Hello Esmerelda,
Thank you for joining us to share your experiences with program improvement. I 
have a few questions for you pertaining to how you structured your program 
such that your teachers had (still have?) shared planning time once a week. 
Would you tell us more about how you made that work?

For example:
1) Are your teachers primarily part time? At the same location? Different 
locations?
2) What was their initial response to this change in their schedules?
3) Were they paid to participate in shared plan time? If so, then was this 
financially supported as a part of the EFF/UPS project, or have they 
traditionally been receiving paid plan time?
4) What was their assessment of having this shared plan time? Did they find it 
beneficial to the program improvement process? For their own professional 
well-being?
5) Do they still have shared plan time now that the EFF/UPS project is over?
6) What recommendations do you have for program directors who are considering 
a change in teacher scheduling to include shared plan time?

Thanks for your thoughts, Jackie

Jackie Taylor, Moderator
Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List
jataylor at utk.edu

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http://pli.cls.utk.edu/Stories/story4.html
"As the team leader and administrator of the Adult Learning Center, I knew I 
needed to have teachers on the advisory board in order for them to buy into 
any changes that would be implemented within our program. The first change 
that was implemented that came from one of our meetings was to change the 
teachers’ schedules so that they would have a common prep period every Friday 
to meet and share their ideas on how to infuse the EFF standards into their 
everyday lesson plans. Inviting the principal of Adult Education Mr. Cordero 
to our advisory board meetings assisted in allowing this change to happen."