BSEP Green Paper #3 Support for Teaching and Learning BSEP Support for Teaching and Learning Elementary Literacy Coaches Coordinator for Professional Development K-5 Literacy Lead BHS Professional Development Leaders and Teacher Leaders Instructional Technology TSA Response to Intervention and Instruction (RTI) Teachers Cultural Competency Academies Expanded Course Offerings (ECO) Teacher Initiated Professional Development Educational Program Evaluation TEACHERS’ WORK variations engaging in literacy differentiated skills & lessons daily readiness for school support for differences in Economic access to tech, Disparities healthcare, enrichment culturally Impact of competent & Structural use explicit equityRacism strategies Teaching = Multiple Levels of Complexity provide Social and academic and Emotional emotional Trauma supports to kids similar outcomes and growth for all kids Large Scale Reform in Literacy and Math: Rethinking Strategy in Light of International Evidence Andy Hargreaves, Lynch School of Education, Boston College ● Successful district efforts recognize that change can’t occur in all dimensions of a person’s work simultaneously ● Create the expectation: system-wide changes can occur in certain domains, and over time, these changes can reach progressively more content areas and more teaching ● Create enough models of good practice to guide learning at every layer of the system BSEP Supports Effective Professional Learning Change does not occur in all dimensions of a person’s work simultaneously Wednesday meets MATHEMATICS SUPPORT AND STRATEGIES FOR ENGLISH LEARNERS TCRWP (LANGUAGE ARTS) TOOLBOX - PBIS- WELCOMING SCHOOLS - RESTORATIVE CLASSROOMS CULTURAL COMPETENCY/EQUITY STRATEGIES WORK THESE TOPICS IN AUTHENTIC PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES two full day PD summer options can we be structurally creative? Multi-year Cycle: Professional Learning for Teachers Multi-Year Cycle FOCUS MAINTENANCE (new teachers +) ANNUAL 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 Math Cultural Comp/Equity Language Arts ELD Math Cultural Comp/Equity Language Arts ELD Toolbox/WS/PB IS ELD Language Arts Math Cultural Comp/Equity Toolbox/WS/PBIS Toolbox/WS/PBIS ELD Language Arts Math Cultural Competency Toolbox/WS/PBIS PLC PLC PLC PLC Support and sustain teachers in genuine, results-oriented teams rather than just “groups” Teacher teams engage in an ongoing process in which “educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.” Program Evaluation Overview Provides ongoing research and evaluation for all educational programs Develops and facilitates multiple levels of assessment Works with our professional community and our parent communities to use information to support classroom learning and program decision making Program Evaluation Purposes ● Improve teachers’ instruction and students’ learning; ● Improve the ability of School Governance Councils and other stakeholders to make decisions about the effective use of site and district resources; ● Improve the ability of the School Board, staff, and the public to make informed decisions about the effectiveness of instructional programs in order to maximize the use of resources ● Support and implement ongoing formative, common, and large scale assessments; ● Maintain and continuously improve a central data warehouse to provide real-time webbased student information to staff members with access to district indicators, drillable to the site, classroom and student level Actionable Feedback Used to Adjust Ongoing Teaching and Learning