2013-14ProfessionalDevelopmentCatalog

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Managing Mandates and Integrating Initiatives: Making Connections Within Race to the Top
How can building and district leaders integrate important school goals with mandates
from the Regents Reform Agenda to promote school improvement?
The goal of this workshop is to enable district or school teams to create an action plan that promotes
strategic work related to the New York State mandates by prioritizing the integration of related initiatives.
Teams will begin by assessing the status of their current implementation of the Annual Professional
Performance Review, Common Core Curriculum and Assessment and Data Inquiry within the context of
district and/or school goals. Participants will identify potential next steps and define connections for the
purpose of reducing the sense of “initiative fatigue.”
PARTICIPANTS: District and building administrators. Districts may school to send a full district or school team
to the session or to send representatives who will turnkey the process back in district.
DATE/TIME: Nov 12 2013 8:30AM - 3:00PM
COST: $92/person for Curriculum Center Members; $106/person Curriculum Center Non Members
Leadership
LOCATION: Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES; Yorktown Heights, NY; School Services Building
FACILITATOR: Judy Barbera recently retired as an administrator after a 40 year career in education.
She has served in various roles where she gained a systemic instructional perspective as a high school
mathematics teacher, an elementary school principal and the Assistant Superintendent for Instruction.
Ms. Barbera has expertise in the supervision and evaluation of teachers and administrators. She has
extensive training and experience with Charlotte Danielson’s Components of Professional Practice
and the Learner-Centered Initiative Multidimensional Principal Performance Rubric and can facilitate
work related to Professional Goal Setting, Instructional Rounds, classroom observations and summative
evaluation with teachers and administrators. In the area of curriculum and assessment design, Ms.
Barbera promotes the Wiggins and McTigue Understanding by Design curriculum development model
and Heidi Hayes-Jacob’s approach to curriculum mapping. She is proficient in the use of Rubicon
Atlas, a digital curriculum mapping platform. She embraces a “balanced assessment plan” model and
is interested in supporting the refinement of mandated Student Learning Objectives. Judy Barbera is
available for on-site consultation.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY: 10/29/2013
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