District narrows professional development to high-impact strategies: PLCs, teacher clarity and collective efficacy
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Chief Academic Officer outlined a focused PD plan emphasizing professional learning communities, core instruction, data literacy, collective teacher efficacy and teacher clarity as high-impact strategies to accelerate student learning.
The district’s chief academic officer told the board that professional development will concentrate on a small set of high-impact strategies to improve instruction districtwide. The steering committee and building SIP teams identified professional learning communities (PLCs), stronger core instruction and data literacy as priorities.
The chief academic officer explained the approach centers on the PLC questions — what students should know, how to determine mastery, how to respond when students do not learn, and how to extend learning for students who have mastered content — and will guide work by instructional coaches and administrators. The presentation highlighted “collective teacher efficacy” and “teacher clarity” as high-impact practices the district will prioritize; the presenter cited effect sizes to show their potential impact on student learning.
The officer said the work will be supported by targeted professional learning time, coaches and curriculum work and will be monitored through data share-outs in building- and district-level meetings.