Leadership and Supervision

Customized Consulting and Technical Assistance: Leadership and Supervision

Teacher Evaluation Orientation for Teachers: LEARN facilitators can provide a district with the comprehensive overview of the teacher evaluation plan. Either supporting district leadership in designing the orientation or designing and delivering the pertinent information teachers need regarding the district Teacher Evaluation Plan.

Coaching the Professional Development Evaluation Committees: Foundational training introduces your Professional Development and Evaluation Committee to the newly adopted Connecticut Professional Learning Standards. While building a professional learning community participants are introduced to the foundations and expectations of a district PDEC. Facilitators can guide districts in their building of their Professional Learning Systems.

Calibration for Administrators: LEARN facilitator will work with district and school administrators to facilitate inter-rater reliability. This moves the model of teacher evaluation from tagging, aligning and providing evidence to teachers to providing evidence-based written feedback for teachers that will improve both their teaching and student learning as well as an extensive amount of coaching strategies.

Building Professional Learning Communities: Using the work of Richard DuFour and Robert Eaker LEARN facilitators will work to provide specific how-to's that transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities.

School and District Development Planning: Learn facilitators will work with school and/or district teams to connect strategic priorities to school and district based goals and to craft a specific implementation plan with measurable results and outcomes.

Instructional Rounds in Education: LEARN facilitators will coach school or district based teams in the Instructional Rounds approach to developing and supporting a shared understanding of what high quality instruction looks like and what schools and districts need to do to support it. Based on work developed in Instructional Rounds in Education A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning by Elizabeth A. City, Richard F. Elmore, Sarah E. Fiarman, and Lee Teitel (2009).

LEARN/Shoreline Leadership Framework: LEARN facilitators will train district teams on application of the Leadership Framework to school and district development planning, professional learning, supervision, and evaluation.

Power School Support: LEARN provides districts with a variety of services related to PowerSchool management and administration. We conduct assessments of the functionality of a district's system and make recommendations that could increase functionality and productivity for school office staff, teachers, and school leaders. We serve districts with a project management approach to ensure consistent and efficient PowerSchool operations. Professional development, specific to both a district's needs and the latest PowerSchool enhancements, can be created and delivered to any variety of a district's PowerSchool users. A deep understanding of school operations combined with experience in staff development and learning analytics make LEARN the ideal choice to serve any district's PowerSchool