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It was a snowy Friday last January…

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LLbD

Cathedral

Our Lady of Grace

Immaculate Conception

St. Joan of Arc

St. Pius X

Professional Development: the good and the not so good!

• Think of a time when you participated in a professional development session that was exciting, invigorating, interesting, and rewarding. Describe the session and explain why you felt so positive.

• Now think of a time when you participated in a professional development session that was not exciting, not invigorating, not interesting, and not rewarding. Describe the session and explain why you felt so negative. (No names or people or schools, please!

• Now share both with someone on either side of you.4

Professional Development Framework

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3 Across-School

meetings

4 in -school

meetings

Lasting Professional

Learning Community

Developing High Quality

Curriculum

Transformed Student

Learning

Professional

Learning

Communities (PLC)

Understanding

by Design(UbD)

Schedule for 2014-2015

Fall 2014• Multi-School Session #1 (Monday

August 25)

• Two sessions at each school (September-November)

Spring 2015• Multi-School Session #2 (Friday

January 16)

• Two sessions at each school (February-April)

• Multi-School Session #3 (Friday June 12)

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Group Session I9:50-10:20

Session II10:25-10:55

Session III 11:00-11:30

Wrap-Up11:35-12:00

PreK-2 ContextRoom 31/33Pete Litchka

UbDRoom 35Izzy Litchka

PLCRoom 39Karen Murphy

3-4 UbDRoom 35Izzy Litchka

PLCRoom 31/33Pete Litchka

ContextRoom 54-56-58Peter Rennert-Ariev

All back to main meeting room (54-56-58)

5-6 PLCRoom 39Karen Murphy

ContextRoom 54-56-58Peter Rennert-Ariev

UbDRoom 35Izzy Litchka

7-8 UbDRoom 54-56-58Peter Rennert-Ariev

PLCRoom 39Karen Murphy

ContextRoom 31/33Pete Litchka

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Wrap-Up

• What are you excited about?

• What are you concerned about?

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