TEACHING FOR RIGOROUS LEARNING PATHWAY
Teaching with Impact
The TEACHING FOR RIGOROUS LEARNING PATHWAY is built on the idea that academic gains and student agency can be accomplished together. This is done by designing, implementing and inspecting a few key strategies that ensure students develop clarity, develop the skills to give and receive accurate feedback, develop assessment capabilities and engage in rigorous learning tasks.
RIGOR REDEFINED
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
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Day 1 focuses on selecting critical habits for building students' dispositions to take more responsibility over their learning and developing habits across a range of complex levels of learning.
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Day 2 focuses on small and doable practices that enable students to develop and sustain habits of learning and reading, writing, and talking at complex levels.
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Day 3 focuses on designing units of study and lesson plans to ensure high quality learning and approaches and designing systems to inspect and improve upon habits of practice in the classroom.
TEACHING FOR TRANSFER
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
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Day 1 focuses on developing units of study that are designed to ensure students engage in surface, deep, and transfer level learning as well as build individual and collective efficacy.
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Day 2 focuses on key teaching practices that enable students to a set of practices that aim to support students in applying their learning within and across contexts as well as promote the deep learning that necessitates high quality transfer learning.
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(optional) Day 3 focuses on engaging in authentic problems outside the classroom as well as ensuring a high quality unit and lesson design process is well established to sustain transfer learning across the school year.
DEVELOPING EXPERT LEARNERS
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
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Day 1 focuses on establishing student clarity and using effective feedback strategies in the K-12 classrooms.
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Day 2 provides strategies to challenge students at surface, deep, and transfer levels of learning.
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Day 3 focuses on building student and teacher individual and collective efficacy.
THE BUSY TEACHER
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
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Day 1 focuses on developing strategies to build student assessment capabilities to develop the metacognitive strategies to develop ownership over their own learning.
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Day 2 focuses on developing strategies on handling setbacks, and working collaboratively with others to solve complex problems.
UNIT DESIGN WORKSHOP | RIGOROUS LEARNING
The following series of workshops focus on designing units of study that are anchored to syllabus requirements. The workshops provide guidance on developing and implementing practices that ensure students learn across surface, deep, and transfer expectations. The workshops are divided into two-hour increments that are anchored to learning intentions and success criteria, rigorous task and assessment development, lesson creation, and targeted instructional and feedback practices.
INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING FOR IMPACT
A high support and high accountability coaching program designed for educators at their point of need. The program provides routine meetings to determine core problems of practices, plan areas of growth, discuss current progress, and develop skills and dispositions to improve and refine practice.
