Queens Grove Elementary Professional Development Plan

Action Plan
Goal: Improve staff collaboration and professional development to increase student achievement.
Subgoals:

Implement PLCs to drive professional development and staff collaboration (both within Muir and with feeder schools)
Rationale: The sharing of ideas, methods, and materials, as well as the continued study of best educational practices and research, is vital to
maintaining exceptional teaching skills and holding our teachers to the highest standards of the profession. The teacher survey indicates that teachers
are eager to collaborate with their colleagues but would like more control over collaboration time and content. Additionally, teachers would like more
training in areas that they feel would most keenly impact their teaching and student achievement.
Growth Targets:

Use 100% of allotted collaboration time to address the collaborative needs of teachers, as established by the Collaboration Team.

Make data analysis an essential part of the professional culture. Designate/appropriate/establish collaborative time to discuss and
analyze data on a regular basis during faculty meetings, department meetings, and collaborations so all teachers understand what the
numbers mean and how to use data to inform instruction.

Provide training and ongoing support or technological expertise to ensure that 100% of teachers and administrators have the skills to
use software for their subject area such as Accelerated Reader, ancillary materials and curriculum resources.

All staff will also receive adequate training in Aeries, Data Director, IEP-Pro , IEP writing, district email, Cisco phones, LCD
projectors, and the internet to ensure that teachers can use these technologies and the various software to improve instruction and
provide new ways for students to access content and master standards.

Phase in training in explicit-direct instruction (EDI) and begin to incorporate EDI teaching methods into the classroom when
appropriate. Integrate discussions about EDI into professional discussions so EDI strategies become part of the culture at Muir.

Develop pacing guides for all courses to be used by all teachers. Work in departments to determine the best ways to apply the content of
pacing guides to classes at Muir.

Develop an articulation plan with feeder middle schools to map curriculum and to develop an eighth-to-ninth grade transition
program.

Link(s) to ESLRs:

Tasks

Identify, develop and evaluate solutions to problems through critical thinking to improve the learning community.
Realize that anything is possible for the determined and motivated individual who strives to be a lifelong learner.

Responsible
Person(s)
Involved
PLCs

3.1 Establish a Collaboration

Team of multi-disciplinary
Admin
teachers who are committed to
planning relevant and effective
MLT
collaboration and professional
development. The
Collaboration
Team will:
Represent the needs of
their PLC but plan for
the school as a whole.
Design content area and
cross-curricular
collaboration
opportunities to
strengthen Muirs
academic program
based on the analysis of
student academic
achievement, including
a continued focus on
writing across the
curriculum and highyield strategies.
Create a professional
development plan
aligned with the
districts plan.
Advise the

Implementati
on Strategies
Create a
curriculum
map to
discover
connections
and relevant
integration
opportunities.

Professional
Development/
Resources
District
collaboration days

Means to Assess
Improvement

Timeline

Collaboration
Team

Establish first

District
minimum days

agendas and
minutes

District
professional
development

Teacher survey
results

annual team in

Time at
department
meetings for
collaboration

Teacher feedback
form
each
professional
development event
and at the end of the
school year
Classroom walkthrough visuals
Student
performance

May 2011 for

remainder of
10- 11 and 1112; develop
each successive
year's
calendar by
June
of preceding
school year;
assess
continuously,
but specifically
at each
Collaboration
Team meetings
and year in total
each May.

Estimated
Cost

Reporting

Collaboration
Team meetings
Faculty meetings
Administrative
Team meetings
Department
meetings
Department Chairs
meetings
School Site
Council
meetings

administration on use
of professional
development money.
Design collaboration
and professional
development for
collaboration days,
minimum days, and
summer trainings,
develop a calendar, and
document /keep records
of professional
development.
Assess success of
collaboration and
professional
development through
reflection, monitoring,
and analysis of student
work.

3.2 Develop an articulation plan

with feeder middle schools to
map curriculum and to develop
an eighth-to- ninth grade
program.

