Workshop: Supporting Teacher Effectiveness Project (STEP)

In a three-day interactive workshop, learn how to facilitate a systemic, asset-based approach to professional learning communities (PLCs) in your school that helps educators discover and replicate what's working.

March 29-31, 2018
Edupedia Office
Building 7, Street 254. Degla, Al Maadi, Cairo

Sponsored by:

Insight Education Group and Edupedia invite school leaders and educators from across Cairo to join us on March 29-31 for three rich days of learning and discussion on how to launch STEP teams in your schools.

 

If you are an school leader or educator, this workshop is for you.

• Objectives and Content
• Content by Day
• Featured Speakers
• About Sponsors
• Time & Location

Objectives and Content

There is very little real data to show the impact of participation in professional learning communities (PLCs) makes a difference on teacher and student growth. School leaders find themselves continuing to struggle with how to structure meaningful opportunities for teachers to work together.

But there's a new way to think about PLCs this school year.

In our own attempt to answer these challenges, we worked with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, several other education organizations, and three large school systems in the United States to create a way of doing PLCs that helps spread practices that work.

The Supporting Teacher Effectiveness Project (STEP) is a systemic, data-driven, and teacher-led PLC structure—implemented now in schools around the world.

Here's the impact STEP participants report:

• 80% report that they have changed their teaching practice as a result of STEP.
• 87% reported they are more likely to use data to inform decisions about their teaching practices as a result of participating in STEP.

STEP helps to identify “bright spots” in every building and provides three clear advantages over other PLC models:

1. Uses data to find and replicate practices that work
2. Positively impacts climate and culture in buildings
3. Focuses on what is working versus dwelling on what is not working

CONTENT BY DAY

By the end of this three-day boot camp, you will be able to faciliate STEP teams in your school.

STEP is a process that can be iterative or cyclical in nature. It is normal for a team to revisit or cycle through earlier phases. STEP is designed to be tailored to your needs, and the STEP framework provides guideposts to help support your journey.

DAY 1: 

• Pre-Launch phase: Explore questions about how to determine whether conditions within your school or district are appropriate for piloting STEP. [View video]
• Launch phase: Learn how to build structures to enable the initiative’s success. [View video]
• Seek phase: Learn how to identify a common challenge to solve. This challenge is large enough to make a difference and small enough for members to make positive changes within a short time period. [View video]

Day 2: 

• Discover phase: Learn how to embark on a process with your STEP team to discover successful practices within their community that address the identifed challenge. 

Day 3: 

• Confirm stage: Learn how to guide your STEP team to confirm the promise of newly identified practices by testing them and measuring their impact. If a practice brings about demonstrably better outcomes, it is considered a solution.
• Share stage: Learn how to guide your STEP team to design a process to share the effective practice with their community. When sharing a solution, they may also share the process they used to confirm the practice’s effectiveness. This transparency demonstrates both the rigor and the practical nature of the STEP process.

By introducing these practices to the community and seeking to replicate them across a school or district, STEP has the potential to become a high impact, teacher-driven, sustainable method for promoting better teaching practice. 

FEATURED SPEAKERS

JASON STRICKER   
Jason is a co‐founder and CEO of Insight Education Group. With extensive experience in education as a teacher, coach, chief academic officer, and consultant, Jason brings to his work a deep understanding of educator effectiveness and organizational change and its impact on stakeholders at all levels. Full bio >

 

JASON CULBERTSON  
Jason is president of Insight Education Group. His experiences as a former classroom teacher, leader for state and non-profit organizations, and thought partner for districts, states, several countries, and the United States Department of Education and Queen Rania Teacher Academy (QRTA) provide him with unique expertise in solving the challenges of underperforming schools. Full bio >

ABOUT THE SPONSORS

 Insight Education Group

We are an international educational consulting company based in Los Angeles, California, USA that works with education leaders around the world to develop the strategy and confidence to lead bold change—and provide the embedded supports to make change happen. Learn more > 

 Edupedia

Based in Cairo, Egypt, Edupedia is an educational consultancy firm that was founded in 2010. We believe that the human force of leaders and teachers in a school is the most important component in building learning. Learn more > 

TIME & LOCATION

• Thursday, March 29, 2018:  4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
• Friday, March 30, 2018:  10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
• Saturday, March 31, 2018:  10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Edupedia Office
Building 7, Street 254. Degla, Al Maadi, Cairo
Cost for the workshop: 6,850 EGP

We look forward to seeing you there!