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LCPS Learning Walks + Strategy Session

November 20 or November 21

Waves 1-3 Sustained Support

Agenda: bit.ly/PLatLoudoun → Learning Walks → Wave 1-3

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Stand Up for Connections before Content

I believe in the power of _______________.

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Try Standing Up vs Sitting Down with Check-ins

Try doing a stand up at your next leadership meeting

Build deep trust by creating space where people feel open to share.

Why stand up vs sitting down?

Focused and short
Stronger eye contact
More energy

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Agenda

Opening
Learning Walks in Classrooms
Strategy Session

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Leadership Academy I

Today

Cultivate Curiosity

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Resources and Information for Today

Agenda (Slides Optional)	Leadership Playbook	Ways to engage today

Post on Twitter #LoudounPL

Callouts throughout to guide you in the Leadership Playbook

Lightbulb=Idea to share w/ your school

Agenda: bit.ly/PLatLoudoun → Learning Walks → Wave 1-3

Try doing a stand up at your next leadership meeting

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Leadership Playbook: Recording Learnings

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Host Schools Share Your Journey (10-15 mins)

What has your school team focused on?

What problem(s) were you trying to solve?

How are you supporting the efforts?

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What has your school team focused on?

What problem(s) were you trying to solve?

How are you supporting the efforts?

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What has your school team focused on?

What problem(s) were you trying to solve?

How are you supporting the efforts?

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What has your school team focused on?

What problem(s) were you trying to solve?

How are you supporting the efforts?

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What has your school team focused on?

What problem(s) were you trying to solve?

How are you supporting the efforts?

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What has your school team focused on?

What problem(s) were you trying to solve?

How are you supporting the efforts?

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What has your school team focused on?

What problem(s) were you trying to solve?

How are you supporting the efforts?

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What has your school team focused on?

What problem(s) were you trying to solve?

How are you supporting the efforts?

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What has your school team focused on?

What problem(s) were you trying to solve?

How are you supporting the efforts?

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Host Schools Share Journey Resources

WEDNESDAY November 20, 2019	THURSDAY November 21, 2019
Frederick Douglass ES Click here for more info	Ball’s Bluff ES Click here for more info
Sterling MS Click here for more info	Tolbert ES Click here for more info
Stone Hill MS Click here for more info	Sully ES Click here for more info
Park View HS Click here for more info	Discovery ES Click here for more info

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Visiting Schools Ask Questions + Reactions (5-10 mins)

How did you create a community of learners around _____________?

Why is it that _________________?

What makes ____________________ possible?

Our school has been exploring ______________ but __________________.

Our school leaders are trying to figure out _________________________.

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“A leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding the potential in people and processes.”

Brenė Brown, Best-Selling Author

Opening
Learning Walks in Classrooms
Strategy Session

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Prep for Learning Walks (10 mins)

What classrooms will we be visiting and why have they been selected?
When we are walking the school we will be looking for ___________

Core 4 Look For’s Tool
Focus area shared from opening

Identify groups for walks and host school guide - See Schedule
Roles and Norms
We will meet back here at … (in 40 minutes)

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Prep for Learning Walks: Schedule & Groups

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Prep for Learning Walks: Roles

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Debrief Learning Walks (15 mins)

A few things we learned from the classroom visits:

What was your team’s take away?
How can you increase ____________ in your classrooms?
What support might you need?

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“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.”

