Professional Learning Services

Weekly Email - Deeper Learning Updates

Email to DLT 9-20-24

Upcoming Professional Learning Opportunities

Scroll down to see our upcoming trainings and workshops!

Marzano Competency Learning 24-25.pdf

Competency-Based Series for Leaders

October 24, December 17, 2024

January 23, March 18, April 24, 2025

@ GRREC

The Marzano Academies Series is designed for Instructional Leaders to build knowledge, understanding and action plans for CBE. The following four lenses of leadership will be used to drive the work to realize a unique vision of personalized, competency-based education at their site: Implementation Team, Action Planning, Meeting facilitation, Culture.

V&S SCHOOL SOLUTIONS 24-25.pdf

Leading Change in Your School or District

November 15, 2024

February 4, March 7, April 17, 2025

@ GRREC

Brian Stack and Jon Vander Els (V&S Solutions) will dive further into PLC Leadership work with a four day series Leading Change in Your School or District for District Leaders. This process will begin with looking at the Three Big Ideas of PLC: A focus on learning, rather than teaching, A commitment to a collaborative culture and a focus on results, the information we have at hand, to help inform our decisions.

Previous Professional Learning Opportunities

Check out opportunities we've offered previously. If you see something you'd like to know more about, let us know!

Deeper Learning Sustainability

DL Sustainability Workshop

March 22, 2024

@GRREC

This interactive workshop focuses on leadership development by providing a system for your Deeper Learning work to sustain and flourish beyond the grant. As an added bonus, you will learn a planning process you can apply across all dimensions of school and district leadership. During this workshop each district will:

Establish goals for sustaining the Deeper Learning work in 2024-25
Design an action plan to achieve the goals
Create a self-monitoring tool to ensure goal attainment

V&S Solutions (1).pdf

Going Deeper with Student-Centered Learning and PLCs

April 18 - 19, 2024

Hardin County Early College & Career Center

Registration Link

GRREC will partner with V & S School Solutions to support schools to scale student-centered learning practices with a focus on the refinement of PLC collaborative team structures and the development of educator practices and mindsets to deepen the impact on student learning and sustain the work.

Measuring Your Grad Profile (Envision)

June 13, 2024

@Allen County High School

We will learn with and from Allen County how several teachers build a great performance assessment task aligned to their grad profile. Participants will be able to refine a current task aligned to HQPA and brainstorm ways to explicitly teach and provide feedback on grad profile skills.

Designing Performance Outcomes (1).pdf

Designing Performance Outcomes and Indicators (UK Next Gen)

February 13 - 14, 2024

@Hardin County BOE

This will be our final opportunity to receive professional learning from Susan and her team to design performance outcomes and indicators for your grad profiles.

**Please note this is at Hardin County BOE and not at GRREC

Making Your Grad Profile Measurable Part II (Envision)

February 20, 2024 @GRREC

District or school level design teams will explore various types of culminating performance assessments and plan next steps for measuring the performance outcomes for grad profiles.

The Deeper Learning Classroom

March 4, 2024

@GRREC

Keynote: Dr. Justin Bathon, breakout sessions after lunch

Join GRREC’s Deeper Learning team as they prepare participants to:

Examine the science of learning and barriers that currently exist for learners
Reflect on 7 Promising Principles of Learning in my classroom.
Examine the role and process of developing assessment-capable learners
Analyze content-specific Deeper Learning practices

Other Opportunities Available to our Deeper Learning Districts

Project-Based Learning

Statewide Project-Based Learning with PBLWorks

We want to ensure gold-standard project-based learning support is available to any and every educator in Kentucky schools. PBLWorks is launching a new Online PBL101 Flex Workshop that will be available starting in February in six 3-hour sessions. This workshop is an online alternative to this summer’s in-person PBL 101 workshops. This series is recommended for K-12 teachers, coaches, and building administrators interested in learning more about designing, delivering, and assessing gold-standing PBL lessons and units.

Session 1: February 13, 2024
Session 2: February 20, 2024
Session 3: February 27, 2024
Session 4: March 5, 2024
Session 5: March 12, 2024
Session 6: March 19, 2024

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Virtual Learning Series

Trevor Muir - Deeper Learning Virtual Series (WKEC)

Click the graphic to see titles and times for Muir's four virtual learning opportunities. Click the registration link below to read a description for each event.

Approved Vendors:

Our GRREC Deeper Learning team has partnered with multiple vendors to provide support and to offer evidenced based professional learning to our districts at zero cost. All professional learning opportunities, site visits, and coaching sessions are paid for by the Deeper Learning grant from KDE.

Some of the most popular professional learning opportunities have been around topics that include:

*Portrait of a Learner
*Learning Exhibitions/Defenses
*Student Voice

*Strategic Planning
*Managing a Student-Centered Classroom
*Design Thinking
*Project Based Learning
*Instructional Routines/Practices

*Competency Based Education

Click the images below to learn more about our partner vendors.