Canyon Springs: From Promising Practices to Model PLC

(Season Finale) Episode 17 - Superintendent Dr. Catherine Kawaguchi talks PLC Vision and Leading the District PLC Movement

On the Season Finale and the 17th episode of Canyon Springs: From Promising Practices to Model PLC, listen in on the PLC journey with Canyon Springs as we work to be further recognized as a Solution Tree National Model PLC school. This week, meet the Sulphur Springs Union School District Superintendent, Dr. Catherine Kawaguchi, as she talks leading a PLC vision for 8 other schools alongside Canyon Springs, why everyone together makes it a movement and not a PLC Lite initiative, and how her experience both in the classroom and as a site leader is her PLC foundation for organizational leadership.  References: PLC 4 Questions Flowchart - W. Richard Smith [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7srJVElQ8AMxPmjN1emtcwWIK1f0T9Q/view?usp=sharing] Time For Change by Dr. Anthony Muhammed and Dr. Luis Cruz [https://www.solutiontree.com/time-for-change.html] Learning by Doing [https://www.solutiontree.com/learning-by-doing-fourth-edition.html]  Raising the Bar and Closing the Gaps [https://www.solutiontree.com/raising-the-bar-and-closing-the-gap.html] For more information on or about this podcast, contact Matt Gilpin: mgilpin@sssd.k12.ca.us

Episode 16 - Julie McBride, Canyon Springs' PLC Chaperone, talks the 4 PLC Questions across Organizational Leadership

On the 16th episode of Canyon Springs: From Promising Practices to Model PLC, listen in on the PLC journey with Canyon Springs as we work to be further recognized as a Solution Tree National Model PLC school. This week, join Julie McBride, the Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services for the Sulphur Springs Union School District, the Canyon Springs PLC Chaperone and the most PLC trained educator in the district, as she talks through her approach to the 4 PLC Questions as they fit her role as a district leader guiding the learning at 9 schools in the same district all on their own PLC @ Work journey. References: PLC 4 Questions Flowchart - W. Richard Smith [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7srJVElQ8AMxPmjN1emtcwWIK1f0T9Q/view?usp=sharing] Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour [https://www.solutiontree.com/raising-the-bar-and-closing-the-gap.html] Transforming School Culture by Dr. Anthony Muhammed [https://www.solutiontree.com/transforming-school-culture-2nd.html] For more information on or about this podcast, contact Matt Gilpin: mgilpin@sssd.k12.ca.us

Episode 15 - The Canyon Springs CAPS Team, Kami Sunde and Jesseca Tobin, talk Collaborative Site Leadership

On the 15th episode of Canyon Springs: From Promising Practices to Model PLC, listen in on the PLC journey with Canyon Springs as we work to be further recognized as a Solution Tree National Model PLC school. This week, join half of the Canyon Springs Guiding Coalition, or the CAPS Team, Kami Sunde and Jesseca Tobin, as they talk their collaborative leadership style, the difference in their teacher leadership approach today compared to two years ago, and what next steps they are excited to see at Canyon Springs. References: PLC 4 Questions Flowchart - W. Richard Smith [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7srJVElQ8AMxPmjN1emtcwWIK1f0T9Q/view?usp=sharing] Time For Change by Dr. Anthony Muhammed and Dr. Luis Cruz [https://www.solutiontree.com/time-for-change.html] For more information on or about this podcast, contact Matt Gilpin: mgilpin@sssd.k12.ca.us

Episode 14 - The Canyon Springs 3rd Grade Professional Learning Team Talks Collectively Analyzing Assessment Data

On the 14th episode of Canyon Springs: From Promising Practices to Model PLC, listen in on the PLC journey with Canyon Springs as we work to be further recognized as a Solution Tree National Model PLC school. This week, join the Canyon Springs 3rd Grade Professional Learning Team (Jackie Rivera and Elyssa Arroyo) as they talk through their work in collectively analyzing assessment data to define next instructional steps, improve assessment tasks to better match learning targets, and how making collective assessment steps prior to a unit of instruction is making them be better teachers.  References: PLC 4 Questions Flowchart - W. Richard Smith [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7srJVElQ8AMxPmjN1emtcwWIK1f0T9Q/view?usp=sharing] Design in Five by Nicole Dimich [https://www.solutiontree.com/design-in-five-second-edition.html] Literacy in a PLC @ Work by Paula Maeker and Jacqueline Heller [https://www.solutiontree.com/literacy-in-a-plc.html] For more information on or about this podcast, contact Matt Gilpin: mgilpin@sssd.k12.ca.us

Episode 13 - Carolyn Davenport talks Protecting Time for Targeting Essential Behaviors

On the 13th episode of Canyon Springs: From Promising Practices to Model PLC, listen in on the PLC journey with Canyon Springs as we work to be further recognized as a Solution Tree National Model PLC school. This week, meet Carolyn Davenport, a Canyon Springs 2nd Grade Teacher, member of the Logistics Leadership Team and undoubtedly our school's lead celebrator. Ms. Davenport explains her work in using the blend of adopted social emotional curricular tools to teach the essential academic and social behaviors, how agreed upon core values are changing the site's culture and student learning through direct and targeted behavior instruction, and how it can't happen without planned for and protected time.      References: PLC 4 Questions Flowchart - W. Richard Smith [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7srJVElQ8AMxPmjN1emtcwWIK1f0T9Q/view?usp=sharing] Behavior Solutions by Jessica and John Hannigan [https://www.solutiontree.com/behavior-solutions.html] You Can Learn by Tim Brown and William Ferriter [https://www.solutiontree.com/you-can-learn.html]