Leadership and accountability

post has three assignments

1: Professional Development Plan

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Using the following sources (district goals, school improvement plans, teacher needs, assessment surveys, student
outcomes/achievement data, and teacher performance evaluation results) identify potential areas for professional
development focus in your school district. Create a sample professional development plan to be included on the
website that addresses the following questions (5 pages max):
o How will the plan support one or more district goals?
o How can you distribute leadership and accountability for the plan’s success?
o Develop a budget for the professional development and identify a source of funding.
o What settings, learning formats, coaching and mentoring opportunities are available and stable to support
the plan?
o What steps can be taken to encourage staff to develop greater commitment to the plan?
o Do the target participants have the background knowledge and skills necessary to build on throughout this
plan?
How will the plan be evaluated?

2: Miles Davis

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Do some research on this musician and provide some background. What are they significant for doing? Are they a technological pioneer or a genre innovator? Are they both? Are there political or cultural issues attached to their life or work?
Listen to 2 of the selections by the musician and use concepts and techniques we’ve learned about in class to analyze the music. For example if you write about Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles, you can discuss tape loops, or the Doppler effect on the vocals, or the Indian influenced drone that holds the piece together. You can talk about the inspiration for the song. In general tell us what is significant about this song and why come people regard it as important.
Paper must be a minimum of 4-5 pages and use MLA format for any works cited. The remaining points are will be awarded based on demonstration of critical listening skills and the ability to explain the subject matter in terms of the concepts we’ve learned in class.
-Miles Davis you may talk about Davis’s history as an innovator and specifically his pioneering work with jazz-fusion, then talk about the music on one of these albums.
In a Silent Way; Bitches Brew; On the Corner

3: How Music Works” by David Byrne.

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-Read the article from “How Music Works” by David Byrne.
-Summarize and identify salient features (i.e. important concepts) from the reading.
-Respond to at least 3 of the concepts brought up in the article with 3 to 4 paragraphs for each
concept.

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