Bill edited Building on the Collaborative Foundation - FUSD

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.
Sample Unit Overview Sheets: The following links connect to sample unit overview sheets developed by teams and teachers across grade levels and subject areas. These samples can serve as starting points for teachers thinking about using unit overview sheets to guide the work of their learning teams. Special thanks to Flynn Elementary School in Burlington, Vermont for sharing their unit overview sheets as references for other elementary school teachers.
Ecosystems Unit Overview Sheet
Revised Ecosystems Unit Overview Sheet
Atoms Unit Overview Sheet
Samples of Elementary Unit Overview Sheets
Sample of Completed Unit Overview Sheet
Workshop Overview
This workshop will be broken into five sessions. Each of those objectives is described in detail below.
Session 1: Back to the Basics
this portion of the presentation,workshop,participants will review the
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.
Session 2: Why are Unit Overview Sheets Worthwhile?
No single tool has influenced the practice of session presenter Bill Ferriter or his learning teams than unit overview sheets. In this portion of the workshop, participants will (1). discuss the impact that a guaranteed and viable curriculum can have on student learning in a professional learning community and (2). reflect on the role that unit overview sheets can play in guiding the early work of PLCs.
Session 3: Introducing Teachers and Teams to Unit Overview Sheets as a Collaborative Starting Point
In this portion of the workshop, participants will (1). practice a process for deconstructing standards and identifying essential learning targets, (2). review a process for writing essential outcomes in student friendly language and (3). decide on a format for sharing essential learning targets with parents, students and other teachers.
Session 4: Using Unit Overview Sheets to Encourage Student Involved Assessment

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