BOOK+STUDY

**From Staff Room to Classroom **
Authors: Robin Fogarty and Brian Pete

Session 1: > o Change in belief > o Change in student achievement > o Change in practice
 * Assignment prior to meeting: Read Chapter 1—//A Guide to the Change Process//
 * Give approximately 5 minutes to review the chapter and highlight any significant passages or quotes that were meaningful to them.
 * Divide into groups of 4 or 5.
 * Use [|The Final Word Protocol] to generate discussion on Chapter 1.
 * Give coaches copies of the 4 elements of the change process:
 * Professional Development
 * Have groups sequence these for in the order they believe change occurs through professional development. Give about 5-10 minutes for the activity to take place. Then give the coaches time to share their thinking with the other groups.
 * Read // [|If you’re Riding a Horse and It Dies, Get Off] // by Grant and Forsten. Discuss as a large group how this is similar to what they encounter in their own schools.

 Session 2:
 * Assignment prior to meeting: Read Chapter 2.
 * Due to calendar issues, meeting was cancelled. Coaches went to discussion thread on Digital Express. [|http://goo.gl/BMWE9]

 Session 3:
 * Assignment prior to meeting: Read Chapter 3
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Take the quiz in Box 2.6 on p. 31 and discuss results in small groups
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Break
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Divide into groups of 4-5. Use the 4 A’s Text Protocol to work through Chapter 3.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">End with the Tear/Share Activity with 4 questions (p. 52)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Session 4:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Compass Points activity to identify personal styles
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Making Meaning Protocol--the storytelling version
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Write about an awful PD experience you had as a teacher. What made it bad? Describe the issues.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Write about an exemplary PD experience you had as a teacher. What made it good? Describe why it was worthwhile.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Get into groups of 3. Identify who will tell his/her story first.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Each person tells their story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Group of 3 brainstorms the following:Share out with the larger group.
 * What characteristics made each experience awful?
 * What characteristics made each experience powerful?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Open to Chapters 4 and 5. Actively read.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Combine groups of 3 into groups of 6.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Whip around in each group. "What do you see?"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"What questions does this text raise for you??
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"What is significant about this text?"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Debrief chapter

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Session 5:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Provocative Prompts Protocol
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Cut out quotes from Chapter 6. Put in the middle for each group to use. One coach draws out a quote and responds to it. Everyone else in the group has an opportunity to add to the response. Continue with every coach in the group until all quotes are used.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Share out
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Each coach shares out with the larger group a facilitation strategy they have used with either a small or large group. Total time to share--3-5 minutes/coach.