To what extent does the professional development action plan link to the Comprehensive School Improvement Plan (CSIP) and support grade appropriate instruction in writing? Teacher professional Writing professional A variety of writing BCMS CSIP learning opportunities are learning opportunities professional learning BCMS PD Plan 2014-15 limited and do not focus on incorporate the Standards opportunities PD List research/evidence based for Professional Learning, incorporating the Literacy training non-LA teachers (C Donaldson & C – practices that will support standards for Professional focus on Scott) teacher Professional research/evidence based Learning are available Atherton & Abel Writing Workshop (7/28/14): T Lowe, Growth Plans writing. practices and are planned and focus on S Daugherty based on school and research/evidence based PLC Meeting Minutes Reading Strategies – student data and teacher practices that support Southern L Cardwell: Present Library Media PD, Professional Growth teacher Professional Kentucky Association of School Librarians Plans (PGPs). Growth Plans (PGPs) (eBooks) connected to school and student data. To what extent are job-embedded writing professional development opportunities available to teachers to encourage continuous growth? Teachers have limited Job embedded writing A variety of job BCMS CSIP access to job embedded embedded writing focused professional BCMS PD Plans professional learning learning opportunities professional focused PD Lists opportunities in writing. are available to professional learning Literacy Coaching Strategies PD: C Donaldson, C Scott teachers, and they are opportunities are to and L Winters encouraged to engage in teachers to promote Abell & Atherton those opportunities. continuous growth; they A Smith-Thomas, P Fazel & S Bratcher: Writing for are tailored to meet the Real Meaning (Middle School Conference Session) individual needs of P Fazel: Scaffolding - Journals (Middle School teachers. Conference Session) P Fazel & S Bratcher: Language Arts Strategies (Middle School Conference Session) PLC Meeting Minutes Reading Strategies – To what extent are writing professional development opportunities focused on research-based best practices and planned based on school and student data and teacher Professional Growth Plans? The school encourages The school allocates time The school allocates Master Schedule collaboration between time for writing teachers for writing and academic PLC Meeting Schedule (Writing) writing and academic core to collaborate and core teachers to teachers but does not collaborate and exchange exchange ideas with allocate time for academic core teachers. ideas during the school collaboration to occur. day, in professional learning communities and
To what extent does the professional development action plan link to the Comprehensive School Improvement Plan (CSIP) and support grade appropriate instruction in writing? Teacher professional learning opportunities are limited and do not focus on research/evidence based practices that will support teacher Professional Growth Plans writing. Writing professional learning opportunities incorporate the Standards for Professional Learning, focus on research/evidence based practices and are planned based on school and student data and teacher Professional Growth Plans (PGPs). A variety of writing professional learning opportunities incorporating the standards for Professional Learning are available and focus on research/evidence based practices that support teacher Professional Growth Plans (PGPs) connected to school and student data. BCMS CSIP BCMS PD Plan 2014-15 PD List Literacy training – non-LA teachers (C Donaldson & C Scott) Atherton & Abel Writing Workshop (7/28/14): T Lowe, S Daugherty PLC Meeting Minutes – Reading Strategies L Cardwell: Present Library Media PD, Southern Kentucky Association of School Librarians (eBooks) To what extent are job-embedded writing professional development opportunities available to teachers to encourage continuous growth? Teachers have limited access to job embedded professional learning opportunities in writing. Job embedded writing focused professional learning opportunities are available to teachers, and they are encouraged to engage in those opportunities. A variety of job embedded writing professional focused professional learning opportunities are to teachers to promote continuous growth; they are tailored to meet the individual needs of teachers. BCMS CSIP BCMS PD Plans PD Lists Literacy Coaching Strategies PD: C Donaldson, C Scott and L Winters Abell & Atherton A Smith-Thomas, P Fazel & S Bratcher: Writing for Real Meaning (Middle School Conference Session) P Fazel: Scaffolding - Journals (Middle School Conference Session) P Fazel & S Bratcher: Language Arts Strategies (Middle School Conference Session) PLC Meeting Minutes – Reading Strategies To what extent are writing professional development opportunities focused on research-based best practices and planned based on school and student data and teacher Professional Growth Plans? The school encourages collaboration between writing and academic core teachers but does not allocate time for collaboration to occur. The school allocates time for writing teachers to collaborate and exchange ideas with academic core teachers. The school allocates time for writing and academic core teachers to collaborate and exchange ideas during the school day, in professional learning communities and Master Schedule PLC Meeting Schedule (Writing)
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