Principals engage in final conversation in the year.
• How to be a transformative principal? Be intentional about supporting teacher’s growth.

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