CONNECT-ED

Professional Development in Science and Mathematics

2nd PLC Action Plan/Grant Request (Year 3)

Submit draft via e-mail to byJuly 15, 2010

District:

Leadership Team Members:

District Priorities for science and/or math education:

PLC 3-year Goals (2008-2011): Review the 3-year goals already identified in your initial Action Plan. Restate them here, either in their original form or, if they need adjusting, in their revised form.

Explain how your Year Three plan appliesBig Idea Thinking to teaching and learning science and/or mathematics:

2ndPLC Grant: For Year 3 (Sept. 1, 2010 thru Aug. 31, 2011)
Please provide as much detail as possible in this section and explanations where appropriate in the section following the tables.
STRATEGIES:
What are we going to do to work towards our goals? Why this strategy? / GOAL:
Which does the strategy address?
(enter the goal # from above) / TALENT:
Who will be responsible for doing what? / TIME:
When will we do it? / RESULTS:
What outcomes/outputs do we anticipate? / BUDGET:
What will the costs be? (Details should be included in separate budget sheet and submitted with this form.)

[Modified from Template 10.2-Team Planning Template, from NJ DOE & NSDC’s Collaborative Professional Learning in School & Beyond, and from Lois Brown Easton’s CONNECT-ED Phase II Professional Learning Communities-Addressing the Big Ideas and Connections in Math and Science, Packet 2, 1/30/09]

Provide here essential explanations, descriptions, etc. to clarify details provided in the tables above. Use this space to help the readers connect the dots since they have not necessarily been in your meetings and/or know all the details of your plans.

Please indicate how your plans will capitalize on your (Mini)BIM Trainers, their skills and resources:

A goal for Phase II of CONNECT-ED is that your PLC and its work will continue beyond the term of our existing grants (i.e., beyond 2011). Please indicate how you are building this sustainability into your Year 3 Action Plan.

Explain how you will assess progress toward your goals in Year 3. (How will you know that the plans you implement are moving you along a path toward your goals?)

Submit by July 15, 2010 via e-mail to .