Lunch & Learn Topic for 1.17.11

Are you familiar with our agency's Comprehensive Improvement Plan (CIP)? We have 3 broad agency goals:
Goal 1: Improve the academic outcomes (reading, math, and science) of all learners.
Goal 2: Increase the effectiveness of LEA systems in the use of collaborative leadership, community involvement, data-based decision making, and evidence-based practices in curriculum, assessment and instruction
Goal 3: Improve LEA implementation of coordinated systems of learning supports within schools, families, and communities to remove barriers

Our department task:

1. How does the department PD fit into the agency's CIP?
2. In thinking about developing new department PD plans for the upcoming years, what components would have to be in our department plan to ensure it's a good plan? Each department comes up with the criteria you think is important for a quality Department PD plan by the end of January.
To accomplish the task:

1. Discuss the department's activities that would contribute to accomplishing that goal/action
2. Determine any PD our department would need to be able to accomplish this activity for the goal/action.

Please remember to think forward as you are brainstorming activities rather than think of what you are currently doing and/or what you have been doing in the past. Focus on the goal/actions to which your department can meaningfully contribute with future activities and omit those that don't make sense for your department.