{"id":19,"date":"2005-09-27T10:55:56","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T14:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2006-07-19T09:54:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T13:54:37","slug":"defining-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/defining-success\/","title":{"rendered":"defining success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I &#8220;hosted&#8221; my first Early Release Day.  In our district, we have 5 days a year when students are released 2 hours early so that schools may provide their staff with locally focused staff development. I am in charge of these sessions at my school (in theory, anyway). So here&#8217;s what I did:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>spruced up our meeting space with tableclothes in school colors<\/li>\n<li>loaded up each table with candy, cookies and chips<\/li>\n<li>provided sodas<\/li>\n<li>had hard copies of the presentation as well as all other necessary items to document their implementation of our SIP<\/li>\n<li>chopped the session in half&#8211;teachers had thirty minutes between dismissal time and the session start, and then the session lasted only 1 hour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to all reports, teachers were pleased with the session. Many were kind enough to say so to my principal, and a few to me, personally.  But here&#8217;s my question:<\/p>\n<p>How do we define success in professional development?  Is teacher satisfaction the measure? Having been a teacher for 18 years, I am pretty clear on what teachers want: speed, clarity and relevance (and yummy treats never hurt). However, isn&#8217;t the real measure based on what happens when these teachers return to the classroom? If they enjoy the session but choose not to implement the strategies, have I really succeeded?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I &#8220;hosted&#8221; my first Early Release Day. In our district, we have 5 days a year when students are released 2 hours early so that schools may provide their staff with locally focused staff development. I am in charge of these sessions at my school (in theory, anyway). So here&#8217;s what I did: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ilt","category-professional-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachteach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}