PD SCHEDULE

Presentation Time!!!!
Friday 1.4.08
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop (of fabled fame)

Schedule Upcoming Professional Participation &

12:25-1:10/20 Lunch
1:20-2:10 PD Post-Observation Cohorts
2:15-3:35 Full Staff: Leadership Team Presentations RM 317
Deliverables
• Be in room 317 @ 2:15 ready to polish off your presentation.
Performance Points (P3Points)
1pt – 1.2/3.08 Cohort Round #6 Observations
1pt – 1.4.08 Cohort Round #5 Post-Observation
3pt – 1.4.08 Full Staff Meeting: Leadership Team Presentations
3pt – 1.09 Full Staff Meeting: Department Team Presentations
3pt – 1.11 Full Staff Meeting: Grade & Leftover Presentations

Prep for DYO Graders 1:10-1:20 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 10 minutes

This is for people who were not at PD Observations (see break out rooms) facilitated by a team ELA member in room 206

PD Post-Observation PD 1:20-2:10 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 50 minutes

Each team will work through the post-observation protocol.
Cohort #1 (Lance, Josh sub leader) - ROOM 318 (Chidozie) Cohort #3 (Steph) - ROOM 205 (Gail)
Cohort #2 (Josh, DJ lead) - ROOM 316 (Algiers) Cohort #4 (Ryan) - ROOM 204 (Andi)
DYO GRADING TEAM- ROOM 206 (Teacher Resource Room) – Sara, Jason, Jen, Karl

Full Staff Meeting: Leadership Team Presentations 2:15-3:35 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 80 minutes
RM 317
You will be presenting what have you learned, achieved and been challenged by as a leadership team. While we have no rubric at
the moment, we suggest you plan on 10-20 minutes using visual aids and or handouts. This is a public celebration and exploration
of the hard work your team has done over the term. WE ARE ALLOCATING THE FIRST 30 MINUTES OF THIS SESSION FOR
GROUPS TO POLISH OFF THEIR PRESENTATIONS.

Reminders & Announcements

RE: NY POST ARTICLE City and school officials visited the school yesterday (Jan 3).
They thoroughly tested the building and certified our space as healthy. All readings
came in at 0.
Saturday School is happening this Saturday Jan. 5. Josh will be in for the entire session.

REGENTS WEEK SCHEDULE: Has been under construction since three weeks before break. The goal is to give the new schedule
to staff next Friday Jan 11th.

•THE BK SIGNATURE SPEAKER SERIES: PEDRO NOGUERA FROM NYU author of City Schools and the American Dream and
Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement Gap in Our Nation’s Schools will be the inaugural Signature Series Speaker at 3:30
PM Jan 11, 2008. This event is optional for staff but you are welcome to invite peers and colleagues from other schools to the
event.
Reminders & Announcements cont. on next page
 Reminders & Announcements cont.

• REMINDER ON PD ROUND #7 Wed Jan 9, 2008:

Cohort 1 (Lance): 6th Hr Visit JEN (there is a potential scheduling conflict with DYO activities so this is subject to
change)
Thurs. Dec 12:
Cohort 2 (Josh/DJ): 1st Hr visit Nic & Annie Cohort 3 (Steph): 3rd Hr visit TBD Cohort 4 (Ryan): 7th Hr visit Dani Sittol

TEAM PRENTATIONS TO FULL SAFF IN JAN: The following teams will present their deliverables (a 10-20 minute public
celebration and discussion of your teams work) at full staff meetings during the end of first semester.
JAN 2: Work meeting: Grade Teams JAN 9: Department Team Presentations
JAN 4: Leadership Team Presentations JAN 11 or 16: Grade Team & Extra Presentations

HEADS UP: Upon the completion of PD Evolution #3 (first semester) we will be going into a two-week redesign period after
Regents. Second semester dates and cohort assignments etc. will not me published until we have a series of roundtable
discussions with the whole staff to gather input on the design of Evolution #4. Prior to these roundtables (Jan 11) all staff will fill
out a survey about Evolution #3 to gather data.

• BIG VISIT ON JANURARY 16, 2008: 9:30 AM Nancy W. Streim Associate Vice President for School and
Community Partnerships & Special Advisor to the Provost Columbia University Teachers College will be visiting BK.

•HEADS UP! Many visitors will continue to come by BK in the upcoming months for various reasons. Sometimes, due to the nature
of these visitors’ schedules we can’t always give the kind of advance notice some might like. To those ends it is important to
remember your classroom is a public space and you should always be putting your best pedagogical foot forward every day
with or without an outside observer. COMING SOON: a visit from the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators President
Ernie Logan. Date and time TBA.

WANTED: Staff (does not have to be a teachers) sponsor to take over the Building with Books Program. BWB is non-profit
program involved in community service work domestically and internationally. OT pay will be made available for BWB events that
take place outside of the school day. If interested see Andi Brown for more information and then Josh.

• JANURARY 29, 2008: The Bronx Small Schools Collaborative PD. This Event occurs during second semester so it is not on
your present calendar. Three sets of BK staff will be presenting that day. All pedagogical staff are required to attend the event.