Activity Directions: Continuous Improvement of a Comprehensive Professional Learning System

For more information about how to use this activity to Implement, monitor, and adjust the professional learning system, see the Action Overview: Evaluate PLS.

Objective

Review the data collected from the evaluation to answer the questions generated and make decisions to improve the system.

Time

60 minutes

Preparation

1. Compile data from the evaluation to display or distribute
2. Make copies or give participants access to handouts.
   1. Handout ORID Protocol
   2. Handout Decision Matrix

Directions

1. Display or distribute the collected data.
2. As a team walk through the ORID Protocol for reviewing data.
3. Based on the decisions made using the ORID protocol make posters for each of the team’s recommendations.
4. Ask team members to identify the various impacts, both positive and negative, of implementing the recommendation on the system.
5. Next give the team a different colored post-it asking for how the recommendation will impact students.
6. Distribute another color post-its and ask participants to identify how the recommendation will impact educators.
7. Review the various impacts and prioritize the various recommendations and determine which to implement.

Reference

Killion, J. (2013). Comprehensive professional learning system: A workbook for states and districts. Oxford, OH: Learning Forward. Pages 182-184.