As consultants who work with teachers every day on how to execute
high leverage instructional strategies, never does a strategy elicit so much excitement from teachers than when we coach them to implement Think Pair Share, a strategy many already think they know.
We engage and support teachers in a process of inquiry that takes a deep dive on
a high leverage instructional routine.
Not exact matches
I'm going to focus on the development of students» academic discourse as a
high -
leverage instructional practice that contributes to deeper learning, one in which our urban students need particular explicit instruction.
By selectively
leveraging the most applicable practices and strategies from the fields of
Instructional Design, Network Theory, Agile Design, Entrepreneurship, Team Dynamics / Management, and Information Systems, the education technology team at MSU Denver is reshaping a longstanding paradigm within
higher education, one which has gone relatively unchanged for decades.
Through relentless focus on student achievement, instilling a culture of success and college readiness, and
leveraging instructional technology, Fannin County
High School has increased its graduation rate by 25.2 %.
The Co-op will
leverage partnerships across multiple school districts to share and reduce the costs of accessing
high - quality professional develop and consulting for language and literacy teachers,
instructional coaches, and school administrators who are passionate about improving literacy outcomes.
Teachers were implementing
high -
leverage instructional strategies with proficiency and analyzing formative assessment data daily.
Aguilar, director of a coaching initiative that works with public school teachers in Oakland, California, describes how effective
instructional coaches help teachers set narrow but
high -
leverage goals, target specific behaviors teachers could improve, and connect individual coaching to schoolwide goals.
In addition, all Forest View teachers were to be evaluated with a new evaluation tool that named a set of
high -
leverage instructional practices.
These goals serve as the primary tenants for advancing the
high school renewal work to: 1) establish system coherence by aligning central office and site programs, and accelerating student learning by
leveraging and expanding knowledge and skills among staff, parents, and community members; 2) improve the quality of
instructional leadership by providing ongoing professional development for school leaders; 3) improve the quality of teaching throughout the district through embedded professional development; 4) increase student engagement in the learning process by personalizing learning environments to build on student interests; 5) increase community involvement in schools by giving principals ownership of the change process, expanding student voice, and bringing parents and students into the school renewal process.
Consider how PLCs can be
leveraged to ensure effective implementation of
high - quality curriculum and
instructional materials.
Dr. Bob Pritchard, co-founder of EPF for Teaching is a language and literacy specialist who works extensively with teachers and administrators around the county implementing
high leverage, research - based,
instructional practices associated with improved student learning across content areas.
These competencies are identified and developed along three
high -
leverage pathways in which teacher leaders can have an impact on the profession:
Instructional Leadership, Policy Leadership and Association Leadership.
Instructional expertise, including comprehensive understanding and application of high - leverage instructional strategies, assessments, and experience coaching instruc
Instructional expertise, including comprehensive understanding and application of
high -
leverage instructional strategies, assessments, and experience coaching instruc
instructional strategies, assessments, and experience coaching
instructionalinstructional staff.
The inaugural year of the TeachingWorks streaming seminar series featured a close examination of the problem of identifying
instructional practices that are particularly
high -
leverage for beginning teachers and making them central to the initial teacher - training curriculum.
Reach has as its core mission the improvement of student achievement outcomes as predictors of success in college or career in the 21st century, bringing attention to
high -
leverage instructional practices, including LDC, that empower teachers with effective practices, and a focus on a set of core habits (student engagement, academic learning behaviors, differentiation, intentionality, data analysis, and language and thinking development).
Each package will be anchored by a short video that will provide strategies for teaching novice teachers to implement specific
high -
leverage instructional practice.
Each teacher selected a program or curriculum and, within that, a
high -
leverage instructional strategy for the focal point of their year - long inquiry.
Through the Coaching for Change model, our trained and certified
instructional coaches use reflective questions to guide teachers to
high -
leverage areas of strength and growth.
She explains it's so they «have carved out time to really commit to the work and engage in a shared experience and conversations around the most
high leveraged ways we can impact our
instructional program, and ways we can bring our vision to fruition for our families.»
: Achieve and the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education jointly piloted a process where educators evaluated, modified, and / or developed
instructional tasks that demonstrate how Career Technical Education (CTE) content can be
leveraged throughout
high school mathematics.