Target Group: Mead Elementary Leadership Team

This team will teach the teachers the Data Driven Dialogue process to examine student data. The grade level teams will create SMART goals and continue the DDD process throughout the year. The ILT memebers will design professional development based on DDD process to continue to examine student work.

Target Audience: Mentors who are, or may be working with novice teachers or experienced teachers who are new to the district. This includes both regular and special education teachers.

This course was designed to equip mentors with strategies and tools for supporting new teachers.

Session 1 provides mentors with information about the need for supporting new teachers, roles and expectations of mentors, and ways to establish the mentoring relationship.

Sessions 2-7 provide participants with strategies for guiding their mentee´s journey, assessing the needs of their mentee, and improving instruction through planning, assessing, and evaluating student work.

During these sessions participating mentors will also have opportunities to reflect on their work with new teachers and to coach colleagues about the challenges of this work.

Participating mentors will be involved in three practice/applications/reflection assignments.

There was an error in the book, the second date this class meets is Monday, Sept. 21 from 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm, not Sept. 22. Sorry for the error.

Target Audience:  All District Personnel

If you are reacting to consecutive problems, perhaps it’s time to understand the problem better. Good decisions are made when you are well informed.

Learn how you can collect data based evidence to support how big a problem or opportunity is and what may be causing the issue.

Then you can use data to show what difference was made. Think what a good improvement story that could be.

Target Audience: Anyone interested in what Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise can do to improve organizational performance.

What does it take to be a great performer in a great organization?

Some of the answers lie in how well you can solve problems.

Some of the answers lie in how well you can lead others to solve problems.

This class introduces you to some of the terminology and concepts that have made Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise the most successful methods for organizations focused on continuous improvement. The class will open your eyes to the possibilities. It is an overview for further study.

Target Audience: Administrators, Managers, Supervisors, Project or Team Leaders)

Prerequisites: CI - Seeing What Others Don’t (How to Conduct a Kaizen Blitz)

This class is for those who have attended the CI - Seeing What Others Don’t (How to Conduct a Kaizen Blitz) class.

Once you are familiar with some of the concepts and terminology of Lean Enterprise, what do you do with them?

You should improve a process, and this class will give you the basics of how to run a Lean project. It answers the questions of what do I do to prepare for the project, what happens first to get the project started, what’s next, how do I document the project?

Target Audience: Potential Lean Project Leaders

Prerequisites: Supervisory approval, basic computer skills, and can learn PowerPoint.

• Do you want to make a difference?
• Improve a process?
• Be more productive? …
• More effective? …
• More efficient? Learn how to lead a continuous improvement kaizen blitz?

This class teaches the practical and common-sense fundamentals of Lean Enterprise.

You will learn to:

• lead improvement projects that last between a few hours and a few half-days.
• recognize areas for potential improvement
• work with a team to implement solutions, and
• how to report the results.

Target Audience: Anyone who needs to choose the best alternative.

Are you ever faced with having to choose between many options and end up spending a lot of time trying to sort out the alternatives?

It could be anything from buying a car to prioritizing projects to ranking candidates.

And if you’re trying to decide as a group, this class will help develop your skills to make decision-making easy and quick.

We’ve borrowed a tool from Six Sigma and a tool from Lean to make your decision-making a consistent, efficient, and fun experience.

Target Group: SHS Fine Arts teachers

The goal of the Visual & Performing Arts is designed to plan and implement a rigorous, comprehensive, and technology-infused arts program that will prepare our students for post-secondary education, careers, or other creative fields, and instill in students a life-long appreciation for the arts.

Target Audience: All personnel

Change is a constant and everyone experiences changes at work and at home. Some believe that all people invariably resist change.

The reality is that people react, respond and adjust to change in a sequence of six predictable stages.

Explore why there is resistance to change, what people need to navigate through personal and team transitions, and how to lead change initiatives effectively.

Whether you are highly successful in managing change or interested in learning a better approach, this course will help you become a successful changer.

