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Professional Development
SLC Professional Development Focus
Professional Development Links
Professional Development Series
| | Ongoing, sustained professional development is key to helping teachers to improve student academic achievement, to support struggling students, and to continue to develop and expand SLCs. We will combine focused, intensive professional development and technical assistance from outside providers such as the Professional Learning Communities Solution Tree Coaching Academy, Keeping Learning on Track, Literacy Workshops with Julie Adams, the California Subject Matter Projects, and the Assessment Training Institute in Portland with ample time for collaborative work among staff, centered around examining student work and using that data to improve curriculum and instruction. Our basic plan has four components:
- Professional development on an identified area of academic emphasis. During our first three years we are focusing on both literacy (with a focus on Kinsella strategies to include workshops with Julie Adams) and assessment (especially the work of Dylan Wilam, Marnie Thompson, Rick Stiggins, Shirley Clarke, and Doug Reeves) We will continue this work in the fourth year of the grant.
- Introductory and follow-up professional development on implementing particular SLC strategies. During the first year, we will focus on ways to effectively act as an adult advocate for students. After that year, the SLC focus will vary at each site based on needs, though the academic focus will be the same across sites.
- Ongoing professional learning communities across sites. The third part of our professional development program will be professional learning communities. Initially, we have formed Professional Learning Teams around assessment and literacy. Last year, both CHS and PV voted on a waiver to allow time within the work day, once a week, for teachers to collaboratie in course alike groups with a focus on increased levels of learning for all students.
- Ongoing professional development that is local and addresses student learning issues particular to Chico Unified students. Educational expertise of all kinds resides in the hearts and minds of Chico Unified staff. The SLC grant initiated the Professional Development Series, 8-9 workshops over the course of the school year given by Chico Unified staff to Chico Unified staff. Each of these workshops provides teachers with strategies for improving student learning and classroom instruction. This year will be the third consecutive year of these workshops.
Click here for the full text of the Professional Development section of our SLC grant.
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| | Chico Unified District Professional Development Link.
PV Professional Development Links
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| | The Professional Development Series was piloted in the first year of the grant (2005-2006) with the idea that teachers share their expertise about classroom instruction and student learning with each other. In 2006-2007school year, the series expanded to include eight sessions focused on best instructional practive in formative assessment and literacy. Lists of these workshops and the teachers who presented can be viewed as follows:
2005-2006 2006-2007
Cthis year's series began with a workshop devoted to learning targets presented by six teachers, three from each school, and representing five disciplines. The next workship will be given by Kevin Moretti. The flyer for that workshop can be viewed here.
The schedule for the rest of the year's series will be posted by middle of October.
We have provided a tool kit of resources that have emerged from the workshops, most of which pertain to best practices in instruction. Dave McKay's handouts
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