PDS Executive Council

Spring 2023 | April 14, 2023 | Zoom
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Agenda

  • Flexible Friday Draft
  • Innovators’ Compass

KU Updates

  • PDS Ceremony
    • May 4, 2023 from 5:15pm-7pm, Burge Union 

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 time 
  • Engagement 
  • Action research
  • Solution to problems identified

Upcoming

Topics for upcoming meetings

August

8th
Topeka
15th
SMSD
16th
KCK

August cont'd

17th
Lawrence
25th
FF- ½ Zoom Innovators’ Compass

September

1st
FF- Mental Health
8th
FF-1/2 Shadow/Interviews
Collaborate/Identify Problem
29th
FF- ½ KU

October

6th
Last day

Mapping PDS Flexible Friday

  • 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
    • Mental health/self care

Resources

  • ESSDACK
    • Trauma training
    • Resilience
    • Crisis management
    • Poverty
  • Full day event simulations
  • KPIRC (KS Parent Information Resource Center)
    • Family engagement

Professional Development

  • Classroom management
  • Differentiating instruction
  • Co-teaching
  • Interviewing

KU & PDSs Volunteers

  • PLC- 
    • Missy Green
    • Chris Kase
  • Action Research
    • Barbara Bradley 
  • Classroom Management
    • Dean Richards
  • Organizations 
    • PDS Club

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

Innovators’ Compass

  • Understand what it is
  • Application
    • Volunteers to share
    • Work through it
  • Framework
  • Professional Development on 8/1 (Student Teacher Orientation)

Innovators’ Compass

  • March 31 (9am-10am)
  • April 14 (10am-11am)
  • May 8 (10am-11am)