Professional Development Plan

Goals, Evidence, and Reflection

Throughout the 2020-21 school year, I have worked as part of the professional learning team known as the TGIF team at KHS, made up of the media coordinators and the instructional coaching team. We have worked to gather data on staff members' professional learning needs and develop learning opportunities to meet those needs. We have offered formal TGIF sessions during planning periods on Fridays, less formal Water Cooler Wednesdays to discuss topics, hybrid Learning Labs to let teachers practice, and fun Sandbox sessions to let teachers play with technology as students. While we set our goal at 50%, we achieved participation by 81% of the staff, as shown in the exit tickets. In our attempt to model best practices, we have also recorded all sessions and provided the recordings, presentations, and FAQ documents in a Canvas course for teachers to participate asynchronously. We monitor participation, review exit tickets, and work with PLTs to determine the topics for upcoming learning opportunities. We work to make sure we are incorporating research-based best practices and presenting them in a meaningful way that can be transferred straight to the classroom in person, online, or in a hybrid environment. I am very proud of how our efforts have grown and been embraced by our faculty, and we plan to continue these efforts into the next year. Four of us presented on the TGIF model at the 2021 NCTIES conference.

Since the spring of 2020, I have worked with the other tech contacts at our school to support device distribution and identify students who need Chromebooks and WiFi hotspots from the county. In addition, we maintain a collection of easily accessible tutorials on the school website. Getting books into the hands of students was also a challenge, as guidance changed often as we learned more about the spread of COVID-19. We were able to develop a system that allowed students to place books on hold through Destiny, our online library system, and pick them up in person with a delivery option for those students who simply could not get to campus. This year has been a challenge on many fronts, but we have kept our focus on access and meeting the needs of our staff and students, which has led to the submission of two large grant applications as well as digital policies and procedures that will continue moving forward.