Facilitation Practices that Move Collaborative Work Forward Q-Comp Presentation January 27, 2011
Jan 21, 2016
Facilitation Practices that Move Collaborative Work Forward
Q-Comp Presentation
January 27, 2011
Who We Are
Phil Lienemann– K-12 Principal– 3rd year administrator, 12 years total experience
Jen Schwankl– Elementary Special Education– 2nd year, 11 total years experience
Jay Meiners– High School Science: Biology and Earth Science– 10 years experience
Who We Work With
Minnesota River Valley Education District Located in Montevideo, MN Karen Jacobson, Director Yvonne Sorenson, Assistant Director
No Magic Bullets
This is what we’ve found works in our school culture Structures and formats for each school will be
different Willing to share what we have Minneota visited to look at our plan Tracy-Milroy-Balaton visited to look at our plan Montevideo borrowed materials from our PLC format
Our School-Lakeview
Cottonwood, MN-Wood Lake, MN 13 miles north of Marshall, MN in SW MN Around 560 students K-12 Mostly a two section school
– Small senior class: 24– Large 7th grade 64, large 5th grade 57– Incoming K classes around upper 50s
Staff of 48 in 7 PLCs
Brief History
The year before I arrived– Orbiter interest groups: web page development, information
literacy, etc.
My 1st year– Two hour early out once a month– Month to month– Focus on Information Literacy
The following two years– Changes
Change #1
Became a Q-Comp School Small committee formed to draft ideas
starting in the spring of 2009 Input on major areas of the plan; minor
tweaks, adjustments made over the summer by administration-timelines
Ratified by LEA and School Board in the fall of 2009
Change #2
Formation of school goals Last year, each school had an umbrella goal based
upon NWEA scores Each PLC formulated a goal specific to their group of
students This year’s schoolwide goal uses MCA achievement All are aware of goals: on every staff meeting
agenda
Change #3
Early outs– From once a month to every other week– From two hours to one– Meet the same amount of time, more frequently– PLC Leaders meet in off weeks
Change #4
Assigned Groups– PLCs by grade levels: PreK-K, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-
12. About 7 members per group– 7 PLCs, 8 Leaders-one group has co-leaders– Special education, vocal and band music, art, agriculture,
health and physical education, business, Spanish teachers all fold into one of the seven groups
– Ex. Mr. Meiners’s 9-10 grade group– There have been discussions re: job alike groupings
Change #5
Focus– Started last year with a study of data: math,
reading, language usage, science– MCA and NWEA as well as local assessments– Every PLC set their own goal under a school wide
umbrella– Then PLCs focused on research based
instructional strategies to target a low data area
Change #6
Teacher Leaders in place– One in the elementary, one in the secondary
Julie Neisius, 2nd grade teacher Dan Hoffman, Engineering technology teacher
– Focus on evaluating Domain 3 of Charlotte Danielson’s Framework of Effective Teaching: rubric
– Evaluation forms: Planning and Post-
It’s a Process
Fortunate-Time has always been approved by school board.
Avoid water cooler talk Meaningful discussions about teaching and
learning Wanted to have a sense of accomplishment
by the end of every meeting Yet we continue to learn and adjust
Necessary Evils: Protocols
Guided staff in first steps of in-house Data Mine, Fall of 2009 – MCAs: D, P, M, E– NWEAs: Hi, Mid, Lo accomplishment levels– Substrand data on NWEAs more than MCAs
These findings led to the instructional strategies research and implementation for the year
More Protocols
Following identification of research based instructional strategies:
Meeting Calendar: Distributed leadership– Who would facilitate weekly meetings?– Who would take the notes? Who would keep time?– Who would share video of implementation of strategy in
class?– Who would share student work or research article?– Who would bring the sustenance?
Lakeview2010-2011
Study Group Name:
Date Meeting Facilitator Facilitate and keep meeting focused and moving forward
Note TakerRecord the meeting notes and give original to Toni (Toni will make copies with feedback
Time KeeperFollow planned timeline for meeting
Developing CFAPerson designated to develop CFA comes with pre-work completed
Sharing CFAVideo ShareRemember to use the video sharing protocol to guide your discussion and self reflection.
Sharing CFAShare Student WorkRemember to use student work protocol to guide discussion and self reflection
TreatsIt is your responsibility to sustain the group members with FOOD (not required each week but highly recommended)
More Protocols
Weekly Minutes– Filled out by the weekly note taker– Communication piece with administration
Video Sharing Protocol– Modified Annenberg Protocol– Five minute clip of class with strategy
Student Work Sharing Protocol– Modified Annenberg Protocol– Strengths and weaknesses of the work, feedback
PLC Leader Meetings
Meet in off weeks– Cover past and upcoming PLC meetings– Support each other: laugh and joke, ask for help
with a situation or problem– This year, digging into Learning by Doing a
portion at a time
Focus this year
Formative Assessments Based upon the work of Dufour, Dufour,
Eaker, and Many Learning by Doing Plan is to continue focus of formative
assessments into next year, shifting to summative assessments the next year
Common Formative Assessments
Elementary: what is given in one classroom must be given in the other– Guaranteed and viable curriculum
In the event of no alike grade level or content area teacher, development of assessments in PLCs add to the collegial discussions and quality of assessments– What do we expect of our students?
Other practices to facilitate collaboration
Common Grade Level Planning meetings Once a week, elementary grades meet for
one prep period to plan, discuss, evaluate curriculum, assessments, and practices
Starting to build this process up into junior high classes
Recap: Facilitation Practices
Early out time to meet in PLCs Calendar of meeting dates: early outs and
PLC Leaders Goals to accomplish Protocols to guide PLC discussions Teacher Leaders’ evaluations Common grade level meetings
Questions?
Thank you!
Contact Information
Lakeview Public Schools– Telephone: 507-423-5164– [email protected]
Phone ext. 1323