Sheryl Sanberg, COO of Facebook

Opening
Learning Walks in Classrooms
Strategy Session

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Looking Back at Know Yourself + Nurture Trust

bit.ly/innovativeleaderquiz

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Recap of Breakouts from Leadership Academy I

25 mins	PL Station Planning for PL This Year Instructional Models & Core 4	Leadership Station Building Powerful PL through Nurturing Trust	Independent Exploration Innovative Leadership Exploration
10-15 mins	Processing time, meet up with your leadership team, take a break, connect with others
20 mins	PL Station Building Capacity & Growing PL Personalized PD Share Time	Leadership Station Structures & Habits to Cultivate Curiosity	Independent Exploration Innovative Leadership Exploration

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Loudoun + PL Reflections: Leadership Academy I

Insert Closing Survey Data

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Collaborative Call Recap

Breakout Session 30 minutes to Spark, Expand, Practice, and Apply		Try the Habit Next 2 weeks	Collaborative Calls 30 mins to Debrief

SPARK	EXPAND	PRACTICE	APPLY		DEBRIEF

October 30

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Collaborative Call Recap

(pull a brief summary of collab call and link to slides)

Insert Collab Call Recap

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We will follow this learning cycle

Today

SPARK	EXPAND	PRACTICE	APPLY	DEBRIEF
Inspiration to illustrate why the habit needs to change	Resource or tool to build understanding of the habit	Activity to practice the habit in a safe environment	Plan for trying the habit in the real world	Reflection on trying the habit + future iterations

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Growing as a Leader

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Cultivate Curiosity	Build Community
Develops empathy and knowledge by asking questions, listening, and engaging with new ideas. Seek Learning Share Learnings Promote Learning	Curates inspiring, diverse, networked communities that support connection and collaboration. Create Shared Purpose Support Collaboration Build Networked Communities

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Spark: Blind Portrait Drawing

	1. Pair up into groups of 2.
	2. Draw a portrait of the person sitting across from them. Both partners are drawing simultaneously. Do not look down at your paper while drawing. Do not lift your marker/pen at any time.
	3. Show and celebrate your masterpieces. Write partner’s name on the paper. Write 3 positive qualities of the person you drew.

Blind Portrait Drawing (2 mins): A quick way to create bonds and connect between strangers, or deepen connections between people who you already know really well. It really focuses on building a community and cultivating curiosity in one and other. Resource: https://playonpurpose.com/

How to play:

Have groups split off into groups of 2, sitting across from each other.
Explain they will be drawing a portrait of the person sitting across from them. Both partners will be drawing simultaneously.
Rules:

They can’t look down at the paper they are drawing on.
They can’t lift their pen at any time during the drawing, so it will be one continuous line drawing.

Have everyone start at the same time and give them no more than 1 minute to complete the drawing on their partner.
Have partners show and celebrate their masterpieces with each other!
Have them write the name of their partner and three positive qualities they observed in the person they drew.
Sign the portrait, and give it to their partner as a gift and artifact.

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Cultivate Curiosity & Build Community w/ Psychological Safety

“Who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions.”

A group from Google’s People Operations (what we call HR) set out to answer this question using data and rigorous analysis: What makes a Google team effective? Over two years they conducted 200+ interviews with Googlers (our employees) and looked at more than 250 attributes of 180+ active Google teams. We were pretty confident that we'd find the perfect mix of individual traits and skills necessary for a stellar team -- take one Rhode Scholar, two extroverts, one engineer who rocks at AngularJS, and a PhD. Voila. Dream team assembled, right?

Let’s dig in a bit more to what we mean when we say psych safety and how it relates to build community and cultivate curiosity on a team and why it matters for your school teams to be effective.

https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successful-google-team/

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Expand Knowledge

Take notes while watching the video to process the key takeaways.

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Key Ways to Cultivate Curiosity & Build Community

Frame the work as a learning problem.

“We’ve never done this before, we can’t know what will happen; we’ve got to have everyone’s input and voice in the game.”

Acknowledge your own fallibility.

“I may miss something; I need to hear from you.”

Model curiosity.

“Every time we withhold, we rob ourselves and our colleagues of small moments of learning.”

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Reflect as a Team (5 mins)

Pick 1 to Focus On: Cultivate Curiosity + Build Community

PRACTICE

HABIT

IDENTITY

For your school:

What will your identity be around cultivate curiosity or build community?

For your school:

What habit(s) need to exist for your school to get to that identity?

For your school:

Pick 1-2 daily practices that need to exist to get to the habit(s).

