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McClelland PL PD Day Retrospectives

Rochester School District

May 12, 2021

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Energy check: Where are you at today?

ONE	TWO	THREE

Put your response in the chat box

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Agenda + Objectives

Now:

Reflect on strengths and opportunities from this year
Identify priorities for next year
Plan for next steps

Overview + Objectives [5 minutes]
Revisiting + Reflecting on the Core 4 [30 min]
Current + Future Headlines [10 min]
PL Planning Time [15 minutes]
Close out and Next Steps [5 min]

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Refresher: PL Theory of Action

If we implement personalized learning, we’ll see...

Increased % of students "competent or above"

Increased student & teacher engagement and happiness

Increased student self-direction

Improved student behavior

Decreased volume of student re-assessment

Faculty meeting survey

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Refresher: District Commitments

COMMITMENT #1

All teachers will implement PL with a focus on all Core Four areas this year, but at their level of comfort. Student Reflection & Ownership is the first priority.

COMMITMENT #2

Each school selects 1-3 instructional models. Every grade level or content area will customize one or more instructional model(s) to support existing district goals. Teachers will customize these base models for their classrooms.

COMMITMENT #3

Targeted instruction should occur in groups of 7 students or less at least once per week.

COMMITMENT #4

Students will reflect on their classroom learning activities (what works well/what is difficult) and offer evidence of mastery on each competency.

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Refresher: Core 4 and Instructional Models

Our focus today!

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Before We Break Into Teams...

Take a few minutes to review the Core 4 Continuum + Look Fors. Individually reflect on...

What were your biggest wins this year?
What do you continue to see as an opportunity for growth?

This will help inform your discussions as a PL Team in the next section.

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Pt 1: Reflect in School Teams [26 minutes]

1 minutes	Assign Notetaker + Timekeeper + Facilitator
20 minutes	Answer these 2 questions for each area of the Core 4: What were your biggest wins this year? What do you continue to see as an opportunity for growth?
5 minutes	What trends did you notice?

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Targeted Instruction - Kindergarten

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Our data cycles have been extremely successful in tracking student progress
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Next year we are hopeful to add in small groups We are also hoping to combine different classrooms to target specific skills

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Student Ownership and Reflection - Kindergarten

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Students are invested in tracking their success through Boom Card completion Students are comfortable and encouraged to share their thoughts aloud
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Bring back the visual success walls

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Flexible Content and Tools - Kindergarten

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
iPads!!!!!!!!!! Boom cards, IXL, Amplify, Khan Academy, Everyday Math Navigating Google Classroom Independently scanning QR codes
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Exploring more online platforms, including Seesaw

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Data Driven Decisions - Kindergarten

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
We progressed monitored monthly- even during remote We’ve learned how to utilize online platforms to drive instruction
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Incorporate a visual success wall

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Targeted Instruction - 1st

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Teacher formatively assesses students and adjusts instruction in real-time There are clear routines and procedures in place to support the teacher’s PL instructional model and allow for targeted instruction
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Be able to have differentiated groups and stations

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Student Ownership and Reflection - 1st

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?

Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Use of digital or paper student reflection tools (reflection sheets, notebooks, journals, self-assessment manipulatives)

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Flexible Content and Tools - 1st

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Students have access to a variety of online and/or offline content that meets their needs or interests Online and offline resources are aligned and integrated to promote learning goals Students are assigned or select digital content based on needs (either by group or individually); when applicable lessons are assigned within content providers
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Students are assigned or select digital content based on needs (either by group or individually); when applicable lessons are assigned within content providers

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Data Driven Decisions - 1st

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Visual tracking of student progress (data-walls, individual student trackers) that is frequently updated Teacher uses a do now and/or exit slip that measures student skill/knowledge mastery Teacher uses a do now and/or exit slip that measures student skill/knowledge mastery
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?

