How to Deliver Effective Feedback to Faculty and Staff: Setting Clear Expectations ( 8:30-11:30am)

Today’s leaders are challenged to ensure that their district/school evaluations, collaboration, and feedback make a difference for teachers and students. Learning how to give effective feedback that positively impacts teaching and learning can be a difficult task for teacher leaders. This is especially true for what is called “hard feedback”. This type of feedback challenges the teachers’ practice and can cause professional discomfort.

Participants will learn:

• The essential skills and be provided with materials that will result in positive communication for both educators and administrators
• How to give feedback to staff so they will listen
• To practice delivering feedback vs. advice
• To identify strategies for increasing peer coaching among teachers in professional learning communities
• The Instructional Coaching Cycle based on the work of Jim Knight
• How to establish routines and create tools/protocols that help reduce the need for the difficult conversation
• To practice giving substantive feedback to help build a collegial and trusting relationship between teacher and coach/administrator

Presenter: Dr. Judy Ann DeLucia, Seaside Educational Consultants

PD Hours: 3 in Content Area Leadership and Administration

Fees: Member $150 / Non-Member $205

MSAA Contact: Ethel Kawesa, ekawesa@msaa.net

About the Presenter

Judy Ann DeLucia, Ed.D. | Seaside Educational Consultants

Dr. DeLucia, President of Seaside Educational Consultants, is a dedicated professional whose career has spanned from classroom to Superintendent in both pre-K-12 comprehensive and vocational systems. She has provided consultant services for the evaluation of federal and state grants, grant writing, leadership, mentoring, SEL, curriculum design, staff development related to inclusionary education, and special needs programs and policies. In addition, Dr. DeLucia has expertise in turning around underrepresented schools.

A retired school superintendent in Massachusetts, she successfully launched Seaside Educational Consultants, an international professional development provider, to foster her dedication to linking professional development directly to student learning. With her extensive background in workshops and courses for educational personnel, Dr. DeLucia has been the keynote speaker at state and national conferences.