Professional Development
During the 2015-2016 school year, the District Staff Development Committee articulated its Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles:
Mission:
ISD 200's District Staff Development Committee works to support and provide differentiated opportunities for continuing professional growth to meet student learning goals.
Vision:
We will make certain that Professional Development is purposeful and valuable to those participating.
Guiding Principles:
- Focus on a shared purpose of creating meaningful learning for all
- Professional growth needs to focus on ultimately benefiting student learning
- Change is okay (and often necessary for continuous improvement)
- A continuous feedback loop will inform next steps for staff professional development
Our professional development practices are modeled after Learning Forward's
Standards for Professional Learning.
Help Videos and documents:
PLC Video
- Intro through norms 0:00 - 3:25
- PLC questions 3:26-6:22
- PLC Process 6:23 - 11:03
Unpacking Standards Video (while this uses ELA standards as the example, the process is useful with any content area standards)
Resources:
EdWeb: An provider of webinars applicable to all ages and content areas in education. You can earn CEUs and a link to the archived webinar will be sent to you if you're unable to view the live session.
Corwin: Bi-monthly webinars from leading researchers in education share the most promising trends in student engagement, growth and achievement.
PD Express: An online solution to house your CEUs for relicensure. Sign up for in-district professional development and upload CEUs for out of district PD here!
Safe Schools: State mandated training videos available here.
Schoology Groups:
- Arts - Group code:ZKHRP-N5JJM
- Business, Tech, Horticulture - Group code: JSWMC-8ZBJ4
- English Language Arts - Group code: WJFNS-567JK
- Math - Group code: 9CHHC-ZZ529
- Physical Education & Health - Group code: X9K24-6RT9T
- Science - Group code: HRG8P-XJ26X
- Social Studies - Group code: FJ8VG-CJTC7
- Gifted and Talented - Group code: K6H5F-XP4GZ