Target Group: Classified Staff

There is one thing that is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy and civilization throughout the world — one thing which, if removed, will destroy the most powerful government, the most successful business, the most thriving economy, the most influential leadership, the greatest friendship, the strongest character, the deepest love.

On the other hand, if developed and leveraged, that one thing has the potential to create unparalleled success and prosperity in every dimension of life.

That one thing is trust. The Five Waves of Trust model serves as a metaphor for how trust operates in our lives.

This summary will cover these forms as the structure for understanding and making trust actionable, including a look at the Four Cores of credibility and the 13 Behaviors of high-trust leaders. The summary concludes with a section on restoring lost trust on the societal, market, organizational, relationship and personal level.

Target Audience:  Classified and licensed participants: Administrators, Supervisors, Secretary Teams, Managers, Classified Specialists

This is a class for you . . . if you want to . . . Change your work style. Maximize your performance. Address workflow challenges. Create a better office environment.

Learning Outcomes:

• Redesign individual workspace to clear clutter and enhance concentration.

• Create workflow systems to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects

• Assess time management challenges in 12 areas and create improvement plans

• Use strategies for managing multiple priorities and manage stress

Requirements:

• Participants must attend both sessions to receive credit.

• Materials Fee: $23.00 (Notebook and online management assessment/analysis)

     Process Model Subcategory

           Silver Creek High School - Leadership Team [A]

Target Group: Silver Creek Leadership Team

This group will continue to provide meaningful professional development activities, and move staff towards the Leadership Focus school. This project will also support the beginning of professional development opportunities for staff to look at data from common assessments to drive instruction and aid in planning courses for next year.

     Professional Study Group Model Subcategory

           Altona Culture Club

Target Group: Teachers new to Altona and (optional) teachers with one year experience at Altona.

This will be an orientation to Altona and Standards-Based Education. Mentors will be provided, the Altona Professional Development readings and Handbook will be reviewed, and also the written and unwritten expectations and building culture.

           Black Rock Elementary PBS Leadership Team [A]

Target Group: Black Rock Elementary PBS Leadership Team

This group will continue to refine and adjust an acknowledgement system for positive behaviors, develop the Office Discipline referral forms, teach behavioral expectations to all new students and staff, review behavioral expectations as indicated by school discipline data and examine school discipline data on a regular basis.

           Erie Middle School PBS 4th Year

Target Group: Erie MS PBS team members

This group will:

continue to teach/review behavioral expectations to students and staff

continue to review reinforcement system so it is meaningful to students

improve documentation (i.e. meeting minutes, written documents of PBS processes such as how students are acknowledged, etc.)

include/train classified personnal in the PBS system

continue refining/developing/implementing yellow zone interventions

           Fall River PLC

Target group: Fall River PLC team

This group will work to make Late Start Day at Fall River productive. The Late Start Days will be focused on school improvement goals and RtI goals to make the most of intervention and teaching time. The team will guide these days so that the staff is looking at data, setting goals for pre and post assessments for intervention time, and finding ways to show improvement on district and school-wide assessments.

           Fall River Response to Intervention Team (RtI) [A]

Target Group: Fall River Elementary RtI Team

This team wiil work to educate and support the Fall River staff members in providing high quality, research-based instruction. The group will help the process of monitoring and measuring of student progress in response to the instruction and interventions. They will use measures of student progress to shape instruction and make educational decisions.

           Legacy Elementary - Love & Logic Book Talk [A]

Target Group: Legacy Elementary staff

Legacy wants to create a positive work and classroom environment that invites student learning. The Love & Logic strategies will help with overall school environment and fits with the PBS program.

           Lyons M/Sr. PBS School Site Design Team

Target Group: Lyons MS/HS PBS Team.

This team will continue to refine the Office Discipline referral forms, to teach behavioral expectations to new students and staff, create a system for responding to behavioral violations, and make decisions on rewards for positive behavior.

