Center for  Early Childhood Professional Development

 

Leaders ACHIEVE

 

Interested in learning about peer coaching?

Need to know more about progress monitoring?

Want to know how data walls work?

 

Classroom teachers and principals from Western Heights Public Schools 

will share their yearlong journey into instructional leadership.

 

This professional development opportunity, 

offered free of charge through an Increasing Teacher Quality grant

from the Oklahoma State Regents of Higher Education, 

is open to all educators in Oklahoma.

 

April 30, 2016

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

Mid America Technology Center

27438 SH 59 (West of I 35)

Wayne, OK

 

Workshop Sessions provide

3 Hours of Staff Development Credit

 

Bridgestone Intermediate School

“Peer coaching—An Opportunity to Take Your Teaching from Good to Great”

Jennifer Colvin, Principal

Christy Bolster, 6^th Grade Math

Cindy Cook, Title I Reading

Mary Lee, Title I Reading

 

Presentation Summary:  How can you take your teaching from good to great?  Teachers all have strengths they can share with each other!  In this presentation participants will earn how the process of working as a team can help sharpen their skills and improve their craft.  See how teachers work together and use videos and classroom visits to reflect on these main questions:  What I saw? What I enjoyed? What I might suggest?

 

Council Grove Elementary School

“Coaching—The Raw Truth”

Shelly Braisher, Principal

Jennifer Hanson, District Reading Coach

Nancy Myers, Title I Reading

Dana Smith, 2^nd Grade Teacher

 

Presentation Summary:  This presentation will focus on what it looks like to implement baby steps in peer coaching while facing David and Goliath size challenges.

 

Greenvale Elementary School

“Data, Data. Data OR The Wall”

 

Diane Klein, Principal

Courtney Clark, 1^st Grade Teacher

Stacey Miller, 4^th Grade Teacher

 

Presentation Summary:  Data, now what?  Learn how data connects to your students, their learning and pushes you to reflect on your teaching.  Data promotes you to engage in dialogue with colleagues, students, and parents.  Come talk about data and leave with reassurance of how data is a stepping-stone to your instruction.

 

John Glenn Elementary School

“We Wanna Grow Our Own!!!”

 

Archie Scott, Principal

Lindsey Thomas, Assistant Principal

Tiffany Johnson, 1^st Grade Teacher

Shannon Pappas, 4^th Grade Teacher

 

Presentation Summary:  You walk into your class and just walking in the door screams uncertainty.  I don’t really know what I’m doing.  You may be a new “beginning teacher” or a seasoned “5-year plus veteran.”  With all this sudden feeling of incompetency you ask, “What do I do? Where do I go?  When is the next PD that can possibly help?  Do I know of someone who I feel will understand and help me work through this?  Should I let anyone know?  Whoa! I may be having a work-related breakdown.”  You have peers!  They have your back!  That’s why we’re here.  We have things to show.  You have a place where you might go to grow!

 

Winds West Elementary School

“Embracing the Journey of Peer Coaching”

 

Nancy Ingle, Principal

Kathleen Willbourn, 3^rd Grade Teacher

Erica Wiszneauckas-Reeves, Kindergarten Teacher

 

Presentation Summary:  Too often we feel like teaching is a journey we take by ourselves.  Peer coaching provides us with the strategy and the means to surround ourselves with good company.  Traveling through self-discovery and building relationships requires validation, recognition, reflection and a solid plan for implementation.