Black Box or Glass Box?

Input PD - [transfer to classroom- changes in students]- output student achievement

What is in my [Glass box]?
-Coaching and follow up (Joyce and Showers research)
-Instructional Resources
-Implementation Monitoring-Is there a clear definition of alignment? evidence? data? What have I learned about implementation? What works well? What needs to change?
-Student Assessment
-Examining Student Work

8 Steps for Assessing Impact

What do I expect to learn from this? What is my question? What is the purpose? What type of data will I collect?

PLANNING
1. Assess Evaluability- Is this program ready?
2. Formulate Evaluation Questions- What structure will I use to focus my data collection?
3. Construct Evaluation Framework- What do I need to know? How will I know? What will it tell me? How will I collect the data?

CONDUCTING
4. Collect Data- How will I pilot? Manage? Score? Train collectors?
5. Organize and Analyze Data- How will I display it?
6. Interpret Data- What does the data say?

REPORTING
7. Disseminate Findings-Who are the audiences I need to communicate with?
8. Evaluate the Evaluation- How can future evaluations be improved?

We're Goin Out Big Time!

Old Books
Brown Bag
Paper Airplane

Women, Gender and Leadership WST598

This week's online assignment is to keep a 24-hour journal of my activities. How much time is spent on work? On parenting or caregiving? On housework? On recreation and leisure? How much of the work I do is gendered feminine? What follows is an outline of a typical week in the life of Taryl Hargens, mother, student, project director, teacher leader.

Happy Hour Review of Literature

A thorough, sophisticated literature review is the foundation and inspiration for
substantial, useful research.
Boote & Beile, 2005

Innovation Configurations

Innovation Configurations are models created as a method of coming to common understandings of a change or implementation. An IC Map is a tool used to create a vision and concrete understanding of what something looks like in practice.

The primary reason schools are not able to fully realize the benefits professional development has on student learning is because there is a lack of shared vision for what the change can bring. Individual visions inspire individuals. Therefore, they are nothing more than dreams for what could be, manifested only in the minds of those who possess them. Because we operate in an educational system that lacks time and opportunity for collaboration and shared networking, educators are placed into positions everyday that force them to balance their own dreams and visions for student success, with grounding principles and standards of achievement provided to them by outside entities who claim to know best about how to teach THEIR students.

It is my belief that a shared vision for student success must have multiple pathways that allow for individual buy-in and shared ownership for what drives the profession of teaching and the business of learning.

Levels of Use

There are multiple issues surrounding the varied levels of need in respect to individual professional growth. Understanding the levels at which teachers desire to participate in their own professional learning is key to obtaining the necessary buy-in that is needed to impact students in classroom settings.