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Culture of Learning

This document discusses differentiated professional development for teachers. It notes that in the past, teachers received trainings rather than owning their own learning. Leaders did not understand the value of teachers taking responsibility for professional growth. The document suggests next steps like assigning reading and setting clear expectations for teachers to apply new strategies. Feedback from teachers indicates they appreciate being able to learn alongside colleagues and having choice in their professional development. Determining the effectiveness of new approaches and discussing future proposals to promote differentiated learning for teachers are also mentioned.

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Culture of Learning

This document discusses differentiated professional development for teachers. It notes that in the past, teachers received trainings rather than owning their own learning. Leaders did not understand the value of teachers taking responsibility for professional growth. The document suggests next steps like assigning reading and setting clear expectations for teachers to apply new strategies. Feedback from teachers indicates they appreciate being able to learn alongside colleagues and having choice in their professional development. Determining the effectiveness of new approaches and discussing future proposals to promote differentiated learning for teachers are also mentioned.

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Differentiated Learning

Not just for students!


Rhonda Schmidt
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Understanding High Leverage Points
Opportunity: Teachers are not owning their professional learning.

WHY? In the past teachers received “trainings”.

Leaders didn’t understand the value of


WHY? teachers owning their own learning.

WHY? Because our past mindset valued teaching


over learning which was reflected
in our professional development.
2
I like being able to be trained A next step might be assigning
alongside the teachers in the grade reading – teachers are not reading
levels I serve. I wonder how the upper the book. Another next step is
grade levels can become trained on stating expectations. Should
the same strategies? teachers be using this Who is
holding them accountable?

“The What” in their own words...


Feedback that illustrates
past practice and mental models
I hope the district will consider
what a training is and provide
I like the fact that we can get together as a teachers with consistent
group and have this training. training. 3
Strategies for Improvement

4
Why this strategy?
Methods for Determining
Effectiveness

6
There is a lot of great buzz
Determining Effectiveness around some of the
practices which helped
Results so far… facilitate some teachers
asking their coach to learn
with them!

I wonder how I can


make work more
meaningful for my We talk about empowering
students? students with choice, teachers
like it too. So, thank you for
setting up PD with choice.
I like that we got to choose what
was most important to us; what we
wanted to learn more about.
➔ Promote
Proposals differentiated
for the learning in buildings
Future ➔ Expand options for
independent
learning
➔ Extend and adapt
content

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