Outline of Douglas County Schools Study and Implementation of CLASS Keys
PLC Study Group Plans:
· Interested administrators and teacher leaders will gather at the ANNEX on January 29th from 1-5 p.m.
o Marlo Mong will provide an outline for individual school study of CLASS Keys Awareness and Strand One learning segment
§ Training documents will be provided
§ Additional training dates will be determined
§ Elluminate process will be reviewed
o Participating individual school PLC’s will plan to study the CLASS Keys Awareness and Strand One information
· February (date TBD), participating administrators and teacher leaders will engage in an Elluminate session with Marlo focused on Strands 2 and 3 CLASS Keys learning segment
§ Training documents will be provided
o Participating individual school PLC’s will plan to study the CLASS Keys Strands 2 and 3
· March (date TBD), participating administrators and teacher leaders will engage in an Elluminate session with Marlo focused on Strands 4 and 5 CLASS Keys learning segment
§ Training documents will be provided
o Participating individual school PLC’s will plan to study the CLASS Keys Strands 4 and 5
· April/May (date TBD), participating administrators and teacher leaders will meet with Marlo at the ANNEX
o Marlo Mong will provide an outline of the Dry Run and Peer Observation Activity learning segment
§ Training documents will be provided
o Participating individual schools will make plans for their Dry Run and Peer Observations
· May (date TBD), participating administrators and teacher leaders will engage in an Elluminate session with Marlo for the CLASS Keys Year-End Wrap and Celebration.
DCSS Course Proposal Supporting CLASS Keys PLC’s:
· A course has been set up in MyPDC so that all individuals who complete the entire CLASS Keys PLC Study Group process receive 1 PLU
o School administrators must submit a sign in sheet for all participants who complete the PLC work; submit to the DCSS Professional Learning Office
DCSS long-range plans for adoption of CLASS Keys as the teacher evaluation system include:
· 2010-2011 Academic School Year: hold-harmless implementation for interested schools concurrent with GTEP; can be utilized with a small group of educators within school
§ Administrators who implement CLASS Keys during 2010-2011 must complete a one day evaluator training session with the Georgia DOE
o All schools and educators must complete the CLASS Keys PLC Study Group Process
· 2011-2012 Academic School Year: full implementation system-wide (GTEP use is discontinued)
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