PDS Executive Council
Spring 2023 |
May 8, 2023 |
Zoom
Agenda
- Flexible Friday Draft
- Innovators’ Compass
KU PDS Ceremony
- PDS Ceremony
- May 4, 2023 at the Burge Union
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
Flexible Friday Objectives
- 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
Flexible Friday Ideas
- Tell me what you are thinking
- Restorative practices/justice
- Project-based learning
- Start in the beginning of the semester with other clinical supervisors
- Scheduled time to see morning meetings of different grade levels
- Transition times
- Debriefing afterwards with clinical supervisors they are observing and get feedback (why/justification)
- Purposeful scheduling
- Time
- Students teachers get to shadow the person/situation of their choice
FF-Fall Workshops
- ESSDACK (9/1)
- Trauma training
- Resilience
- Crisis management
- Poverty Paradigm
- KPIRC (KS Parent Information Resource Center) (9/29)
- Family engagement
- DEIB
- Full day event simulations
- Student teachers
- KU faculty/staff
- University supervisors
- P-12 partners
August
8th
Topeka
15th
SMSD
16th
KCK
17th
Lawrence
September
1st
FF- KU ESSD
ACK TRAUMA
WORKSHOP
ACK TRAUMA
WORKSHOP
8th
FF-1/2 PDSs Shadow/Interviews AM
29th
FF- KU KPIRC FAMILY ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP
15th
Ff- ½ PDSs
Shadow PM
Shadow PM
October
6th
Last day
12th
ELPS 537 PDS
23
Spring visits begin
24th
Oct 23-Dec 1
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
Postponed until Spring
- Understand what it is
- Application
- Volunteers to share
- Work through it
- Framework
- Professional Development on 8/1 (Student Teacher Orientation)
Next Meetings
March 31 (9am-10am)April 14 (10am-11am)May 8 (10am-11am)
For the future- Schedule for the fall semester in advance