Bill edited Building on the Collaborative Foundation - FUSD

Building on the Collaborative Foundation - Fremont Unified School District
Direct link to these resources: http://bit.ly/FUSDoct2015
TestNo opportunity has changed full-time classroom teacher Bill Ferriter more than having the chance to work collaboratively in a professional learning community. Once skeptical about his future in the profession, Bill was revitalized by the professional energy that studying collaboratively with peers reintroduced to his work. Not only did he enjoy teaching again, he saw dramatic improvement in his practice -- and in the learning of the students in the sixth grade classrooms on his hallway.
The work hasn't always been easy, though -- and along the way, Bill has learned a TON of valuable lessons about the structures that can help professional learning teams to get off on the right collaborative foot. This page houses materials for a 1.5 day workshop designed to introduce the teacher liaisons and instructional coaches toa few of those first-hand lessons.
Handouts for Today's Session
Handouts - PDF
Today's workshop is designed to introduce teams to a series of tools and templates that can help to structure the collaborative work of learning teams. As a result, it is ESSENTIAL that all participants have access to the tools and templates that we will be exploring together. All of those tools and templates are organized in the PDF linked above. Please consider printing a hard copy and bringing it with you to our training session on October 12th and 13th.
Slides for this Workshop
Slides - PDF
Slides - PPT
While session presenter Bill Ferriter doesn't spend a ton of time marching through slides during his presentations, he does have a collection of slides for today that participants might find useful as organizing tools and/or reminders about the content covered. You can download them as a PDF or a PPT by selecting the appropriate link above.
Essential Resources for this Workshop
While participants are likely to find all of the content shared in this workshop to be worthwhile, having direct access to the following documents will be essential.
PLC Unit Overview Sheet - A document that session presenter Bill Ferriter will use to model the role that unit overview sheets can play in classroom instruction.
Session 1: Back to the Basics
The first step to convincing teachers that professional learning communities are worth embracing is having a clear sense for just what a PLC is and how a PLC works within a school community. In this portion of the presentation, participants will review the fundamental tenets of the professional learning community model and will learn how to communicate those fundamental tenets to the classroom teachers that they are charged with supporting.
Activity 1: Rick DuFour on Groups v. Teams
One of the first steps towards developing highly-functioning learning teams is for teachers to understand the differences between Collaboration RIGHT and Collaboration LITE. After hearing the stories of two different learning teams, watching professional learning community expertRick DuFour describethe differences between groups and teams, and exploring a Learning by Doing rubric detailingthe characteristics of highly-collaborative teams, participantswill usethis handoutto reflect on the developmental status of their current team.

from Digitally Speaking
http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Building%20on%20the%20Collaborative%20Foundation%20-%20FUSD