Muir Department
Chairs
Counselors
Feeder School
Counselors

Review and
plan weekly
lessons using
the curriculum
map during
academy
meetings

Summer PD on
curriculum
integration

Collaboration time
for Muir
representatives and
feeder school
representatives.
Pacing guides

Admin Team

Initial meeting
spring 2011 to
plan 11-12
calendar;
continued
articulation
annually
ongoing.

PD Cost for
Summer of
2011
Planning
Meetings

Single Plan
Certification Reports
for each academy

CDE content area

standards

Teachers

3.3 Continue to discuss and

analyze data as a faculty to
better understand what the
numbers indicate and to
determine how teachers can
use the data to improve
instruction.

PLC Team

School Plan

Department
Chairs

DataDirector
District/LACOE
reports

Faculty
understanding of
API, AYP, CST,
and
CAHSEE data
Teacher survey
results

Spring 2011 and

ongoing

Faculty meetings
Department Chairs
meetings
Department
meetings

SST
Data presentations and

Agendas and

Administrative

discussions will take place

during faculty meetings,
Department Chairs meetings,
Collaboration
Team meetings,
department meetings,
School Site Council
meetings, and
Administrative Team meetings.

coordinator
meetings

Team meetings

presentations
and handouts from
meetings

School Site
Council meetings

Collaboration
Team meetings

Site level data

3.4 Write and revise curriculum

guides for all courses and
implement effectively.

Teachers by
course
and department

Become familiar with how

benchmark assessments
align to pacing guides
and how to use these tests
to improve students
learning, including sharing
and modifying teaching
strategies.

District
Leadership

Parent Night
Community
Forums

District Subject
Area
Coordinators
PLC Leaders

All teachers

District Office
coordination,
including
leadership of
Assistant
Superintendent
for
Curriculum, and
Subject
Area Coordinators
Summer
collaboration
time for teachers
to
develop drafts

pacing guides to
plan instruction.

3.5 Provide faculty with adequate

minutes
from faculty
meetings

Certification

Completed
curriculum
guides for all
courses
Department
meetings

Chairs
meetings

Printing
costs

Benchmark-related
collaboration

Class time to
administer
benchmark
assessments
CDE content area
standards

Teacher feedback

Faculty meetings
Department Chairs
Meetings

meetings
Administrative
Team meetings
Collaboration
Team meetings

Audits by the
Assistant
Superintendent for
Curriculum

Collaboration
time for
teachers to revise
drafts
and discuss
benchmarks
and
implementation

Time for training

Guides for first

round of courses
complete during
the 2011-2012
school year, all
other guides
complete during
2012 school
year, classroom
use ongoing

School Site
Council meetings

Use of benchmark
tests to
improve instruction
and
learning

Teacher survey
results
Teacher evaluation
interviews
Technology teacher

Schedule of training

$500 for

Faculty meetings

technology training to further

the implementation of
technologies that assist
students in learning, teachers
in teaching, and all staff with
communication among the
school community.

Aeries IT Trainer
School Plan
trainers
Webmaster

tool needs to be
examined and
then the report
needs to be
written through
a collaborative
effort

Administrative
Team

sessions

guides

Computer labs
with
internet access

sessions
Record of computer
lab use

Aeries

Teacher survey
results

Accelerated
Reader

Classroom walkthrough visits

paper and
copying
costs for
printing the
report

Department Chairs
meetings
Department
meetings
Administrative
Team meetings
Collaboration
Team meetings

Aeries reports
Math
Student achievement
3.6 Provide professional
development training in
differentiated instruction
techniques with follow-up
collaborations to further
teachers skills in using EDI.

All teachers
Collaboration
Team
Administrative
Team
Department
Chairs

Peer
walkthroughs
can be used to
monitor and
motivate faculty
to post student
work and post
academy
representative
materials

Professional
development
funds
Collaboration
time

Formal
observations
Informal
observations
Peer walkthroughs

Collaboration
Team

EDI
training
sessions
Classroom walkthrough
visits
Teacher evaluations
Teacher survey
results

meetings
Student achievement

$300 for
printing
costs for
Academy
logo
posters

School Site
Council meetings
Faculty meetings
Department
meetings
Department Chairs
meetings
Administrative
Team meetings