ASCD COLLABORATIVE: An Urban District Experience

Outline

Presentation Outline
1. Urban Education Experience
• Equity
• Student Learning Outcomes
• Board Goals and Guardrails
Activity: Turn and Talk – What unique experience define your district?

2. Secondary Science Action Plan
• District-level Planning
• District-level Professional Learning Focus
• ASCD Professional Learning Partners
Activity: Small Groups - share table talk of their proposed action plan.

3. Year Long Professional Learning Model facilitated by ASCD
• The Model
• District-Wide Professional Learning for teachers and coaches (face-to-face)
• Monthly virtual training for Instructional Coaches, Master Teacher Leaders, and Department Chairs.

4. Outcomes, Impact, and Implications – Quarterly Reports
• SWOT Plan
• Local School Action Plan to address progress monitoring in collaboration with school leadership and teachers.
• Evaluation of Professional Learning Plan
Activity: Turn and Talk - How would you measure the impact of your plan?

5. Year 2 Continued Collaborations
• Continuing the model with a different focus
• Evaluation
Activity: Turn and Talk - What key words would describe continued collaboration?

Supporting research

Easton, Lois Brown (2011). Professional learning communities by design. Putting the learning back into PLCs. Corwin Press.

Green, E. (2014). Building a better teacher: How teaching works (and how to teach it to everyone). WW Norton and Company.

Windschitl, M., Thompson, J., Braatin, M. (2018). Ambitious Science Teaching. Harvard Education Press

Tweed, A. (2007). Designing effective science instruction: What works in science classrooms. NSTA Press, National Science Teacher Association.