Holiday Inn Gateway San Francisco
1500 Van Ness Ave
San Francisco, CA 94109
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Your school is committed to building a professional learning community—but how do you sustain the work of PLCs throughout the year? Through this two-day interactive workshop, you will discover a 15-day challenge that has helped schools across the nation strengthen their PLCs. Maria Nielsen shares how to jump-start the work of collaborative teams and bring the PLC at Work® process to life in classrooms, schools, and districts.
Learning Outcomes
Clarify the work of collaborative teams.
Develop collective commitments for each team.
Establish steps for a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
Determine short- and long-term SMART goals.
Recognize how to use depth of knowledge (DOK) levels to teach and assess at the rigor and complexity of the standards.
Complete a 15-day pacing guide for a unit of study.
Establish a learning-assessing cycle for a unit of study.
Anticipate and plan for Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions as the unit is planned.
Design a plan for taking the 15-day challenge back to your entire school or district.
Acquire a toolkit of templates and organizers to take back to your school or district.
Hillary Woest is a national presenter, author, and educational practitioner. She helps schools and districts design practical instructional systems that strengthen teaching, develop leaders, and improve student learning. With almost 30 years in public education—including 18 years as a district-level administrator supporting 68 campuses, from large comprehensive traditional campuses to career and technical education to alternative and credit-recovery settings serving students too often underserved—Hillary has built and sustained instructional systems at scale, not just studied them.
Recognized for bringing clarity to complex work, Hillary connects PLC, curriculum design, assessment, instructional planning, Career and Technical Education (CTE), tiered systems of support, and the thoughtful integration of artificial intelligence into coherent instructional systems rather than separate initiatives.
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You will receive a certificate of participation within six weeks after the event concludes.
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