PD for Certificated Staff - October 9, 2020
Section: INST20210012Summary
Commnets
Strengths:
Responses: 78"Nice to have time to work together"
"Thank you for allowing me options on what to work on. "
"Time to practice during presentation of material."
"Being able to see the AB schedule for hybrid learning as well as the half day option. "
"WSHS quality!"
"Working with my teaching partner, principal sharing and having time to discuss slides presented and ideas."
"lots of PLC time"
"Practical, usable, useful content that applies to my instructional assignment. Ms. Lu is a great teacher. "
"Time for discussions and work"
"Everyone was very nice and seemed prepared."
"Work time"
"It really gave me time with my team to get things prepared for our principal."
"Opportunities to work with PLCs"
"Most of the time was spent planning."
"Collaboration time"
"Collaboration time"
"Thank you for giving us time to work as a collaborative team to identify the pros and cons of the two hybrid models. My team really appreciated having time to begin to plan for our students returning to the classroom. We also had time to work on our student growth goals. "
"I really appreciated the Elementary staff being able to provide feedback on Hybrid options."
"We were able to get A LOT done as a PLC. We now know our goals and have assessments for those goals up to the end of teh 1st quarter."
"Instructors were knowledgeable and prepared."
"I am so thankful for the administration that worked all day to try and show the 1/2 day model and then was willing to take the questions and concerns. I appreciated being able to work as a team to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of both models and feel like what we had to say would truly be read and considered."
"Valuable time working together as a music team."
"Planning the hybrid model"
"Time"
"N/A"
"It was a preview of the possible Hybrid Schedules. "
"A lot fo very good and useful information. "
"Just in time learning! Also such a relief to have time to implement the learning. "
"Time"
"Having TIME designated to meet was so important. Days filled with zoom, planning, correcting, teaching, responding rarely leave time for intentional focus on the here and now plus the then and there!"
"It was wonderful to have time to collaborate with our team and discuss Hybrid. "
"I found a few things very helpful on the iReady page that I will continue to use in the future."
"Time"
"Individual and team efforts contributed greatly to goals completion"
"Time to discuss and collaborate with other teachers."
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"Time to collaberate"
"So thankful for the PLC time!!!"
"This was very valuable"
"Work time"
"It helped clarify many questions I had."
"Loved working with PLCs to plan our upcoming units and final projects for our current units. Also got some tech training which I will apply next week."
"The information that was given, very helpful for my position."
"I appreciated the information about schools reopening from our nurse. "
"Working in our collaborative teams."
"Progress with Canvas"
"Collaboration time"
"Gave us a T-chart to fill out regarding the pros and cons of two different schedules."
"Opportunity to work together as a team to discuss goals, hybrid models, and student work."
"relevant timing"
"We accomplished a lot! "
"It was nice to have PLC planning time. "
"Having the PLC time was very helpful. It is difficult to "stay ahead" during this time and this was very beneficial."
"Tools for instruction within Iready"
"Mr. Jelsing did a great JOB "
"Flexible"
"Breakout rooms to complete T-chart"
"Work Time and Collaboration"
"Creating a demo account in order to see student views"
"PLC collaboration time"
"The iReady trainer was awesome and very helpful. The collaboration time with co-teachers and PLC members was also extremely helpful!"
"Extremely productive day. Covered a variety of necessary information from nurses about Covid, collaborating with my building talking about hybrid options and discussing pros and cons, collaborating about bilingual assessment with school psychs, then the afternoon collaborating with other SLPs on therapy techniques and started a professional development course. "
"Time to collaborate"
"N/A"
"appreciated being with my building during planning"
"Ability for staff members to have time across many programs (multiple time schedules) to be able to take the time for PLC collaboration."
"During the day we were able to work with appropriate PLC so the focus was completely relevant and needed."
"Collaboration time was very useful and much needed!"
"Having time for staff and PLCs was absolutely key. It was needed. If I would have thrown anything else in there, it would have been too much!"
"Collaboration"
"Principal was straight and to the point on expectations. Amy was organized and presented timely and I knew exactly how to complete the task I needed to do during my time. Everyone was available to answer questions and help out. "
"Application of grading policies and procedures for Canvas was EXTREMELY helpful!"
"I got to see my music colleagues."
"It was productive to have our team be able to focus on work we needed to do to accomplish our goals for putting our current unit online."
"To have the time to PLC with my coworkers. This was incredibly helpful to have the time."
"n/a"
"Presenter was very organized."
"TIME is so valuable! Our SLP and Psych teams were made stronger through professional collaboration and discussion. We had thoughtful, evidence-based conversations about dual language assessments. "
Suggestions:
Responses: 45"none"
"Yes we got to see the new draft for half day hybrid learning and we got to give our input in a doc with our PROS and CONS for the schedule, but we had NO discussion about our pros and cons. How will we know that these concerns are going to be answered or looked at. As a staff we feel as if our input is not being taken into consideration when we are the ones that will implement this schedule. "
"None"
"I would like more GLAD strategies for middle school/high school level. It was very geared toward elementary. Also, when I have a training, I expect to be taught and to have discussions. I feel like we watched too many videos. "
"Probably a Rubric with items to be covered would have helped -hard to find pages and content-perhaps casting the items on the screen instead of having people search for them (in different books and online)-and providing a link with content areas later (to search for) would be better"
"Make a decision"
"I think a lot of people got confused by the menu because it talked about hybrid prep, but then middle and high school wasn’t doing that - so maybe just clarifying stuff like that on the menu!"
