Springs Charter School Personalized Professional

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Springs Charter School is orchestrating change through our Personalized Professional Development program.

In this digital age, there are many ways that we can access professional development and trainings. There are unlimited sources for open content, online trainings, and curated collections for professional development.

We also know that as we grow, each of us has unique needs and areas of interest. So, we have created three tracks for professional development to meet the needs of new teachers, new to Springs teachers, Veteran Springs educators, and our school leaders.

We are building compilations of trainings for each of these tracks and our staff can build their own playlist to craft personalized professional development to collaborate and advance their practice.

At Springs we believe in personalization for everyone and want to ensure each of our employees feels equipped and successful.

Springs Charter School Personalized Professional Development

Published on Sep 10, 2016

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Springs Charter School

Personalized Professional Development

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Compilations

Compilations are like albums. They are a collection of various professional development trainings including workshops, micro-credentialling opportunities, and online courses.

Micro-Credentials are issued for completing research, applying the research findings to your practice, and submitting artifacts, and both student & teacher reflections. These will be issued both by Springs Charter Schools and online companies such as Bloomboard and Digital Promise.

Everyone will earn Springs Charter School Badges for workshops attended, even today, and trainings completed in CANVAS.

Some will take an hour, some will take several months. We this as long-term professional development. Throughout the year teachers have the opportunity to develop mastery at their own pace.

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Compilations

EdTech
STEAM
Springs Essentials
21C Math
21C Literacy
NGSS
Learner Motivation
Classroom Culture
School Culture

Some examples of our first compilations are:
1. EdTech
2. STEAM
3. Springs Essentials
4. 21C Math
5. 21C Literacy
6. Classroom Culture
7. Learner Motivation
8. School Culture

Each compilation has a specific playlist of materials.

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Playlists

Each playlist contains individual professional development. As you complete each training, you are working toward mastery of compilation.

You don't have to complete an entire compilation! Some may want to go deep and complete each training in a compilation, but other may want to shuffle their learning a master topics from a variety of compilations.

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EdTech

Google Fundamentals
Advanced Google (cert)
iReady (badge)
CANVAS (MC)
Tools for Engagement (badge)
Digital Citizens (MC)
Validating Online Sources (MC)
SAMR (MC)

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STEAM

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Springs Essentials

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21C Math

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21C Literacy

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NGSS

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Learner Motivation

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Classroom Culture

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Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT_121H3kLY

Gardeners cannot make the plants grow, but they do prepare and nurture the conditions that enable plants to thrive. Robinson explains that great teachers do the same by providing the support necessary for each student to grow in his or her learning.

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Preparing The Soil

All of you differentiate and personalize within the moments of instruction. Only when we step back can we make that invisible practice visible.
Preplanning intentional differentiation and creating the learning environment and resources is like preparing the soil -- learners, like plants, will thrive under conditions suited to their needs.

What is differentiation and what is it not?
http://www.ascd.org/ascd/pdf/siteascd/publications/differentiation_is-isnot...

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Plant Care: Watering and Fertilizing

Providing conditions for growth

Effective differentiation and true personalization begins and ends with assessment for learning. Fair assessment that targets academic learning for all students can be challenging.
the right conditions for growth to occur. s
weed out the obstacles that might be in the way:

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Making Cuttings and Transplanting in New Soil

Personalizing for every student

As with gardening, conditions that work for some students may do little for others. Often we need opportunities to grow in new and different ways to find additional strategies for handling diverse situations.
This is one of the reasons that mastery grading makes sense not only for personalizing but focusing on mastery versus focusing on gathering points or thinking about grades

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Mastery Grading

Fair Assessment?
Grades are momentary inferences at best-Wormeli (2006)
Case studies in grading

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/may07/vol64/num08/A...

5 minute activity-

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The Assessment Experience

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The Assessment Experience

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Why Grade?

List as many purposes for grading as you can
When you finish number each purpose in your order of priority.

Go over the many purposes...

Communicating student achievement should be the primary purpose that fits best with what grades are-symbols that summarize achievement

Communication best when clear and concise
Grades are concise and can be a clear communication vehicle is there is a shared understanding of how they are determined and what they mean.

Better served by more information than a symbol can provide

"Clarity about student achievement enables the teachers to do what is needed to support learning and encourage success."

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