Professional development is best when it is job embedded and not extra. Teachers and leaders working collaboratively regularly over time in cycles of professional learning creates a culture of inquiry and prototyping.

 

My Approach

 

GOALS

  • Move from compliance to competence

  • Try “Team time” for 10 minutes Collaborative Structure “meetings” focus on compliance and will often feel punitive and disengaging even if you built in the best ice breaker or game.

  • Use our collaborative time to build competence in whatever area where focus is needed to “deepen” the work and serve clients effectively.

  • Voice + Choice: Engage and  meet the learner where they are

  • Build confidence

My approach to designing effective adult professional learning is much like I approach classroom teaching –  make it engaging and intellectually challenging, build in choice and hands on activities, and enhance the learning through technology.

I stay away from talk heavy, text laden power points and design workshops to facilitate contextualized learning and doing using strong visuals, tight content and collaborative illustrative tasks.



  • Teacher teams create shared lesson plans, implement the lesson and analyze the effectiveness of the lesson and identify PD needs.

    Download the Heinemann Lesson Study Step by Step

  • Teacher teams choose students that represent different groups (EL, SPED, GATE, etc.) and look closely at how practices work with each group to identify best practices and PD needs.

    Download the Focal Student Strategy

  • Teacher teams analyze random student work samples for patterns of strengths and weaknesses to identify best practices and PD needs.

    Download a Student Work Protocol

English Learners

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Special Education

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Distance Learning

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Curriculum Development

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Equitable Systems Design

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Task Development

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MTSS

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Anti-Racist Education

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