Professional Development

Mission:
The members of the Lee Education Association and the Lee School Committee believe it is in the best interest of the Lee Public Schools Community for the professional staff, paraprofessional staff, and administration to work collaboratively in order to determine professional development activities that best reflect the needs of individual teachers/paraprofessionals, the instructional needs of the students, and areas of need as identified in the school and district improvement plans and other measures of school and district effectiveness.

Meeting Dates for School Year 2010 -2011
September 23; October 20; December 15; Febuary 16; April 6; June 1
*links are to approved minutes

Calendar for PD Days

Friday, April 8, 2011 Half Day
LMHS Teachers	Full Faculty Meeting
Session 1	Common- Core Areas Course Delineations Facilitator: Marty McEvoy Interdisciplinary discussion with English, math, history and science about revised course delineations (levels. Labels and then prerequisites Strong Start Grade 9 House Proposal Facilitator: Tim Mertinooke Discussion on how to develop a year-long transition program to support the needs of Grade 9 students
Session 2	Half-Year Course Proposals Facilitator: Joanne Nelson Post proposals (name, department, content area and mini course description) for half-year courses for electives , especially in Grades 11 & 12 Redefining Internships Co-Facilitators: Marisa White & Art Reilly Use existing Guidance criteria as a start and discuss revision of internship options
Paras
LES faculty
Paras
Friday, March 11, 2011 Half Day
LMHS Teachers and Paras	Link priorities set at faculty meeting Feb 9, to LMHS Goals. Breakout groups work on topic below: Schedule Climate and Activities Interventions Transitions Priority details Click Here (pdf)
LES faculty	Universal Letter Sound Pronunciation Department Head Update & Principles of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum Self-Assessment Tool Begin Social Studies Survey
LES paras	De-escalation PBIS
District Wide Data Team	Meeting in LES Staff Room
Friday, January 14, 2011 Half Day
LMHS & LES Teachers and Paras	Review, discuss and preliminary work with the district's Bullying Policy and the Lee Public Schools Strategic Plan. Staff will receive papers to sign up for action planning committees the day of the in-service. Joe Turmel presenting the Bullying Policy, and Jake McCandless presenting the Strategic Plan, as well as asking for commentary and sharing from those who helped craft the strategic plan. All sessions will meet in HTZ-PAC.

District Wide Data Team	Meeting in LES Staff Room
Friday, December 10, 2010 Half Day
LMHS & LES Teachers and Paras	Faculty & staff view "Bullied" A 40-minute film from Teach for Tolerance about the landmark Nabozny case where bullying directed at students who are/were assumed to be gay, featuring Jamie Nabozny. For the movies trailer Click Here Berkshire County District Attorney's Office anti-bullying training in HTZ-PAC
District Wide Data Team	Meeting in LES Staff Room
Friday, October 29, 2010 All Day
LMHS Teachers and Paras	Response to Intervention (white paper pdf)

LES Teachers	Collins Writting