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Build Knowledge: Cultivate Curiosity + Build Community

EE develop the Spark, Expand
**EE build knowledge (expand)
Chart paper around the room (i.e. how their artifact relates to one of these words)

Empathy
Asking questions/listening
___________
Collaboration

Note: 2 for each competency

If you want to learn more about empathy… (practice)
What is something we heard today that we want to apply? (Apply) with your team

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Snapshot of PL Support This Year

Leadership Academy I (October)

Each school attends one half day

Learning Walks + Strategy Sessions (November)

Hosted at 8 of the schools

Leadership Academy II (March)

Each school attends one half day

Learning Walks + Strategy Sessions (April)

Hosted at 8 of the schools

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Closing and Next Steps

Share with PL Team & Staff	Think about ways to share what we did today with your PL Team & Staff We encourage you to utilize your leadership playbook and DIFs
Collaborative Calls	Collaborative Calls Schedule January 13, 2020 from 9:00 - 9:45 AM February 10, 2020 from 9:00 - 9:45 AM May 1, 2020 from 11:15 - 12:00 PM

Closing Survey

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Kelly Freiheit

kelly@edelements.com

Natalie Woods

natalie@edelements.com

Agenda: bit.ly/PLatLoudoun → Learning Walks → Wave 1-3

www.edelements.com

@edelements

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Appendix

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Loudoun + PL Updates: Growing PL Practices

55 PL Schools implementing PL across Loudoun County.	86% of school leaders say teachers are more effective.	84% of school leaders say PL has had a positive impact on teaching & learning.	92% of ES students say adults encourage them to think about different ways to solve problems.
We have added 10-15 schools per Wave and are now implementing PL in 34 ES, 16 MS, and 6 HS.	86% of school leaders say teachers are more effective since embracing PL practices.	According to school leaders since Fall 2016 to Spring 2019, we saw a 19% increase in teacher effectiveness and collaboration since implementing PL.	5000 teachers and leaders have been trained in Project-Based Learning practices. In addition, 82% of high school students say adults encourage them to think about different ways to solve problems.

Agenda: bit.ly/PLatLoudoun → PL Workshops → Wave 1-3

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Where have you seen the biggest change as a result of personalized learning at your school and/or district?

Student engagement has skyrocketed! We have also seen significant improvement in the level of engagement in our gifted students.

- School Leader

People are more collaborative because learning something new creates levels of vulnerability in everyone. This allows teachers to be more open to support each other.

- School Leader

[Students] are able to choose exactly what they need to be successful and monitor their progress in a clear and meaningful way.

- Teacher

Students are much more engaged in their learning when they have more choice and appear much more invested in their own progress when they are working at their ideal level and pace.

- Teacher

My teachers have become much more collaborative since we started PL. They support one another with their ideas and suggestions.

- School Leader

Teachers are more aware of individual students ' needs and this has changed how they assess students ' progress . Teachers ' classroom setups look completely different than before we were a PL school.

- School Leader

I have seen a change in the excitement about learning.

- School Leader

Reaching all learners at their level, both students that need the extra support and students that need enrichment.

- School Leader

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Loudoun + PL Updates: District Support

DIFs and PL Champs

Division Instructional Facilitators and PL Champs are supporting development and delivery of content

Curriculum Documents

Aligned to Project-based learning, personalized learning and performance based assessments

Development of PL Strategic Action

Continued professional learning around PL as a support for project based learning and performance assessments

Planning for Wave 5

Strategically discussing future waves of PL schools

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Our hope for our time together this year ...

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

Leaders value the time to collaborate with one another

APPLICABILITY

Leaders appreciate immediate application to their jobs.

UTILITY

We can utilize leadership resources and structures to other projects (PL, PBL, PBA, etc.)

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Why This Work, Why Now

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Responsive Classrooms

Strengths, needs, and interests of students are at the center. Students are co-owners of their learning, and teachers feel safe to make their own decisions.

