"Senior" Program

This package includes a total of eight 90-minute professional development series that are designed to build on one another and to be given consecutively. The eight-anchoring series are centered around key components that lead to both teacher and student growth, enhanced literacy skills, the creation of math groups, and hosts of customized training in relation to the area(s) of focus for the participating educator.

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Note: Other professional development series can be created based on your organization’s mission and goals for the academic school year.

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The Senior Package will allow for participants to receive our most intensive level of support.  Both personal and professional goals will be created and assessed, and more face to face time is provided so that each participant truly feels supported with the hopes of decreasing any anxiety and teacher burnout. On this level, we will form a partnership of creating memorable activities for students, co-teaching, tips on grading and how to utilize teacher prep times wisely, creating parent newsletters, and all of the little things that have a huge impact on the success of both the educator and the students’ school year!

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One-on-one coaching will consist of research-based instructional practices focusing on components such as: classroom management/climate, incorporating student interests, lesson planning, addressing misconceptions, student-data analysis, differentiation, cognitive engagement, literacy instruction, etc. 

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Coaching will be organized around the professional development topics for the month. Participants will be coached on corresponding strategies and methods, provided with related resources, and will be given action steps to implement within the classroom. Educators will have to provide student artifacts and evidence of given action steps. Feedback will be provided weekly for both the educator and their administrator, and a monthly evaluation with a rating of how well each participant is advancing through the program, using the teacher evaluation rubric from the organization, will be administered. 

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For eight months, each month, educators will receive: 

• One 90-minute PD from the created PD series 

• One 1-hour weekly coaching meetings in relation to the given PD and classroom observation · one weekly classroom observation (with written feedback) 

• One weekly thirty-minute virtual Q & A session.

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Group Coaching + 1:1 Coaching Includes: 

• Introduction and application of MTSS framework 

• Understanding/Applying Standards (Common Core State Standards) · Unit/module internalizations (core content subjects only) 

• Lesson Internalizations 

• Lesson rehearsals

• Support with ELL learners 

• Support with creating lesson plans 

• Support with creating systems and routines 

• Support with parent communication 

• Support with differentiating student work 

• Implementation of literacy/math groups 

• Support with creating student portfolios 

• Data analysis of assessments and exit tickets (identifying gaps) 

• Assessment Preparation 

• Strategic Planning of Units 

• Progress Monitoring Student work and performance tasks 

 

Partnership Benefits: 

• Apprentice educators receive one-on-one weekly custom-tailored support and meaningful trainings through coaching and observation (Mentorship) 

• Educators will receive real time in the moment feedback, to address and correct instruction immediately (Timely feedback) 

• In-house coaches, or other instructional leadership will have more time to devote to veteran educators and further enhance the development of the school organization (Leadership gains more time) 

• Increase school report card rating 

• Decrease budget spending on the recruitment of teachers 

• Convenience and peace of mind having an experienced, like-minded coach conducting classroom observations 

• Collaborative shared preparation periods weekly to foster team approaches.

 

Transformation: 

By the end of this program, apprentice educators will be able to: 

• Understand state standards with knowledge of how to apply them 

• Implement effective behavior management strategies 

• Cultivate a nurturing classroom environment 

• Understand the purpose of each lesson and transfer this knowledge at a deep level -enhance lesson execution 

• Provide individualized, differentiated instruction that explicitly breaks down literacy into discrete skills such as letter recognition, reading and writing vocabulary, phonemic awareness, concepts about print, and reading fluency of leveled texts of progressively higher complexity. 

• Analyze and use data to make instructional and developmentally appropriate decisions -develop and retain an in-depth understanding of approaches to literacy 

• Create an engaging and effective lesson plan that creates opportunities to promote critical thinking skills 

• Present content and respond to students skillfully in a concise manner 

• Actively progress monitor student work 

• Demonstrate high expectations 

• Implement culturally relevant teaching practices to meet the needs of black and brown students -differentiate for students’ performance levels 

• Develop and implement math centers 

• Implement strategies, methods, and examples with strong efforts to enable English learners to access the Common Core State Standards and the English Language Development standards for purposes of gaining academic content knowledge and English language proficiency. 

• -demonstrate dedication to remaining committed to the work of transforming student lives