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Quality Teaching and Learning in Milwaukee

Quality Teaching and Learning in Milwaukee Education Partnership Launched to Curb Downward Trends

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Quality Teaching and Learning in Milwaukee

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  1. Quality Teaching and Learning in Milwaukee

  2. Education Partnership Launched to Curb Downward Trends Frostbelt City, USA – A newly formed campus-community partnership is forged among new bedfellows - school chief, union head, commerce guru, workforce specialist, technical and four–year CEOs - to put “every child on grade level in reading, writing and math.”

  3. Partnership Collaboration

  4. Increase student achievement Improve the quality of teaching and learning Address systemic issues across educational institutions Goals

  5. Broad Initiative Assure that every child in MPS is performing at or above grade level in reading, writing, and mathematics

  6. Five Breakthrough Strategies • Balanced Literacy Framework • School Learning Teams • Professional Development • Monitor and Report Student Progress • Tutoring and Family Literacy

  7. Implementation Team • Partner organizations • Weekly Meetings • Action Plans

  8. Priority 1 - Balanced Literacy Definition The balanced literacy framework is a comprehensive literacy program that provides a balance of skill development and literacy-rich activities across all subject areas.

  9. Word Study/ Vocabulary Guided Reading Shared Reading/ Collaborative Reading Shared Writing Interactive Writing Guided Writing/ Writer’s Workshop Balanced Literacy Framework Reading Aloud/Oral Reading Reading WritingSpeaking Listening Deep Thinking Researching Independent Reading and Writing

  10. Purpose Assist in providing school-wide support to assure all students demonstrate literacy at acceptable levels of growth. Priority 2 – School Learning Teams

  11. School Learning Teams Responsibilities • Emphasize achievement and literacy • Provide resources for literacy • Assist with education plan • Assist in monitoring pupil progress • Support and conduct professional development

  12. Priority 3 - Professional Development Provide continuous professional development around the Balanced Literacy Framework across all content areas

  13. Professional Development Highly Trained Literacy Coaches + School Learning Teams + Competent, Caring Staff = Improved Teaching and Learning

  14. Priority 4 – Monitor and Report Student Progress Develop a Plan to Monitor and Report Progress of Students

  15. Monitoring and Reporting Student Progress at the • student level • classroom level • school level • district level

  16. Priority 5 – Tutoring and Family Literacy Focus on improving achievement in Reading, Writing, and Mathematics

  17. Strategies Provide tutors / advocates Identify a tutor coordinator Recruit and train volunteers Provide parent activities Tutoring and Family Literacy

  18. Leaders of Milwaukee committed to: • shared vision • shared responsibility, and • shared authority for ensuring the academic success of MPS students

  19. What’s the news here? • Sharing and student success • Research-based approach • Comprehensive, yet focused • Outcomes driven • Systemic

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