Innovative School Leaders

Create an environment where innovative practices are “safe enough to try.” Leaders can self-identify areas of strength and growth.

Responsive Organization

LCPS has common systems and procedures to navigate decision-making. LCPS collects data from a variety of stakeholders on a regular cycle to make iterations.

Responsive School Teams

Teams have clear habits of how to collaborate with each other. There is joint ownership and agency over team practices.

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Growing as a Leader

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Know Yourself	Nurture Trust
Understanding how personal experiences, values, and strengths impact practices and interactions Know my personal story Recognize my strengths Identify my leadership philosophy	Building deep trust by creating space where people feel safe to share feedback and ask questions. Model Vulnerability Build Deep Relationships Celebrate Risk-Taking

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bit.ly/innovativeleaderquiz

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Know Yourself as a Leader

GENERAL

You prefer to control the flow of information and use a centralized decision-making system.

Characteristics: Natural leader; Goal-centered; Task-oriented; Assertive; Decisive; Confident; Competitive

PLANNER�

You prefer to develop detailed plans and seek perfection in planning and execution.

Characteristics: Natural planner; Analytical; Organized; Focused; Industrious; Structured

PEACEMAKER

You prefer to build consensus and include as many people as possible in decision making.

Characteristics: Natural team player; Process-centered; Good listener; Non-confrontational; Patient; Understanding

CLEANER�You prefer to minimize failure and to avoid making mistakes in your work and leadership.

Characteristics: Natural Perfectionist; Quality-centered; Logical; Exact; Independent

5 mins: Build a house

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Independent Reflection (5 mins)

Leadership Playbook: Find copies in front of binder

PL Team Takes Leadership Quiz, reflects & shares

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GENERAL

CLEANER

PEACEMAKER

PLANNER

strengths

growth areas

Nurture Trust

Focus on Purpose

Decide Deliberately

Distribute Power

Know Yourself

Show Appreciation

Cultivate Curiosity

Build Community

Know Yourself

Focus on Purpose

Decide Deliberately

Show Appreciation

Nurture Trust

Distribute Power

Cultivate Curiosity

Build Community

Know Yourself

Show Appreciation

Cultivate Curiosity

Build Community

Nurture Trust

Focus on Purpose

Decide Deliberately

Distribute Power

Know Yourself

Nurture Trust

Focus on Purpose

Distribute Power

Cultivate Curiosity

Decide Deliberately

Show Appreciation

Build Community

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Leadership Playbook: Innovative Leadership

3 mins: Reflect

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Underline the TEN values that are most important to you

Circle the FIVE that are the

most important

Now, identify the THREE most important values to you. These are your three core values.

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How Do Your Values Support Your Leadership Style

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Find tab “Innovative Leadership”

& add behind

Know Yourself

Each person will have 3 mins to share.

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Optional: School Team Reflection

Reflect with your leadership team you have with you today to consider ways you have fostered innovation at your school. What data may help inform your discussion and help you set your focus for this year?

Leadership Playbook: Innovative Leadership

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Shifting to Responsive Planning

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Connecting Leadership Practices to PL

Leadership Competency

Applied PL Knowledge Building

Alignment of our support to teachers

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Connecting Leadership Practices to PL

What is personalized learning?
Personalized Learning is dynamically tailoring learning experiences to students’ strengths, needs and/or interests.
Why personalized learning at Loudoun?
Personalized Learning provides multiple pathways for students to access and show mastery of academic content, and prepares them to become critical thinkers, communicators, collaborators, creators, and contributors
How does personalized learning come to life in schools?
Personalized Learning is one of the LCPS Building Blocks for Deeper Learning. There is not a one size fits all model for Personalized Learning. Schools have identified structures and areas of focus based on the needs of the students and teachers. Personalized Learning, PBL and PBA lead to deeper learning by enhancing student agency, providing students opportunities to reflect on their learning, and engaging them in solving authentic, challenging problems.

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What we heard: What is one pivot your school is making this year around your PL implementation?

