Professional+Learning+Standards

Process: I appreciated the presenters use of different processes for engaging in the learning. There were useful protocols shared that I can take back and utilize in future trainings to engage learners and allow for collaborative processing of information. Content: using the stories in the Playbook for Professional Learning as considerations for how we might build our system. || Joellen Killion, Rene Islas || Arianne || * Learning Forward developed a tool to measure the implementation of the Standards for Professional Learning: Standards Assessment Inventory 2 (SAI2) Results can me used to measure the quality of professional learning, examine change over time (Are efforts made to improve professional learning have an impact?), and identify strengths and areas for improvement. || Need to measure each part and put the parts together to measure the effectiveness of professional learning - effective professional learning * change in educator knowledge, skills, disposition, and practice * change in student learning Go to www.learningforward.org/stateproflearning to view report from two schools evaluating the effects of their professional learning || 1. Compared foci for three evaluation tools - Danielson Framework - Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (missing classroom environment) - ECOT (missing Classroom Environment - Culture for Learning and Managing Routines)
 * Topic ||  || Mana'o ||
 * **Professional Learning Standards**
 * Playbook** Stephanie Hirsch, Shirley Hord || Arianne || * This professional resource is created to assist in evaluating professional learning in relationship to the standards for professional learning.
 * Stories are included for each standard. These may be useful in starting conversations around professional learning.
 * Analysis and advice are provided for each story. ||
 * || Jeannine || Implications for my work:
 * **Measuring the Implementation of the Standards for Professional**
 * Learning**
 * It can provide information on perceptions of professional learning.
 * || Jeannine || Measuring the Implementation of the Standards for Professional Learning How do we measure the effects of professional learning?
 * **Improving Student Achievement Through Effective Teacher Evaluations** || Phyllis || Session Summary:

2. Last hundred years of teacher evaluation teacher characteristics - helpfulness and appearance conducting characteristics to student achievement teacher behaviors - what do teachers do or not do? Moving to using evaluation being accurate and used for employment and support decisions

What does an effective evaluation program focused on growth focus

- tie into data collection and using for decision-making about what to focus on for professional learning.

3. Validity predictive validity - does it measure what it says it measures trustworthiness clear standards - what are the goals and what is being measured? multiple ratings multiple measures frequency

Significance - need to lead somewhere; data needs to be used to improve not only the teacher's performance as well as the system's performance.

Reflections/thoughts for KWO: Need to build a data system that collects performance information and supports decision making regarding professional learning focus, targeted participants to support, and delivery models. I think we need to do this first so that our systems building has purpose and focus to support long term decision-making through the collection of the right data. || Some Common Core Balances: Narrative and informational text Literacy across all disciplines Core standards across the states Rich content with relevant processes Academic learning with real world applications ||
 * **Teaching Thinking in the Common Core State Standards** || Jeannine || Teaching Thinking in the Common Core State Standards This session covered basic information about the Common Core State Standards robinfogarty.com to see the list of high frequency words from the common core (shows the cognitive operations)