PDS Executive Council
Spring 2023 |
March 31, 2023 |
Zoom
Agenda
- SOEHS Updates
- KU PDS Partners Updates & Issues
- NAPDS Report
- Action Plan for 2023-2024
KU Updates
- Drs. Kelli Feldman/Douglas Huffman
- 44 applicants 2023-24
- Placements for cohorts
- Carpooling
- Roommates
- Friends
- Placements for cohorts
- PDS Ceremony
- May 4, 2023 from 5pm-7pm, Burge Union
PDS Mixer
Joy
Good conversations
NAPDS 3/22--3/25 Jacksonville, FL
- Need another person(s) to attend next year
- More research needed
- Mental health
- Support student teachers
- Income
- Community/state resources
- 9 Essentials
PDSs Updates
- Successes you have seen
- Improvements needed
Retention of Teachers
- Mental health
- Hiring PDS students from your building
- More support for PDS student teachers
- Different experiences
What is Flexible Friday?
- A perk of being in the PDS program
- Used to address school-level, community, and student teacher issues
- Shadow instructional coach, SPED, principal, other staff
- Professional growth
- Cohort use of time meaningful
- Engagement
- Action research
Mapping PDS Flexible Friday
- Think creatively about a supportive experience for
- Student teachers
- Clinical supervisors
- Students
- Experiences student teachers should have
- Extra support during placements
- Professional development that’s relevant
- Become leaders
- Experts in the building
- Time to process
- Identify a problem/issue/concern with skills to approach it
- Teamwork in cohort
More Ideas
- Mental health days
- ESSDACK
- Trauma training
- Resilience
- Crisis management
- Poverty
- Substituting in building
- Contract
Professional Development
- Classroom management
- Differentiating instruction
- Working with families
- Co-teaching
Friday Ideas
- Action research
- Secure community partnerships/donors
- Plan family night
- Student bowl/competion/game
- Shadow a person in a different position
- Interview leadership team
- Subbing within school/district
- KU campus Think and Learn
- Kansas Technical Assistance System Network
- Mental Health/Catch Up Day
PDS Flexible Friday Facilitation
KU & PDSs Volunteers
- Locate resources you currently use or have used in the past
- Contacts to facilitate
- Professional development opportunities
- District leaders used for sessions
- KU areas of interest
- Organizations
Concerns
- Building- schedule provided with task to complete
- Principal
- Instructional coach
- Social worker
- Counselor
- Others in building
- Student teachers- each will have a role
- Coordinator
- Contact person
- Facilitator
- Students/scholars- most important
- Investments
- Improvements
- Immediate
Next Steps for Flexible Fridays
- Volunteers for feedback on design
- March meeting
- Areas of concern
- Building
- Student teachers
- Students
- March meeting
- How often
- Decide together
- April meeting
- Who
- Decide together
- Blue print for pilot
- May meeting
Next Steps for Recruitment
- Work on sustainable funding (scholarships by a donor)
- Create PDS video for recruiting at your schools
- Administrators and teachers
- Get into SOEHS classrooms early to share PDS experiences
Next Meetings
- March 31 (9am-10am)
- April 14 (10am-11am)
- May 8 (10am-11am)