student learning goals
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Student Learning Goals
How Urban Academy is becoming more driven by student learning
goals?
Focusing on StudentLearning Goals
Schoolwide Focus
Aligned andIntensive PD
PLCs
Teacher coachingand 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
What we decided to do
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
Common Procedures
Curriculum Mapping
Weekly PLCs
Aligned Teacher Evals
Collaborative Lesson Planning
Sharing What’s Working and What’s Not
Lesson Analysis
Developing CBAs
Examining Data from CBAs