March 22, 2013 Deanery Curriculum Day

December 3, 2012

Dear School Leaders,

Thank you for your tremendous dialogue within your deaneries to look at ways to uplift PreK-12 articulation across the Archdiocese of Seattle through the Deanery Curriculum Development Day on Friday, March 22, 2013. Each Executive Principal Dean has been connecting with their deanery principals to determine the best course of action for your deanery. This year, each deanery leader is asked to complete their paperwork online. Optional: Funding of $300.00 per school is available to assist each school in their financial planning purposes.

When ready, please complete your deanery or local school PD plan for March 22nd online by Friday, February 1, 2013.

DEANERY-BASED OR SCHOOL-SITE BASED CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Required for all Teachers and Administrators---Grades Pre-K - Grade 12
Possible Topic or Theme Ideas
• Strategic Planning
• Catholic Identity Standards
• Accreditation
• Assessment Best Practices (Assessment for Learning vs. Assessment of Learning)
• Data Collection, Reporting, Analysis, Disaggregation
• Consortium interface and planning
• Curriculum Mapping
• Curriculum and Instruction Programs and Practices
• Faith Formation/Service Learning
• Development
• Teaching and Leading as a Ministry
• Common Core State Standards
• Building Data Teams
• Integration of Technology in the Classroom
• Diversity and Special Needs
• Differentiating Curriculum: In Practice
• Stewardship
• Continuous School Improvement
• School Culture and Climate
• Classroom Procedures and Management
• Professional Learning Communities
• Parent, Parish, and Community Relationship Building
• Review of Educational Research and Best Practices (book review)
• Tech Tools Training
• SLEs and Habits of the Mind

Special offerings for ALL schools to consider:
1) Holy Family Parish School in Kirkland is hosting an ORFF Music Workshop for the Music/Drama/Classroom Teachers - see registration attachment please.
2) Rev. Steve Sallis will be offering a day of in-service for the Liturgical Coordinators of our schools at the large Issac Orr Conference Room, The Chancery. Registration will be coming.
3) Other opportunities?

What has been tried? What has been valuable for our schools? We have some survey data results for school leaders to review and study. The following links can take you to the previous Deanery Curriculum Day responses from fellow principals which may be helpful in designing your in-service day.

2012 Deanery Curriculum Day Survey Results
http://www.seecelebrateandlive.org/f...nses.php?id=70

2011 Deanery Curriculum Day Survey Results
http://www.seecelebrateandlive.org/f...nses.php?id=25

2010 Deanery Curriculum Day Survey Results
http://www.seecelebrateandlive.org/c...-responses.php

Quick link to Professional Development Clock Hours Forms: Our teachers are most grateful for the gift of clock hours for their on-going professional certification requirements. Please click Clock Hours to find all required forms.
If questions, please contact Lisa O’Leary at elizabeth.oleary@seattlearch.org

If I can be of further assistance, please contact me at sandra.smith@seattlearch.org

Respectfully submitted,
Sandra Barton Smith
Assistant Superintendent