Systematizing Our Professional Development with Amanda Huza Transformative Principal 320

<p>Systematizing Our Professional Development For The Charter School with Amanda Huza Transformative Principal 320</p> <p>Social Media: We’re not wasting the time of teachers who have already mastered that aspect of teaching.</p> <p>Amanda Huza is the principal of <a href="https://equalitycharterschool.org">Equality charter school</a>.</p> <ul> <li>Serve about 630 middle and high school students in the bronx.</li> <li>Share space with two other partner schools.</li> <li>27 teachers - 50% of them are new or 2 years or less.</li> <li>Important to accelerate their growth.</li> <li>Want them to feel successful enough to improve student learning.</li> <li>Data-based professional development.</li> <li>Focus on 10 pieces of Danielson framework.</li> <li>Create rich cultures of learning, routines and procedures, logical consequences in the classroom,</li> <li>Provide examples and non examples.</li> <li>Informal observation on a weekly basis. Teachers know that someone could be in classrooms at any time.</li> <li>higher order thinking questions and wait time. Scaffolding questions.</li> <li>Focus on specific areas of mastery and track those.</li> <li>We’re not wasting the time of teachers who have already mastered that aspect of teaching.</li> <li>The list is not concrete, we want to think about the people that we have in front of us.</li> <li>Scholar data as well.</li> <li>1–2 day opportunities for teachers to be learners themselves.</li> <li>Peer observations.</li> <li>coaching role and supervision, then principal position.</li> <li>goal is expanding to elementary school.</li> <li>Systematizing our professional development for the charter school</li> <li>Building up to socratic seminar.</li> <li>Get feedback from their peers and from their coaches.</li> <li>Large group of kids who need intervention.</li> <li>Footage of a demonstration lesson, then feedback from peers.</li> <li><a href="https://www.swivl.com">Swivl</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.edthena.com">Edthena</a></li> <li>Can see videos of exemplars in