Okemos High School

Together, educating with excellence, inspiring learners for life.

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6 Principles of High Performing Schools:

Common, shared mission, vision, values and goals
Ensuring achievement for ALL students
Collaborative teaming focused on teaching and learning
Using data to guide decision making and continuous improvement
Gaining active engagement from family and community
Building sustainable leadership capacity

Professional Development Agenda

What:
Location:
Who:
Date:

Continuous Improvement
High school library
All staff
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 (from 7:45 a.m. 2:35 p.m.)
** Please bring with you:
printed agenda and PowerPoint (if prefer hard copies), computer, writing utensil,
yellow AdvancED folder, drinks and snacks (if desired)

Please leave behind:

anything that will distract you or your team members from our learning
Time

Purpose/ Objectives

Activities

Establish objectives for the day

Objectives

7:45-8:30

Christine Sermak
Continue to increase our personal and schoolbased lenses surrounding cultural competency
Examine Diversity Survey data
focus/lens: student perspective

8:30-10:00

Facilitator

Continue to build cultural competency

focus/lens: linguistic diversity

CULTURAL COMPETENCE
Review of districts vision and Equity Plan
Small groups (8)- analyze focus area data and complete the template
(positives, opportunities, I wonders)
Report to large group

Per our guest presenter, Maddie Shellgren

All staff

Maddie Shellgren
All staff

Break
10:10-11:30

Examine AdvancED YELLOW FOLDERS

Update on our journey (revisit updated timeline)
Goal language (May 2015) and strategies (see also Standards and
puzzle visual)
Think-Pair-Share
What individualized instructional strategy did you implement by
December 14, 2015?
How did it go? Are you trying anything now?
Share with a partner

External Review Visit, February 24-26

Purpose?
Who will be involved?
What will it look like? (examine the schedule)
How will they determine our status?
Eleot activity
Next steps: Continuous conversations with students

Revisit our continuous improvement process,

specifically individualized instructional
opportunities

Russ Pline, Dawn

Reed and Christine
Sermak

Lunch on your own, 11:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.

12:30-2:30

Examine ways technology is currently being

used in the classroom and explore possible
future uses

2:30-2:35

Provide feedback for future PD

TECHNOLOGY
All staff in LMC (12:30-12:45)
Reminders about Google Classroom for 16/17 school year, checklist,
warranty
Small tech groups (12:45-2:30)
Individually share how using technology/ Google/Google Classroom
- What are you using? What do you have questions about/struggling
with?
Conversation about how students are using devices for curricular
purposes. Tech coaches present 2-3 curricular uses/snipets (Ex.
Quizlet, CK12, Quia, SAT tools, Khan Academy, ReadTheory).
Tech PD exit slip assignment in OHS Google Classroom.
Exit slip

Steve Delp and

tech coaches

All staff