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Charles County Public Schools outlines districtwide push for collaborative planning in classrooms
Summary
District leaders presented a coordinated plan to expand and standardize collaborative planning time for teachers across elementary, middle and high schools, and school teams described local pilots and outcomes at JP Ryan, Theodore Davis and Northpointe-area schools.
Charles County Public Schools leaders told the Board of Education that they are standardizing collaborative planning — scheduled, structured time for teachers to plan lessons, analyze student work and use data — and are asking principals to protect and operationalize that time consistently across schools.
Dr. Linda Iverson, chief of schools, said the Office of Teaching and Learning has created planning templates and professional learning team (PLT) protocols and that her office will help implement those protocols so principals and school teams are “empowered, not overwhelmed.” She described a three-tier model: district curriculum and tools (the “what”), the Office of Teaching and Learning (the planning protocols), and the chief of schools’ office (the implementation and coaching).
District guidance sets minimum planning expectations: elementary teams are to meet for 30 minutes weekly each for math and reading; middle school core teams are asked to plan 30 minutes each day during planning periods; and high schools are expected to provide 30 minutes weekly. The district also recommends choosing a single focus per short meeting (for example, data inquiry, examining student work, lesson…
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