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Targeted Instruction - 2nd

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Reflex Math IXL Prodigy SeeSaw Data cycles
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Normal school year to have more small group instruction Make time for small group instruction

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Student Ownership and Reflection - 2nd

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Goal setting SeeSaw Students are more independent
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Reflect more on goals and how to use the goals as teachable moments

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Flexible Content and Tools - 2nd

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Reflex Math IXL Prodigy SeeSaw Data cycles
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Normal school year to have more small group instruction

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Data Driven Decisions - 2nd

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Data cycles Reflex data DIBELS + NWEA scores
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Utilizing tier time Data team meetings (Common Planning Time)

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Targeted Instruction - 3rd

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Remotely continued to meet with tier groups. Informal/formal assessments used to create groupings
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Fitting CKLA instruction in with the timing and continuing to do small groups

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Student Ownership and Reflection - 3rd

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
IXL allowed students to see where they were and what they needed to focus on, strengths and weaknesses. Reinforcing growth mindset terminology and attitudes Exit tickets, thumbs up/thumbs down or written Must Do/May Do allowed students to select content area they wanted to work on Fact fluency goals on student desks
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Providing more opportunities for self selection in their learning and reflection. Continue to provide ample opportunities for reflection and discussion about learning.

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Flexible Content and Tools - 3rd

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Must Do/May Do allowed for students to select skills they worked IXL, ReadWorks, Epic!, XtraMath, Amplify, freckle
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Utilize IXL groupings more frequently to meet with kids in small groups that continue to struggle on the same skills Incorporating tools into our new reading curriculum

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Data Driven Decisions - 3rd

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Using IXL/Xtramath and other online program scores to create small groups, areas to focus on reteaching, understanding masterys in various areas. Dibels and Daze scores used to create small groups Used NWEA to aid in determining initial groupings
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Utilizing Tier time Data Meetings held to discuss student progress

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Targeted Instruction - 4th

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Able to focus more on digital platforms to target instruction this year. NWEA skill plans in IXL
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Targeting instruction in the new normal and utilizing small groups more efficiently.

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Student Ownership and Reflection - 4th

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Ability to use self-reflection at the end of lessons with thumbs up and down via Meet. Wellness check-ins Red/Yellow/Green bins for submitting work
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Consistent utilization of the color coded bins and check-ins to plan for future instruction.

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Flexible Content and Tools - 4th

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Digital tools for differentiation and whole group. Menus
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Flexible content in the new normal with more face to face and less digital. Limiting digital tools to help the efficiency/intent of the useful ones Streamlining digital tools across grade level cohorts. (k-2) (3-5)

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Data Driven Decisions - 4th

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
NWEA skill groupings on IXL Small groups - in previous years
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Utilizing DIBELS scores more effectively

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Targeted Instruction - 5th

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
We were able to meet with small groups at least one time a week, especially in math. Use of exit tickets to help determine groupings Utilization of special ed and para support
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Consistent reading tier meetings Trying to work small group into Reading with CKLA Better utilization of special ed and para supports

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Student Ownership and Reflection - 5th

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
Use of exit tickets to determine skill levels and understanding IXL -- smart scores and trouble spots, suggested and recommended activities.
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
Incorporate self direction with students more consistently - perhaps have a hanging poster and ask them to score self direction on their papers Use of exit tickets to determine skill levels and understanding

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Flexible Content and Tools - 5th

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
1 on 1 device distribution IXL - skill plans (NWEA, EDM) Google classroom ReadWorks, NewsELA, EdPuzzle, Mystery Science
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
More offline materials, especially for higher achieving students

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Data Driven Decisions - 5th

Celebrate Success: What have we done well this year?
NWEA -RIT score bands to help with needs/groupings Use of EXIT tickets
Plan Forward: What remains an opportunity for growth?
More student led tracking of data

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Reflecting:

Future Headlines

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FUTURE headline.

Coming together to make the imPAWSsible PAWSsible.

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Closing and Next Steps:

Now:

Please take the closing survey to share what worked + what support you might need moving forward.

Moving Forward:

The balance of early release is meant to be collaborative and an extension of our retrospective of PL. What are you currently planning/doing with a colleague in CKLA, EM4, writing, or a Science Performance Assessment that you can benefit from additional time on? Grab a colleague and go to work! (This can be for this school year or next!)

Let us know how we can support you!

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