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 * 1) Considerations for the 2010-11 School Year
 * 2) Creating the Future of Learning (reflections from the brochure that was mailed to committee members)

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=Notes from the Professional Development Committee meeting on March 23, 2010.=

Overwhelmed; excited; depressed; would have been helpful to have had it explained all together; How do we get the classroom there?; It's a monumental change to education; need to keep personal contact that technology takes away, blend both worlds; Know what questions to ask to elicit conversation; social & emotional relationship needs of kids; digital citizenship.
 * Discussion of the publication by Knowledge Works "2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning"**


 * What does amplified mean? Consensus: Goes beyond conditional boundaries.**
 * Examples/questions evident now in Iowa -**
 * AIW - Authentic Intellectual Work
 * seizing the teachable moments
 * conferences for teachers conducted at the state level
 * CGI - Cognitive Guided Instruction
 * amplify teacher level first
 * can get caught up in technology
 * Teachers teaching teachers - support from administrators
 * let teachers try new things
 * competition between buildings could be good if it supports the desire to change

- Kathleen went over the different programs & partnerships - How do we keep all these partnerships connected?
 * Overview of SAI existing professional development program -**


 * Brainstorming for future PD Opportunities - Plan for over the next 2 years**
 * Sharing Professional Learning Networks (PLN) - How to get started and maintain. Resources may be: Deron Durflinger, Van Meter CSD, Jeanene Sampson, Sioux City CSD
 * Professional Learning Communities (PLC's) - Cedar Rapids CSD working w/ DuFour Model
 * Building relationships - Capturing Kids Hearts, The Flippen Group; [], good resource.
 * Online PLN's - Evan Abbey, Heartland AEA, in charge of statewide online learning; getting teachers involved; Instructional Rounds (Richard Elmore) - see Sharon Kurns or Bonnie Boothroy for article on them.
 * How to bring people together on the Iowa Core Curriculum (ICC) - teacher instruction; ICC, not just why, but how?; Data Driven Instruction; What does powerful instruction look like?; monitor student growth.
 * PLC umbrella - instruction, training, ICC & collaboration - relationship building; Iowa's Sense of Urgency Camaign; RTI; tool will be Technology.
 * Give ideas of what classrooms will look like in 10 years; How do Administrators teach teachers to be better teachers?; What's the path going to look like.
 * Comprehensive Literacy - The 2Sisters, [] ; Strategies.
 * Book or Topic studies - Blog, website, etc.
 * Collaboration of all professional organizations; ICC, to understand it better; What a standard-based report card is supposed to look like?; How are students supposed to learn what the report card says they are to learn.
 * Consider having the DuFour's provide an institute here in Des Moines
 * Consider partnering to bring Heidi Hayes Jacobs to Iowa