Transcript Facilitation Practices that Move Collaborative Work Forward

Facilitation Practices that Move
Collaborative Work Forward
Q-Comp Presentation
January 27, 2011
Who We Are
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Phil Lienemann
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Jen Schwankl
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K-12 Principal
3rd year administrator, 12 years total experience
Elementary Special Education
2nd year, 11 total years experience
Jay Meiners
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High School Science: Biology and Earth Science
10 years experience
Who We Work With
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Minnesota River Valley Education District
Located in Montevideo, MN
Karen Jacobson, Director
Yvonne Sorenson, Assistant Director
No Magic Bullets
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This is what we’ve found works in our school culture
Structures and formats for each school will be
different
Willing to share what we have
Minneota visited to look at our plan
Tracy-Milroy-Balaton visited to look at our plan
Montevideo borrowed materials from our PLC format
Our School-Lakeview
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Cottonwood, MN-Wood Lake, MN
13 miles north of Marshall, MN in SW MN
Around 560 students K-12
Mostly a two section school
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Small senior class: 24
Large 7th grade 64, large 5th grade 57
Incoming K classes around upper 50s
Staff of 48 in 7 PLCs
Brief History
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The year before I arrived
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My 1st year
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Orbiter interest groups: web page development, information
literacy, etc.
Two hour early out once a month
Month to month
Focus on Information Literacy
The following two years
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Changes
Change #1
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Became a Q-Comp School
Small committee formed to draft ideas
starting in the spring of 2009
Input on major areas of the plan; minor
tweaks, adjustments made over the summer
by administration-timelines
Ratified by LEA and School Board in the fall
of 2009
Change #2
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Formation of school goals
Last year, each school had an umbrella goal based
upon NWEA scores
Each PLC formulated a goal specific to their group of
students
This year’s schoolwide goal uses MCA achievement
All are aware of goals: on every staff meeting
agenda
Change #3
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Early outs
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From once a month to every other week
From two hours to one
Meet the same amount of time, more frequently
PLC Leaders meet in off weeks
Change #4
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Assigned Groups
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PLCs by grade levels: PreK-K, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 1112. About 7 members per group
7 PLCs, 8 Leaders-one group has co-leaders
Special education, vocal and band music, art, agriculture,
health and physical education, business, Spanish teachers
all fold into one of the seven groups
Ex. Mr. Meiners’s 9-10 grade group
There have been discussions re: job alike groupings
Change #5
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Focus
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Started last year with a study of data: math,
reading, language usage, science
MCA and NWEA as well as local assessments
Every PLC set their own goal under a school wide
umbrella
Then PLCs focused on research based
instructional strategies to target a low data area
Change #6
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Teacher Leaders in place
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One in the elementary, one in the secondary
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Julie Neisius, 2nd grade teacher
Dan Hoffman, Engineering technology teacher
Focus on evaluating Domain 3 of Charlotte
Danielson’s Framework of Effective Teaching:
rubric
Evaluation forms: Planning and Post-
It’s a Process
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Fortunate-Time has always been approved
by school board.
Avoid water cooler talk
Meaningful discussions about teaching and
learning
Wanted to have a sense of accomplishment
by the end of every meeting
Yet we continue to learn and adjust
Necessary Evils: Protocols
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Guided staff in first steps of in-house Data
Mine, Fall of 2009
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MCAs: D, P, M, E
NWEAs: Hi, Mid, Lo accomplishment levels
Substrand data on NWEAs more than MCAs
These findings led to the instructional
strategies research and implementation for
the year
More Protocols
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Following identification of research based
instructional strategies:
Meeting Calendar: Distributed leadership
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Who would facilitate weekly meetings?
Who would take the notes? Who would keep time?
Who would share video of implementation of strategy in
class?
Who would share student work or research article?
Who would bring the sustenance?
Lakeview
2010-2011
Study Group Name:
Date
Meeting
Facilitator
Facilitate and keep
meeting focused
and moving
forward
Note Taker
Record the meeting
notes and give original
to Toni (Toni will make
copies with feedback
Time
Keeper
Follow
planned
timeline for
meeting
Developing CFA
Person designated to
develop CFA comes with
pre-work completed
Sharing CFA
Video Share
Remember to use the
video sharing
protocol to guide your
discussion and self
reflection.
Sharing CFA
Share Student
Work
Remember to use
student work protocol to
guide discussion and self
reflection
Treats
It is your responsibility
to sustain the group
members with FOOD
(not required each
week but highly
recommended)
More Protocols
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Weekly Minutes
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Video Sharing Protocol
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Filled out by the weekly note taker
Communication piece with administration
Modified Annenberg Protocol
Five minute clip of class with strategy
Student Work Sharing Protocol
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Modified Annenberg Protocol
Strengths and weaknesses of the work, feedback
PLC Leader Meetings
Meet in off weeks
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Cover past and upcoming PLC meetings
Support each other: laugh and joke, ask for help
with a situation or problem
This year, digging into Learning by Doing a
portion at a time
Focus this year
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Formative Assessments
Based upon the work of Dufour, Dufour,
Eaker, and Many
Learning by Doing
Plan is to continue focus of formative
assessments into next year, shifting to
summative assessments the next year
Common Formative Assessments
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Elementary: what is given in one classroom
must be given in the other
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Guaranteed and viable curriculum
In the event of no alike grade level or content
area teacher, development of assessments
in PLCs add to the collegial discussions and
quality of assessments
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What do we expect of our students?
Other practices to facilitate
collaboration
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Common Grade Level Planning meetings
Once a week, elementary grades meet for
one prep period to plan, discuss, evaluate
curriculum, assessments, and practices
Starting to build this process up into junior
high classes
Recap: Facilitation Practices
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Early out time to meet in PLCs
Calendar of meeting dates: early outs and
PLC Leaders
Goals to accomplish
Protocols to guide PLC discussions
Teacher Leaders’ evaluations
Common grade level meetings
Questions?
Thank you!
Contact Information
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Lakeview Public Schools
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Telephone: 507-423-5164
[email protected]
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Phone ext. 1323
[email protected]
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