"When teachers have worked as many extra hours/days like this year, this should have been paid with teachers going home for rest."
"N/A"
"More efficient ream meetings would be nice."
"More individual planning"
"It’s hard to plan when there are no firm decisions. Although it was time well spent more time when specifics are cleared up would be appreciated."
"None really... this was nice. Needed a day like this."
"none"
"Just keep the communication open as things arise, so that frustration is kept at a minimum."
"None"
"N/A"
"It would be helpful to have a schedule and plan after have one schedule; then, teachers can plan and start working in the classrooms. It is extremely important to have a clear view with a plan. "
"none"
"None"
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"I'm confused why we needed a two-hour presentation on the iReady materials. I really could have used that time to work on the materials presented instead of just discussing it . . . for two hours."
"More time"
"None"
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"None"
"I hope we will have this kind of time again. Distance learning is so time consuming, and it was useful to have sustained time to work with PLC's."
"none"
"none"
"none"
"Goals defined"
"Outlined agenda"
"None."
"There is to much to be done, and not enough time to do it all! I'm working way over contracted hours."
"N/A"
"More time? We are all learning so much - and learning it together really helps!"
"Added trainings Afro iReady interfered with PLC work and was not time well spent. We need more training for iReady in a efficient format, not 2 hours away from necessary PLC groups to gain 10 minutes of information. "
"None"
"None as this time. "
"The i-Ready trainer was very nervous - I'm sure after she didn't get glowing feedback after last time. My only real feedback was that she attempted to give the teachers an opportunity to work together but she wasn't organized about it and just through people into breakout rooms. In all fairness, when she asked the teachers they didn't really give her any feedback on how to break them up. I'm sure they expected this to already be determined. "
"Continue providing time for Canvas assistance "
"Unfortunately, the vision was lacking. I have a great deal of work to do and vision is important so teachers know how to organize their day. It was clear for those using iReady, but specialists got - and regularly get - the short end of the stick."
"I would like more time to collaborate and work on getting our content online so I don't feel as rushed during the week."
"n/a"
"None"
Questions:
Responses: 32"Can we have a document of frequently asked questions/concerns to be able to look at to know these questions/concerns are being looked at?"
"Training website"
"When are kids coming back?"
"I don’t have any!"
"When do we find out what model we are going with for hybrid?"
"None."
"Na"
"Can we do this again?"
"none"
"None"
"N/A"
"Are elementary teachers getting a day off to arrange classrooms and pre for the first day or start recording lessons. All of this new process will take time and resources. Elementary teachers need time to collaborate and start working in the classrooms."
"none"
"None "
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"None"
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"None"
"When can we do this again? : )"
"No questions yet... would be nice to have an answer soon as to which method we will be using to allow teachers appropriate time to set up classrooms that meet COVID guidelines. "
"none"
"none"
"NA"
"Whole lot of questions about hybrid, but will have to wait til certain decisions are made before they can be answered."
"N/A"
"no questions"
"None"
"None"
"None at this time. I know who I may reach out to if I have any questions. "
"None "
"Where do specialists fit in here? Do we need to be the squeaky wheel, or is it possible to get a true specialist advocate at the district office? We're busy enough as it is."
"n/a"
Comments:
Responses: 39"timely training"
"Appreciate the hard work but staff need to be heard as well, and get answers to our concerns about the schedule, thank you!"
"It is nice when we have time to work on a particular topic AND it is meaning to our daily jobs"
"It is so nice to attend a PD where a teacher shares knowledge through good tracing strategies."
"Links posted to meeting beforehand"
"It was a really good day!"
"N/A"
"None."
"Na"
"I don't believe we have more days like this for the rest of the semester, but I wouldn't mind having another."
"thank you for this.."
"thank you to the school nurses and to HR for responding to the many scenarios presented and asked about. I know we can't possibly cover everything that could happen, but it was nice to have a few answers to if this then this. Thank you. I know there will be more questions I just can't think of them now after that long day."
"None"
"N/A"
"Needed the time for this important work."
"Our principal provided for us a lot of useful informaion, and we also had a chance to work with our PLC. "
"None "
"Na"
"Thank you for allowing us time to meet. Meeting with four groups was helpful, necessary, and inspiring!"
"Thank you for giving us time to work - but I don't think we needed to spend the money for this presenter when one of our coaches could have done the same thing."
"Thank you!"
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"None"
"A useful day."
"Thank you!!"
"Thanks for giving us this time"
"none"
"It is hard to plan for returning (other than physical logistics) when we do not know if it will be whole day or half day."
"NA"
"I appreciate that all of the training was directly related to my job, and that I was able to collaborate with 3 groups of people that I work with. I appreciate that my principal changed the topic to Hybrid discussion/planning instead of iReady training, because the need to discuss and plan for Hybrid model, a completely new construct for most of us, is a much more immediate need than training for testing, which happens all the time. "
"N/A"
"Thanks!"
"Hard to rate - our PLC time was very valuable. Being pulled away to attend an inefficient iReady training was frustrating. I still need support in the practical use of iReady.... not a review of the overview, which we already sat through in August."
"None"
"Thank you!"
"It is always nice to learn something new, just wish I had more time to work on it. Thankful to all of those I reached out too, got back to me quickly. "
"Thank you for providing the training and time "
"n/a"
"Being able to meet with other district members was valuable, and being able to receive feedback as well. "