Focusing on student ownership and reflection

PL interwoven with PBL, MTSS, 5 C’s, etc.

Supporting and infusing PL within CLTs

Growing with authenticity, collaboration, accountability

Expanding to additional grade levels and new staff

Personalizing professional learning

See more here

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Choose your path

25 mins	PL Station Planning for PL This Year Instructional Models & Core 4	Leadership Station Building Powerful PL through Nurturing Trust	Independent Exploration Innovative Leadership Exploration
10-15 mins	Processing time, meet up with your leadership team, take a break, connect with others
20 mins	PL Station Building Capacity & Growing PL Personalized PD Share Time	Leadership Station Structures & Habits to Cultivate Curiosity	Independent Exploration Innovative Leadership Exploration

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	DISTRIBUTE POWER	Designs systems that empower others to be decision makers and innovators

Safe enough to try
Self- Management
Build Effective Systems

Defining the work that needs to be done to support Fall community events

Henderson County School District, TN

The principal at Westover ES worked with her leadership team to define the work of community events for the Fall. As a team, they defined the work that needed to get done prior to identifying owners to the work. At leadership meetings, the leaders check-in on the progress of the work.

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	DECIDE DELIBERATELY	Makes responsive decisions guided by priorities, purpose, and data from real experiences

Codify personal decision making process
Create systems for decision making
Plan for change and think about possible outcomes

Reflect and iterate on the practices as a team

Middletown City Schools, NY

The leadership team took time to reflect on the team practices that happen during their meetings. As leaders reflected, they began to brainstorm what habits they wanted to establish and test out as a team. They recognized that the practices that they had developed already were starting to become a part of their team’s identity.

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	CULTIVATE CURIOSITY	Develops empathy and knowledge by asking questions, listening, and engaging with new ideas.

Seek Learnings
Share Learnings
Promote Learning

Observing student work to determine data groupings

Putnam County School System, TN

The leaders and teachers use internal learning walks to observe the actions of students during targeted instruction to see if it aligns to the data groupings. They are using the PLC time to discuss what is working and not working with specific students; the learning walks allow leaders and teachers to provide specific examples of how it’s playing out.

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	BUILD COMMUNITY	Curates inspiring, diverse, networked communities that support connection & collaboration.

Create Shared Purpose
Support Collaboration
Build Networked Communities

Districts new strategic plan aligns to #WEarePersonalized

Lakota Local Schools, OH

Students were leading the Curriculum Nights in Lakota Local Schools and showcasing how their work is personalized to their learning. Throughout the district, all the schools are using the same hashtags to promote the new strategic plan which highlights personalized learning as a priority area.

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What problem(s) were you trying to solve?

Know Yourself
Compass Points (TLI) with entire staff
**picture of compass in Collab Lab**
Nurturing Trust
Comet Collab Lab - shared collaborative space, teacher ownership, norms, teacher work, grounding
FAC
Morning meetings as a staple to the Second Step program
Build Community
Recognized that the path a novice teacher and experienced teacher took for instruction was not the same; novice teachers needed additional support by providing a full-day planning day for Grades 3-5
Second Step program PreK-5
House System
Arreya Digital Signage
Weekly teacher & school newsletters & monthly collaborative team newsletters
Weekly staff newsletter
Focus on Purpose
Teachers new to PL attended the PL FlexShop training together

Decide Deliberately
Created a shared purpose through 21-day Relaunch
SILT & FAC are collaboratively used to make decisions which impact students, teachers, and families
3-5 goal setting conferences with students to include them in decision-making process and to build ownership
Data-driven, targeted small-group instruction
Distribute Power
Supported collaboration through re-structuring CLTs aligned to PL, Reading, Math
Building capacity in teams to be decision-makers in their CLTs
Cultivate Curiosity
Personalized professional learning experiences for teachers in response to teacher feedback
Second Step SEL program PreK-5
Show Appreciation
Snaps, Gratitude Tree (picture), positive feedback for classroom visits, feedback from PL visitors