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Products:
Professional Learning Communities:
Part 1: An Overview of Effective PLCs (PDF)
Part 2: Research: PLCs as Effective PD (PDF)
Part 3: The Principal's Role (PDF)
Part 4: Reference Page (PDF)
Services:
Vision-Driven Walk Through Seminar
Leadership Teambuilding Seminar
Package
Staff Teambuilding Seminar Package
Coaching
Becoming an Effective PLC Package
Program Implementation, Monitoring,
and Evaluation Package
Just When You Need It In-Services
Services
Vision-Driven Walk Through Seminar
This set of eight seminar sessions given throughout the year along with two to four days of onsite coaching a month is focused on helping your school develop a shared vision of what excellent instruction and active learning should look and sound like in each classroom. Then using this vision and the rubrics developed from it, your leadership team and staff engage in ongoing walk throughs that allow them to monitor where your school is in relation to your shared goals. This data is used to drive instruction and to engage in reflective conversations about student achievement and school improvement that are based upon your clearly understood shared vision.
Contact Us Page MenuLeadership Team-Building Seminar
This set of 10 seminar sessions given throughout the year along with two to four days of onsite leadership team coaching a month is perfect for any group who wishes to become a highly-effective team. It guides the team through all of the steps in the team formation, teambuilding, process as well as guiding the team through the action planning, implementation, and program evaluation processes.
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Creating a collaborative culture is a key component to of a learner-centered school. However, collaborative cultures do not happen overnight. It requires time and effort to turn a group of educators into a highly-effective team. Therefore, TEP has put together this seminar package of 8 onsite in-services given throughout the year along with two to four days of onsite coaching a month to help you develop highly-effective teams in your school or district.
Contact Us Page MenuTEP has put together a Leadership Coaching team to help your leadership team meet its goals. Our team consists of one of our highly qualified Principal Coaches and one of our highly qualified Capacity Coaches, who both are certified Cognitive CoachesSM and Group Cognitive CoachesSM. Working in tandem, they coach the principal and leadership team.
Contact Us Page MenuTEP’s principal coaches are skilled instructional leaders who have established cultures conducive to teaching and learning in their own highly-diverse schools and have worked with their school communities to establish and maintain high levels of student achievement throughout their principalships. They bring this experience with them as coaches. However, as Cognitive CoachesSM, they never lose sight of the fact that it is their mission to focus on your goals and to help you meet these goals in a way that strengthens your instructional leadership and results in increased student achievement in your school.
Comprehensive School Reform Coaching
Besides being certified Cognitive CoachesSM and Group Cognitive CoachesSM, TEP's Capacity Coaches are experienced Comprehensive School Improvement or Turn-Around Coaches who have a proven track record of success in working with schools like yours across the nation.
Becoming an Effective PLC Faculty-Meeting Package:
This package focuses on helping your school/district develop the structures that are necessary to become a highly effective Professional Learning Community. It includes monthly or twice monthly full-staff in-services built around your school/district's data-driven student achievement goals. These workshops are designed to be delivered during staff meetings or district administrative meetings. In addition, it includes ongoing two to four days onsite coaching a month for the PLC teams.
Learn More (PDF) Contact Us Page MenuProgram Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation Evaluation:
With the federal and state focus on all students making AYP, none of us in education can afford to wait until the end of the year to evaluate the success of the school improvement/student achievement goals we have put in place in our districts or schools. We need our goals to be written as SMART Goals with specific, multiple, ongoing ways to measure and monitor their success in increasing student achievement, but even more than that, the results need to used immediately to impact student learning.
TEP understands this need and can help you implement effective ways to monitor and evaluate the learning systems you are putting in place in your district or building. To do this, our team utilizes the inquiry-based data-driven decision making process, which is an ongoing process that utilizes SMART Goals, Action Steps, and data collection and analysis to provide ongoing evaluation of the program.
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Just When You Need It In-Services:
While TEP believes in job-embedded ongoing professional development around your goals, we realize that it may not meet your immediate needs. Therefore, we have several in-services for you to select from in this category. These workshops are highly interactive and are designed to meet NCSD’s Standards.
Ø Exploring the Possibilities: An Overview of What Research Says about Highly Effective Professional Learning Communities
Ø Developing a Learner-Centered School: Aligning Our Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals to Our Learners’ Needs
Ø Unlocking the Power of Teams by Building a Collaborative Culture
Ø Communicating Effectively within and across Teams: Moving from Conflict to Consensus
Ø Putting Our Assumptions on the Table
Ø Making Inquiry-Based Data-Driven Decisions
Ø Focusing on Results and Planning for Success: Creating SMART and Effective Action Plans
Ø Conducting Vision-Driven Walk Throughs
Ø Conducting Effective Classroom Observations
Ø Moving into Full-Staff Walk Throughs and Peer Coaching
Ø Engaging in Action Research
Ø Creating and Using Common Formative and Summative Assessments
Ø Transforming Summative Assessments into Assessments for Learning
Ø Looking at and Planning for the “What if’s…” What do we do if our students don’t learn? What do we do for our students who already know it?
Ø Reflecting on the Past and Planning for the Future: End of the Year Review
Ø Implementing the Student Achievement Goals into the Classroom
Nine Characteristics of Effective Schools:
In Building Blocks for High Performing Schools, the Michigan Association of School Boards lists "nine proven characteristics of effective schools" (Michigan Association of School Boards).
All effective schools share the same characters and engage in actions that support and sustain them.
Therefore the following combination of actions result in highly effective schools:
“Clear and Shared Focus:
From the board of education down to the students everyone is focused and committed to a shared vision and agreed upon goals based on common beliefs and values. At the root of these values is the belief that all students can learn.
High Standards and Expectations for all Students:
Teachers and staff believe that all students can learn and meet high standards. Although it's recognized that some students have certain barriers to overcome, the barriers are not seen as insurmountable. Students are offered an ambitious and rigorous course of study.
Effective School Leadership:
Effective instructional and administrative leadership promotes excellence, quality and professional growth and steadfastly supports people, programs, services and activities that lead to the accomplishment of district goals.
High levels of Collaboration and Communication:
High performing schools encompass a community of learners. There is strong teamwork among teachers across all grades and with other staff. All members of the learning community, including students, parents and members of the community work together to create a supportive learning environment and to actively solve problems and create solutions.
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Aligned with Standards:
High performing schools have aligned curriculum with the state standards which staff implements using research-based teaching and learning strategies. Staff understands the role of classroom and state assessments, what the assessments measure and how student work is evaluated.
Frequent Monitoring of Teaching and Learning:
Teaching is adjusted based on frequent monitoring of student progress and needs. Assessment results are used to improve student performance and improve instructional programs.
Focused Professional Development:
Professional development is based on needs assessment and sustained over time. Deliberate decisions are made to support professional development that is aligned with the school district vision and goals.
Supportive Learning Environment:
The school has a safe, civil, healthy and intellectually stimulating and personalized learning environment. Students feel respected and connected with the staff and are engaged in learning.
High Level of Parent & Community Involvement:
Parents and community members understand and support the basic mission of the school and have an important role in achieving that mission"
(MASB. Online: Building Blocks for High Performing Schools).
In all of the above areas, TEP's coaches and consultants can help you create a more learner-centered school where the whole school community is working together to insure that all students are learning.
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