With our professional development day coming up this week, I've been fortunate to review the wide range of proposals for the teacher-directed PD Day. Teachers and staff spent time and thought to determining the best use of their time for professional growth and learning. In particular, it was great to see so many proposals that were collaborative projects. According to Richard DuFour, professional collaboration is one of the big ideas of building effective professional learning communities. At the heart of these collaborative discussions are the following questions:
This week's challenge: See how often you can systematically work through the questions above in your collaborative work either during the PD day or in your day-to-day meetings and common planning times using the big ideas from Dufour's article.
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