Parma City School DistrictProfessional Learning Model

Committing to the CoreRethinking Mathematics & Literacy

for the 21st Century

LITERACY COACHESKellie Burke

Rena McClellan

MATH COACHESHeather Canzurlo

Sara Good

Rationale

http://www.learningforward.org/

The Standards for Professional Learning served to guide the learning design.

Learning Communities: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment.

Leadership: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires skillful leaders who develop capacity, advocate, and create support systems for professional learning.

Resources: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating resources for educator learning.

Data: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students uses a variety of sources and types of student, educator, and system data to plan, assess, and evaluate professional learning.

Learning Designs: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students integrates theories, research, and models of human learning to achieve its intended outcomes.

Implementation: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students applies research on change and sustains support for implementation of professional learning for long term change.

Outcomes: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students aligns its outcomes with educator performance and student curriculum standards.

Learning Communities

Each grade level (K-3) divided among three small cohortso Building teams were

intentionally split Grade-level cohorts

ranged from 15-25 participants

Cohorts comprised of both general education and special education teachers

Additional cohort of Title 1 teachers

Leadership

The district Race to the Top plan delineates a Common Core State Standards rollout

The Director of Elementary Teaching & Learning envisioned a comprehensive plan and support system for professional development

Leadership secured substitutes for teachers

Instructional Coaches charged with providing teacher training

Resources

Coaches researched materials from the growing body of Common Core Resources

Coaches synthesized and prioritized materials to create Alignment Resource Binders for Mathematics and Literacy

Videos from the authors of the CCSS

MATH BINDERThe binder has 5

main tabbed sections:

• Common Core State Standards• Learning Progressions • ODE• PARCC• Everyday MathPlease refer to your handout to see the table of contents for each section of the binder.

LITERACY BINDERThe binder is

tabbed by session number:

• Common Core State Standards• Learning Targets• Ten Guiding Principles • “The Six Minute Solution”• Text Complexity• Writing Please refer to your handout to see the table of contents for each section of the binder.

Data

• Student achievement data informed planning

• Exit Slips provided formative assessment data

• Coaches took notes and typed up Exit Slip responses which were emailed to cohort participants and leaders

• Participants completed district online evaluation

• Coaches responded to feedback with adjustments

TEACHER FEEDBACK“ I learned the importance/value of “rich tasks” and allowing children to “lead” their own problem solving.”

“I learned how misconceptions affect future mathematical understanding. I’ll stop now.”

“I liked meeting with other teachers around the district. This model gave me the opportunity to hear many different views other than my grademates’.

“It would be better for me to be with grademate to plan instruction better.”

“It was nice to be with the same group of teachers from other schools. I liked having the same group all 3 times with the Cohort A group.”

“I liked the small group over the year because we could share growth over the year. Building an environment in the classroom which supports viable arguments is very

important.”

Learning Designs

Coaches applied current adult learning theories during the planning phase

Coaches modeled research-based strategies while facilitating Sessionso Marzano and Max

Teaching strategies Coaches applied current

educational research to the design processo Hattie, Reeves

RESEARCH-BASED ACTIVITIES

Implementation

In order to sustain professional development, facilitators scheduled three full-day learning opportunities across the school year

Half of each Session devoted to Mathematics, and half to Literacy, so as to balance the learning

COMMITTING TO THE CORE SCHEDULE

GRADECOHOR

TSESSIO

N 1SESSIO

N 2SESSIO

N 3K A 11/22/11 2/16/12 3/22/12

K B 11/29/11 2/23/12 3/28/12

1 A 11/7/11 1/12/12 2/27/12

1 B 11/8/11 1/17/12 2/28/12

1 C 11/10/11 1/19/12 2/29/12

2 A 11/14/11 1/9/12 3/2/12

2 B 11/16/11 1/10/12 3/8/12

2 C 11/17/11 1/11/12 3/15/12

3 A 12/5/11 2/7/12 3/19/12

3 B 12/12/11 2/9/12 3/20/12

3 C 12/16/11 2/13/12 3/21/12

Title 1 A 12/16/11 3/6/12 3/12/12

Outcomes

Teachers must be sufficiently prepared to implement the CCSS with fidelity in their classrooms and prepare students to succeed on the forthcoming PARCC assessments in 2015

PCSD Instructional Framework

Overarching Learning Target

I can PLAN, ASSESS, and TEACH with intention, and in full alignment with the Common Core State Standards.

CONTENT OVERVIEWMATHEMATICS LITERACY

SESSION 1

• CCSS General Information• The Standards for Mathematical Practice• Creating a Community of Learners

• CCSS General Information• Model Curriculum• ELA Crosswalk

SESSION 2

• Structure & Organization of the CCSS-M• Curriculum Through the Common Core Lens• Rich Tasks

• Ten Guiding Principles • Creating Learning Targets

SESSION 3

• Common Misconceptions & Diagnostic Teaching• CGI Problem Structures• Key Instructional Shifts

• Text Complexity• Writing

Thank you!• To access the resources used in Parma City

School District’s Committing to the Core series, visit the following Wiki:

http://committingtocore.wikispaces.com/