{"id":11457,"date":"2013-11-06T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=11457"},"modified":"2013-11-06T12:15:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T18:15:04","slug":"federation-teachers-continue-to-meet-share-best-practices-and-teaching-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=11457","title":{"rendered":"Federation Teachers Continue to Meet, Share Best Practices and Teaching Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11458\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/federation-teachers-continue-to-meet-share-best-practices-and-teaching-tools\/sacred-heart-teachers\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11458\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11458\" title=\"Sacred Heart Teachers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flovalleynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sacred-Heart-Teachers-300x168.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During an October morning workshop, the teachers are working with learning standards for Reading Literature. Here staff members from Sacred Heart School are building a jigsaw puzzle by trying to determine the grade level of each standard from K to 12th.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Teachers from each of the Federation schools, along with their colleagues from St. Ann School, gathered on Friday, Oct. 4th for a morning workshop titled \u201cStandards Based Total Instructional Alignment\u201d (using learning goals to determine assignments and instruction).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Then, in the afternoon, Professional Learning Teams (PLT) had their monthly meeting.\u00a0 Mr. Chris Masterson, coordinator of the PLTs, urged teachers to focus on real-time classroom instruction needs and work together on real-time usable solutions such as fine-tuning lesson plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough this PLT collaboration, we are developing a library of knowledge and best practices that can be used to improve our teaching and student learning,\u201d said Masterson.<\/p>\n<p>Principals are observing a positive impact from their teachers\u2019 participation in PLTs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Lady of Guadalupe is definitely a better school because of our faculty&#8217;s participation in the PLTs,&#8221; said Peggy O&#8217;Brien, principal at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic School. &#8220;The PLTs provide a network for the teachers where they can share ideas, successes and challenges with one another, providing a source encouragement and problem-solving that did not previously exist for our teachers. 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