Lisa Andrew & Dan Mason Santa Clara County Office of
Education Julia Sterne School City Using Data Protocols to
Strengthen Your PLC
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Agenda Welcome/Agenda Warm-Up Professional Learning Teams
Defined Team Roles and Responsibilities Focus on Learning Using
STARS Protocols
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Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen Gladwell (2002) identifies
three different types of people who help to make trends happen:
Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen. Read the three cards on your
table. Decide which card best describes you when you are at
work.
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Affinity Groups Once you have selected the card that best
describes you, move to the section of the room denoting your
choice. Discuss with others in your group: How your type will work
to ensure your grade level will stay motivated and engaged with PLT
work. How you will problem-solve when an issue arises in your PLT.
The best strategy (ies) for your principal to use to support
you.
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Outcomes Understand the cultural shifts that must occur when a
school decides to take action to ensure all students learn through
the use of a Professional Learning Community. Understand the
necessary conditions for high quality implementation of a
Professional Learning Community Understand how to plan and
facilitate successful PLT meetings And ultimatelyto affect student
achievement!
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What is a Professional Learning Team? In pairs, complete a
T-chart describing what a PLT is and what it is not Compare your
T-chart to page 24 Professional Learning Teams
Guiding Questions What do we want students to learn? How will
we know if each student has learned? How will we respond when some
students do not learn? How can we extend and enrich the learning
for students who have demonstrated proficiency? How do we ensure
equity of access and opportunity for each student?
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Roles and Responsibilities Review the Team Member
Responsibilities page. Circle the three that you feel will be
growth areas for your PLT. What strategies will you employ to
support this growth? Review the Facilitators Role and
Responsibilities Circle the three that you feel with be crucial to
your teams success.
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BREAK
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Moving From a Focus on Teaching to a Focus on Learning Focus on
teaching: what students should be learning and what assessments
should look like TO Focus on learning: monitoring whether or not
students are mastering required content, supporting students who
are not successful, and challenging those who are
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Developing SMART Goals Write the letters S-M-A-R-T going down
the back of your power point packet. As you watch the video segment
write the definition of each letter of the SMART goal acronym. Be
thinking about how SMART goals are similar and different than the
goals your grade level team has written in the past
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Developing SMART Goals With a partner, examine the completed
SMART goal worksheet. What parts will be familiar to your PLT? What
parts will be new for your PLT? Write a SMART goal that you would
like to explore today using data from STARS.
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Choosing a Data Protocol What questions should we ask when
deciding which protocol to use? Who in the PLC should choose the
protocol?
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Monitoring Progress on SMART Goals
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Conduct a PLC Meeting Form a group of three. Choose someones
SMART goal. Access data from STARS to monitor progress. Choose a
protocol to analyze data.
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Ahas, Oh Nos, What Abouts On a post-it record three AHAS from
the dayand post On a post-it record one Oh Nos from the day..and
post On a post-t record one What Aboutsand post
