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Student Learning Goals. How Urban Academy is becoming more driven by student learning goals?. Aligned and Intensive PD. Schoolwide Focus. Focusing on Student Learning Goals. PLCs. Teacher coaching and observation/eval protocols. Why?. Textbook or standards driven
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Student Learning Goals How Urban Academy is becoming more driven by student learning goals?
Aligned and Intensive PD Schoolwide Focus Focusing on Student Learning Goals PLCs Teacher coaching and observation/eval protocols
Why? • Textbook or standards driven • Struggle with classroom management • Don’t prioritize concepts • Become isolated • Become too activity driven • Don’t align modeling and practice to core concept • Don’t track meaningful and ongoing curriculum based assessment data • Inexperienced teachers that….
What gets in our way • provide the time • show how • provide examples • provide ongoing guidance • We don’t create a culture of learning • We don’t provide mechanisms • We don’t communicate • We don’t collaborate • We don’t align our evaluation procedures
We are trying to focus Data + discussion about what’s really important Develop a common language Commit PD time and resources Make accountability goals meaningful goals at grade level Question underlying issues Get everyone on the same page Align curriculum, instruction, PD, and evaluation processes to goals
Schoolwide goals • What would make a difference • If we focused on _____, how would that improve their lives • What big skills help them learn other things
