For information, please contact: 

Lindsay Kiraly, Director of Professional Learning and Coaching
TrueNorth Educational Cooperative 804
760 Red Oak Lane
Highland Park, IL  60035
(847) 831 5100 x2415

NSSED Cooperative Wide Professional Learning System

VISION STATEMENT

Empower diverse learners* to collaborate in order to develop equitable and inclusive learning environments, which leads to actions that impact student growth and potential.

*A Learner is everyone/anyone

DEFINITION

Professional learning is designed to refine and expand knowledge, skills, attitudes, and practices in order to impact student growth through intentional, continuous, and collaborative engagement.

BELIEFS

High Expectations: Ambitious goals lead to powerful actions and outcomes.

Diversity: Diversity and inclusivity strengthen an organization and improve its decisions and outcomes.

Impact: Evaluation and reflection strengthen performance and results.

Collaboration: An organization’s culture and climate build shared responsibility for learning that encourages student growth.

Shared Leadership/ Expertise: As a cooperative wide community we can solve our most complex problems by tapping internal expertise and knowing when to utilize outside resources.

Empowerment: Learners develop personalized plans that are relevant and meaningful to support their continuous improvement.

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING STANDARDS *

Learning Communities: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment.

Leadership: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires skillful leaders who develop capacity, advocate, and create support systems for professional learning.

Resources: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students requires prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating resources for educator learning.

Data: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students uses a variety of sources and types of student, educator, and system data to plan, assess, and evaluate professional learning.

Learning Designs: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students integrates theories, research, and models of human learning to achieve its intended outcomes.

Implementation: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students applies research on change and sustains support for implementation of professional learning for long-term change.

Outcomes: Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students aligns its outcomes with educator performance and student curriculum standards.

*Adopted from Learning Forward's Standards for Professional Learning

Thank you to these dedicated team members from across the cooperative:

• Amanda Beranek, Professional Learning and Coaching Support Specialist, NSSED
• Ali Berman, North Shore Academy, NSSED
• Nicole Burke, North Shore Academy, NSSED
• Amy Cohan, District Services Coach, NSSED
• Debbie Doyle, Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Design and Innovation, NSSED
• Bobby Hanson, Highland Park High School, District 113
• Lindsay Kiraly, Director of Professional Learning and Coaching, NSSED
• Alesia Margetic, Department Chair of Counseling Services at Highland Park High School, District 113
• Carol Michels, Director of District Services, NSSED
• Lauren Randazzo, ELS/SLE, NSSED
• Tracy Roehrick, Assistant Principal Lake Bluff Elementary School, District 65
• Lauren Schulman, Director of Student Services, District 30
• Rachel Pollera, Special Education Teacher, District 30
• Ivy Sukenik, Principal Sunset Ridge School, District 29
• Jo Taylor, Assistant Principal Deerfield High School, District 113
• Andrea Trudeau, Library Information Specialist Shepard Middle School, District 109
• Amanda Wallis, ELS/SLE, NSSED
• Amy Zima, Early Childhood, NSSED
• Tracy Hellner, Parent Facilitator