Race to the Top Regional LeadershipGetting Started Sessions

(a.k.a. Boot Camp)

March 8th, 9th, 22nd, 23rd

Purpose:• To establish a collaborative team with the

knowledge, skills, and capacities to deploy the professional development priorities of RttT statewide. (specifically, those articulated in section D5.)

Outcomes: By the end of “Boot Camp” team members will have a(n):

• Strong sense of team

• Common vision of the scope of work for this team

• Common baseline of knowledge related to:– 21st Century Skills– NC Teacher Evaluation Process– Strategies for Facilitating Change– Components of High Quality Professional Development

• Understanding of important housekeeping expectations

• Understanding of areas for growth/development of collaborative leadership skills

• Plan for initiating regional actions that must occur prior to the Summer Institutes

To develop a strong sense of team

• What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen?– Begin with “get to know” activities• Active icebreakers• Group Norms• North/South activity

– Make learning tasks:• Collaborative• Generative

To develop a common vision of the scope of work for this team

• What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen?– Explore current beliefs• Team Poster/Visual

– Consider scope• Drivers• Restrainers

– Clarify priorities

To develop a common baseline of knowledge related to: 21st Century Skills

• What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen?– Dimensions of NC model– Team collaboration tools

• Google Docs– Documents– Forms– Sharing

• Wikispaces• Voicethread

To develop a common baseline of knowledge related to: NC Teacher Evaluation Process

• What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen?– History– What is tight– What is loose– Future changes

To develop a common baseline of knowledge related to: Facilitating Change

• What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen?– Read/Discuss The Sabertooth Curriculum– Explore The Change Model• Personal experiences• Emotional impact• Typical responses• Being proactive

To Develop a common baseline of knowledge related to: High Quality Professional Development

• What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen?– Andragogy– Define High Quality

• NSDC position/definition• NC components

– PLC expectations• What is the message• Where is the message

– Look at NC Documents

Identify important housekeeping expectations

• What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen?– Formal• Travel Log• Calendar

– Informal• Collaborating• Working inter-regionally

Ongoing Professional GrowthUnderstand areas for growth & development

• What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen?– Determine strengths

• Whole group• Subgroups• Individual

– Identify target growth areas• Whole group• Subgroups• Individual

– Explore learning opportunities• What exists?• What may need to be discovered or designed?

Planning for actions that must occur prior to the Summer Institutes

• What tasks/processes/events need to occur to make this happen?– Boot Camp assignments– Content Working Groups– Regional LEA networking– Institute assignments

Boot Camp Topic Focus RatioBegin with a focus on team building, moving to a focus on content, skills and expectations

Team Building and Collaboration

Race to the Top: Critical Content, Skills and Expectations

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4