Statement:

The AISA Professional Learning Design Team, or PLDT, is an advisory body to the AISA Deputy Executive Director in designing, delivering and evaluating Professional Learning activities for AISA’s membership. Therefore, the PLDT’s work is in service of AISA’s mission and aimed at supporting professional growth and improved student learning across our member schools.

 Composition of the PLDT:

The PLDT consists of five or six members and the AISA Deputy Executive Director (Chair). The membership of the PLDT includes the most innovative leaders of professional learning in our region, who will contribute to AISA’s professional learning programming and comprises a variety of perspectives that will serve the many professional learning needs of AISA’s wide membership.

PLDT Membership Profile:

To serve on the PLDT, an individual must:

• Be (or recerntly has been) a leader of learning (student, professional or both) at an AISA school.
• Be learning-focused, passionate about improving learning and internationally minded.
• Be collaborative, creative and  knowledgable in professional learning in international school contexts.
• Have the support of their head of school to take on this positino, including permission to attend the AISA Conference and the PLDT Strategic Planning Meeting immediately afterwards.

PLDT Membership Commitments:

Members of the PLDT are expected to:

• Be fully engaged in and informed about the work of the PLDT for TWO full academic years
• Participate in monthly group calls, complete group and individual tasks promptly and offer leadership in negotiated areas of responsibility
• Take responsibility for one or more strategic aspects of the PLDT’s work
• Attend the one-day meeting immediately after the AISA Conference.
• Organize funding for travel and accommodation costs associated with attending the AISA Conference.
• Maintain confidentiality of commercially sensitive information
• Work in a spirit of collegiality, active collaboration, mutual respect and critical friendship.
• Focus on the good of the organization as a whole.

 PLDT Responsibilities:

Under the guidance of the AISA Deputy Executive Director (Professional Learning and Strategic Partnerships)

• Assess the Professional Learning needs of member schools and monitor the effectiveness of AISA’s various Professional Learning programmes to support professional growth and improve student learning
• Develop a balanced, innovative multi-year plan for AISA’s Professional Learning activities which:
  • has an overall aim of developing professional growth and improved student learning in AISA schools
  • is grounded in current research and innovative thinking
  • includes a wide range of facilitators
  • are multi-modal and offer a variety of learning styles and formats
  • addresses the articulated needs of member schools
  • supports AISA programmes such as Wellbeing, Service Learning, Tech Intergration
  • supports AISA’s mission, vision and values

 AISA Support for the PLDT:

The PLDT can expect that:

• Their work will be respected and valued by the Deputy Executive Director and the AISA Board
• AISA will fund one (or two if required by travel arrangements) nights of hotel accommodation and pay a per diem allowance for the annual meeting that occurs immediately after the AISA Conference
• AISA will offer free registration to PLDT members to attend the AISA Conference and participation at the Conference Gala Dinner
• All member schools will be asked to support the learning and subsequent outcomes of the PLDT by cooperating in surveys and encouraging colleagues at their schools to register for AISA events.

 PLDT Work Process:

• The PLDT will manage its outputs following the applicable objectives stated in AISA’s strategic plan. Once this plan is devised and agreed upon, the time frames for each output must be achieved without delay. The team will use a distributed leadership model in which group members take responsibility, lead, and co-lead various aspects of the group’s work.
• The PLDT will report three times a year (including any recommendations) to the Executive Director and the AISA Board through a consensus process managed by the Deputy Executive Director.

Submit your online application here by March 29th to be considered.