Your mentee will receive the Partnership Action Plan Form in TalentEd Records. Please meet with your mentee to collaboratively create the Partnership Action Plan before filling out this Mentor/Guide Commitment Form. This Mentor/Guide Commitment form documents your role in the Partnership Action Plan creation. This form is located in the "records" section in TalentEd.
What is an action plan?
An action plan is an agreement between the mentee and mentor that commits to organized meeting times and activities to support a meaningful partnership focused on the mentee's goal. This form is located in the "records" section in TalentEd.
What is the purpose of an action plan?
The action plan articulates the mentee's commitment and focus and the steps necessary to meet their goal, including when each partnership will meet. The mentee chooses an area of focus to grow throughout the year by exploring the Colorado Specialized Service Professional Quality Standards. This becomes the mentor's focus to support their mentee's learning and development of knowledge, skills, and expertise. The partnership commits at least 28 hours during the mentee's first year and 14 hours during year two.
You will submit an SSP Partnership Action Plan for year one and year two
The Semester 1 and Semester 2 Key Learning and Next Steps forms are to be completed by the mentee and submitted via TalentEd at the end of each semester. Copy and paste your Key Learnings and Next Steps from your mentor's semester 1 and semester 2 observations to TalentEd in order to document and reflect on your progress, growth, and improvement throughout the school year. *Please don't submit the observations; you will use them for your final presentation.
This form is to be completed by the mentee and submitted via TalentEd at the end of the school year. Refer to your SSP Partnership Action Plan from the beginning of the year and reflect on your progress, growth, and improvement throughout the school year for the standard/element(s) you chose. Reflect on how you have progressed and any applications you incorporated focused on your goal.
This is an ongoing task throughout the first two years in PSD that documents the mentee's professional development, meetings, or activities tied to the Colorado Teacher or Specialized Service Professional Quality Standards. This could be through meetings, conferences, professional development training, club or activity sponsorship, book studies, working with your mentor, or any other PSD club or CHSAA-sanctioned activity. Only activities completed during your time as a licensed educator with Poudre School District can count toward PSD Induction requirements.
Observations are a foundational component for the mentee's growth, providing opportunities and practice for reflection, feedback, and questioning. A total of four observations by the mentor/guide are required during the first two years of PSD Induction, one during 1st semester and one during 2nd semester of each of the mentee's first two years.
Why are observations important?
Observation of professional practice makes instruction visible, allowing feedback that leads to growth. This gives beginning teachers and SSPs the opportunity to gain valuable insights about teaching and learning to understand their developing practice more deeply. Your mentor’s role is to support you throughout this process. Observations will incorporate the mentee’s lesson implementation: purpose, learning targets, structure, focus, documentation, and reflection. After an observation, your mentor will engage in a conversation for both of you to debrief and reflect on the noticings, wonderings, and goals moving forward.
Mentoring partnerships may request substitute release time for the following reasons:
Mentor to observe the instructional practice of the Mentee in order to provide peer feedback. Mentors are granted two 1/2 days per year for this purpose (max 4 hours).
Mentee to observe the professional practice of the Mentor. Mentees are granted two 1/2 days (max 4 hours) or 1 full day per year for this purpose.
Partnership Work Time to plan curriculum, calibrate grading systems, or other work that benefits the mentee in their role. Each partnership is granted two 1/2 days (max 4 hours) or 1 full day per year for this purpose.
Substitute Release Days will NOT be granted on Variance Days.
Upon approval and availability of district subs, a sub-code will be provided. Release time requests open for the year on the third Monday of September and close on the first Monday of April. Requests made after the first Monday of April will not be granted.