ADMINISTRATORS

Professional
Development
September 16 & 23, 2009

Bryon J. Maltez, Superintendent

James Kodani, Assistant Superintendent
Rosa Maria Hernandez & Phil Naimo, Directors
 GOALS
• To engage administrators in a dialogue
leading to the development of a Strategic
Plan, and the connection of said plan to
the Local District 4 vision and mission
• To introduce administrators to Richard
Elmore’s Instructional Rounds in
Education as a model for supervision of
instruction
 GOALS
• To engage administrators in a dialogue
about the overall evaluation process in
2009-10

• To present to administrators an overview

of updates associated with the Modified
Consent Decree
 STRATEGIC PLANNING
• Identify and establish clear priorities to improve
student learning
• Authentic, flexible, practical, clear & comprehensive
• Reflects thoughts, expectations and beliefs of all
stakeholders
• Incorporates vision and mission
 STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Requires extensive mapping

• Roadmap that organizes ideas and
resources
• Creates a framework from which to work
• Includes mission and vision, goals,
learning principles, actions and outcomes
 STRATEGIC PLANNING
• Read the articles Strategic Planning and
Community Mapping Exercises….
• In school teams, discuss your mission
statement, goals and community mapping
• Record your thoughts
• Gallery Walk
• Whole group discussion on commonalities
and differences
 INSTRUCTIONAL ROUNDS
• Elmore’s visit to LD4 Principals’ Retreat
• Elmore’s work in schools back East
• Elmore’s idea of monitoring ourselves as
does the American Medical Association
• Extension of the work we have already
begun in LD4; i.e., IFL, Instructional Core,
Data Driven Decision Making, Walqui and
ELs, Third Point, Mentoring Matters
 TEXT RENDERING PROTOCOL
• Mark a sentence, phrase and word important to your
work
• Select a facilitator and a scribe
• Round 1: share sentences
• Round 2: share and record phrases
• Round 3: share and record words
• Small group discussion and post charts
• Whole group shares words and insights
• Whole group debriefs the protocol
 EVALUATION

• Please complete your evaluation

• Thank you for your cooperation