Objectives:

• To clarify the role of the PIIC coach and the BDA coaching model
• To evaluate the current status of the PIIC program in our schools
• To revise the 2013-14 group action plan
• To share successful literacy strategies for use in coaching
• To apply literacy strategies to non-text content
• To evaluate and demonstrate the Learning Communities standard for professional learning (Learning Forward)
• To begin formulating goals and training agendas for the coming year

Agenda:

BEFORE

DURING

• Welcome Back / Updates
  • Review PLN registration
  • Identify group for October statewide Professional Learning Opportunity (PLO)
• Shuffle Activity
  • Experience
  • Concerns
  • Availability
  • Focus
• The BDA coaching cycle
  • why?
  • how?
  • when?
• The role of the PIIC coach
  • 4 elements
  • PIIC Resource Guide
  • What roles do you have in your schools?
  • How can these relate to coaching?
• Learning Forward: Standards for Professional Learning
  • Overview
  • Learning Communities Standard
    • With your color group: Review the material and collaborate to design one or two discussion questions for the group
    • Group discussion
      • Focus on how this material can 1) impact teacher practice and 2) impact student learning
• Text rendering in content areas
  • Using non-text sources
    • audio, video, photographic, etc.
    • how does this relate to literacy?
  • Creative Commons
  • Library Thing
• Split time:
  • Group 1:
    • Read and discuss 15 Minutes to a Transformed Lesson, using the text-rendering strategy of your choice.
    • On chart paper: Design a graphic to present the main points of the article.
    • Be prepared to present to the group
  • Group 2:
    • Explore this wiki
    • Coach survey
    • PIIC websites
• Group Planning Time (1:30-ish)

AFTER