Professional+Development+at+HIA

The builders of visionary organizations tend to be clock builders not time tellers (Collins & Porras 1994)
Peter Senge (2006) describes leaders as optimally being designers: If people imagine their organizations as an ocean liner and themselves as leaders, wihat is their role? For years, the commone anser I recived when posting this question to groups of managers was the "captain". Others mights say "the navigator, setting the direction" or the "engineer down beow stioking the flame, providing energy or even the social director making sure everyone's enrolled, involvd and communicationg. While these are legitimate leadership roles, there is another which in many ways eclipses them all in importance. Yet rarely do people think of it. The neglected role is that of the designer of the ship. No one has a more sweeping influence ot the sip than the designer... It's fruitless to be the leader in an organization that is poorly designed"

What does this mean for the Leadership Team? How will the professional development opportunities be designed (vs. scheduled)?
 * How will we create opportunities to enable professional learning to flourish?
 * What is our target?
 * How will we design opportunities for teachers to engage in professional earning that has an unmistakable impact on the way they teach and the way students learn? (Jim Knight 2011).
 * How are we designing our ship?
 * Are we trying to steer the ship without knowing how it is designed? Whose voices are involved in teh designing of the ship?

Partnership Principles which should guide professional learning for HIA

 * 1) === Equality: professional learning is done with teachers rather than training done to teachers ===
 * 2) === Choice: teacher should have choice regarding what and how they learn ===
 * 3) === Voice: professional learning should empower and respect the voices of teachers ===
 * 4) === Reflection- reflection is an integral part of professional learning ===
 * 5) === Dialogue- professional learning should enable authentic dialogue ===
 * 6) === Praxis- teachers should apply their learning to their real-life practice as they are learning ===
 * 7) === Reciprocity - we should expect to get as much as we give ===

Compiled by Jim Knight: Unmistakable Impact 2010

What will we: Keep Merge Remove

Components of PD at HIA, Spring 2011 to increase academic language interaction (flexible & to be edited by HIA's Leadership Team)

Goals: Increase Student Oral Language Interaction Increase Teacher capacity for facilitating interactive instructional settings (digital and analog) Promote interactive uses of SMART boards-and maximize use of current tech tools

Leadership Team:
 * Set Targets
 * Design Opportunities
 * Ask for voice, input, reflection,
 * Determine what we will keep, refine, remove

Whole School:
 * (Wed) Strategies sessions... schedule of interaction strategies
 * intertwine unconference format for sharing interaction strategies
 * Contribute to embedded communication forum (Yammer, so forth)

Learning Teams/ co-teaching teams:
 * Meet on scheduled days for collaborative planning
 * Use coaching process, model, reflect, refine
 * Encourage and offer resources

Individual Teachers
 * Self or peer video classes (2-3), reflect re: student academic interaction (see checklist from JB re: # of mintues of T/S talk, specific interactions, vocabulary use and extensions, contributions using technology)
 * Offer voice re: Professional Learning
 * Engage, reflect
 * Contribute to system wide communication and collaboration

Highly encourage all HIA teachers and admin to build a Personal Learning Network with internal and external colleagues: Get started with:
 * Twitter
 * Delicious
 * Diigo
 * Yammer