• Great Aims
• Joy Factor
• Student Engagement

Virtual PDs

• Strong Voice

  • Purpose: Learn how effective teachers create a sense of urgency and develop their presence when managing their classrooms and supporting scholars in meeting expectations by using:

    • Strong Voice that is both warm and demanding.
    • Practicing “Be Seen Looking” is an effective strategy to gather classroom data.
    • Finding your effective square up stance.
    • Practicing economy of language in directions.
  • Tools:
    • Strong Voice PPT
    • Session Guided Notes
  • Video:
    • Watch here

• Family Engagement

  • Purpose:
    • Building relationships with parents is a fundamental responsibility for teachers and bolsters scholar achievement over the course of their academic career
    • The family-teacher relationship is a partnership; the balance of power and expertise does not weigh more heavily on one or the other
    • The family-teacher relationship is most powerful when it is a solutions-based partnership when defensiveness or blame are absent
    • Our previous experiences or biases shape the perspectives we have about family engagement and can lead to assumptions about what parents care about or believe in, particularly families of color or from low socio-economic backgrounds
  • Tools:
    • Family Panel Handout
    • Family Panel Power Point
  • Video:
    • Watch here

• Intellectual Prep Protocol

  • Purpose:
    • When we think about daily instructional planning, we think about it in two buckets: practical preparation (creating materials, walking through the flow of the lesson, etc) and intellectual preparation.
    • In any classroom, there should be evidence that the teacher knows the big idea of the lesson, has crafted a culminating question or task that directly gets at the big idea, has pre-planned an exemplar response, and has thought through student misconceptions.
    • During this session, participants will walk through the steps of the intellectual preparation protocol, craft questions for their class that support the big idea, practice insisting on strong answers and plan how to handle misconceptions in their own classroom.
  • Tools:
    • Intellectual Prep Protocol
    • Intellectual Prep Protocol Prework
  • Video:
    • Intellectual Prep Protocol MS Math
    • Video Password: training2014