NEW GROUP! Includes discussions from the Administrators and Professional Development groups. What will it take to move our schools into the 21st century? Please share your thoughts and leadership strategies here.
Embedded Professional Development
I am currently working with my administrative team to drastically reduce non-instructional duty periods (i.e. lunch, hall, ISS, etc.) and replace with a professional growth period. This arose from a conversation with teacher leaders about embedding professional development into the instructional day as the business world does. At this point each teacher will have two or three 48 minute periods a week to engage in professional growth. In addition to cross-curricular project development and administrator-led PD, I am looking to institute PD 360 (http://www.schoolimprovement.com/products/pd360/). does anyone use and/or have experience with this product? If so I would love some feedback.
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We've used PD 360 and it is a
We've used PD 360 and it is a huge waste of resources. Most teachers aren't motivated to engage in pd with a recorded video when they have so many other things to do. A site is no substitute for collaboration with other teachers and that's what they really want, a chance to do vertical and cross-curricular planning, opportunities to discuss specific students and school-specific troubleshooting. You can't do that with a consultant in a box.
Bottom line: It wasn't used and the teachers didn't discuss it with each other.
Embedded Professional Development
Eric - I can't speak regarding the product you mentioned. However, at our middle school, we used teaming to create a schedule which allowed time for both teacher supervisory duties and collaborative planning time at the team and content area/grade level daily. I'd be happy to share, if your interested.