Build Your Own Institute
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Professional Development in
the Expectations & Metrics
Principals: Provide high quality professional development (as
defined by Impactful PD Rubric), taking advantage of the
PD kits and instructional practice videos on EngageNY.org
so that all teachers can implement aligned curriculum with
quality and fidelity.
Superintendents: Provide high quality professional
development (as defined by Impactful Pd Rubric), taking
advantage of the PD kits and instructional practice videos
on engageNY.org so that all teachers can implement
aligned curriculum with quality and fidelity.
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Impactful PD Rubric
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Setting Participants up for Success
Generating Objectives
Targeted, efficient activities
Pacing, tone, time management
Facilitation of Adult Learning
Evaluation
 and !
Strengths and Growing Edges
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Shifts in Assessments
Six Shifts in ELA Assessments
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Shifts in Assessments
Six Shifts in Mathematics Assessments
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The Wizard of Oz
Use details and evidence to support your answers!
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What motivates Dorothy?
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What role do the red shoes play?
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What element of the human psyche does the lion
represent?
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What is the climax of the story?
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How many settings are there in the story?
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Is it real or is it a dream?
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What is the theme?
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EVERY LITTLE HURRICANE ~Sherman Alexie
Although it was winter, the nearest ocean four hundred
miles away, and the Tribal Weatherman asleep
because of-boredom, a hurricane dropped from the
sky in 1976 and fell so hard on the Spokane Indian
Reservation that it knocked Victor from bed and his
latest nightmare.
• Where and when does the story take place?
• What time of year is it?
• Why are the tribal weathermen asleep because of
boredom?
• What happens in this first sentence?
• What do we learn about Victor in this first sentence?
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Pre-CCSS Questions
• What weather words and phrases does the author
use?
• Alexie uses the paradox of fighting at a party, two
seemingly incompatible events that nonetheless
occur. What other examples of paradox appear in
the story, and why might that be?
• Which character to you most resemble? Why?
• How does the author use one or more major
metaphors (storms, water, drowning)?
• Write a brief summary of the text, its relationship to
events, and its use of symbolism and paradox to
illustrate it major theme.
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Reading Targets
CCSS goal: students leave the
lesson having read, analyzed and
understood what they have READ.
Current goal: Students leave
the lesson knowing the
details of the narrative and
the way a particular “element”
is playing out.
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Readers & Writers Workshop is still a
viable literacy model if…
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Efficiency of time
Text complexity for all (Frustration/ Productive Struggle is OK)
Far greater emphasis on writing from sources than narrative
Primacy of text based evidence
Deliberate skills instruction (Lisa Delpit was right!)
Frequent opportunities for students to learn and reinforce the
spelling/sound patterns necessary for proficient decoding in early
grades
Frequent opportunities for oral comprehension, rich language
experiences, background knowledge to keep students’
comprehension progressing
Frequent exposures to coherent texts which are connected to the
primary materials.
Exposure to varied, spiraled, and sophisticated syntax, content
knowledge, and vocabulary.
Leveled text structure does not prohibit domain specific acceleration
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ELA/ Literacy CCSS
Professional Development
What does an effectively trained teacher look like
for ELA? For Content Areas in Literacy? For
Math? What does he know? What can she
do?
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CCSS
Professional Development
• Where are you now?
• What have you focused on/ prioritized?
• What has been learned?
• How has practice changed in your building/
district?
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The shape of math in A+ countries
Mathematics
topics
intended at
each grade by
at least twothirds of A+
countries
Mathematics
topics
intended at
each grade by
at least twothirds of 21
U.S. states
1 Schmidt,
Houang, & Cogan, “A Coherent Curriculum: The Case of Mathematics.” (2002).
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Tom Guskey’s Levels of PD Evaluation
1. Did they like it?
2. Did they learn it?
3. Were the supports, policies, and
accountabilities in place to ensure high
quality implementation?
4. Did they implement with quality and fidelity?
5. Did the changes in their practice have an
impact on student achievement?
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Let’s talk about level 3
• Supports
• Policies
• Accountabilities
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Recommended Areas of
Focus for Teacher Training:
• Curriculum
– Scope & Sequence
– Format/ Structure
– Assessments
– Processes/ Protocols
– Lesson Plans
• Diving Deeply into the shifts
• Intensive Adult to Adult conversations about Content (Texts,
Concepts)
• Practical application and adult to adult processing time
devoted to shift experimentation/ evidence collection tools
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Make Your Own Institute
• For Principals
• For Teachers
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So what do you want to do
• And when do you want to do it?
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