Newport-Mesa USD Adult School A Professional Learning Community

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Newport-Mesa USD Adult School A
Professional Learning Community

• We share to impart, impact, improve and empower.
• Mission Our Adult Ed Matters blog

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Objective 1 WHY

• Objective
• Define and describe a PLC as a site-based PD
  model
• Learner Outcome
• Understand what a PLC is and how it can impact
  site-based professional development

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Objective 2 How

• Objective
• Provide an example of a PLC in action at
  Newport-Mesa USD Adult School
• Learner Outcome
• Learn how one adult school wrote its 2007-2008
  professional growth plan to build its PLC,
  integrating key components such as a blog, peer
  mentors, onsite trainings, and PLC teams.

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Objective 3 WITH WHAT

• Objective
• Tour our Adult Education Matters blog
• Learner Outcome
• Gain a treasure trove of ideas and how-to
  resources from the blog

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Most Important Objective

• Ignite the fire for collaborative learning
• Education is not the filling of a pail,
• but the lighting of a fire.
• William Butler Yeats

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Words of Vision

• Education either functions as an instrument
  which is used to facilitate integration of the
  younger generation into the logic of the present
  system and bring about conformity or it becomes
  the practice of freedom, the means by which men
  and women deal critically and creatively with
  reality and discover how to participate in the
  transformation of their world.
• Paulo Freire

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Words of Vision

• Education becomes the practice of freedom, the
  means by which men and women deal critically and
  creatively with reality and discover how to
  participate in the transformation of their world.
  
• Paulo Freire

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Conserve to Preserve

• Hilton Family of Brands is committed to
  conserving our natural resources. Every day,
  tons of detergent and millions of gallons of
  water are used to wash towels which have only
  been used once. Heres how we can help
• A towel on the rack means Ill use it again.
• A towel on the floor means Please exchange.

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Conserve to Preserve

• NMUSD Adult School is committed to conserving
  our natural resources. Every day, tons of paper
  and ink are used to create memos / handouts that
  are read once and discarded. Heres how we can
  help
• http//adultedmatters.wordpress.com
• mrankin_at_nmusd.us

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Preserving and Learning Together

• http//AdultEdMatters.wordpress.com
• CCAE Presentation
• Marthas Handout
• mrankin_at_nmusd.us
• Martha Rankin
• Newport-Mesa Unified School District

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Attributes of a PLC

• Shared Values and Vision (Isaacson Bambur, 1992)
• Supportive and Shared Leadership (Prestine, 1993)
• Supportive Conditions (Boyd, 1992 Louis Kruse,
  1995)
• Collective Creativity (Sergiovanni, 1994)
• Shared Personal Practice (Louse Kruse, 1995)

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Shared Values and Vision

• NMUSD PD Survey May, 2007
• What one suggestion do you have that will help
  improve teacher learning?

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NMUSD PD Survey Results

• More staff development and technology training
• More in-services on technology in the classroom
• More online pro development

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NMUSD PD Survey Results

• Share lessons and Web sites on specific
  strategies in specific skills
• Short strategic workshops or online courses

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NMUSD PD Survey Results

• Collaboration, observation of other teachers
  strategies, just dialogue
• Encourage teachers to take advantage of
  professional opportunities
• Provide more opportunities to collaborate

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NMUSD PD Survey Results

• We do this, but others would benefit by time
  together to bounce ideas and reflect among peers
  e.g., at lunch, especially after class. (This
  isnt really practical for night staff.)

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NMUSD PD Survey Results

• More collaboration time between all adult
  education teachers to exchange ideas, teaching
  strategies, assessment models, and classroom
  management

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NMUSD PD Survey Results

• Better communication between staff members as a
  whole group. Perhaps staff information meetings
  with AM and PM staff together
• Share experiences

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2007 NMUSD Staff Development Survey

• Peer coaching
• More staff development by levels
• More time to meet with other faculty
• More training in specific areas

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2007 NMUSD Staff Development Survey

• I would encourage more staff meetings where we
  could address a topic collectively. I feel that
  this can improve our teaching.
• Create professional learning communities.

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Shared Vision / Leadership

• 2007-2008 Professional Growth Plan
• Train staff to use available technology to
  support and enhance learning
• Create and sustain a professional learning
  community to improve learning for all

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Attributes of a PLC in action