Session 4: Finalizing Your Plan

This Week’s Learning

This week, we will help you finalize a PD plan that infuses IRIS Resources into district or state curricula. Additionally, we will ask you to consider the process for evaluating professional learning. In reference to last week’s materials, “evaluation needs to be extended throughout the system.” This evaluation process will be important to discuss in our final Community Call.

By the end of this week, you will have created a PD plan that infuses IRIS Resources into your curricula for professional learning. We also hope you will share and coordinate IRIS resources with your colleagues.

One question guides our learning this week:

  • What is my plan for embedding IRIS Resources in our professional learning curricula?

Let’s Explore

Let’s take some time to engage with the topics below. Remember, this learning is intended to meet your individual needs and interests. As always, feel free to explore the topics that appeal to you most.

Evaluation of Your Professional Learning Plan

Develop a method to evaluate professional learning that collects data in two areas:

  • how teachers change the way they work as a result of their learning
  • changes in student behavior — in the classroom and in other school settings (e.g., cafeteria, library)

Professional Learning Plans: A Workbook for States, Districts, and Schools

  • Read page 38–48: Planning for Evaluation

Building in Accountability for Professional Learning

Our IRIS professional development resources and options are flexible, user-friendly, and suited to a wide variety of school and district circumstances.

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Creating Your Plan of Action

Use this form to continue planning your strategic approach to professional learning.

Note: This is a continuation of the plan that you started to develop in session 3. Participants are encouraged to finalize all sections of their plan.

  • Training, Learning, or Development Target
  • IRIS Resources that Align to Identified Target
  • Delivery System
  • Date and Time of Delivery
  • Evaluation Method

Building Community

Thanks to everyone for probing such thoughtful questions during last week’s Community Call. We look forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts and ideas around the learning that occurred for you this week.

Reflection

To complete your professional learning plan, take a moment to consider the following:

  • How will you determine the impact of the professional learning? How will you know whether the practices and knowledge educators have gained have been implemented and sustained?
  • What is your timeline for implementation?
  • What resources (e.g., schedule, technology) are needed to successfully implement your professional learning plan?

Community Call #4

zoom

To support this week’s learning, we will host a 90-minute Zoom Community Call on Wednesday, June, 28th from 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EST.

Access to the Community Call

Zoom Meeting Room

https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/j/92608785069?pwd=U0lkWUFaeVFLWWxHY2xDMDlqVGxFUT09

Meeting ID: 926 0878 5069

Passcode: 787280

During this call, we will:

  • Share your professional learning plan. Be sure to include the IRIS Resources you selected, the delivery method, and the evaluation plan
  • Answer any questions you may have
  • Engage with a panel of professionals as they share how evaluation data was a part of their professional learning plan

Please complete the survey below.

Link for post-assessment: https://redcap.vanderbilt.edu/surveys/?s=JCA8DXKNY7F37NNE

Resources

Killion, J. (2013). Professional learning plans: A workbook for states, districts, and schools. Oxford, OH: Learning Forward. Retrieved from https://learningforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/professional-learning-plans.pdf