           Lyons Middle/High School Leadership and Collaboration [A]

Target Group: Lyons M/Sr. PLC Team

This team will develop a Professional Learning Community agenda/plan for the school centered on school improvement goals for the 2010-2011 school year.

           Mead Elementary School - PBS School Site Design Team

Target Group: Mead Elementary PBS Design Team.

This group will develop better communication systems with parents and community; continue to teach bahavior expectations and implement RtI problem solving and interventions.

           Niwot Elementary - Design Team [A]

Target Group: Niwot Elementary Design Team

This team will continue planning Niwot Elementary´s PLC´s and Vertical Plan meetings to best use the time in terms of staff development and student achievement.

           Niwot Elementary - Positive Behavior Support (PBS) Site Design Team [A]

Target Group: Niwot Elementary PBS Team

This group will promote positive behavior, create consistent office referrals, make decisions to reward positive behavior and train staff to be consistent.

           Niwot High School - PBS Implementation

Target Group: Niwot HS staff.

This committee will use data to prioritize actions for the implementation of Positive Behavior Support.

           Niwot High School - Special Education Para Educator Collaboration

Target Group: Para educators and special educators that work directly with the special needs students at Niwot High School due to confidentiality.

The goals of this group are to:

• increase collaboration between para-educators and special educators
• increase mastered goals for special education students
• improve success in the general education and special education classrooms

           St. Vrain High School Counseling PST [A]

Target Group: HS Counselors from across the district.

This group will:

• update and improve the district-wide high school counseling website to be used by students, parents and staff
• continue collaboration among HS counselors to bring to schools a consistency re: credits, procedures and counseling goals
• develop a comprehensive program for 4-year plans through the use of College in Colorado

           Sunset Middle School PBS Design Team [A]

Target Group: The PBS team at Sunset MS.

This group will create the framework that the school will use to build their PBS program on. They will define expected behaviors in each of the areas around Respect, Achievement, Safety, and Responsibility and develop a plan for classroom and office managed behaviors and a documentation system.

     Training Model Subcategory

           Adaptive Schools: Developing Collaborative Groups

Target Group: Administrators, teacher leaders, curriculum teams, accountability teams, etc.

Schools in which faculty members feel a collective responsibility for student learning produce greater learning gains than do schools in which teachers work as isolated practitioners. Teachers in Adaptive Schools are successfully responsive to the changing needs of students, standards and curriculum demands.

During this four-day institute, participants will work on practical applications of tools and strategies for building and enhancing collaboration based on the work of Bruce Wellman and Bob Garmston and explore the following essential questions:

• How do we develop collaborative norms?
• How can we conduct effective & time-efficient meetings?
• How can we use conflict as a resource and work on "unmanageable problems?"
• How will we apply facilitation skills in a shared decision-making framework?

           ATLP Cohort Seminar

Target Group:  ATLP teachers.  (Required Course)

This course is a collegial professional development experience in which ATLP teachers extend their learning about the essentials of the framework of standards-based planning.

Participants will plan and teach a standards-based unit as the final product. ATLP teachers must demonstrate proficiency on the unit as a requirement of licensure.

Fee is waived. When registering, you will not be required to make a choice of payment type.

           Being a Special Educator in St. Vrain

Target Audience: All special education licensed personnel new to the district. Other special education and general education staff members may also register for this.

This class will give participants an understanding of St. Vrain policies and procedures in special education and the state and federal regulations that drive these processes. Participants will apply their learning in writing quality Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) with appropriate data collection and progress monitoring. An overview of district special education resources will also be provided. This class allows new staff an opportunity to personally interact with district special education administrators and coordinators. A portion of each class focuses on “burning” questions from the participants.

           Supervision & Evaluation Seminar Sessions

Target Audience: Required for administrators who are involved in supervision and evaluation - to be completed during first year of assignment.

Participants will learn to use the SVVSD evaluation system.